I received a copy of the forthcoming Dystopian Wars Murmansk Battlefleet set and thought I'd do a quick box opening and review of the set. I will make this video live this evening, so you have a few hours to get early access!
2022-04-26 14:50:01 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm back from Austria now, so normal service will resume and you Patreons get a first view of any new video! This will be released later this week and is a look at the command dice mechanism in Chain of Command. I noticed whilst playing it recently that some of my chums were not making the most of their command rolls, so I thought I'd look closely at how it all works and hopefully help new players understand the roll of the dice, so to speak!
2022-04-25 16:32:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Patreons, here is this week's video, due to be released for the public on Friday. Enjoy your early access of this Algernon Pulls it Off game report. Will our plucky hero pull it off this time?
2022-04-04 11:23:19 +0000 UTC View Post
So my videos are backing up, so I'm going to reduce the 'to release' pile a bit faster than usual. So this means you have two videos this week. The first is linked above and is a different battle report to my usual ones, when Dean and I played 'O' Group recently. Let me know what you think of this format, as we said we'd be happy to do more in future and I want to know how to improve on it.
Secondly, at Christmas, I visited the Military Museum in Vienna, Austria and filmed a walk ...
2022-03-28 16:43:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Patreons, this week I have two early access videos for you.
The first is a new review of the brand new 'O' group supplement for Normandy: 1944 The Battle for Normandy, published by Reisswitz press. This will be released to the public on Tuesday, so this is your chance to watch it now: https://youtu.be/s_7bRNTNf3Q
Also, the video at the top of the post is another Combat Patrol making video, this time f...
2022-03-21 11:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
back in December I made some combat patrols for O Group. I wanted something a bit more substantial than the pieces of laminated paper I was previously using and as they are on the tabletop for a large part of the game, I decided to go to town. These are the German ones and I have some Soviet ones on the way as well. Enjoy the video!
2022-03-15 13:19:18 +0000 UTC View Post
I attended the very busy Hammerhead show on Saturday the 5th of March 2022 and recorded many of the games that were on show. I also got a few interviews with various people and here is the result! This will be Patreon access until Tuesday or Wednesday when it will go public, so enjoy your early access!
2022-03-06 14:40:50 +0000 UTC View Post
OK, I have two early access videos for you this week. The first is a Bag the Hun Battle of Britain after action report, Bag the Hun is an excellent TFL aerial combat game and this is the classic set up, RAF versus Luftwaffe!
But I also have a second video (which will be released publicly on Tues/Weds) which is a review of some recent Geek Villain self-cut roads that I got. You can watch this early here:
2022-02-27 15:57:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's this week's early access video. A fast painting guide to 15mm British Napoleonic Riflemen, with a special guest star. Enjoy!
2022-02-21 12:12:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Imperial peace keepers are deployed to take back control of a shield generator that had been captured by Rebel terrorists before they could use it for nefarious purposes... Establishing a base of fire the heroic stormtroopers neutralised the radicalised rebels and enabled them to sweep majestically into close assault and wipe out the defender's morale! Law and order has been restored to the galaxy once again. Star Wars Chain of Command.
2022-02-19 13:32:35 +0000 UTC View Post
What seems like ages ago I had a game of Sharp Practice which pitted Prussians against French during the 1815 Campaign. It was a Prussian attack on a French held village, but who will win? Find out in this early access video!
2022-02-15 08:25:36 +0000 UTC View Post
OK, here's a little oddity for you. My friend sent me a copy of a set of gangster skirmish rules which I had written in 2013. They had been sitting in his inbox, completely forgotten by me until now! feel free to download the PDF below and see what you think...
I was surprised at how fleshed out they were, as I usually run out of steam when writing rules, but these seem to be almost complete. A word of caution, they are extremely clunky and not how I would write rules now, but might be ...
2022-02-10 17:57:37 +0000 UTC View Post
I am currently working on slowly releasing my backlog of videos and this latest one was originally recorded during our Terraintober challenge in October! That gives you an idea of how far back my videos go at the moment. Anyway, this is a shortish video showing how I made some of my garden pieces to fit my pre-existing terrain pieces and add a bit of flavour to the battlefield. I hope you enjoy!
2022-02-08 08:35:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Steelers and here is this week's video, how I paint US Paratroopers in 15mm. It's a short one, but there will be longer battle reports coming soon. I am just in the process of clearing out my backlog of videos from last year! I hope you'll enjoy it!
2022-02-01 08:50:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Morning Patreons and welcome to your early access for this video that I am very excited about! This is the rarely seen Algernon Pulls it Off by the Too Fat Lardies, a First World War dogfighting rule set based on Bag the Hun! It's only ever been available in PDF form and has been difficult to get hold of... until now. I spoke with Rich of TFL and asked if I would able to share the rules, he agreed and you can find the links to download them in the video description on Youtube. <...
2022-01-25 08:12:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Patreons, and welcome to your early access for the next video which will be going public later this week. This is a game of I Ain't Been Shot, Mum, using the Sturmabteilung Vor! First World War edition. Sturmabteilung can be found in one of the Lardy specials and allows you to play this excellent game twenty years earlier than written.
