Too Fat Lardies

JOHN_ROSE16 wrote: ↑

Sun Sep 06, 2020 8:55 pm

Being released first. I can’t wait to convert some BF 15mm eigth army to become my Gurkha army!!!

Remember that Gurkhas fighting in the Asia-Pacific did not wear the same uniform as those fighting in the Middle East (Iraq, Syria, & Iran in 1941) or North Africa.

I am so seriously tempted by these that I have taken off my shoes & socks in order to access my analog calculator.

With you on this one - if I drool for much longer pending the release of this tome my keyboard will short out.

Excellent AAR, and much love & laughter for theming the forces as you did.

I seem to recall reading somewhere that Stavka analysed the relative effects of going through minefields vs being funnelled into the prepared killing ground, and found that you lost fewer men charging through the minefield. Has anyone houseruled on this? Good old Russians, I love to play em and rea...

Truscott Trotter wrote: ↑

Sun Jul 12, 2020 9:48 pm

At least the terrain is straightforward.

Being a case of taking one steppe at a time, I presume.

Capt Fortier wrote: ↑

Wed Jul 08, 2020 11:38 am

I suspect Munin's house rule - counting doubles as a fizzle - could work either way you read it!

True. A line that has also resonated repeatedly throughout my social life.

Neil Todd wrote: ↑

Tue Jul 07, 2020 1:10 pm

I have read the teams didn't have much training and tended to expose themselves when firing.

I'm amazed that Truscott Trotter hasn't already zeroed on to this line like a shark in dirty water.

OK, I'm hooked. My only remaining decision will be whether I go Caesarian times, or Hellenic/ Persian.

Masters again (same brilliant book): "I said above that we were not to be ruthless. Ruthlessness, however, is relative, and the definition used on the Frontier was the Pathan definition". Excellent comment - when I used to be a guest lecturer at the National Army Museum, I always explained to quest...