Updates

December, 2024

Natasha and I hope our friends in th USA had a wonderful Thanks Giving last month and we wish you all a VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS! We'd like to thank you all for your support over the past year and we look forward to being of service again in 2025.

November, 2024

We start this month with some sad and, for some of you, old news. We are sorry to report the passing of Andreas (Andy) Gebhardt at the start of the summer. I had known that Andy had had an operation for his cancer, and spent ten hours on the operating table, but I was unawre that he had subsequently passed away. I only found out last week when Kevin Zucker contacted me about one of Andy's OSG Vassal modules. 

October, 2024

Well, we're back from France and the backlog of orders for counters and maps is pretty well cleared - If you're waiting to hear from me and haven't, please contact me ASAP.

September , 2024

Lots of good news to share this month:

August, 2024

We're a couple of days early with this month's update, as I'll be travelling back to France over the weekend.

July, 2024

The first half of our sojourn in France is drawing to a close. Next week, I jet off Arizona and Consimworld Expo, and then back to France until September.

June, 2024

Well, the day after publishing this site update, Sally and I are off to France for the summer. Whilst there I'll be visiting the artillery school at Auxonne, attended by Napoleon in 1789. The trip has been arranged by my good friend Yves Roig, who will be with me. After that, Sally will return to the UK for a few weeks, whilst I jet off to Arizona and Consimworld Expo, and then back to France until September.

May, 2024

Let me start, this month, with the most important news...

The LYG Shop will again be closed for part of the Summer as we head over to France again. This year the closure will be:

April, 2024

I'd like to thank everyone that supported the Kickstarter Campaign for our new game 'Gettysburg - A Time for Heroes' (to be published by Worthington Games). It met its (admittedly modest) goal in under an hour!

Getty Box

I'm also delighted to be able to announce that we have a new sponsor, Sound of Drums.

March, 2024

The main news this month was going to be  that Ken Demyen (with my assistance) is working on yet another Battles of Middle Earth variant: Field of Celebrant. Here is the map:

Celebrant

We hope to have the map and counters available for purchase before the middle of the year, along with freely downloadable Vassal module and exclusive rules.

February, 2024

Well, a very quiet month with not a lot to tell you.

I will give advance notice that the LYG Shop will again be closed for part of the Summer as we head over to France again. This year the closure will be:

January, 2024

Well, we made it through our 20th Anniversary Year and into 2024! So, Happy New Year to all our visitors, contributors, patrons and sponsors.

 

December, 2023

No new files and just a few links this month (due to the policy BlueHost has obliged us to implement). However, that doesn't mean there is no news. 

 

November, 2023

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT REGARDING THE FUTURE OF LYG


October, 2023

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT - LYG's DAYS MAY BE NUMBERED

September, 2023

I know a number of you have been champing at the bit, waiting for the LYG Shop to reopen so you can order counters and maps.

August, 2023

No new promotions this month, clebrating our 20th Anniversary, but we do have the continuing promotion from Strategemata, along with the LYG Prize Draw, and there will be more new promotions form next month.

July, 2023

We're now officially half-way through LYG's 20th Anniversary Year and to mark the occasion, we have a truly outstanding promotion form Legion Wargames  - as well as the continuing promotion from Strategemata. See below...

June, 2023

For June, we have another great promotion to help celebrate our 20th Anniversary - this time from Acies Edizioni - as well as the continuing promotion from Strategemata. See below...

May, 2023

For May, we have another great promotion to help celebrate our 20th Anniversary - this time from Europa Simulazioni - as well as the continuing promotion from Strategemata. See below...

April 2023

We have some good news, and some not so good news...

The good news is that, from Monday (3 April) we should have a working die-press again.

March 2023

We have a great new promotion for March - This time from Worthington Games - as well as the continuing promotion from Strategemata. See below...

January 2023

It was 20 Years Ago Today...

Well, perhaps not 'today', I'm not exactly sure which day, but 2023 is
LYG's 20th ANNIVERSARY!!!

November 2022


Ukraine Flago

The LYG Shop is now OPEN


PRICE WARNING!

August 2022


Ukraine Flago

The LYG Shop is now (temporarily) closed.
We 'expect' to fully re-open around Sept./Oct.


