AAR: First Blood
/Originally posted 19th October 2013
The last of Topi's four East Africa 1940 battle reports: the Italians advance again.
AAR: The Battle of Ras Gaan
/Originally posted 17th October 2013
The next battle report slurped from Topi's blog covers an Italian attempt to bash through a British blocking point. It all looks a bit crowded to me!
AAR: A Missionary Man
/Originally posted 15th October 2013
The next battle report slurped from Topi's blog contains a bit more information about the background to his East Africa 1940 campaign. That's in addition to an amusing tale of a ragtag bunch of militia taking on the might of the Italian army. Proves you don't need tons of troops and Tigers on the table to have fun with IABSM!
AAR: East Africa Waltzing Matilda
/Originally posted 12th October 2013
I've found a new source of After Action Reports! A gentleman named Topi, from Finland, has an excellent blog with five IABSM AARs. It will take me a few days to catch up, but catch up I will!
Here's the first: his first game of IABSM. It's East Africa, British versus Italians, and Topi's English is a lot better than my Finnish!
AAR: Avaux
/Originally posted 31st August 2013
Brian Cantwell continues the Blenneville or Bust! campaign with action around the small village of Avaux. Will the British armour manage to smash though the German lines? Read on to find out!
AAR: Hedgerow Hell et al.
/Originally posted 26th August 2013
Sorry there hasn't been much from me lately: all my time has been spent painting up my 15mm squadron of Cromwell tanks, courtesy of Plastic Soldier Company. I'm just finishing the basing now, so pictures etc soon.
Meanwhile, here are three battle reports. Hedgerow Hell is one from last weekend, the other two are from last year.
Hedgerow Hell
First Run at IABSM
Second Run at IABSM
AAR: Slugfest at the Crossroads
/Originally posted 24th August 2013
Here's something we don't see very often: two AARs about the same game. The Mad Padres and James Mantos each provide words and pictures about the Slugfest at the Crossroads: a squadron of Shermans encounter German tanks and supports in France, 1944.
AAR: Warning Order
/Originally posted 9th August 2013
The Wasatch Front Historical Gaming Society (WFHGS) produce a lovely little pdf wargaming magazine three to four times a year called Warning Order.
Warning Order is packed full of reviews, AARs and, best of all, recent issues have contained a series of nostalgia pieces looking back at the recent history of wargaming. I experienced several flashbacks to my school days when reading them! Highly recommended.
Warning Order issue #33 contains a very positive review of IABSM v3 and an AAR; Warning Orderissue #35 another IABSM v3 AAR. Both are reprinted here with kind permission of the WFHGS.
On The Road To Moscow
German Armoured Assault
AAR: The Great Rice Hunt
/Originally posted 9th August 2013
An excellent AAR from Charles Eckart re-visiting the first scenario from the Charlie Don't surf scenario pack: Surf's Up!
AAR: The Battle for St. Contest
/Originally posted 29th July 2013
A lovely looking battle report created in the style of those action comics we all loved so much when we were young. Thanks to Paul from the movealongnownothingtoseehere blog for permission to reproduce it here.
AAR: North of Caen
/Originally posted 20th July 2013
Action from the Small Sagas blog, where they re-fight the first scenario from the IABSMv3 rulebook: North of Caen.
AAR: Brig's Peake
/Originally posted 6th July 2013
Another great IABSM AAR from East Africa in 1941. This time, James Morris describes the desperate fight for Brig's Peak.
AAR: The Canal
/Originally posted 22nd June 2013
The frog-like Aphids are back in action!
This time it's an encounter mission against the insectoid Hive. Who can get, and stay, across the canal?
AAR: Cameron Ridge
/Originally posted 16th June 2013
A short WW2 battle report from Paul Scrivens-Smith takes us to East Africa. It's 1941, and the British and Italians are fighting for the Cameron Ridge.
AAR: South of Cherbourg
/Originally posted 13th June 2013
A WW2 battle report from Mike Whittacker, with scenario #02 from the IABSMv3 rulebook.
AAR: Sniper!
/Originally posted 13th June 2013
Sapper Joe reports on his first game of Charlie Don't Surf: it's scenario #02 from Surf's Up: Sniper
AAR: Screening Mission
/Originally posted 8th June 2013
Great game of Q13 last week. Aphis versus Felids in a screening mission involving the kitty cats desperately trying to hold off a superior frog-force whilst their engineers rig a vital reactor for demolition!
AAR: The Battle for Werth
/Originally posted 5th June 2013
A WW2 battle report from Benito, who is warming up for a Hell's Highway campaign.
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AAR: The Railway Station at Stalingrad
/Originally posted 23rd May 2013
The third instalment in Grah's Stalingrad campaign. More fierce and bloody fighting.
AAR: Soviet Counter-Attack a Stalingrad
/Originally posted 18th May 2013
Grah continues his Stalingrad campaign with the Soviets counter-attacking. Looks like some nasty FIBUA action!
