New edition of 40k today with Nate. Really like the system and it delivers what I want in a 40k game. Which is ostensibly a game where giant artillery pieces fire at things 5 inches away. It’s not sensible and it never has been and that’s part of the charm. Objectives in the new ed are cool! #40k

First official games in the new barn! Still a bit to go on it, but we can now play games properly in there. Team Yankee, 164 points game, double Brits Vs Finns. A smashing battle and the single most effective Buccaneer strike I’ve ever had!

BOOK REVIEW! Close to the end as I am of this cracking book, I figure it’s time for a review! I’ll start with a quote from my guide in the Dolomites from 2023. ‘To understand these mountains, you must chain yourself to them and bleed’… and holy cow has @tomisitt.bsky.social done that in spades 1/

Some blistering battle for France action! MATILDAS ADVANCE!

Lee absolutely smashing these Semovente out the park!

Getting on a roll with the Italian buildings for Operation Grapeshot now! The two Piazzi are done. Extra buildings on the way to add depth to the boards as well. #wargaming #italy

A bit of fun for a birthday present for my daughters friend. Flicker is her Pseudodragon animal companion. Flicker is the last ‘red dragon’ in Lynnwyrm, our world we created over a decade ago that my daughter and her chums now play in for pathfinder. On a picnic blanket… because why not? #ttrpg

More Italy stuff just finished. Decided to hand paint some racing hoardings and man… what I wouldn’t give for a scale ‘Wargame’ which was basically a 1930s to 1960s racing game.

In preparation for our big OPERATION: GRAPESHOT game in august, I’ve been painting terrain like a madman for a dense town board. Here’s one of the Piazzi! Lots more buildings to come that hopefully fills the board with Chaos. #wargaming #italy

From 2024's D-Day Game. 25 players got together on the anniversary to recreate a small part of the action of #DDay Wargaming is a big part of the military history story, so to have so many like minded enthusiasts together was smashing. Have a peaceful DDay Anniversary.

Specifically for timing the students at school in stretcher bearers races I have bought a period stop watch. It is definitely for this and not for @leeparnell.bsky.social and i to recreate scenes from hunt for Red October and me to bark ‘10 SECOND FROM TURN. 15! TWENTY. WE ARE A BOAT LENGTH OUT’

Cleared out the barn nests today after the week long observation period to make sure they were fully derelict. This is in prep for the barn coming down. Nests are all Robin and used by Wrens as well. Made with wargames supplies and terrain. Ingenious little things! Nest boxes going up on new barn!

24th May 1915. Italy enters the war. 'The mother of all gambles' see's Italy fighting in absolutely baffling conditions of blistering heat, meters deep snow, glaciers, mountains, malarial flat lands and 3 kilometers up. Onori.

Had a blister of old jeeps laying around the barn and thought I’d paint em up. Some little flags for Popski’s on the front and they have come out smart!

Exceptionally heavy breathing

Im mere scant pages into @tomisitt.bsky.social new book Thunder in the Mountains. This picture and this caption. Tom. Take a bow you brilliant bastard. 1000/10 no notes. #grandeguerra #greatwar

New map from Nicholas Geering telling the story of Xenophons expedition. An incredible tale of fortitude, determination and courage while surrounded in the harshest of environments. #history

A *thoroughly* excellent day of toy soldiering. Only a few pics because of how close the game was. @leeparnell.bsky.social played the new CONTACT! mission for TY with the Berlin Brigade. A tense knife fight and showing the quality of Rapiers at last! #wargaming #teamyankee

Either Hell March from Red Alert, or Zero Signal from Carmageddon!

With the release of the new BP44 armoured train rules from Battlefront, Nathan and I thought we would give them a whirl! Suffice to say, a magnificent, completely ridiculous thing. Its rules are a bit squiffy, but honestly, against a willing opponent bringing a themed army, they are great! #trains

All complete! Final troop of the Hussars for the Berlin Brigade! These are battle scarred veterans, with lots of battle damage on them. #wargaming #teamyankee #berlin

New troop for the Berlin Brigade Hussars. This troop are representing having been in combat for a couple of weeks, so they have Bazooka skirts ripped off, battle damage and bed rolls. Two more to go with blue chemical bins on the back. #wargaming #teamyankee

So with all these wrestlers retiring with the classic Boots Off in the ring motif, one assumes when @speedballbailey.bsky.social retires (in a long long while one should hope), will Mike actually put boots ON in the ring? #wrestling

This thread is absolutely balls to the wall awesome wartime artwork. Fuck dictators. Fuck fascism.