After July being quiet for submissions, it is nice to see we have more for August.

July 2022


Ukraine Flago

The LYG Shop is now (temporarily) closed.
We 'expect' to fully re-open around Sept./Oct.

June 2022


Ukraine Flago

The LYG Shop is now (temporarily) closed.
We 'expect' to fully re-open around Sept./Oct.

May 2022


Ukraine Flago

The LYG Shop is now (temporarily) closed.
We 'expect' to fully re-open around Sept./Oct.

April, 2022


Ukraine Flago

The LYG Shop is now (temporarily) closed.
We 'expect' to fully re-open around Sept./Oct.


Just a quick update message this month, as I am travelling to France.

February, 2022


Ukraine Flago

The LYG Shop is now (temporarily) closed.
We 'expect' to fully re-open around Sept./Oct.

November, 2021

The LYG Shop is OPEN!!!

We're travelling back to the UK from France this weekend; hence this update a day earler than usual.

The good news is that this means the LYG SHOP, closed this past couple of months, is now re-open for the sales of Maps, Counter Sheets and Games. 

October, 2021

The LYG Shop is CLOSED
(We anticipate reopening for Games, Maps and Counters from late October)

My thanks to everyone for the great support they given to the LYG SHOP past couple of months. Map and counter sales have been brisk.

I'm away from the workshop now for a number of weeks but, fear not, we'll re-open before November. 

September 2021

The LYG Shop is CLOSED
(We anticipate reopening for Games, Maps and Counters from late October)

My thanks to everyone for the great support they given to the LYG SHOP past couple of months. Map and counter sales have been brisk.

July 2021

The LYG Shop is FULLY OPEN again!!

(but will be closed from 4 September (cut-off for counter orders 30 Aug.))

Well, we're back in France after a long absence due to Covid restrictions. That is the reason why today's update is a little later than usual.

June 2021

NOTE: The LYG Shop will be closed from 25th June to 31 July. Cut-off for counter/map orders is Saturday 19 June.

May 2021

The Altentative/Replacement Die-Cutting Service is really proving popular (and is no longer just SPI related). Not only have we received lots of orders (and lots of satisfied customers), we've also added a number of artists to the fold. As well as our own counters and those of Kerry Anderson, we now also offer Counters from:

April 2021

Well, I may now be retired, but I've been busy...

As well as new mods and gameboxes (including one from your truly), you'll find new downloadable maps (also from yours truly), on the Resources page, and an entire NEW page 'Die Cutting'.

The Die Cutting page is dedicated to that niche part of this niche hobby that is DIY die-cut counters. On the page you'll find everything you need to know to get started - including a series of tutorial videos.

March 2021

A fairly quiet month on the site.

But a landmark month for me personally.

After 42 years of full-time employment, I am taking early retirement at the sprightly age of 59. Had I left it a month longer I'd be 60 - and that sounds much older.

February 2021

I'd like to start by thanking everyone that took advantage of our January Sale, it certainly helped to reduce the number of titles we have on offer.

But fear not, additional stock has been added this month Cool.

January 2021

HNY

Wishing all of our sponsors, contributors and visitors a very happy and hopeful 2021 after what has been, for so many, a wretched year.

We're certainly off to a good start with the list of new files below - largely thanks to the dependable and prodigious Dave Jones, ably assisted by Rich Peterson and mal Atherton. And, whats more, we have all three platorms (Cyberboard, Vassal and ZunTzu covered).

December 2020

Xmas

Wishing all of our sponsors, contributors and visitors a Very Merry Christmas.

We certainly have lots of new and updated files to help you wile away the hours and we hope Santa briong you lots of gaming goodness - on which note...

November 2020

Poppy

WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

We've just re-stocked the LYG Shop and will be pleased to donate 10% of all Novemember sales from the shop to the Royal British Legion's Poppy Appeal.

BREXIT & Our EU Friendly Shipping

October 2020

It's always a pleasure to welcome a sponsor to the fold and this month I'm delighted to announce that Mark H. Walker's Tiny Battle Publishing joins us.

Many of you will know Mark from Lock 'n Load Publishing and Flying Pig Games. Tiny Battle focuses on small footprint games and has some great designers.

