IABSM AAR: German Recon Breakthrough

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The Wasatch Front Historical Gaming Society (WFHGS) produce an excellent quarterly, free, full color wargames journal available to download from their site, called Warning Order.

Each issue of Warning Order features battle reports from their Friday night games, reviews of board games, figures, and gaming products, gaming analysis, and several regular features plus an editorial.

It's a very good read: I particularly like the regular Memoirs of a Miniatures & Board Wargamer and Blast from the Past columns...which shows you what an old fogey I'm becoming! The reviews are always useful as well.

Here's a IABSM battle report from the Spring 2015 edition (#40). Click on the pic of the front cover to see it.

IABSM AAR: Radekhov Station

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A nice little battle report from Mark Luther dating back from 2010.

Click on the picture to see all.

I have noticed a dearth of AARs for the TFL company-sized games (IABSM, CDS or Q13) out there on the net at the moment.

Don't forget that the offer is always open to post any reports you might have up here on Vis Lardica: just send me in the words and the pictures and I'll do the rest.

In the meantime, plenty of content to browse on here: over 250 AARs and growing fast!

 

IABSM AAR: Pommery Farm

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Another great IABSM battle in 6mm from Mark Luther, this time featuring the charge of the French Char B1 bis tanks near Juniville in France 1940.

Some lovely terrain, especially the central objective of the battle: Pommery Farm.

Click on the pic to see the whole report:

IABSM AAR: Pouppeville

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Superb After Action Report from Carojon featuring a game  based on one of the scenarios in the All American scenario pack.

The tiny village of Pouppeville covered the end of one of the four designated exits from Utah beach on D-Day, so members of the US 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions were dropped behind Utah beach to help in the clearing and securing of the area prior to the landing of the seaborne troops.

See how they do by clicking on the picture, below:

IABSM AAR: The Attack on Worker's Settlement #5 by Mark Luther

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Another quick trip to Mark Luther's Flickr archive provides us with today's AAR: an Eastern Front game set in...well, I've called it 1944 but on reflection it's probably more like 1943.

Whichever, it's a Soviet attack on German positions in 6mm, and well worth a look! Click on the picture below to see the gallery.

IABSM AAR: Broekhuizen Bridgehead

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Another great 6mm After Action Report from Mark Luther, this time centring on th action around the Broekhuizen Bridgehead, where the Monmouths will try their best to take a town.

Click on the picture below to see more:

IABSM AAR: Mokre Counter-Attack

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Another blast from the past from Mark Luther: this time from December 2009, a 6mm game of IABSM set in Poland in 1944.

Click on the picture below to see the report.

IABSM AAR: Kalamata - The End of the 4th Hussars

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An excellent battle report from Vaggelis featuring scenario 14 from Chris Stoesen's excellent IABSM scenario pack: The Campaign for Greece.

Click on the pic below for the full report:

AAR: A Game of IABSM

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Hello All!

Well I'm back from San Francisco and feeling somewhat jet-lagged. Even flying business class, eleven hours there, three days of conference (including entertaining, which also included a great concert from the Killers and Foo Fighters: the former being particularly good) and then ten hours back is a lot to take. 

The obligatory shot of the Golden Gate bridge

And one of the Bay Bridge at night

[RUGBY SPOILER ALERT]

I managed, however, to stay awake long enough today to watch Japan beat South Africa at rugby: an unbelievable result that came from an incredible performance from the Japanese team. To give you an idea of their guts, with one minute to go they were three points behind and were awarded a penalty on the Springboks' five yard line: three times they made the decision to go for the try rather than the safer kick-to-draw option. 

Which nicely sets us up for today's IABSM battle report: a pick-up game from Charles Eckart which comes with no pictures but some great story-telling. Click here to see the AAR.

CDA AAR: A First Taste of Charlie Dont' Surf

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It's been ages since we had a Charlie Don't Surf AAR on the site, so I'm pleased to reproduce Marcus B's report from his blog Paper Flags and Pewter Bayonets.

Click on the picture below for the full report:

IABSM AAR: Vyazma or Bust! #3B: The Outskirts of Vyazma

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Big game of IABSM on Saturday: a four-player mash up using one of the climatic scenarios from the Operation Barbarossa scenario pack Vyazma or Bust!

Epic game during which the fortunes of war swung back and forth like a pendulum in an earthquake!

Click on the picture below to read all about it:

IABSM AAR: Blenneville or Bust! #2A: Avaux

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Played a great game of IABSM last night using one of the scenarios from the Blenneville or Bust! scenario pack. 

Click on the picture below to see the action...

IABSM AAR: Pegasus Bridge & Benouville

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Another fantastic AAR from Kimber at Brooklyn Wargaming, this time featuring his superb new Pegasus Bridge model amidst his usual cracking terrain.

Click here to see if the British Paras can repeat their success on D-Day, 6th June, 1944 at Pegasus Bridge and Benouville.

Vis Bellica: Battle Reports Being Added

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I've finally got around to starting to add the five years or so's worth of Vis Bellica ancients period battle reports to the site. 

As they vary in length from a few paragraphs to a major dissertation, rather than giving each report it's own page, I'm adding them in blocks defined by months. Might make it easier to read a whole lot of them at once as well.

Re-reading them all as I transfer them across has made me pine for the game a bit. I really must get on with the second edition...

Click the picture below to go to the VB After action reports page:

IABSM AAR: Gela 2 (Sicilian Weekend)

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Another great AAR from Brooklyn Wargaming, this time covering scenario #09: Gela 2 from the Sicilian Weekend scenario pack.

Click on the picture below to see the whole report:

IABSM AAR: The Bridge At Urk

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Yesterday's game was a continuation of the Vyazma or Bust! campaign I've been running for John and Dave.

Today's game involved a battle of constantly shifting advantage as each side alternatively received two waves of reinforcements.

Click on the photo below to find out whether the Soviets can hold the bridge at Urk!

IASM AAR: On The Road to Izdeshkovo

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James Mantos and the Mad Padre got together for one last game of IABSM before the Padre heads off to his new posting.

Click on the picture below to read their reports: