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Richard Cruadhlaoich @locounterpane.bsky.social · 2h

About fifteen years after my Border Rievers HOTT armies last saw action, I’ve finally finished a peel tower to go with them.

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Richard Cruadhlaoich @locounterpane.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

German player: I’ll charge the Romans in front of me. Umpire: You’re in bad going so you’ll be rolling 2d6 and removing the lower-scoring die. So you’re bound to get into contact. Roman player: Hang on -he’s got a point of Shock so he’s got to take off one inch. He might roll two ones….

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Richard Cruadhlaoich @locounterpane.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Table set up for today’s Infamy Infamy scenario play-test. Will Princess Zenobii be able to escape across the river? #SpreadTheLard

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Richard Cruadhlaoich @locounterpane.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I wanted a way to use my multi-based 6mm GNW models with The Pikeman’s Lament. I planned to use a D6 to track casualties but knew I’d be bound to forget which die should be with which unit. I’ve had a go at 3D printing some 60x30mm sabots with built in dice sockets.

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Richard Cruadhlaoich @locounterpane.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Just purchased from Morrisons supermarket in the UK. “Home Style Super Soft Throw”. 125x150cm, listed as cream but I think usable as a snowy surface for winter games (maybe with some pale blue/grey sprayed-on shades). Only £3! Needs time for the creases to drop out. 1/72 Jagdpanther for scale.

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Richard Cruadhlaoich @locounterpane.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

If you’re coming to Ebor Lard next weekend and playing in my Infamy Infamy game, please check your email spam folder. I’ve sent round a quick questionnaire to probe players’ experience with the rules and the setting. Thanks!

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Richard Cruadhlaoich @locounterpane.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Basing some revolting foederati for Infamy Infamy and getting Eric the Viking vibes. “Now all the ones with cloaks are on the same side”.

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Richard Cruadhlaoich @locounterpane.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I try to include at least one new item of terrain every time I run a game. This time there’s my Germanic thatched hut and some new marshy bits.

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Richard Cruadhlaoich @locounterpane.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

A learning game of Infamy Infamy today. The terrain’s been set up overnight and thankfully only one tree fell victim to the cat.

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Richard Cruadhlaoich @locounterpane.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Stuka strike near Windmill Hill. Calais 1940 with TacWWII rules.

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Richard Cruadhlaoich @locounterpane.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

As several people have said, great fun was had at Joy of Six yesterday. Just sorry I missed so much of what was going on because I was busy on the road to St Omer.

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Richard Cruadhlaoich @locounterpane.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Just a couple of days to Joy of Six. Should I start on some more fields?

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Richard Cruadhlaoich @locounterpane.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

I know it’s the 6th of June and we should be doing a D-Day wargame but I really need to get the Gangs of Rome campaign moving forward.

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Richard Cruadhlaoich @locounterpane.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

With episode 1 of our Gangs of Rome campaign coming up this weekend, I wanted figures to represent the gangs’ patrons. Wargames Illustrated delivered with free minis on this month’s front cover. Tarquinius Caerilius imports beasts for the arena. Spurious Verdius is a lanista.

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Richard Cruadhlaoich @locounterpane.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

I’ve just rebased some figures that might get used for Gangs of Rome. Experimenting with urban-or-rural basing.

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Richard Cruadhlaoich @locounterpane.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

The Hallamshires at Fontenay-le-Pesnel; painting at Sheffield Town Hall.

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Richard Cruadhlaoich @locounterpane.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Obtained from Halfords - cut in rectangles it’s great for chain link fences, cut on the diagonal it makes fine barbed wire.

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Richard Cruadhlaoich @locounterpane.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Okay so we’re no longer Champions, at least I can still have scouse for tea tonight.

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Richard Cruadhlaoich @locounterpane.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

These Irregular Miniatures 6mm Quads and 25pdrs have been sitting in a drawer for years. My on-a-whim decision to do a bit of Western Desert TacWWII has got them painted.

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Richard Cruadhlaoich @locounterpane.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Fairey Delta 2 - 1956 World Speed Record. Dora Wings 1/72 scale.

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Richard Cruadhlaoich @locounterpane.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

First outing for my new 1/300th Western Desert forces against Alex S at the Outpost last night. #TacWWII

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Richard Cruadhlaoich @locounterpane.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Gabr-el-Ahmar (the Red tomb) for Libya, August 1940. 6mm scale 3D print on a mound made from two layers of foamcore.

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Richard Cruadhlaoich @locounterpane.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Hunting Percival Jet Provost T4 Royal Air Force College, Crandall, 1962. Airfix 1/72nd scale.

