IABSM AAR: Bashnya or Bust! #4E: Holm

June 2015 saw the annual Market Larden event in Evesham. Around fifty Lardies travelled deep into the heart of tractor country to play a variety of TooFatLardies' games. I was originally due to attend just as a player but, when one GM dropped out, stepped in to run the morning game of I Ain't Been Shot, Mum!

As I didn't have time to prepare something new, I delved into my library of scenario packs and decided to play one of the games from the Bashnya or Bust! book i.e. late war, eastern front.

Click here or on the picture below to see the battle report from the game. My thanks to Ralph, Noddy and Jamie for being excellent players, and to Ade for organising the day.

IABSM AAR: Sicilian Weekend #8: East of Butera

Another superb IABSM battle report from Brooklyn Wargaming, this time scenario #08 from the Sicilian Weekend scenario pack: Americans and Italians run into each other "East of Butera".

Click here or on the picture below to see the AAR.

IABSM AAR: Semois 1940

Another short but sweet battle report from the Stipsicz Hussars: this time an early war encounter between the Ardennes Chasseurs supported by French tanks and a German invasion force.

As always, forgive my poor translation...click here or on the picture, below, to see the report.

IABSM AAR: The Korsun Pocket

Another great 6mm AAR from Mark Luther: an encounter on the Eastern Front in 1944: see the Panthers run amok...at least for a time!

Reading some of the posts that people have written about the AARs on this website, I would just like to emphasise that they, and the painting challenge, are meant to inspire.

Yes, some of them are full of amazingly painted figures placed amongst amazingly beautiful terrain, but others (many of mine, for example) feature averagely painted figures amongst workmanlike terrain. Who can forget the fact that I used to use green ring binders as hedges!

So don't be put off by what you see here: be inspired!

Here's Mark Luther's latest piece of inspiration. Click here or on the first picture below to see the whole AAR...and if you scroll down a bit further: yes, it's a reminder about those green ring binders from me!

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1940's action amongst the ring binders!

IABSM AAR: West Of The Oktiabrski State Farm

Another IABSM battle report, but up a scale this time.

Here is a 15mm Eastern Front game that comes from Brooklyn Wargaming's website, which is in itself a good place to visit.

Today's action is from the early part of the Battle of Kursk: a Soviet tank advance west of the Oktiabrski State Farm. Click here or on the photo below to see more...

IABSM AAR: The Coriano Ridge

No posts for three days? Shocking! Nothing to do with me watching three hours of Game of Thrones every night for the last three days: no sirreee, nothing to do with that!

Well, anyway, what can I say...except here's another blast-from-the-past 6mm IABSM battle report from Mark Luther.

It's Italy, 1944: can the Allies build the bridge they need...click here or on the picture below to find out.

Q13 AAR: Down on the Farm (An Invasion Earth! Scenario)

Great game of Q13 on Saturday night against long-time opponent Neil.

We used a variation of the 'Down on the Farm' scenario from the Five Planets campaign pack: moving the action from the planet Three to Earth as part of a series of Invasion Earth games that we are fighting.

Click here or on the picture below to see the full report.

IABSM AAR: The Mius River (Part Two)

Another epic game of IABSM in 6mm from Mark Luther: this time a continuation of the battle I posted last week.

Click here or on the picture below to see more.

IABSM AAR: The Mius River (Part One)

Another of Mark Luther's amazing 6mm games of IABSM: this time with action on the Eastern Front as panzers try to battle their way through to a vital road junction. Who will win the fight amongst the sunflowers?

Click here or on the picture below to find out.

IABSM AAR: Cabourg

Apologies for the few days without a post: been a bit busy in the real world!

Anyhow, to return with a bang, here's another IABSM battle report from Brooklyn Wargaming, with a game taken from the Where the hell have you been, boys? D-Day scenario pack: cracking stuff!

Click here or on the picture, below to see the full report.

IABSM AAR: Operation Potato

The second of three AARs from the Stipcisz Hussars in Belgium. It's only a teeny-tiny one, but included for completeness!

