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Lardy
Specials Just
What is a “Special”? Twice
a year we at TooFatLardies prepare our Summer or Christmas
Specials, very much taking our lead from the comic book
“Specials” of our childhoods. In those days the
popular childrens comics would produce bumper editions, full of
all the usual favourites but (what seemed at the time) HUGE
amounts more of them. Looking back one can only presume that
parents were enticed into buying these weighty tomes in the hope
that their offspring might give them at least some peace and
quiet during their school holidays.
Now we have extended
that concept to provide what are, essentially, wargames magazines
but bigger – jam packed with articles, scenarios and
mini-supplements for all of our rule sets. The response to these
Specials has been enthusiastic to say the least. One reader, not
atypical, tells us “I have stopped buying wargames
magazines generally, but I wouldn't miss out on your Summer of
Christmas Specials, they are just too inspiring”. Mind you,
I think he was drunk...
So
what's in them? Well, each one typically has a mini-supplement
for one of our rule sets, articles on painting and terrain
building, scenarios for all the rules, mini-campaign ideas,
historical articles with real gaming content, previews of what's
in the pipeline on Lard Island, all backed up with great
photographs from real games. Demand has been such that these are
all still available, and will continue to be so.
But
lets look at the contents in detail:
Christmas
2007 (135 pages) 1.
Zut Alors! France 1940
supplement for TW&T 2. Algy Flies East chapter 1, Algernon
and the Vulgar Boatman 3. The Battle of
Heilsberg Part Two. LFS scenario 4. Arnehm VC. An IABSM/TW&T
scenario 5. Flying with the Witch, the FINAL Hornblower
scenario 6. Critical Damage for BTH, an alternative. 7. The
Bridge at Auville, IABSM Normandy scenario 8. Umpiring
Kriegsspiel. Tips, ideas and photos of a fat bloke. 9.
Mosquito Coast. a BTH scenario 10. Vauchamps 1814, LFS
scenario 11. Fox Two, Bag the Hun for the jet age, a
supplement. 12. Arab Israeli War, History, stats,
scenarios 13. Battle for
Ephey, Great War IABSM scenarios 14. A Tight Ring. More
deadful puns for ITLSU in the Jordan Valley 15.
A Fruit Salad at Beda Fomm. IABSM 1941 desert scenario 16.
Kampfgurppe von Reisswitz, Marsch! WWII Kriegsspiel thoughts 17.
The Brig in Buzzzards Bay.
1812 Kiss Me Hardy with Colonials 18. Here Comes the Cavalry.
WWII US cavalry tactics 19. Are You Ready for Some Football?
1969 football war for BTH 20. He Who Would Valiant Be. A
Kriegsspiel scenario 21. Everybody Wants an Ace. Character
generation for BTH 22 Converting Skirmish Campaigns to
TW&T 23. Budyenny's Red Cossacks, Algy takes on a
festering old Red 24. Jusht a Small one... A TW&T scenario
for Dunkirk 1940 25.
Down at the Dockyard, building, painting and riging KMH
ships. 26. Bust & Run. Bag the Mig scenario for Korean
Summer
2007 (140 pages) Not another Bloody Poet! - The Great War
examined as a gaming period SturmAbteilung Vor! - A complete
Great War supplement for IABSM No Stopping on Platform One –
A Great War scenario for SV. The Battle of Heilsburg – A
Bi-centennial refight with le Feu Sacre. Stout Hearted Men –
British recce tactics for Troops, Weapons & Tactics Escaping
the Spanish Prison – Nelson and Hardy try to avoid being
banged up, with Kiss Me Hardy. Back to Bases – How to
base your figures the Flyingonads way. The Adonis of the brush
tells all. Algernon & The Brown Hatta Jasta –
Chapter Five “No Gentleman” Algernon risks life and
limb for a spy! Last Boat to Pantelleria –
Fallschirmjagers try to escape from Tunisia, an IABSM
scenario Kriegsspiel – An introduction to a forthcoming
Lardy product. D-Day at Haut Fornell – A double
scenario, IABSM and TW&T, for Normandy 1944. Get Dillinger
– Kamikaze fun with Mike Brian and Bag the Hun. Things
are a Bit 'Ard – A complete WWI East Africa supplement to
ITLSU Tanga – Day 1 – The classic East Africa
scenario, mad bees to the fore. The Capture of Apach - The
final scenario from Chris Stoesen's 1939 Saar campaign. Wave
Goodbye to Adolf – Historical WWI action with Algernon
Pulls it off Red Petrograd – Triumph of the Will
scenario for the Russian Civil War. Tanga Day 2 – The