 

Tiny Battle

September 2020

A couple of days ago, as I was prepering the update I described it here as "A small but beautiful update this month Smile".

August 2020

You may recall, last month's update was published whilst I was en-route (see what I did there) to France, having been prepared a few days in advance. Well, this month's update has been published the day after I got back from France.I'm sorry to say it is one of the smallest updates ever. This wasn't down to me being away as the content is contributor driven. Not sure why this month's contributions are lacking; perhaps everyone else, like me, have had better things to do in July.

Hiopefully peoplewill be more productive through August.

June 2020

What a crazy, cruel world we're all living in at the moment. My thoughts are with all of those suffering from the impact of the corona virus and with those impacted by the civil unrest in the USA. 

Despite all that is going on, we're lucky to have fellow wargamers who are continuing to create excellent mods and gameboxes to help divert us from the world's woes (ironically by focusing on the wos of the past).

Enjoy - and STAY SAFE!

BREXIT & Our EU Friendly Shipping

May 2020

April was a hectic month at work for me and I am looking forward to/hoping for a quieter May.It would appear I'm not the only one that has been busy - just look at how many files we have from Andy Gebhardt and Mal Atherton. All  those files should keep many of you busy doing one of the things you like best - playing these great games.

It certainly appears that game play via Vassal and Cyberboard has increased, we saw twice our typical numbe rof visitors in April, continuing a trend started in March.

Enjoy - and STAY SAFE!

April 2020

Well, how the world has changed since the site's last update! Hopefully you and yours are well and will weather this storm. I certainly look forward to us all coming out the other side. A lot of my plans for the year involved doing work on the house in France (I was supposed currently be in the middle of a 4-week visit), but those plans are now scuppered, at least, I suspect, until the Autumn. Well, if that is the worst consequence for me, then I will count myself very lucky.

BUT...

We also have lots of good news this month - and a real bumper update.

March 2020

It is always great to be able to tell you we have a new sponsor, as it is largely thanks to these companies (as well as those of you generous enough to make donations) that we are able to provide LYG as free to use.

So, it is with great pleasure that I am able to tell you that C3i magazine has joined this invaluable group of LYG supporters.

February 2020

I think we all owe Phil Weltsch a vote of thanks this month as he's almost single-handedly provided this month's updates. He also, rather nicely, creates files for both Vassal and Cyberboard - so almost everyone is happy.

Karoly has added a few markers to Dave Jones' Fontenoy to make play a little easier.

January 2020

WHOOSH! And December was gone. A clear sign of getting older I guess.

Happy New Year to one and all. Plenty of reasons to be happy to see the back of 2019 on a global scale but at a personal level it was a pretty good year. Here's hoping 2020 is as good personally and a whole lot better internationally - though recent events in Iraq don't hold out a lot of hope for Peace on Earth.

A fairly modest bunch of gameboxes and mods this month; my thanks to Phil, Tom and Stephen for making the effort.

December 2019

Well, here we are again. Another year (our 16th!) drawing to a close and Christmas quickly approaching.

We've once again enjoyed fantastic support from our sponsors, supporters, contributors and visitors, and Natasha and I wish to thank you all most sincerely. 

As it is the season of giving it is especially nice to be able to offer you something of a BUMPER UPDATE this month. And, those of you that have got to know my tastes will appreciate that I am especially happy to see so many Cyberboard gameboxes and SPI titles.

November 2018

I'm delighted to be able to tell you that LYG has another new sponsor, our twenty-third!

Last Stand Games is a relatively new company from the Landsknecht Publishing  stable (sister to their ATO and TPS publications - also LYG sponsors). They have just the one game out at present, but it is a beast, 'Stalingrad: Verdun on the Volga'. And there are others in the pipeline, equallly ambitious, such as 'Beyond Leipzig'

October 2019

Site update is now complete, apologies again for the delay. After all that, the update itself is very modest this month.

You'll note Drupal errors all over the site. The hosts have clearly done some updates and thrown things out somewhat. Natasha has done her best to sort things but to no avail and, as a result, I supect we'll be migrating away from Drupal over the next few weeks and months to something simpler to maintain. We'll probably take the opportunity to simplify the site too - so a silver lining to the cloud.

