Another great battle report from Mike Whitaker: this time featuring a scenario from the Cymru Am Byth scenario pack covering the actions of the Welsh Guards throughout WW2.
Click on the pic, below, to see how the game played out...
As we sit and wait for the 2016 Xmas Special, much delayed by the slings and arrows that outrageous fortune insists on hurling in Rich's direction, Mike Whitaker provides a timely reminder of how useful the specials are a source of inspiration with a rather nice little battle report taken from Nick Skinner's Vacqueville '44 scenario from the Summer 2014 edition.
For those who haven't dipped their toes in any of the specials, I would highly recommend that you do: vast, very inexpensive, collections of ideas for all the TFL games that would easily translate to other systems. An index of all articles that have ever appeared in a special can be found by clicking here. You can buy any or all of the specials from here.
To see Mike's AAR, click on the picture below, or visit his blog by clicking here.
Try saying that the first time without pausing to work it out!
Yes, it's another great 6mm IABSM battle report from Mark Luther: this time featuring a clash of armour in Belgium, 1944.
See whether the Cromwells or the StuGs will triumph by clicking on the picture below:
Zipping down the Koerselsesteenweg!
A stonkingly huge gallery of an AAR from Mark Luther: sixty-six pics covering a 6mm game of IABSM involving a Soviet counter-attack during the battle of Kursk, 1943.
Played back in October 1914, this is a great showcase of how I Ain't Been Shot, Mum! looks when played in 6mm.
Click on the pic to see all...
Ages since we had an AAR from Mr Luther: so here's one that dates back to June 2014.
A 6mm game played at Gigabites Café, the battle represents the Soviet counterattack by the tanks of the 2nd Tank Division, 3rd Mechanised Corps on June 24th, 1941 near Rossienie, Lithuania.
Clicl on the pic, above, to see lots of really big Soviet tanks in action!
Quick IABSM battle report covering an action in Normandy in 1944.
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Another excellent after action report from Joe Patchen, this time featuring a game from the Where the Hell have you been, Boys? D-Day scenario pack.
American airborne troops must clear the path for their colleagues arriving from the beach. Click on the picture below to see all:
Another Saturday morning battle with the Benson boys...but what to play?
Well, my usual default here is to have a look at what hasn't been on the table recently (if ever!) so today's game must be Six Day War and must involve the Battlefront ruined fort. Add on some "tail" that's never been on the table, and Bob's your uncle: one quick scenario written!
A column of Israeli recovery vehicles has strayed too close to the front line. As they pass a ruined fort on top of a hill, they spot a force of Egyptian tanks heading towards them.
Click on the pic to see what happened...
Another great battle report from Mike Whitaker: this time featuring, as the title suggests, the biggest bloomin' convoy ever!
I'm a huge fan of tail (no sniggering at the back there), so to see such a huge collection of transport on the table at the same time warms the cockles of my heart!
Click on the picture to see the whole thing and, as I said in my last post, you can visit Mike's Trouble at T'Mill blog by clicking here.
Keep those battle reports coming in, by the way: plenty of room on the site for more!
Some of you may already know Mike Whitaker's excellent blog, Trouble At T'Mill. If you don't, I recommend a visit.
Here's a quick AAR, reproduced from T'Mill, covering a game of IABSM played in October this year: Germans versus Americans somewhere in Europe.
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This report is from the game played on October 15th 2016 at the first ever TFL Llardiff Games Day that took place at Firestorm Games in Cardiff.
The idea of this games day was that gamers not necessarily familiar with TFL products could come and have a go at a variety of different games, getting a taste of Lard and then hopefully coming back for more.
I was tasked with showcasing I Ain't Been Shot, Mum!, and told that I should prepare for a series of different players dipping in and out throughout the day, with my efforts focused on setting up and umpiring one game in the morning and one game in the afternoon.
Hmmm, I thought, multiple players dipping in and out: my favourite - not! No matter: Lard calls and I answer...so I decided to bring to Cardiff one of the larger (if not the largest) games from my Bashnya or Bust! scenario pack: scenario #4C, Holm.
This is a late war game where a battalion of Soviet infantry (and remember IABSM is a company-sized game!) supported by just a few tanks tries to overrun a German force defending a small village on the Kaunas front.
Click on the picture to see all the action.
Charles Eckart and his group are playing a Battle of the Bulge mini-campaign across the winter months.
Here's the battle report from the first game: Attack on Company G.
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Another quick after action report from Joe Patchen. This time the action centres on a partisan attack on a German column as it moves towards the eastern front.
Will the convoy get through? Click on the pic below to find out all:
Here a battle report from a game played a couple of weeks ago featuring a scenario originally written for the TFL 2005 Xmas Special.
It's France 1940. A German probe has discovered an unguarded crossing over the river Moiste. They dig in and call for reinforcements, but the French have spotted them and send in Captain Cognac and his men to re-take the crossing.
Click on the picture, below, to see all:
Here's another after action report from Mark Luther. This time we head for France 1940, and action between the French and the Germans around Berthonal Farm, near Arras.
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A very quick I Ain't Been Shot, Mum! after action report from the Tracks and Threads blog: a few pictures of a 6mm game with Canadians fighting Germans.
Only a few pictures, but really nice ones, and it looks like a good game.
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Another great after action report from Mark Luther: a 6mm game set on the Eastern Front featuring a Soviet assault on Kantemirovka Air Field.
This game has actually featured in another battle report (Chris Stoesen's Airfield Attack) but looks so good that it deserves another outing, and there are loads of new pics and, of course, Mark's as opposed to Chris' take on the game.
Click on the pic to see more and, if you have battle reports from games using any of TFL's company-sized games (IABSM, CDS, Q13) then feel free to submit them for inclusion here: it's a good way of highlighting your club or event.
Great write-up of a game at the August meeting of the Devon Wargames Group taken from the Blenneville or Bust! scenario pack.
The action took place Near Avaux: as an embattled German force attempts to hold out against a strong attack by British armour.
You can read all about on the Devon Wargames Group page (click here), or on this site by clicking on the picture, below.
Great battle report from Joe Patchen describing a recent game of I Ain't Been Shot, Mum that featured a German assault on British Paras covering the access route into Oosterbeek during the "Bridge Too Far" Arnhem incident.
Click on the pic, below, to see all...
Regular visitors to the Vis Lardica site will know that one of my favourite builds this year was the Warbases' Pegasus Bridge model. This enormous piece of scenery took me some time to put together and paint, including a short hiatus whilst Warbases, showing their usual high levels of customer service, replaced a part that I had superglued into the wrong position and then destroyed as I tried to re-position! Now that the thing was built, it was time to get it onto the tabletop and into action.
I did think about replaying the actual Pegasus Bridge action itself but, at a loose end one day, I put together a rather nice set-up on the wargames table featuring the bridge as part of a small town. As I didn't want to take it all apart again and re-build to the correct landscape, I decided to just write a quick scenario featuring the bridge where it was.
Click on the pic below to read all...
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