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Richard Cruadhlaoich @locounterpane.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Near Morris, Mississippi the Union cavalry have charged a Confederate skirmish line in the rear and routed them. Unfortunately the Union infantry line in front of them are firing uncontrolled and the cavalry are slowed down by unexpectedly bad going! Blue on blue follows!

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Richard Cruadhlaoich @locounterpane.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Today’s ACW Sharp Practice is “Operations near Morris, Mississippi”. Here’s the terrain set-up. #SpreadTheLard

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Richard Cruadhlaoich @locounterpane.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Delighted to have unjammed the print head of my Ender 3 S1 pro and printed myself two battalions of M11/39 tanks.

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Richard Cruadhlaoich @locounterpane.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

First test putting together the Druids’ grove for The Iron Hand of Mars. I definitely need more undergrowth for the forested bits.

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Richard Cruadhlaoich @locounterpane.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Germania Libera for The Iron Hand of Mars; a first go at a terrain test. I’m definitely going to need more trees!

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Richard Cruadhlaoich @locounterpane.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

I think I may be in love. AK Ultra Matt varnish may just be the thing I’ve been searching for all my life!

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Richard Cruadhlaoich @locounterpane.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Dream destination for a Half Man Half Biscuit fan. Off shortly to look for the indoor pool and the first class cake shop.

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Richard Cruadhlaoich @locounterpane.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

More progress on my sacred tree and altar. The altar will have to wait until I get some yellower static grass. The tree now has carved faces. #SpreadTheLard #MarcusDidiusFalco

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Richard Cruadhlaoich @locounterpane.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

One of the locations for my planned Infamy Infamy game “The Iron Hand of Mars” is a Druids’ grove. Working on a sacred tree and a sacrificial altar made from stacked turfs. #SpreadTheLard #MarcusDidiusFalco

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Richard Cruadhlaoich @locounterpane.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

First outing for my new outskirts-of-Calais game mat this evening.

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Richard Cruadhlaoich @locounterpane.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Great fun at Hammerhead today. Thanks to Colin, John, Andy, Alan, Samuel and Martin for playing Rinning from Bull Run and being such great sports!

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Richard Cruadhlaoich @locounterpane.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

The baseboard for my Harpers Ferry What a Cowboy game has been in storage for about two years and is looking distinctly knackered. Sadly I think we’re at the point where I break it apart and bin what can’t be reused.

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Richard Cruadhlaoich @locounterpane.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

The latest addition to my Gangs of Rome collection is Zenobia from @badsquiddogames.bsky.social She’ll probably appear in my campaign as some kind of priestess.

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Richard Cruadhlaoich @locounterpane.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

I wanted to add the rebellious Julius Civilis to my “The Iron Hand of Mars” scenario for Infamy Infamy. He’s dyed his hair red and vowed not to cut it until he’s freed Germany of Roman influence. Victrix and Wargames Atlantic parts combined.

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Richard Cruadhlaoich @locounterpane.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Working on some 6mm scale 1940 German air recognition flags - depicted here before they get the internationally problematic central symbol. I figure I can use them to indicate which armoured cars have 20mm cannon rather than just MGs.

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Richard Cruadhlaoich @locounterpane.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

I’m running “Calais 1940 - The Road to St Omer” at Joy of 6 this summer. This evening I upgraded the paint job on the 6mm scale 3RTR I first painted about a quarter of a century ago.

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Richard Cruadhlaoich @locounterpane.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

I picked up a couple of 3D printed bison at Wirral Warboot back in the Summer. Useful for What a Cowboy or in Glorantha!

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Richard Cruadhlaoich @locounterpane.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

This is Nick. Nick has just played his first ever Wargame, taking on the role of Islander Bey, the renegade Turkish officer who believes himself to be Alexander the Great reborn. After his performance in the game, I think he may be.

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Richard Cruadhlaoich @locounterpane.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Andreivia 1918: Set up for a game of Arc of Fire tomorrow with two complete novices as far as wargaming is concerned.

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Richard Cruadhlaoich @locounterpane.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Terrific game of What A Traveller today; a homebrew sci-fi adaptation of What A Cartel.

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Richard Cruadhlaoich @locounterpane.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

This year’s haul of gaming-related Crimbo pressies including the airbrush recommended by @nellkyn.bsky.social. Thanks!

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Richard Cruadhlaoich @locounterpane.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

I want to have the option of reroofing work in progress on one of my Roman buildings. I designed and 3D printed some tegulae and stuck them to stone-textured plasticard bases.

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Richard Cruadhlaoich @locounterpane.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

First playtest of What a Traveller (based on John Savage’s What a Cartel). Inside the starport security building: Bay Falango shoots Stanlie Molotoff in the back.

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Richard Cruadhlaoich @locounterpane.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Another antediluvian Gamma World mini.

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