The TooFatLardies Oddcast: Recent Episodes
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TooFatLardies are the leading independent publisher of wargame rules. The Oddcast take an semi-regular look at what's happening on Lard Island with discussions on the big issues in game design and the hobby generall.
The lads get together after a long break to catch up and to discuss the latest big issues and outline what is happening in the world of Lard.
The lads get together for the first show of the year with an Ask Sidney extravaganza questions submitted by listeners.
Three not-so-wise men assemble to bring peace on earth, goodwill to men and utter bollocks to the rest of us.
As the curtain comes down Lardy Panto, we do hope you've enjoyed another year. Last Christmas Nick gave you his heart, but the very next day, you gave it away. This year, to save him from tears, just don't do that. It's unkind and not normal.
For some reason Day 13 didn't publish on YouTube, so here is day 13.5 for those who missed out.
Fe, Fi, Fo, Fum, he smells the location of the nearest gold arches! Nick gives us a giant view of the third window in the Panto Advent Calendar. What will he find inside?
Sidney pulls on his boots to head for London's streets to see if they really are paved with gold. Fortunately he has just enough time to opens the second window of the Panto Advent calendar before his bus leaves.
Join Rich as the gang gather for the 2024 Christmas Panto. In scene 1, Rich chucks away the magic beans and opens the first advent window.
The gang are joined by James Morris as they discuss the arrival of Midgard Heroic Battles and to consider the future of wargame publishing.
The gang return with their latest news and views on the hobby generally and the world of Lard.
The lads meet up after Historicon and the We Have Ways Festival to reflect on the events. Rich also gives an update on the website outage.
The gang get together to discuss what they have been up to and meet up with international superstar sculptor Paul Hicks to discuss how he conceives a new range of figures, researches that, sculpts them and brings them to completion.
The lads get together to discuss their starts to 2024 and a busy time it has been. They discuss the big issue of focus and how it affects them as gamers and as a business.
The lads get together to ensure that old acquaintances are not forgot and enjoy the run in to 2024.
After the December Advent Calendar, the lads get together for Christmas Day on Lard Island. Join them as they raise a glass to the festive season.
Sidney opens the final window in the advent calendar for 2023 and looks forward to 2024.
Nick opens his last window of 2023 and casts himself and the lads in some classic war films.
Rich opens his final window of the year and talks about terrain he'd like to build in 2024.
Sidney returns to open the 21st window and tell us about his most memorable project of the past year.
Sidney opens the next window and plays out fun festive game; the Defenestration of Lard
It's day 13 and Rich returns in his director's hat to cast the terrible trio in a classic war film. Which roles will they be playing in the remake?
Rich opens today's window and talks about things he just cannot do without. Presumably cooking lager gets more than a passing mention...
Nick opens the window and is ready to hurl something from it as he plays our Festive Christmas Game.
Rich opens the fourth window and discusses game objectives and plausible scenario endings.
Day three and Sidney emerges, resplendent in his new elf costume, to unlock the secrets of window three.
Nick opens the second window on the calendar and muses on the problematic aspects of game design
Rich opens the first window and looks to the future which, allegedly, has only just begun.
With Arnhem now behind them, the gang meet up to talk wargaming and the usual mix of drivel and utter nonsense.
After a busy summer, the lades get together to reflect on the range of events they have attended. And Nick SWEARS! Apologies. He's like that...
An Ask Sidney Special sees the gang answering questions from the postbag on a whole range of topics.
The gang get together in person at Roundwood Towers to record this show. Find out what they have been doing, building and enjoy the big issue about the use of dice in wargames.
The gang get together to discuss all that's new in the world of Lard before being joined by a guest for the Big Issue of the day.
In the third edition of this new Audio Production for Lard TV, the panel are joined by two members of UK Fight Club; a body attempting to use wargaming as a professional development tool within the British Army. To find out more, check out: Home | Fight Club Intl (ukfightclub.co.uk)
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The lads get together once again to talk wargaming and answer a Big Issue question about game design before removing the dust sheets from the library and talking books.
By the magic of technology the lads span the globe to link up with Rich in Australia to discuss , the world of wargaming and Cancon, Australia's largest wargaming event.
In the second edition of this new Audio Production for Lard TV, the panel discuss battlefield touring and their relevance to both the military and wargaming with Mike Peters, a veteran of the British Army with over thirty years service and an experience battlefield guide.
In the first edition of this new Audio Production for Lard TV, the panel discuss military and business wargaming and how they relate to recreational hobby gaming. Future episodes of the Ops Room will focus on the wide variety of ways wargaming is used with guests including games designers, authors, military personnel and wargamers in general
Deck the halls with boughs of holly, whip out your Christmas Pudding, it's time for the TooFatLardies Christmas Day Oddcast. Join the lads as they look back on 2022 and exchange gifts with their usual mix of humour, wit and blind ignorance.
Sidney opens the final window on the Lardies Advent calendar for 2022. A very merry Christmas to all of our listeners. We hope you have a wonderful Christmas.
Rich opens the next window in the calendar as we have just four days to go to the big day.
Unlucky for some, it's Day 13 and Nick takes a look in the next Advent calendar window.
We're into double figures in the countdown to Christmas and Nick can smell the mince pies!
As Day 7 arrives, Nick stands ready to open the latest window on the Lard Island advent calendar.
After a marathon round of events and globe-trotting fun, the lads get together with a gripping tale of their Odyssey. Join them as they reveal their adventures
The lads get together to discuss the world of Lard and to chew over the Big Issue, how to game raids.
It's a busy time on Lard Island with the usual flurry of summer games day and show. The lads assemble to discuss current projects, the Big Issue and what Rich uses instead of a brain.
Fifty Oddcasts and twenty years on, the lads talk about their memories and hopes for the future before being joined by Mark Backhouse to discuss Strength & Honour.
The gang meet up with a special guest to talk about events in the world of Lard including news about a major project for 2022.
It's Christmas time on Lard Island and the three wise men have arrived at Roundwood Towers to discuss their own Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh moments of 2021. Very rapidly it emerges that all is not it seems as events take a sinister turn...
Nick talks us through the inspiration he gets from maps and how they inform his game designs.
Rich talks about the thinking behind Deployment Points of various sorts in Lardy Games and how they are all part of one design journey.
The 22nd of December and Sidney is talking about how he finds inspiration and motivation from seeing what other fellow hobbyists are doing.
Fat Nicholas emerges from behind his window to contemplate on how he has personally drawn inspiration from the Lardy community.
With just five days to go, Big Rich will undoubtedly be loitering near the eggnog, so now seems a good time to ask him about Fervour and how he has used it in his game design
En garde! With his rapier swirling above his head, Sidney introduces us to the inspiration he has gained from studying 17th century schools of fencing.
With just a week until Christmas, Nick talks about the concept of 'Big Men' and Leadership within Lardy rules.
With twenty years of game designing experience behind him, the big fella reveals all, telling us which is his favourite game mechanism EVER!
Resplendent in his finery, Sidney arrives from Window 16 to wax lyrical on the politics of the French Court and how it has inspired him on so many levels.
Starting wistfully at his long-unused boots, Nick muses on the much missed joys of battlefield walking and talks of how it has influenced his gaming.
Card hand management features in a number of Lardy rule sets. Here Big Rich discusses the journey of development that has resulted and the way it has influenced different games.
Oft times found among dusty volumes in the Lard Island Library, Sidney brushes the dust off a weighty tome and tells us how memoirs have influenced his game design.
Nick emerges from behind door 12 of the advent calendar to tell us how personal stories of warfare have influenced him as he designs rules and scenarios.
Variable movement has been at the heart of Lardy games since the outset 20 years ago. Here Rich talks through the inspiration for the mechanisms they use.
Behind today's window we have Sidney who explains how he finds inspiration in the works of the great painters. Splash a bit of red up here...have you guessed what it is yet?
In the latest of our windows on game design inspiration, Big Rich tells us all about the Command Dice mechanism in Chain of Command and what inspired and drive his design choices.
The smell of the crowd, the roar of the greasepaint; no, it's not Sidney in Panto in Prestatyn again, but he is here to tell us how the theatre has influenced the way he stages wargames. Oh, yes he is!
As window 7 breathes a sigh of relief, Nick explodes into view to talk about the exploits of the nautical but nice 'Sailor' Malan
Day Six and Rich talks about some of the inspiration behind creating Pint Size Campaigns
As Day five arrives, Sidney considers how the look and versatility of maps have influenced his gaming experiences
It's Day 4 of the Advent Calendar and Nick is here to talk to us about the beauty of simplicity and how being simple has helped his game design ethos.