September, 2019

Apologies to anyone that hit the site on Saturday 7 Sept., expecting to find it updated. I had a crazy week and a busy weekend and, to be frank, had Jim Anderson not nudged me, I suspect that I would have entirely forgotten about the update - which I think would have been a 15 year first. There may have been others skipped, but not forgotten.

August, 2019

Had a great time in France last month and had no complaints about the LYG update that I did en-route (so hopefully all went OK). If so, just as well as September's update wuill see me back there again.

We continue to see a great number of submissions - 2019 relly is a bumper year. Not quite so many direct submission this month, but still very healthy. Thanks to everyone who is supporting the site in this way.

Sales of games continues to be healthy too - thanks to everyone who has bought from me.

July 2019

I'm hoping this update has gone OK. I arrived in France last night for a two-week stay (including taking in Bastille Day celebrations), so I prepared the update at the start of the week with the intention of 'simply' publishing today.

Thanks largely to Phillip Weltsch (ably abetted by Howard Divins and Tom Cundiff) the bumper months continue. After two months of Cyberboard gameboxes by the cartload, this time it is the turn of Vassal.

A great month of sales saw another 24 of my games sold - so thanks to everyone that has contributed to my pension pot.

June 2019

I'm a very happy chappie this month.

We have another CYBERBOARD BONANZA for you - courtesy of Howard Divins again (assisted by Mal Atherton). You may know I'm both a Cyberboard and SPI fan and so this all makes me very happy.

What also makes me happy is starting my first Cyberboard game in, probably, over a year. Playing Melle from Clash's BAR Fontenoy.

May 2019

We hope everyone had a great Easter - we certainly did with the first visit of the year to our home in France.

April, 2019

Have we got an update for you?!

We've more new files and updated files than I remember having had for a long, long time.

And there are even Cyberboard gameboxes in there!

Hopefully everyone will find something they like.

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The LYG Shop also has some nice additions including the incredible Triumph of Chaos Deluxe V2. 

Be sure to check it out and grab yourself a bargain.

 

March 2019

I want to start this month's update by thanking everyone that has made donations to the site over the past few years, and especially to our Patrons (see the list in the bottom right of this page). Today, as I was updating the site for March, we gained our 30th paron. This level of support is greatly appreciated - as are all the other forms of contribution.

February 2019

Some updates, and new (to LYG) links, this month.

Thanks to those of you that supported our January sale. I'm expecting to add some fairly collectible games to the LYG Shop stock, next months - so watch out for that.

January 2019

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JANUARY SALE
JANUARY SALE
JANUARY SALE

December 2018

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MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Stuck for what to ask people to get you?

CHECK OUT THE LYG SHOP!

November 2018

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First of a BIG batch of VPG titles.

CHECK OUT THE LYG SHOP!

October 2018

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 NEW STOCK ADDED TO THE LYG SHOP - CHECK IT OUT!

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BREXIT & Our EU Friendly Shipping

September, 2018

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 LOTS OF GREAT STOCK IN THE LYG SHOP - CHECK IT OUT!

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Apologies to all for being (over a week) late with this month's update - I was in France and was thinking I could do the update from there but, when i came to do it, I found that wasn't the case.

Well, here it is.

July 2018

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 LOTS OF NEW STOCK IN THE LYG SHOP - MANY PRICES REDUCED

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For the first time in a while, I have lots to talk about...

June 2018

June's update is early - because there is no update. There have been no submissions but, more to the point, I'm off to France - with very limited internet access. Put these things together and there's really little point updating the site this month. 

There are still thousands of files here from you download - so hopefully you'll permit me this dilatory moment.

BREXIT & Our EU Friendly Shipping

May 2018

My personal gaming continues to be quiet - but we have now officially taken ownership of the house in France and so, whilst there will be periods of heavy decorating activity when we visit, hopefully the bureaucratic task associated with buying a house, getting a bank account, getting connected to utilities, etc. will slow down a little. If so, the timing will be good as I am sitting here waiting for the arrival of Legion's 'Blenheim' - and I already have a CB opponent lined up. All we need is a Blenheim Cysberboard gamebox.

And behold..!