Kiddo's group (all around 10yo) enters their third session. Less chaos, they are now just getting knee deep into the story. Huge cheers and grins all round, and the greatest accolade a GM could ever get. 'This is the best movie i've ever seen. And i'm in it!' #pathfinder #TTRPG

We must have played over 20 Games this weekend at No Mans Land with the public, telling them about Day one of the Somme offensive from 53rd Brigades perspective. Some superb feedback as well. Everyone understanding the need for tempo and clever use of reserves. #wargaming #Kriegspiel

At a loose end this weekend coming and can’t make it to Salute? Head to Bodrhyddan Hall in Rhyl! We’ll be running the Kriegspiel for 53rd brigade on Day one of the Somme. A simple block and counter game played on a blown up period map! *blows whistle*

For those who celebrate. Happy Good Friday.

On Her Majesties Occult Service. Warrant cards printed for @cubicle7games.bsky.social Laundry Files rpg. Yes Sam Wytchlockes warrant numbers have Cuneiform in them. Obviously. #ttrpg

55 grand a year for an AI elementary school. Now, think what you like about private education, but there’s an old phrase about ‘a fool and his money will be easily separated’. Also, this is a total grift and will be closed in its first term I wager.

Last Tuesday, my regular group completed, finally, the legendary ‘Enemy Within’ campaign for WHFRP4E. A vast multi arc sprawling campaign across the empire rooting out the heart of corruption. It’s immense, storied and complex in a lot of ways. But my god, what a story to finish. 1/ #whfrp

Kira, Nate and my kiddo locked horns in some MESBG this evening. 340pt quick games to keep it rattling along! FORTH EORLINGAS!

'Commissar Yarrick returns' Yarrick is somehow back in 40k. Kept alive by Ork Magic or by some contrivance or another. Importantly, we continue GW's Parallels to the Attitude Era Wrestling at pace as we have moved on from the Dungeon of Doom (30k). www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEDe... #warhammer

Running a pathfinder game for a group of 10 y/o is brilliant. Worried your 30 years used tropes are tired? No panic. The audience have never seen it and will burst in excitement at an Orc Ambush. Its wildly gratifying to get your kids into TTRPG. Watching them squabble over 20 silver pieces 1/

Though re-enactment simply cannot bring to life the true nature of medieval combat, by jove increasing that experience from 0.001% to 0.1% by dumping 60 enthusiasts into a castle hall made it feel gritty as hell. A fight and a half on our hands (a mix of kit as it was a national training event)

Another cracking battle with @leeparnell.bsky.social this evening. A shakedown in prep for a tournament he’s in so we took it slow and went over some obvious stuff that’s often overlooked. 90pts Breakthrough Team Yankee. Lee with ANZAC me with Soviet motor rifles. Action plays out in the alt text

Finished up six more Rohan infantry. Horsemen and Eomer to do next. These are really handsome to paint! #mesbg

Stuart printed up some quick and easy street terraces for Operation Grapeshot in August. A bunch of these will make the board look densely populated for the big city fight battle! #wargaming #italy

Some snaps from our very handsome Mordheim game this evening using the Empire in Flames supplement!

Nearly. Nearly.

Leading a war party through to the York Minster. We had a hundred fighters when all the groups had mustered with Regia. A smashing time! #yorkvikingfest2026

Stellar battle against dance partner @leeparnell.bsky.social tigers and the Hussars scrape together enough chieftains to make a counter attack against Soviet forces in the northern sector. Action in the comments! #teamyankee

Lee’s early war kit off to a flying start!

Drop some hats! Bersaglieri Moretto Vaira.

Absolutely insane run. Smashed it. Super chuffed with this!

Before AI slop, we had mates who had unhinged vision and a passing skill at Photoshop nonsense. This is from 2017. My mate Chris Murphy took a pic of me and Seb in the iconic John Carter pose, then superimposed it onto the Frazetta classic. Ridiculous.

My dads a spark. He once won a competition for how fast he could wire a plug. He did it in like 28 seconds or something bonkers (this was 30+ years ago at least). I just sent this to him. The dull thud I heard was him exploding in rage 200 miles away.

Stop using ChatGPT for dogshit meme art. Seriously

Classic Eowyn on Horse from Games Workshop’s MESBG. Lost her spear hand ages ago so had to remake one from an elf gauntlet. Worked well enough! #wargaming #middleearth

Delicious. Big Brody is excellent.