Rich leaps from the next window of our advent calendar to talk about one of the earliest Lardy game mechanisms, the Fire Table in IABSM.
Sidney brings a hint of class to the Advent Calendar as he waxes lyrical on his favourite historical tome. How has reading big book influenced the boy from Hull?
In the 2021 Advent Calendar shows, we look at the theme of inspiration in wargaming, be that inspiration for rules, scenarios or just gaming in general. In this first show, Nick talks about how Shock came to be part of the DNA of Lard
The gang get together to discuss what they have been up to and to look at forthcoming events as their calendar suddenly bursts back into life. What will they look forward to as the show circuit grinds back into gear?
The gang assemble to discover that Rich has more in common with Chairman Mao than you might have thought and to field a whole range of questions from Sidney's ridiculously oversized sack.
The lads join up to discuss their emergence from lockdown, to consider planning when it comes to new projects and the launch their new game show.
The gang get together to remember a great friend and to discuss the big issue of the day.
The terrible trio meet up to discuss escape from Stalag lockdown, discuss their current project and to mull over the issue of storing their collections.
Dave and Rich discuss the nuts and bolts of firing, moving and close combat in this continuing investigation of 'O' Group WWII Rules.
Sid, Nick and Rich get together to discuss all the latest news from Lard Island. After a recent rule review, Sidney is prompted to ask the big question; "What is a serious wargaming"? Tune in to find out their conclusions.
Dave and Rich continue with their discussion and here cover the command and control mechanisms within the rules
Dave Brown talks to Big Rich in another discussion about the mechanisms in 'O'Group, here focussing on deployment of forces. Watch out for our Lard TV accompanying programme which serves as a companion to this issue.
In Part One of their discussion about 'O'Group, game designer Dave Brown meets with Rich to discuss the rules and the basic foundations for the game such as figure scale, ground scale, forces required and his design objectives.
As we bid farewell to 2020, the lads come together to to discuss their Christmas and talk about 'the big bang moment' when ideas for a new rule set arrive.
There's a real treat behind the final advent window; a whole Christmas Oddcast where the gang assemble to talk about all things festive.
Join the Lardies as they open the penultimate window in the Advent Calendar. This time Rich whips up a feast for three of histories military greats.
Just a few windows open and one of them is opened today as Sidney puts on his apron and rustles up a feast fit for three historical characters.
As the 21st window of the Lardies Advent Calendar is opened, Nick tells us about his dream battlefield trip.
As we head towards Christmas we open the 20th window in the Advent Calendar. Here Rich tells us about the most positive things of 2020.
Its the 19th of December and the Lardies Advent calendar sees another window thrown open to reveal a festive treat. Today Sidney is visited by the wargames fairy.
Just one week to go until Christmas and we open the 18th window of the Lardies Advent Calendar. Nick tells us about his hopes a nd fears for historical wargaming in the future.
As another window in the Lardy Advent calendar is opened as Rich tells us about his favourite wargaming army.
Join us for the 16th window of the Lardies Advent Calendar as our very own Dandy Highwayman, Sidney, takes to the field for his favourite historical wargaming location.
It's the 15th of December and Nick waves to us from the next window in the Lardies Advent calendar.
Two weeks in and we are opening the fourteenth window in the Lardies Advent calendar. Here Richard discusses his hopes and fear for the future of historical wargaming.
Day thirteen of the Lardies Advent Calendar and Sidney contemplates his dream battlefield challenge.
Welcome to the Lardies Advent Calendar day 11. Join us as Rich meets the wargames fairy.
We reach the tenth day of the Lardies Advent Calendar as we discover what Sidney's choices of War Films are.
Join us for the ninth day of the Lardies Advent Calendar where we find out where Nick keeps his armies.
Day eight of the TooFatLardies Advent Calendar 2020. Join us as we crash through the next window.
It's the 4th of December, so why not join us as we open another window on the Lardy Advent Calendar?
Join us on our daily journey through the Advent period as we open the third window on the TooFatLardies Advent Calendar.
Join us on our daily journey through the Advent period as we open the second window on the Lardies Advent Calendar.
We open the first window in our 2020 Advent Calendar; the first in a daily journey through the festive season. Join us each day as we open another window onto the world of Lard.
In a break from our usual schedule, the Lardies take a moment to discuss what Remembrance Sunday means to them.
The lads discuss their latest hobby projects, discuss the Best Bit on the Bench and then hit the Big Issue, the future of BIG games.