2022-01-18 08:26:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi Patreons, as you may have seen on my channel I released a new video this morning of the first of an occasional series of hobby updates, I made it yesterday so didn't give you chance to get early access! Sorry, but I wanted to get it out quickly. However, I do have a new video coming at the end of this week for you here, painting 15mm 14th Army for Burma. I hope you enjoy it!
2022-01-11 08:16:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi patreons and happy New Year! I hope 2022 is going to be a good one and with that in mind here is your early access to my next video, the US Assault on Kirchborchen. This is a Chain of Command scenario by Joe Bilton (thanks for being a Patreon, Joe!) That he published in the recent Too Fat Lardies magazine. Thanks to Joe I was fortunate enough to playtest the scenario before publication. So please enjoy! This will go public on Sunday (when I'm back in the UK).
2022-01-06 10:27:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello all, here is you early access to my Christmas special video, an O Group game set just after Operation Uranus, 1942. Romanians defend against a Soviet attack on the outskirts of Stalingrad. This will be my last video for the year (released to the public on Wednesday) as I will be away for Christmas in Austria. Normal service will resume in January, but until then many, many thanks for continuing to be Patreons and have a very happy Christmas and a Great New Year!
2021-12-19 10:17:11 +0000 UTC View Post
As we are heading into the Christmas period, I am going to be taking some time off posting videos whilst I go to Austria to see my wife over the festive period. However, before that there are a couple of videos to come and this week's is this video on painting Prussian Uhlans for Sharp Practice. I'll release this to the public on Friday and you get access first here. I also have just published a short video of Il-2 Sturmovik, using the Flying Circus DLC. Check this out here: 2021-12-13 17:30:56 +0000 UTC View Post
In association with Little Wars TV (Video Here), I have created a scenario for O Group, depicting the Japanese landings at Kotu Bharu, on the northern Malayan coast, 8th December 1941. It was the opening action of the pacific war against the Allies and allowed the Japanese to gain a foothold in Malaya to eventually lead to the fall of Singapore.
2021-12-08 09:00:03 +0000 UTC
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I recently picked up a copy of the Too Fat Lardies' Bag the Hun, their air fighting rules. The rules make for an excellent game with lots of thrills and spills. Another game I barely have time to play! But in this video I take you through the rules, do a brief review and then demonstrate how to play the game. Early access for Patreons!
2021-12-06 08:18:24 +0000 UTC View Post
As Joe told me last week that his next D&D game is this Tuesday, I postponed the public release of the game I recorded which I played when he was DM and that will be out for the public on Wednesday. Patreons still have access here: https://youtu.be/nMDcQFGbkS8 Then later on in the week, I will release the scratch building a shed video, which you can see above. This was actually recorded back in August and I just haven't ...
2021-11-29 19:53:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Alter this week I will release two videos for the public, obviously, you Patreons get to see them first though! The first one is the recording of an online game of D&D that was GMed by Joe Bilton last week. This was a great fun adventure and my first time playing D&D for over thirty years! It also used Joe's excellent Heroic Maps tiles and looked stunning. You can watch this here:
https://youtu.be/nMDcQFGbkS8...
2021-11-22 16:16:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi Patreons, I have had a really busy weekend with going to Salute and then spending Sunday editing that video means that I have slipped a little behind with other videos. However, I was able to get this special video edited for your early access as I will release it to the public on Friday. Over o Twitter we had the Terraintober challenge, where people were asked to build at least one piece of terrain and share pictures of it with the hashtag #terraintober. I promised that I would turn all t...
2021-11-16 19:36:27 +0000 UTC View Post
I was at Salute on Saturday, here are my photos of the event. I also filmed the show along with a number of interviews, which has finally been edited and will be out tonight at 7.00pm (GMT) over on the channel. Make sure you check it out!
2021-11-15 14:29:15 +0000 UTC View Post
This week I have two videos for you, a brand new Quick Strike video and a full sized version of the same game. This sees a platoon of American paras attacking a German artillery position, similarly to the Brecourt Manor fight that was made famous in Band of Brothers.
You can watch the Quick Strike video here: https://youtu.be/XUWnky8EI74
and the full version of the game here: 2021-11-08 08:16:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Pateons, here is your early access video of my latest Battle Report, a game of Through the Mud and Blood where the 20th Deccan horse attempt to clear German defenders from around High Wood. In real life this was a great success, will my game be the same? There's only one way to find out...
2021-11-01 13:25:34 +0000 UTC View Post
For those that have watched my After Action Report videos, they will quickly realise that I forget rules all the time. I will try to put a caption on the video when I see that I did something very wrong, but obviously a lot slips through the net, even when I am editing the video. After I have published, what follows, invariably, is a string of comments on the video telling me exactly when and what I ...
2021-10-28 17:07:36 +0000 UTC View Post
In this video I take you through the steps I took to paint a platoon of British First World War cavalry by Battlefront. I used these in a Through the Mud and the Blood game, which will be released soon! So stay tuned! This is your Patreon early access, so please enjoy the video!
2021-10-25 14:14:23 +0000 UTC View Post