Click on the pic to see more.

IABSM AAR: Western Desert

Trawling through the Internet, I came across the website of the Stipsicz Hussars, a group of war gamers from the Nederlands with a few TFL AARs in their records.

Here's the first of them: a snippet of action in the Western Desert. Click here or on the photo below to see the full report, and here to go the the Hussars' website itself.

IABSM AAR: Mechili

Another tank-on-tank game set in the Western Desert and taken from the Operation Compass scenario pack. This time it's a clash between Italians and British tanks at Mechili.

Click here or on the picture below to see the full report.

IABSM AAR: Juniville

I'm slowly working my way through loading mark Luther's 6mm IABSM battle reports onto the site. Some lovely terrain, so worth doing properly.

Here's another from 2008: it's the early war, and French and German reconnaissance units clash near Juniville.

Click here, or on the picture below, to see more...

IABSM AAR: Morning of the 902nd

Another cracking battle report from Brooklyn Wargaming, with an AAR dealing with the second game in their Heroes of Omaha and Panzer Lehr campaign set in France in 1944.

After a narrow American victory in game one (see the Hauts-Vents AAR), the Germans counter-attack!

Click here or on the picture below to see what happens...

IABSM AAR: Hauts-Vents

Brooklyn Wargaming have some fantastic IABSM AAR on their website, which can be reached by clicking here.

They have generously agreed that I can add them to the Vis Lardica site so, for your enjoyment, here's a battle report from the end of last year featuring a game set near Hauts-Vents in France, 1944.

Click here, or on the picture below, to see the full report.

If you have an AAR for one of the TooFatLardies company-sized games (IABSM, CDS, Q13) do feel free to submit it for inclusion to admin@vislardica.com. No need for anything fancy: just a few pics and words, or even just pics or words, will do.

And if you've enjoyed this AAR and any other bits of content on the site, please comment, like or, if you own your own website, put a link to Vis Lardica on that.

Cheers

R

IABSM AAR: Counter-Attack

Time to go back...back...back in time to 2007, and an AAR for IABSM from The Mad Padre rescued from the depths of the Internet.

It's France 1940, and the French are counter-attacking. Click on the pic to see more.

IABSM AAR: Izdeshkovo Re-Visited

Saturday morning before the rugby saw a great game of I Ain't Been Shot, Mum take place as the Benson boys and I played the first scenario of the Vyazma or Bust! campaign.

Click here or on the picture below to see how the game unfolded. Be warned: it was bloody, very bloody!

IABSM AAR: West of Pierrecourt

Here's the third and, for the moment, final AAR from The Wargaming Addict played on a wargaming engine as opposed to the tabletop.

This time the Addict picks a scenario from the Blenneville or Bust! scenario pack, set in Normandy: the opening game involving the clash of two recon forces just west of Pierrecourt.

Click here or on the picture below to see the whole report

IABSM AAR: The Road From Fort Capuzzo

As those who follow this blog will know, I have recently painted a squadron of plastic British A13 cruiser tanks from Zvezda in desert colours. I was naturally keen to get them onto the tabletop, so invited my regular opponent, Neil, round for a battle.

I'd determined to use one of the two 'all tank' scenarios from the Operation Compass scenario pack (written by me and available to purchase from all good retailers: well, here and the TFL main site!) so carefully printed off the pages we'd need for Scenario 10: The Road From Fort Capuzzo.

It wasn't until I'd laid out the terrain and turned to getting the figures out that I realised that Scenario 10 doesn't feature any A13s: just A9s and A10s!

No bother: the newly painted tanks will have to wait their turn as my BEF tanks demonstrate what they can do re-tasked to the desert.

So click here or on the picture below to see what happens when Rae Leakey and his tank squadron drive towards the road from Fort Capuzzo in December 1940: an interesting game that takes place up in the blue in the dead of the night...

Rae Leaky up in the blue in the dead of the night