The usual panel are joined by internationally famous wargamer and game host, John Savage to discuss the Big Issue of how to use a public wargame to engage with gamers new and old.
The gang get together to talks about what they've been up to and to discuss the hot topic of the day: Is Historical Wargaming Dying?
The lads get together to discuss the launch of Infamy, Infamy!, their trip to Virtual Lard and the Big Issue: Terrain in Wargames.
With the lads still locked down, they discuss what they have been working on and then look at the Big Issue of running on-line wargames during the pandemic.
The first live Oddcast beamed out on YouTube. If nothing else. the lads were at least sober in this lockdown special.
The gang get together to discuss the continuing task of wargaming in lockdown, continue their discussion on solo wargaming and Sidney reveals all.
The one where they should have been at Salute. The boys get together in the form of holograms to discuss what they could have been doing and what they have been doing before being joined by a special guest to discuss solo wargaming.
'Locked Down' they may well be, but the three amigos of Lard hook up via the power of the web to record an "Ask Sidney" version of the Oddcast. Answering questions from all over the globe, the lads touch on how whatever the world throws at them, the game must go on!
The lads hit the road for the latest Lardy Games Day in Southampton and discuss the idea of quality versus quantity in wargaming. The usual mix of updates and chat is accompanied by Sidney getting lost.
Sid, Nick and Rich meet to discuss all in then world of Lard with reports from Crusade, a chat with housewife's favourite Dave Brown about his forthcoming WWII rules, 'O' Group, and a discussion about gaming battles with inevitable results.
The final window in the Lardies Advent Calendar is the biggest and best, with a full Festive Oddcast. Join the lads as they talk you into Christmas.
They're back with just one more window before Christmas. Join the Lardies as they assemble around the Christmas Tree.
With just three days to go, the Lardies open the latest window in their festive advent calendar
It's time to open the next window in the Lardies Advent Calendar. Join them for another fireside chat from Lard Island.
It's the 19th day of the Lardies festive Advent Calendar. Join us as we open another window.
Day Sixteen of the Lardies Advent Calendar. Why not listen in through the window of Lard.
It's Day Fourteen of the TooFatLardies Advent Calendar for 2019. What will be behind the window today?
Day 13 is here and we celebrate by opening the next window in the Lardy Advent Calendar
Day Twelve of the TooFatLardies 2019 Advent Calendar is here and we can find out what's behind the magic window.
It's Day eleven of the TooFatLardies 2019 advent Calendar. Why not open that window with us.
God rest ye merry, Gentlemen, let nothing you dismay, for the ninth window of the Advent calendar has just been opened today...
Keep rockin' around the Christmas tree, it's a happy holiday, and that especially the case when opening the next door in the Lardy Advent Calendar. And now you can.
In the lanes snow is glistening, but avoid any slips by listening to Day Six of the Lardies Advent calendar.
Oh what fun it is to ride in a one horse open sleigh to day five of the Lardy Advent Calendar. What's behind the window? It's time to find out.
Remember, Remember, the 3rd of December, if for no other reason than it's the third window on the Lardy Advent calendar
It's Day Two of the Lardies Advent Calendar and time to open another window. Grab a mince pie and nibble your way through December the 2nd
We open the first window in our Advent Calendar of Lard; the first in a window-based journey through the festive season. Join us each day as we open another window onto the world of Lard.
The terrible trio take to the road as they head for Antwerp and the annual pilgrimage that is Crisis. To while away the lengthy journey they take a peek in Sidney's mail bag and see what people have been asking for the #AskSidney occasional section. Why not join them as they streak across Southern England and up the coast to Belgium
The three amigos return to the studio with lots of chat about preparing for Infamy, Infamy in this show as well as a Big Issue of technology in the hobby, how it has changed our gaming and a look to the future.
The trio of Lard meet again to discuss the pertinent issues of the day; what's been happening in the workshop? Where have they been on tour? What new products are forthcoming? Why is Sid dressed like that? The Big Issue this time is logistics in wargaming. The gang discuss this and many more issues with absolutely no consideration of common sense or logic. In other words, IT'S AN ODDCAST. Make of it what you will.
The gang gather in the Lard Island Studio to discuss a whole host of issues, from the workshop projects, the Market Garden campaign and the big issue, space in wargames. A special report from the USA brings news of Lard America's latest foray to Historicon and we look forward to Lard events later this year.