The Origins of Grognardia
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The Origins of Grognardia by James Maliszewski
Toward an Introduction to the Blog
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Friday, August 27, 2010
Lard-o-vision
Though unfortunately I've read rules by the Two Fat Lardies rather than played them - I have been favourably impressed by their presentation and general ethos.
In addition, the Lardies have a very active Yahoo group and are always willing to engage with their audience. The latest development in this very commendable approach is Lard-o-vision, the first in a series of Youtube tutorials on how to play their games. The first game covered is Sharpe Practice, a large scale skirmish game for up to a hundred figures a side based on adventure fiction set during the 19th century - Forester, Cornwell et al.
Other rules authors take note.
Part the second.
Part the third.
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In my humble opinion, the nicest most enthusiastic people you could ever want to meet, but the poorest rule writers I have ever come across.... both the WWII and ACW sets that I won defied transfer to the tabletop - DG & I (with 40+ years of wargaming between us) simply couldn't understand what some of the rules were trying to say...
ReplyDeleteI'm at a loss as clearly other people don't have the problem.....!
The rules do sound interesting (from this and from postings I've seen of people's games). I like the "large skirmish" idea. If they ever do a version for Colonials I'll be tempted to at least take a look.
ReplyDeleteOne complaint about the videos - I had to crank up my volume to hear what Mr. Clark was saying, but then the music was way too loud.
Anyway, nice way to demonstrate rules.
I found some parts of the book a bit puzzling at first, being unfamiliar with what is in effect a TFL sub-culture, and wasn't quite sure how it would all pan out on the table.
ReplyDeleteHowever after watching the very welcome videos I feel I've got the idea now and that there's a lot of potential.