second installment from the Durham lads. Battle of Echmuhl –
A double Napoleonic scenario for le Feu Sacre Operation H –
Salute report One of Our Planes is Missing – Max Maxwell
provides a colonial scenario for IABSM In Jordan's Hit Valley
– Appearing like a mirage Fat Nick pens a Great War
scenario for ITLSU Patrouille Polonaise – Polish airmen
in 1940 France with Bag the Hun Nice One Kiril – An
Eastern front scenario from 1942 with IABSM The Other Mboto
Gorge – More East Africa action from the Durham
gang Against All Odds. Hornblower in action again in a
literary bash for KMH Algernon
& The Brown Hatta Jasta – Chapter Six “England
Expects” Algernon risks life shaving his palms
Christmas
2006 – 136 Pages Bag the MiG – Bag the Hun
supplement for the air war in Korea An Easy Start, Hoagy's
Fury - A scenario for Bag the MiG Action off the Wash –
German Kommandoes land on the East Coast, a scenario for
IABSM The Making of Eylau – A Le Feu Sacre report on the
bi-centennial refight An Ungentlemanly Challenge – A
scenario for Algernon Pull it Off Gully Ravine - A Gallipoli
scenario for If the Lord Spares Us Hitler Has Only Got One
Gaul - SS Charlemagne, a bit of history and three scenarios for
IABSM Pole Attack – Bag the Hun Poles in Battle of
Britain action El Supremo's Ship, Natividad – Another
scenario for Fellatio Lawnmower and Kiss Me Hardy Taxes, Tea
& Tories – An AWI supplement for Le Feu Sacre Bunker
Hill – A scenario from the AWI Hello Big Boys – An
introduction to Troops, Weapons & Tactics Direct from
Detroit – A ScenarioCampaigns conversion for IABSM from Tom
Ballou Crisis, What Crisis? - Join the Lardmobile as it
streaks across Belgium. Is
this a report on the show or evidence for the prosecution?
Algeciras – Kiss Me Hardy and two
scenarios featuring Nelson Madagascan Martletts – A
Vichy run in for Bag the Hun Advance to Kut – If the
Lord Spares us heads for Messpots with this scenario Ding Dong
– Spanish Civil War action on the Ebro for Triumph of the
Will Tanks Forward – 1939 action in the Saar for IABSM
with Chris Stoessen The Return of the Pink Poacher –
More trouble for Algernon above the trenches of the Western
Front Guilford Courthouse – A scenario for Taxes, Tea &
Tories. Operation Haut Vents – Superb terrain making for
a Convention Game from boccage-meister Tom Ballou The Lardest
Day – News of Plans for an International Games Day Brown's
First Kill – Bag the MiG scenario from Korea Rattling
Sabres – Another Bag
the MiG scenario from Korea All I Want
for Christmas is my Wings Swept Back – Yet another Bag
the MiG scenario from Korea Bagging the
B29 – Surely not another? Yes, but this time shoot up the
Yanks.
Summer 2006
– 153 Pages What's for Afters – Pegasus Bridge
scenarios on D-Day – the full story Square Hill, A
Middle East WWI scenario for If the Lord Spares Us Bob's Your
Heinkel, Bag the Hun scenario Grabbing Mussolini's Baubles,
IABSM for the Interwar colonial conflicts Trouble Brewing Up,
a North West Frontier Scenario for the above I'll Be Seein'
Ya. An East Africa scenario for the above Algernon Pulls it
Off (Part One) A scenario for Algy Old Meets New, Line versus
Column in Napoleonic Warfare Le Feu Supplement for
1805-1807 Le Feu Sacre Army Lists for the above Autobahn to
Boppard, US versus German forces in 1945 scenario Aaah,
Condor. SCW stats for Bag the Hun Painting AFVs, more tips
from Uncle Rich A different Kettle of Fish. MGs in the Great
War Kiss Me Hardy Campaign Supplement. Follow Your Captain's
Career on the High Seas Guards, TO POLTAVA! A Russian Civil
War mini-campaign for Triumph of the Will Geoff the Builder.
How to build GREAT buildings for your games A Skirmish
Campaigns translation for IABSM from Tom Ballou Opportunity
Mist. Calder's Action for Kiss Me Hardy Danzig 1945. With the
Red Army breaking into the city, the Wehrmacht fight on. An IABSM
Scenario. Tobruk. Aussies versus Italians for
IABSM Vierzehnheiligen – A Le Feu Sacre scenario Malaya.
A Games Day report with full scenarios and briefings. Algernon
Pulls it Off (Part Two). Can Agly and Ginger defeat the Brown
Hatta Hasta? Boulton Massacre. A Bag the Hun scenario from the
Battle of Britain Neunkirchen 1939 – French versus
Germans in the Saar. Hornblower. His first ever action
recreated for Kiss Me Hardy Kelvin's Jungle. How to build
jungle that looks great.