April 2018

*** 23 March - Shop has New Stock ***

A quiet gaming month for me personally as we now have a completion date for our house in France (April 19) and so I'm busy sorting banking, travel, utilities, house insurance, fuel for the boiler, user instructions for the boiler, etc. etc. Much of this in French (which I don't speak). As a result I've actually suspended all PBEM games - this must be the first time in over 15 years that I've bnot had at least one CB game on the go.

March 2018

*** 23 March - Shop has New Stock ***

February 2018

Well, yesterday I was confessing that I'd only managed a partial update and was giving lots of excuses why. Turns out that I'd done the vast majority (and could have done the last little bit) as the only omissision was this monthh's single submission, an update from Dave Rubin for his Case Green Cyberboard gamebox. Not sure why this month was so quiet but there you are - update now complete.

Prize Draw Update

Thanks again to those of you that donated as part of LYG's 15th Anniversary Charity Donation Drive - and to the sponsors that contributed prizes.

January 2018 (update)

THANKS TO THOSE OF YOU THAT HELPED US CELEBRATE OUR 15th ANNIVERSARY!!!The Donation Drive has now ended.

We hope to provide details of winners, monies raised for charity etc. with the February site update.

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December 2017

Hi everyone - and apologies for being a day oe so late with this month's update - life is busy, busy, busy.

For that reason I'm keeping this message brief. But I will point out the La Bat Assistant play-aid that has been added to the Resources page. If you play La Bataille, you may want to check it out.

And, of course, I must wish you all a VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS! Have fun.

BREXIT & Our EU Friendly Shipping

November 2017

**** December Update: Sorry folks, this will be delayed till tomorrow (Sunday, 3rd) at least - Limey ***

A cracking update this month with loads of new files and updates to older ones. And not only have we got a healthy number of Cyberbard gameboxes (increasingly rare these days), we have our first Zun Tzu file in quite a while. This is such a great month for files I almost wish this were the December update so that it could be my Christmas preasent to you all.

Enjoy!

 

BREXIT & Our EU Friendly Shipping

October 2017

For the second month running I'm updating the site whilst in France - though I have been home between updates. Last month we were in Tours, this month we're in Limoges. Last month was a holiday with a little house-hunting. This month its all about house-hunting and we've seen six great properties - and one not so great.

September 2017

An eventful August, wargaming wise, for me. Excitement came in the form of Waning Crescent, Shattered Cross making its pre-order numbers - my thanks to all that have supported me in this venture - either by placing a pre-order or in the playtesting and development. The latter continues as we get it production-ready.

August 2017

Let's start with the bad news. Almost immediately following last month's 'call to arms' for a Vassal designer for 'Streets of Stalingrad 4', the project was pulled. I'm till not sure why but it appears there were some irreconcilable differences between the principals. My thanks to those of you that did volunteer (for Cyberboard and ZunTzu as well as Vassal) and, again, my apologies that it came to nothing.

June 2017

Apologies for the delay with the June Update. I was hoping to get it done whilst at CSWE - but the best laid plans of mice etc.

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April 2017

Very little to say on the gaming front this month. Proof reading and playtesting of Waning Crescent, Shattered Cross is progressing very well, thanks to a great team of volunteers,  and we should still be on course for a 2017 publication. Some videos of the game are starting to appear and most can be accessed via the game's BGG page.

March 2017

Wow! Where did February go? Mind, Spring is with us - my favourite season.

Not surprising that , for me, February flew by - we were down south spending time with our first grandchild, Serena (and she lives up to her name - I don't know if Tash and Tom appreciate how lucky they are Laughing), we lost my wife's mum, and I got some paying work - just a week's consultancy, but very welcome. 

February 2017

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PROMOTION IN THE LYG SHOP

January 2017

 

FEBRUARY UPDATE LATE: This month's update will occur on Sunday, 5th February. This is due to the late arrival of Serena Evelyn Bates, my first grandchild and your webmaster's (Natasha's) first child, and their susbsequent delayed departure from hospital (nothing serious). Sealed

December 2017

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SALE NOW ON IN THE LYG SHOP

  • Buy 2 games and get a 3rd at HALF-PRICE (lowest priced item discounted)

AND

  • Spend over £50 and get £5 off (excludes postage)
  • Spend over £100 and get £10 off (excludes postage) 

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November 2016

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SALE NOW ON IN THE LYG SHOP

October 2016

I'll keep it short this month as, to be frank, very little has happened. 

