TooFatLardies' 2012 Christmas Special contains 150 pages packed with wargaming goodness: ideas, scenarios, and even complete rule sets for games and campaigns. Here’s what’s inside:
- Introduction: A Festive welcome
- Venta Icenorum: What unpleasant surprise awaits the homecoming King in this scenario for Dux Britanniarum?
- A Village In Normandy: A historical account of the scene of some of D-Day’s toughest fighting. Scenarios for IABSM and Chain of Command
- Everybody Look What’s Going Down: A Vietnam scenario for Charlie Don’t Surf.
- All at Sea: A campaign background for an exciting fight in the Indian Ocean with Sharp Practice and Kiss Me Hardy
- All Quiet on the Central Front: An advanced look at I Ain’t Been Nuked Mum. The forthcoming “Lard Approved” Cold War rules.
- Modelling Continuous Exposure to Combat: Mike Whitaker looks at the effects of combat on men and how to reflect this in our games.
- You Dirty Rats - The Rules: We head for 1930s Chicago with a card chase gangster game. A complete set of rules and cards ready to play.
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Chain of Command Espana: An introduction to the Spanish Civil War version of Chain of Command. Peninsula Infantry and Cavalry start off the Army list collection.
- The Roundwood Report: Sidney investigates all the news and opinions on Lard Island.
- Scenario Seven: The seventh Scenario for Chain of Command. Mike Brian provides a welcome addition to the rules.
- One Gun to Rule Them All: Dr Arrigo Vellicogna looks at the development and deployment of the Sherman 76mm.
- Emerson’s Exit: Jim Jackaman takes a look at designing scenarios for Bag the Hun and provides us with a historical refight.
- Carros Blindados, Autoametrelladoras & Tizanos. 1936: Jim Hale looks at impromptu armoured vehicles in the first year of the Spanish Civil War
- Playing Chain of Command with Platoon Forward: Joe Legan tells us how he combines our latest rules with his classic campaign generator
- Scenario Thirteen: Robert Avery gives us more at Christmas
- Force Morale, Your Flexible Friend: Developing the concept of Force Morale further, we look at representing different unit types and applying the system to IABSM
- Staghounds & Dynamite: A scenario for I Ain’t Been Shot Mum as Kiwis take on the Jerries in Italy
- Hens, Chicks & Spanish Drivers: Jim Hale provides us with details of tanks in the Spanish Civil War for Chain of Command
- Random Events in Chain of Command: Mike Brian provides some more random events ideas
- One Dark Night: Don’t Panic! The Home Guard take on a German landing party intent on rescuing a spy. A scenario for Chain of Command
- In Flanders Fields: Anticipating next year’s 100th anniversary, we look at 1914 infantry tactics
- In the Last Ditch Again: A Through the Mud & the Blood scenario for the retreat from Mons, 1914
- Hell & Heroism: Ben Fiene presents three Chain of Command scenarios set around the battle for Hannut in May 1940.
