"Lardy Day event in Marietta GA" Topic

Last Saturday was GA Lardy Day at Gigabites Café in Marietta and it seemed to be a success.
We had dozens of people playing in 6 good looking games. An incredible variety that barely hit upon some of the various Toofatlardies rules.
Jim Schmidt ran his Coastal Patrol rules with a September 43 Mediterranean setting as the Allies attempted to intercept a Axis supply run. The Italians didn't know who to fight since is was the day after their country surrendered.
John Ford had a massive 6 person Sharp Practice 2 Never Never Land Pirate game in 28mm. Dutch, Spaniards, Caribe Indians, English, French, some Scots on horseback, and lots of wildlife. I don't know what wasn't in it!
There were no Russians though, They were in Matt's 6 person Winter 42 Kotelnikovo Station Chain of Command game. Incredible scenery that lowered the temperature in the room and I think caused me to catch a cold. It was so cool we played it twice.
William's Carentan Chain of Command game with US paras and the 17th SS was a superb layout that got 6 new players into the Lard. First CoC game I've seen that had 2 random events.
Chris Stoesen had a 15mm SP 2 Pirate game that featured the Spaniards raiding a Corsair controlled village during the Golden Age of Piracy.
I ran a 6 player Burma 45 Chain of Command that had a hypothetical armor clash between the 254th Indian Tank Brigade and Japanese 15th Div.among the dry rice paddies and a Burmese shrine

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Thanks to all the participants and especially to the game masters,
Mark

Looks like a great success. Some fine looking games.

Thanks for posting,

Ed

Had a great time and wished I could have stayed for all sessions. Good to see that many historical games where the tables are usually populated by xwing and 40k. Both fun but a nice change and hopefully we can host a few more mainly historical game days in the future. I would love to run some TSATF for some colonial battles.

Glad you made it and we do plan on running more historical days.
We need to work on getting a bigger crowd in later. We had some great games later in the day and could've run even more.
Mark

Great looking games.

Looks great. Just wish it was in Marietta, NY where I live!

Fine looking event!
Good job getting the scenario placards in the shots too (just that much more interesting info added – and they look great too).