Recently, Martin981463 posted the text of an IABSM after action report onto the TFL Yahoo Group. He also popped the pictures to accompany the words into the Group's photos section.
I hope he doesn't mind, but I've joined the two together in the AAR that you can reach by clicking on the picture below. That way, you can see words and pics together.
It looks like an excellent game of IABSM, unusually fought in what looks like 28mm scale. Click below to see all:
Another great I Ain't Been Shot, Mum! battle report from the Mark Luther archives.
This is a follow-on game from his last AAR: this time the its the Germans who are on the advance, counter-attacking towards Mouen.
Click on the picture below to see all...
This weekend, I played my first game of IABSM in 2016. Wanting to make it a bit of a special one, I decided to empty my terrain cupboard of all buildings with a possibly Soviet flavour and play a giant Stalingrad-style city game.
Click on the picture below to see how it went...
Fellow Lardy Patchen1863 posted the following battle report and photos on the TFL Yahoo Group recently. Hopefully he won't mind me reproducing it here so that people can see the words and pictures together.
Click on the picture below to see the AAR:
Here's another CDS after action report from Marcus B.
This time he's playing a scenario auto-generated from the rulebook. Click on the pic below to see all:
Here's an I Ain't Been Shot, Mum! battle report from the excellent Tracks and Threads blog.
Click on the pic to see the action:
I played the third scenario from the Fall of the Lionsgate scenario pack this week with the boys from Benson. Two great games featuring plenty of action. Click on the picture below to see the full reports:
The first of three or so IABSM after action reports from Mark Luther, all based around Operation Epsom.
Here we see the British on the attack at the start of the campaign. Click on the pic to see more...
Vaggelis has begun playing his way through the Defence of Calais scenario pack, beginning with scenario #01: Les Attacques.
It is May 1940, and with British troops being evacuated from the beaches at Dunkirk, the ancient port of Calais stands on the critical western flank of the Anglo-French lines. In a desperate bid to shore up this flank, Churchill has committed the British 30th Infantry Brigade to defend Calais to the last...
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Cracking game of I Ain't Been Shot, Mum! at the weekend, with a scenario from the Fall of the Lion Gate scenario pack.
See if the British can stop the Japanese advance into Malaya at the village of Ban Sadao. Click on the picture below to see the whole report.
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.
A nice little battle report from Mark Luther dating back from 2010.
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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!
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:
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:
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.
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.
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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.
Excellent battle report from Topi featuring a what-if scenario from the Market Garden campaign.
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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:
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.
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