AAR: Near Ploschad
/Craig Ambler gives us a write-up of Scenario #3B from the Bashnya or Bust! scenario pack: the Germans launch a surprise attack on a Soviet column Near Ploschad.
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AAR: Near Osen
/Originally posted 7th September 2014
Craig Ambler plays the first scenario from the Bashnya or Bust! scenario pack.
AAR: Last two From Amokfigur
/Originally posted 26th August 2014
The last two After Action Reports rescued from Amokfigur's site-in-hiatus..
These are from the Franco-German border region, but one is from 1939, Neighbours at Neunkirchen, and the other, The Road to the Ardennes, from 1944.
AAR: South Pacific
/Originally posted 24th August 2014
A couple of After Action Reports culled from the distant past of the Internet.
These are two Pacific Theatre reports from 2009: Australian Forces at Bougainville and Somewhere in the South West Pacific.
AAR: Vacqueville
/Originally posted 23rd August 2014
A great AAR from Katzenstein, who fights the Vacqueville scenario from the 2014 TFL Summer Special.
AAR: Belle Maison
/Originally posted 10th August 2014
An After Action Report from a game I played recently over in the Oxford area. It's Normandy 1944, a village called Belle Maison, and the Germans need to clear the road for their heavy artillery..
AAR: A Canadian VC
/Originally posted 4th August 2014
A real first on today's update: an AAR in German!
Those of you who don't speak German need not worry: the report, or spielberichte, is in two parts. First up are some words which Google and I have translated for you and, secondly, there's a great cartoon strip version which is in German...but you can always look at the pictures!
AAR: The Dragon Goes Sci-Fi
/Originally posted 31st July 2014
A great pdf AAR from Lars detailing his first game of Q13.
Lars does a lot of aerial wargaming. His website, Red Dragon Squadron, can be found here.
AAR: The Longest Day
/Originally posted 22nd July 2014
Great AAR from Grah, who moves from Stalingrad to Normandy with this pic-heavy AAR of a recent D-Day game.
AAR: WTHHYBB x 3 from NYC
/Originally posted 19th July 2014
I found a new source of IABSM After Action Reports today: a blog by a member of the Metropolitan Wargamers of Park Slope, Brooklyn, New York City, aptly named Brooklyn Wargaming.
Kimber has recently discovered IABSM, and has written a review here.
He has also posted a couple of short After Action Reports from the Where The Hell Have You Been, Boys?scenario pack.
#1: Find the Guns
#2: Holding the Pointe
#4: South of Vierville
AAR: Sorok
/Originally posted 15th July 2014
An AAR covering the next game in the Bashnya or Bust! campaign I'm currently playing against my regular opponent, Neil.
Following the events of the last game, the initiative had passed to the Germans. Their objective: to take the ford at the village of Sorok...
AAR: Germans Retreat
/Originally posted 10th July 2014
Another great AAR from the Mark Luther archive (all available on Flickr but gradually being added here too). This is another IABSM game in 6mm: this time it's action on the Eastern Front as a German column retreats.
AAR: Eastern Front Double
/Originally posted 5th July 2014
Added a couple of archive battle reports from Amokfigur: these date back to 2006 and are taken from a website that declares itself in hiatus. Well, I hope all is good with Amok and he's still playing IABSM...and I do love the way that King Tiger is painted.
Heldenhausen
Somewhere in Russia
AAR: Vyazma
/Originally posted 28th June 2014
Craig Ambler finishes his Vyazma or Bust! campaign with Scenario 3B: The Outskirts of Vyazma. I can't wait to see what he makes of Bashnya!
AAR: The Bridge at Urk
/Originally posted 24th June 2014
Craig Ambler continues his Vyazma or Bust! campaign with Scenario 2A: the Bridge at Urk.
AAR: Keren at Partizan
/Originally posted 22nd June 2014
Scrivs and friend took their amazing Keren game to the Partizan in the Park show. Some excellent new additions, including this great Sikh stretcher team:
AAR: Bloody Omaha
/Originally posted 17th June 2014
Here's the promised second AAR from the OML2 game of Bloody Omaha...
AAR: Bloody Omaha Warm-Up
/Originally posted 16th June 2014
I have two AARs involving Mike Whitaker's fantastic Bloody Omaha game. Here's the first: the warm-up game played a week or so before Operation Market Larden 2.
Great report, great photos!
TFL Games Day: Operation Market Larden 2
/Originally posted 15th June 2014
I was lucky enough to be able to make Operation Market Larden 2 this weekend: a day of Lardy wargaming organised by the Wyvern Wargamers.
This was an excellent day's gaming at which I played Chain of Command for the first time in the morning (my apologies to my opponents for the slightly flukey at-the-last-moment victory!) and Mike Whitaker's brilliant rendition of the Bloody Omaha scenario from the Where The Hell Have You Been, Boys? D-Day scenario pack in the afternoon.
There will be a proper AAR posted shortly but, for the moment, here is a sample shot of the afternoon game.
AAR: Izdeshkovo
/Originally posted 15th June 2014
Craig Ambler has decided to celebrate the launch of the Bashnya or Bust! scenario pack by running throught he Vyazma or Bust! campaign again.
Here is the AAR from his first game: Izdeshkovo.