Christmas
2005 (149 pages) To Die for a Tie – A Korean War
Supplement for IABSM Time Tunnel to Trafalgar – The
immortal memory relived using our Kiss Me Hardy Rules Moist
Cabbage & A Quick Cognac – A France 1940 scenario for
IABSM A Fine Day in Group 12 – Bag the Hun scenario If
the Lord Spares Us – our new Great War rules exposed and a
new scenario A Blagger’s Guide to Figure Painting
Defence of the Nation – Defend Romania in 1944 with
this IABSM scenario Guess Who’s Dropping in for
Xª MAS – Partisan hunting with IABSM Algernon
Pulls it Off - WWI Bag the Hun rules ideas Bloody Omaha
– An IABSM scenario for D-Day Austerlitz Refought
- Another Bicentennial refight, this time with Le Feu Sacre The
Affair of Wadi Hu-Ara – An ITLSU scenario Umpireless
Games - Ideas for challenging games with IABSM A Corner
of a Foreign Field - Normandy Terrain under the microscope
Hornblower & the Old Oars - A literary naval
encounter for Kiss Me Hardy Trafalgar Conference – An
expose from our roving reporter A Hot Cold War –
Two Korean War IABSM scenarios Ritt Nach Dem Osten - The
Freikorps in the East for Triumph of the Will No Escape - KMH
Scenario Solo Gaming? A Guide to Playing with
Yourself Saar 1939 - France takes the
initiative in this early WWII scenario. The Freezing
401st
– The Bulge gets
bigger with this IABSM scenario
Summer
2005 (121 pages) An Unholy Mess – A 1947-49 Arab Israeli
War supplement for IABSM Night & day at Imphal – A
Burma scenario for IABSM Wing 151 – Bag the Hun article
plus scenarios Hornblower, On Company Business - a KMH
scenario Stalingrad - a Games Day report and
scenarios Supersize M.E. – Three Napoleonic scenarios
for LFS Royal Tanks – An IABSM scenario from Skirmish
Campaigns Knackering Panzers – Infantry anti-tank
tactics for IABSM Salute 2005 – a report plus scenarios
for IABSM Horn of the Rhino – Madagascar 1942 for
IABSM At the Napoleonic Fair - an article re LFS Bag the
Ton – a scenario for BTH The Initiation of
Dashwood-Brown – An IABSM scenario for Normandy 1944 A
Rather British Blitzkrieg – Article and scenario for TotW,
RCW 1919 Walking in a Winter Wonderland – Bulge scenario
for IABSM Refighting Trafalgar – The ultime KMH
scenario Gudbransdal – Norway 1940 scenario for IABSM In
the Path of God – AIW scenarios for An Unholy Mess The
terrain maker – Sid trims his bush
Christmas
Special 2004 (roughly 111 pages) We’ll Have to Bloody
Walk. A Falklands War supplement for IABSM Lotnictwo
Wojskowe and Fall Weiss. The Polish Airforce of WWII and
article and Bag the Hun scenario. Bringing Home the Chickens.
An IABSM scenario for WWII. Lard Uber Kreta. The
background organisation and scenarios for the IABSM Crete Games
Day. Quatre Bras. A Le Feu Sacre scenario. Operation
Goodwood. An IABSM 1944 scenario. Engage the Enemy More
Closely. A Hornblower scenario for Kiss Me
Hardy. Aufklarungs Abteilung Vor. German reconnaissance
tactics of WWII for IABSM. Recon in Le Feu Sacre. Bag
the Hun Stats. An expansion pack for Bag the Hun. Fire
for Effect. WWII artillery practices and how to reflect
them in IABSM. Underpants of Dread. The Blue Division in
WWII with three scenarios. Converting Skirmish
Campaigns to
IABSM scenarios. Sid’s Olives. Terrain making from
Sid. Flight from Smershk, a RCW scenario for Triumph of the
Will. Le Feu Sacre Rules Clinic Turning a Blind Eye.
Nelson at Copenhagen for Kiss Me Hardy. Two Sisters, a Pub
Garden and a Zulu. Two Falklands scenarios for We’ll
Have to Bloody Walk
Summer
Special 2004 (100 pages) Up Your Cara Al Sol. A Spanish
Civil War supplement for IABSM. A Test of Seamanship. A
Hornblower scenario for Kiss Me Hardy. A Bunch of Limey
Gansters. A Commando unit in WWII with scenarios for
IABSM Bag the Hun, and introduction. Montebello. A
Napoleonic scenario for Le Feu Sacre. Gott in Himmel! A
guide to German tactics in WWII for IABSM. Oi, That’s my
Truck. A 1940 scenario for IABSM No Parsaran. An
SCW scenario for UYCAS (see item 1) The Boy Stood on the
Burning Deck. A Kiss Me Hardy Scenario for the Battle of
the Nile. They Came from the Sea. Ideas for commando
raids for IABSM! A Grand Day Out. Photos and comments
from the Napoleonic Fair demo game. Will to Win. An
introduction and scenario for Triumph of the Will. Dunkirk
Games Day. All six
scenarios from the IABSM Dunkirk Games Day. Fiction or
Friction? An introduction to le Feu Sacre. If the Lord
Spares Us. A photo trailer for our WWI Palestine
rules. Command in Le Feu Sacre. Auntie Sidney’s
Problem Page. IABSM questions answered.
HOW MUCH? The
Specials are available only in pdf format and can be had for £5
direct to your email or for an additional £1.50 we can burn
any amount of Lard onto a disk and mail it to you, anywhere in
the world, under plain brown wrapper.
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