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.