Steel Lard tomorrow

I'll be off down to Patriot Games in the morning to run the Too Fat Lardies games day known as Steel Lard. This is the third one I've organised and the fifth or sixth altogether. It's been a stressful process getting us here!

Nighttime in Puebla - Turco skirmishers advance

In previous years we generally had a pretty good match between the number of people wanting to play and the number of spaces available. The only major problem was when Richard Phillips came down with a horrible bug the day before and I was forced to cobble together an additional game using my Woebetides Sharp Practice collection.

This time I decided to be prepared and I planned out a reserve game using my ACW collection just in case the worse happened. And sure enough last night the worst happened. This time it's Ken Reilly who is unwell. 

So I spent the morning tidying up the scenario and got together the paperwork, models and terrain for Port Gibson, 1863 - a scenario that takes place on the time night in May 1863 as my Puebla one. Reports, as best I can, on both games sometime next week.

So the stuff is in the car...

... it's been great to discover bits of scenery and the like that work for an ad hoc game if need be; benefits of years spent doing this. My Dark Age church will be seeing service as a barn!

Steel Lard is great fun and hopefully that's the last major crisis out of the way....