A quick Charlie Don't Surf! battle report from the Dr Fischer's Game Night blog dating back to 2014.
Based on a real encounter, with information from the actual after action reports, the game doesn't go quite as the umpire had planned...
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Scenario #10, Slim River, is one of my favourite battles from the Fall of the Liongate scenario pack for I Ain’t Been Shot, Mum.
Taking place on 7th January 1942 (i.e. a month after Pearl Harbour), the Japanese have been hammering down the centre of Malaya, smashing most British Indian troops aside, and slowed only by the efforts of some Gurkha regiments and the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. To continue their advance, they launch a sudden thrust down the single road that leads to the village of Trolak, their objective being the bridge there over the otherwise impassable Slim River.
Click on the pic below to see if the Japanese manage to take the bridge:
A quick battle report from Sergeant Steiner's excellent blog (click here to visit). Here he plays the third scenario included with the IABSMv3 rulebook: Action at Galmanche.
The Stipsicz Hussars play another of the scenarios from the Operation Compass scenaripo pack for I Ain't Been Shot, Mum!
This time they play the first scenario in the pack: the Road to Fort Capuzzo, featuring a British attack on a position manned by Italian/Libyan colonial troops. Click on the pic to see all:
Well we haven't seen one of these for a while: here's another of Mark Luther's amazing battle reports using IABSM in 6mm.
Here a mixed force of Soviets tries to scout out a suitable river crossing as they advance across Poland in 1944.
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A final Charlie Don't Surf! battle report lifted from the, I think, defunct, Tao of Lard blog (no posts since 2013).
Here a company of US troops are tasked with checking a village for caches of rice...but will Charlie let them go about their work unmolested?
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A few pictures of a recent game of IABSM from the Stipsicz Hussars: a re-fight of the climactic battle of Operation Compass fought in the western desert in February 1941.
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Another Charlie Don't Surf after action report from Penfold, but this time, for the first time, he is using a scenario of his own devising.
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Another great battle report from Joe Patchen. This time, Joe describes the action from the play of one of the scenarios in the I Ain't Been Shot, Mum! rulebook: A Canadian VC.
Will history repeat itself and medals be awarded? Click on the pic below to see all:
As I've said before, I like to think of this site as an archive of activity for the TooFatLardies company-sized wargames: IABSM, CDS, Q13.
As such, it's great to be able to archive/commemorate/celebrate the efforts of Abingdon Wargames Club in 2012 as they took their demo game of Charlie Don't Surf on the road to various wargames shows.
Click on the picture below to see a brief collection of words and pics from their UK tour...
A bit of a blast from the past from Dr The Viking's blog: with a pictorial AAR from 2008 covering a late war bash as the Americans fight their way back into Belgium.
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Another great Charie Don't Surf battle report from Penfold, this one using scenario #06: Playing the Beanball from the Surf's Up scenario pack.
Here the Communist forces learn an important lesson about playing as insurgents rather than playing as regulars...
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Back in 2013, Joakim and some of his fellow Penguins took advantage of an empty house to set up and play a huge game of I Ain't Been Shot, Mum!
Here's the AAR, with some great pictures of a truly huge table! Click on the picture below to see all.
Another of Penfold's Charlie Don't Surf battle reports from 2011. This one uses the fourth scenario from the Surf's Up scenario booklet: Combat Engineer.
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Another 2007 battle report from Dr. The Viking: this time a massive late war tank-only battle.
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Joe Patchen and friends have started to work their way through the Anzio: Wildcat to Whale scenario pack (available to buy from here or from the TFL website)
Here's an AAR from their first game: Scenario 10: Highway Seven. Click on the pic to see all:
Spotted an AAR from the Penguins that I must have missed first time around: an excellent write up with masses of brilliant photos from Joakim Strom.
The Soviets have massed and are pushing forward along one of the main roads into Berlin. Can the German defenders stop them? Click on the pic to see all:
Here's a battle report for Charlie Don't Surf from 2011, trawled from what looks like a bit of a defunct blog: the Tao of Lard.
It's a couple of reports from 2011 covering The Great Rice Hunt: the first scenario from the Surf's Up scenario book. Click on the pic below to see all:
Incidentally, I would just like to add that it's worth noting that blogs are hard work to maintain. Even if 'real life' doesn't get in the way, it's hard to keep posting day after day or even week after week or month after month.
That's one of the reasons for this site: it's become an archive of writings about the TooFatLardies' company-level rules from all over the place, and that to such an extent that more and more people are sending me their AARs direct.
I do always try and contact people before copying their material here...but so many blogs have no way of directly contacting the owner anywhere on view, and I don't want to ask via a comment for all to see: just too embarrassing. So I hope in this instance the blog owner doesn't mind me resurrecting his content in this way. My contact details are on the left if needed.
And following on from his last battle report, here's another fantastic gallery from Norseygamer full of cracking pictures of a recent game of I Ain' Been Shot, Mum!, but this time set in the western desert.
The Brits advance against the Italians, but there are Germans around somewhere as well...click on the picture for more:
Another great write up from the Tracks and Treads blog.
This one features almost a continuation of the last game played, with the Germans again advancing against US Paras across the fields of Normandy.
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