That's it.

See you next month.

BREXIT & Our EU Friendly Shipping

September 2016

Just back from Gdansk (Danzig), my first trip to Poland. Had a great time there and will surely be back again. On our first full day there my wife and I walked the remains of the fortifications to the SW of the city taking a number of photographs for a friend who is in the process of designing a game on the1813 siege.

August 2016

First of all, apologies for the lack of update last month; not sure if that has happened before in our 16 year history (I bet it has , but it is certainly rare). The reason was simply that I didn't get back from CSW Expo in Tempe until Sunday after a 24 hr (and 5 minute) door-to-door journey and I simply couldn't find themotivation.

June 2016

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It is always pleasing to have a bumber crop of files for you - and even more so when there is a mix of Cyberboard, Vassal and Zun Tzu. And so I'm a happy chappie this month.

Vassal Files

May 2016

Well, a second quiet month and a short update from me as I have an all-day F2F session of Grognard's Quatre Bras today.

April 2016

After the plethora of news last month, April is fairly quiet on the gaming front - though on the personal front I've started a new job and I turn 55 - just 5 years to retirement and more time for games (if Sally lets me do either Wink).

February 2016

Some updates and some new files for you this month. As always Vassal is well covered but this month sees a lack of Cyberboards BUT does include a couple for ZunTzu - a welcome return!

With the recent hike in USPS shipping charges we've had a couple more of our sponsors express an interest in our EU Friendly Shipping Service as it will reduce their costs as well as saving you money related to VAT charges. Please get your favourite publisher to talk to us about how we could work with them.

January 2016

Well, I hope 2015 was as good for you as it was for me. It saw LYG gain new sponsors and the introduction of advertising, saw the launch of our sister site WalkingWaterloo.com, my first game design Toulon, 1793 started reaching customers & distributors, and our EU Friendly Shipping Service really started to take-off.

December 2015

If it wasn't for Mal Atherton, I'd be feeling something of a Christmas Grinch this month as we'd have nothing for your virtual Christmas stocking and, to make things worse, this update message is very rushed as I have to get out early to beat the traffic as I head off to do this year's Christmas shopping.

That said, Mal has certainly made up for any of my shortcomings by providing a raft of Cyberboard giftboxes.

November 2015

Vive la France

Special Black Friday/Cyber Monday Update:

I did a check with all of LYGs sponsors to see who had sales running this weekend. Here's what I found:

October 2015

Lots of news this month - all of it good.

First off, we've sorted the technical issue that was preventing us uploading a number of large files so you'll see that we have finally been able to provide access to:

September 2015

That's our first month back on line with no reported issues. Please remember:

If you spot any broken links, mis-attribution (or missing attibution), etc., please drop me a line.

The following files are still missing due to their size (a technical issue we hope to be able to address):

August 2015

Wow! That was painful" I said back in February 2014 having just recovered the site from a hard-drive failure and less than perfect backups.

Ironic then that after having had to recover the site again (again with poor backups) the recovery point should have been February 2014 and that quote should be the first thing that greets me.

March 2015

Quiet month this month, but good to welcome Jamie Shanks as a contributor - very nice man; let me punch his copy of Vera Cruz and CSWE a couple of years back).

February 2015

Had thought that the submissions for February had been a little slow but, having just prepared the site, I see that in truth we have a nice number of new files and updates - and I found some previously unpublished (heaven knows why) content..

January 2015

H A P P Y    2 0 1 5 !

2014 has been a great year for LYG thanks as usual to the support of  our visitors, sponsors, contributors and now donors too.

I hope to meet many of you at this year's Waterloo bicetnennial and.or at CSW Expo

T H A N K S !

 Limey

December 2014

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So I lied.Having said I wouldn't witter on about Toulon, 1793 anymore (see below), We now have a Special Announcement.

Peter Bennet has kindly produced both a Cyberboard Gamebox and a  Vassal Mod for the game. And Legion have agreed to them being:

November 2015

What an exciting month! Not only did I get the chance to traipse over the four battlefields of the Waterloo Campaign (more about this below), but Toulon, 1793 also hit its pre-order numbers. My sincere thank to all of you that have shown faith in me and the game by ordering already. If you're still sitting on the fence, then best decide soon as we're all working hard and aiming for a December release, and so the special pre-order price won't be available for too much longer.

