IABSM AAR: Defence of Calais #01: Les Attaques

As mentioned in a previous post, there's now a thriving I Ain't Been Shot, Mum! group on Facebook, which you can visit by clicking here.

One relatively recent post was from James Tree, with a brief pictorial report of his game using the first scenario from the Defence of Calais scenario pack: Les Attaques. I'm sure he won't mind me reproducing it here, so click on the pic below to see what happens as the Panzers first arrive at the outskirts of Calais...

B'Maso AAR: Diamonds Are Forever

Fantastic modern Africa battle report from the archives of Anton Ryzbak's excellent blog.

When diamonds are discovered, the government of a small African state regrets giving its mining rights away, but the company that has them are reluctant to give them back.

Click on the picture below to see what happens when the government "negotiators" move in...

IABSM AAR: Advance into Holland

Another quick battle report from Burt Minorrot's excellent Spanish-language blog Burt's Stuff.

Here, a small force of Americans advances into Holland in 1944. Click on the picture below to see all.

IABSM AAR: For the Honour of France

June 1941. A most unlikely conflict has broken out between two former Allies. Vichy French airfields in the Levant have been used by the Lufwaffe to support an uprising in Iraq, and Britain has decided that enough is enough. A task force has been assembled to move north into the Lebanon and Syria to take control of the area for the Free French and safeguard British oil supplies. Unexpectedly Vichy forces resist strongly, fighting for the honour of France.

That’s the introduction to the game of IABSM that Bevan and I played on Sunday evening. An unusual game featuring Australians versus French in the desert.

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Rock the Casbah AAR: Concrete Jungle

Another great Lebanon '82 after action report from Anton Ryzbak and crew, from Anton's excellent blog Anton's Wargame Blog.

This one dates back to a game played in 2011, and features the Israeli's trying to clear a town of PLO. Click on the pic below to see all...

B'Maso AAR: The Rhodesian Light Infantry Strike Back

Reading through the battle reports on Anton Ryzbak's excellent blog, Anton's Wargame Blog, I am getting really tempted to dive into the period and theatre covered by B'Maso.

Here's one of Anton's AAR's covering a sweep by the Rhodesian Light Infantry. Click on the pic below:

IABSM AAR: East of Ponyri

We haven't had a battle report from Mr Luther for a couple of weeks now, so here's a slice of Eastern Front action as the Soviets push forward against determined German panzerjaeger opposition.

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IABSM AAR: Beach Assault in the Pacific

Here's an after action report from the game of I Ain't Been Shot, Mum! that I played this weekend just gone.

It's the Pacific Theatre, 1945, with a company of US Marines, along with supporting Amtracks, tasked with assaulting a Japanese-held beach on a small island in the middle of nowhere.

Click on the pic to see all...

Rock the Casbah AAR

Here's another moderns AAR from Anton Ryzbak's excellent blog, Anton's Wargame Blog.

This time it's off to Lebanon with Rock the Casbah, as Israeli infantry try and clear the table against PLO opposition.

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IABSM AAR: Action at Molista

Here's a quick battle report from first time player Konstantinos, running a solo game to work through the rules.

It's Greeks versus Italians in 10mm in 1940.

I'm liking the way the terrain has been put together: some good ideas for a quick way to make up a table.

Click on the pic on the right to see all...

IABSM AAR: Action at Galmanche by Joe Patchen

Joe Patchen and his friends play out the third sample scenario given in the IABSM v3 rulebook: Action at Galmanche.

It's Normandy, 1944. Click on the pic below to see if the Brits can force their way through the German defence.

B'Maso AAR: Saving Shavanje

I'm painting hard at the moment, trying to get everything ready for next Saturday's game of IABSM. That's the trouble with deciding to try a new theatre, setting up the table, then realising that work, training etc means you have precisely this weekend to paint the ten vehicles you need for the scenario you want to game!

So, to give me (and my back!) a break from the painting table, I've found the time to upload another great B'Maso battle report from the archive of the excellent Anton's Wargame Blog.

Again it was set in Rhodesia in the 1970s, and was a battle to rescue the legendary rebel leader, Garfield Shavanje, from the hands of the Rhodesian Police. He had been wounded and captured in an earlier battle after a heroic resistance along with a few other rebels. Rumor was that they were being held in the local Police Station.

Click on the pic to see all...

IABSM AAR: The Ruined Factory

Here's a quick photographic battle report from Burt Minorrot's excellent, Spanish-language "Burt's Stuff" blog.

As the title suggests, there's a ruined factory to be fought over. Click on the pic below to see all.

A Rhodesian Police Patrol

Taking a break from the second part of The September War scenario pack, I find myself getting very interested in expanding my wargaming interests further into the modern era. We're talking later than the conflicts of the  1960's (French Indochina, Vietnam and the Six Day War) and right into the 1970's and beyond.

That's partly due to Team Yankee and all those pictures of shiny new 1980's toys that just belong in my collection (and see also some of the recent entries into the painting challenge) but mainly down to discovering a couple of excellent compilations of modern AARs using IABSM, CDS, and the supplements B'Maso and Rock the Casbah.

Some of these have already started to appear on this site (e.g. Mark Kinsey's excellent Angolan games) and now here's the first from Anton Ryzbak's excellent blog Anton's Wargaming Blog.

This first AAR dates back to 2011 and, using B'Maso, covers a Rhodesian Police Patrol. Click on the pic to see all: 

IABSM AAR: Ipolypaszyto

Another great I Ain't Been Shot, Mum battle report from Mark Luther: more 6mm action on the eastern front.

Click on the pic below to see all...

IABSM Facebook Group

For those of you who haven't spotted it yet, there's now a Facebook group devoted to I Ain't Been Shot, Mum. 

The group already has 200 members, so promises to be a good place to swap info, ask rules questions etc.

Click here to go there!

As an example of the sort of content that's on there, Paul Beccas has posted a short video report of his first game of IABSM, which you can also watch below...

It's also quite a good site on which to place mini-AAR, such as Sigur Skwarl's four pictures from his first game of IABSM, using the first scenario from the rulebook:

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IABSM AAR: Les Feuilles Vertes

Great little battle report from Mike Whitaker, who is trying out his concept of IABSM Lite.

You can read about it on his blog Trouble at T'Mill by clicking on its name, or here on Vis Lardica by clicking on the picture, below.

IABSM AAR: IABSM in Black and White

Here's another battle report from the archives of Burt Minorrot's excellent Spanish-language blog Las Partidas de Burt, which I usually translate as Burt's Stuff.

In this game, the Soviets try and kick the Germans out of a town on the eastern front, with the action shot in black and white. Click on the pic, below, to see all.

IABSM AAR: The Blandingshires at Grochstadt

A great looking I Ain't Been Shot, Mum! after action report from James Mantos' excellent Rabbits in my Basement blog.

Click on the link to James' blog, above, or on the pic, below, to see all:

IABSM AAR: The Initiation of Dashwood-Brown

The TFL Specials are a great source of inspiration and scenarios. Here, Charles Eckart plays through Mike Brian's scenario from the 2005 Summer Special: The Initiation of Dashwood-Brown.

It's Normandy, 1944. Suave ladies-man Captain Royston Dashwood-Brown and his men of 6th Dorsetshire Regiment are about to get their first taste of action on the battlefields of France.

Click on the map, below, to see how they did...