Back in January 2015 I put together a quick game for the lads from Benson featuring a fictional action on the Dunkirk perimeter. Set, obviously, in 1940, some plucky British defenders attempt to hold back the German tide. Click here to see that AAR.
Mark Luther read that battle report, and put on his own version of the game. Click on the picture below to see how it turned out:
Here's another of Mark Kinsey's excellent AAR from his blog Daddy's Little Men.
Like me, Mark uses a mixture of IABSM and CDS, with a bit of Rock the Kasbah thrown in, to play out modern middle east encounters rather than WW2 or Vietnam.
Here's his gigantic Beirut 1982 game from the 2012 Cold Wars convention. Click on the pic to see all:
Here's a cracking AAR from the Norseygamer blog: scenario #5M: Near Bashnya from the Bashnya or Bust! scenario pack.
The Germans have their backs against the wall: well, Bashnya's walls to be exact. Here they attempt to stop the Soviet advance one last time.
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As people seemed to like yesterday's modern AAR, taken from Mark Kinsey's excellent blog Daddy's Little Men, here's another in the same vein.
This time, we go further back in time to Historicon 2010, where Mark and friends are running a game based on the battle of Chetequera: part of Operation Reindeer, which began on 4 May 1978, and was South Africa's second major military operation in Angola, carried out under the Apartheid regime. This phase of the South African operation consisted of an assault by 2 South African Infantry Battalion on two South West Africa People's Organisation (SWAPO) base complexes, Chetequera and Dombondola, near to the then-South West Africa/Angola border.
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Here's an historical AAR I've been wanting to post for some time: Mark Kinsey and Jon Yuengling's Cassinga game for Fall In 2013.
The Battle of Cassinga took place on 4th May 1978 during the South African Border War. The battle involved South African forces raiding a suspected SWAPO base at Cassinga, Angola and, covered in the game below, the intervention of a Cuban armoured force operating out of the nearby Techamutete village.
The game was played using a combination of I Ain't Been Shot, Mum! and B'Maso!, the latter being the Wars in Africa 1950-99 supplement for IABSM.
Click on the picture below to see how this great game played out:
Re-played the Battle of Benson Sealion game on Saturday, this time playing the Germans rather than the Brits.
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Another AAR from thee scellent Spanish-language blog Las Partidas de Burt, which I always translate as "Burt's Stuff".
Here the Soviets attack entrenched Germans from two different directions. Click on the pic below to see all.
Joe Patchen had a whole host of new vehicles and buildings that needed to get onto the table as soon as possible.
Terrain was gathered, players found: click on the picture below to read all...
Another great AAR from MArk Luther: and as this one is from 2016, it means that I am catching up with him in terms of his IABSM AAR archive!
The Germans counter-attack towards the small village of Belino. Click on the pic below to see all:
Another fantastic battle report from Mark Luther from a game of I Ain't Been Shot, Mum played with micro armour. This encounter was a colossal tank fest, with huge numbers of AFVs on either side.
I've also presented the pics in a slightly different format to the usual gallery. Let me know if toy prefer them that way, and I'll go back and change some of Mark's other AARs into the same format.
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Another huge battle report form the archives of Burt Minorrot's blog "Burt's Stuff" (my translation!).
See how a massive German advance was halted in its tracks by just a few poor dice rolls...and a company of T-34's as well. Click on the pic to see all.
Here's another game report from the blog "Burt's Stuff". That's my translation of Las Partidas de Burt : a Spanish language blog devoted to all sorts of wargaming.
I've used Google and my own limited Spanish to translate the report, so any inaccuracies or poor use of English are mine alone!
Similar to some of Burt's other games, here is a Soviet attack on a German-held town somewhere on the Eastern Front in 1944. Click on the picture to the right to see all.
Now that's an awful lot of Soviet Blinds!
A quick battle report from the archives of fellow-Lardy Jon Yuengling's blog Basement Games.
The action is set in Lebanon in 1982, as the SLA goes in to investigate reports of an arms cache.
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Another great 6mm After Action Report from the archive's of Mark Luther.
This time it's a clash of armour from 1943 as two battalions of T-34s take on a dozen German heavies.
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Had a great game of IABSM yesterday, using the first Gela scenario from the Sicilian Weekend scenario pack.
The game involves a composite force of US Rangers and combat engineers carrying out an opposed landing against a company of troops from the Italian Coastal Defence Battalion.
Click on the picture below to see whether the Italian commander got to finish his breakfast...
Another great AAR from Carole from her blog Hippolyta's Tiny Footsteps.
Click on the pic below to see how Capt. Eugene O’Neill of the US Airborne makes out as his men hit the ground on D-Day...
Played a great game of IABSM earlier this week, using the fifth scenario from my newly-published scenario pack for Poland 1939, The September War.
The game covers the German 5th Panzer Division's attack on the town of Pszczyna, held by the Polish 6th Infantry Division.
Click on the picture below to see whether the Invader's assault succeeded...
I played a very enjoyable game of Quadrant 13 today: exciting action as the Chuhuac and Ikwen find out what happens when you break a contract with the Dwarves!
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Great After Action Report from Carole and her friends at Lincombe Barn Wargames Society involving an American attempt to push through the bocage in Normany, 1944.
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Here's a couple of quick AAR from the archive's of Lardy Jon Yuengling, both from games run at Cold Wars in 2011.
They are also both games from Lebanon 1982 using a variant of the WW2 rules, I Ain't Been Shot, Mum.
Click on the names of the games to see the reports:
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