October 2014

Off on my travels next week so an early update for October. The new additions to the site will (or should) appear at the base of this page from 1st Oct.
 

September 2014

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Beating the UK/EU Pre-Order Blues (see below). Clash are now extending the service t EU customers too. Cool

August 2014

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Beating the UK/EU Pre-Order Blues

Two LYG sponsors are in the process of taking payments for pre-order games at the moment and both are offering a VAT busting deal.

July 2014

Well, June was fun. A week in Tempe for CSW Expo, meeting old friends and making new. Got to play COA's Battles from the Age of Reason series and Toulon 1793 got its last pre-publication public playtest (expect to see it published later this year). This was then followed by the wedding of Natasha (my daughter and your webmaster).

June 2014

I'm going to make this a very quick update this month as I'm just back from ConsimWorld Expo (which was GREAT!) and I'm therefore a couple of days late with this update - apologies. (EDIT: Just noticed I'm not 2 days late but 5 days early! Mind you, Natasha gets married next Saturday so probably just as well.)

May 2014

I'LL BE FLYING BACK FROM CONSIMWORLD EXPO ON SATURDAY/SUNDAY SO THE JUNE UPDATE WILL BE A COUPLE OF DAYS LATE. APOLOGIES FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE.

We have another sponsor this month; our second magazine sponsor. Please welcome War Diary on board.

Toulon Box Cover

April 2014

I want to start this month by thanking each of you that have made a donation to help support the site. Natasha and I are grateful and humbled. Every donation - and I genuinely mean every donation, no matter how large or small - makes us realise that our efforts are genuinely appreciated. The fact that you're under no obligation to contribute makes it even more rewarding when you do.

Thank You!

March 2014

I want to start this month by thanking each of you that have made a donation to help support the site. Natasha and I are grateful and humbled. Every donation - and I genuinely mean every donation, no matter how large or small - makes us realise that our efforts are genuinely appreciated. The fact that you're under no obligation to contribute makes it even more rewarding when you do.

Thank You!

February 2014

Wow! That was painful.
 
We did some upgrades to the site over Christmas and, though the testing went OK,  we started getting errors after a couple of uploads as part of the January update. At first it was still possible for users to download files - but then even that got hit.
 

March 2012

Though it is great that a number of you have 'Liked' us on Facebook and started to 'Follow' us on Twitter, the numbers are still somewhat disappointing and I would like to again encourage more of you to do so.

February 2012

Thank you everyone for giving us such a great start to 2012 with a massive increase in traffic (four times the old average daily visits and a month's worth of old site traffic in the first three days following launch) and lots of emails and posts congratulating us on the new site - all very much appreciated.

January 2012

Well, here it is. The promised overhaul of the website.

I want to publicly acknowledge my indebtedness and gratitude to Natasha, my daughter, who has undertaken this (at times, tedious and laborious) work. She's spent what has probably been in excess of a hundred hours creating the site and (most tedious of all) transferring the content - Cyberboard, Vassal & Zun Tzu files alone number nearly 1100.

December 2011

First off, apologies that LYG has been rather unreliable during the second-half of November (due to circumstances beyond our control) and for the fact that the December update is a few hours later than usual (due to circumstances within my control - I'm changing jobs and trying to get my house on the market; busy, busy, busy). In fact, the Top Ten Downloads table won't be updated till the 4th December - sorry.

By way of partial amends, I'm delighted to offer you a sack full of new gameboxes and updates to gameboxes and modules.

November 2011

A modest set of updates this month but the big news is that LYG is undergoing another redesign. Natasha has promised to make a leap forward with the site's functionality as a Christmas present to her dad and, by association, to all of you.

October 2011

Not a lot to say this month other than we've got a nice selection of files for all three supported platforms. There are a couple submitted for Battles magazine that I have no attribution for; a shortcoming I'll happily remedy as soon as anyone can provide names.

And a bit of a personal milestone this month as I acquired my 800th game; needless to say most remain un-played as yet.

Our thanks, as always, to all our visitors, contributors and sponsors.

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