Big game of IABSM on Saturday: a four-player mash up using one of the climatic scenarios from the Operation Barbarossa scenario pack Vyazma or Bust!
Epic game during which the fortunes of war swung back and forth like a pendulum in an earthquake!
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Played a great game of IABSM last night using one of the scenarios from the Blenneville or Bust! scenario pack.
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Great battle report from first-time contributor Miliarakis Vaggelis: IABSM in 10mm.
Cracking photos!
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Another fantastic AAR from Kimber at Brooklyn Wargaming, this time featuring his superb new Pegasus Bridge model amidst his usual cracking terrain.
Another great AAR from Brooklyn Wargaming, this time covering scenario #09: Gela 2 from the Sicilian Weekend scenario pack.
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Yesterday's game was a continuation of the Vyazma or Bust! campaign I've been running for John and Dave.
Today's game involved a battle of constantly shifting advantage as each side alternatively received two waves of reinforcements.
Click on the photo below to find out whether the Soviets can hold the bridge at Urk!
James Mantos and the Mad Padre got together for one last game of IABSM before the Padre heads off to his new posting.
Click on the picture below to read their reports:
Another great 6mm IABSM after action report from the files of Mark Luther.
This time, the T-35 behemoths emerge to do battle...click on the picture to see more:
It was the Battlefront 40% sale on their Fate of A Nation range that triggered my interest in the Six Day War: with the need to know which and how many of their figures and vehicles to buy leading me to put together army lists for the four participants: the Israelis, Egyptians, Jordanians and Syrians.
Do feel free to comment on the accuracy of the lists, designed to be used with Charlie Don't Surf!, as the Lardy rules closest to the conflict. My research has been mostly book and Internet based, and I'm sure there are those with better knowledge than I out there reading this!
You can find the lists on the special Six Day War page in the CDS section of this website, or click on the image below to go there direct:
Giles cartoon used courtesy of express newspapers
Having played a couple of 6mm Franco-Prussian War scenarios, it was back to IABSM for Saturday night's battle.
This game is from a scenario that appeared in the TFL Christmas Special 2006: one of the scenarios from Chris Stoesen's mini-campaign set in the Saar region of Germany in 1939 as the French invade.
Click on the picture below to see whether les gens braves can make a success of their attempt to clear a village of German troops. As the title suggests: Tanks Forward!
The second platoon of US Paras are now done.
For these I used Battlefront figures rather than painting another platoon from Forged in Battle. Nothing against FiB, I hasten to add, just fancied a change.
These are nice figures in my favoured slightly-cartoony style. There are a couple of differences with the FiB set: the Battlefront have no dressing-packs on their helmets, and they all have these irritating little daggers strapped to one leg. On the plus side, however, the platoon comes with three machine gunners with a tripod-holding crew, which are very nice indeed. Also of note are the chaps throwing a grenade: nice action pose.
So now all I have to do is decide which manufacturer gets the vote for platoon three. Let me know what you think I should do: FiB again, or Battlefront again, or someone else?
US Paras from Battlefront
Carole is a regular contributor to the painting challenge, most recently amassing huge numbers of points with her latest late war figures. See her gallery here.
Now we get a chance to see some of her collection in action with her first AAR for the Vis Lardica site.
It's 1944 and somewhere west of Caen. he British need to clear a village, the Germans need to hold it. Find out what happens by clicking either here or on the picture below.
Another great battle report from Mark Luther: this time covering my favourite, early war period.
Here you can see Matilda Is and IIs in action against German infantry and gunners against a backdrop of Mark's excellent 6mm terrain.
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Just a quick six-pic AAR today as the Mad Padre heads into the Western Desert.
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As per my post, below, I ran the morning game of IABSM at the recent Market Larden event.
I couldn't, however, do the afternoon game, as I was down to play Fighting Season: the new ultramodern variant for Chain of Command.
Step forward Geoff Bond, who kindly agreed to step into the breech and run the afternoon IABSM session using my figures and scenario. This was especially brave of Geoff as, by his own admission, he was a bit rusty re the rules, only having played once this year. Lucky the scenario was a small one, eh?
Click here, or on the photo below, to see a quick report on the action.
PS Probably best to draw a veil over my performance playing the British in Fighting Season...but the Taliban really shouldn't have shot my medic!
Apparently, when told that I had off-table support in the form of a 50mm sniper; a 50mm HMG and Javelin missiles, I said: "Haven't you got anything bigger?".
As Rich said afterwards: "Two dead, including a female medic; one platoon scarred for life; an ordnance bill topping half a million quid...all in exchange for sixteen dead Taliban and about fifty civilian casualties. I'm not sure Robert made a smooth transition from playing eastern front WW2 to modern day peace keeping in Afghanistan!"
June 2015 saw the annual Market Larden event in Evesham. Around fifty Lardies travelled deep into the heart of tractor country to play a variety of TooFatLardies' games. I was originally due to attend just as a player but, when one GM dropped out, stepped in to run the morning game of I Ain't Been Shot, Mum!
As I didn't have time to prepare something new, I delved into my library of scenario packs and decided to play one of the games from the Bashnya or Bust! book i.e. late war, eastern front.
Click here or on the picture below to see the battle report from the game. My thanks to Ralph, Noddy and Jamie for being excellent players, and to Ade for organising the day.
Another superb IABSM battle report from Brooklyn Wargaming, this time scenario #08 from the Sicilian Weekend scenario pack: Americans and Italians run into each other "East of Butera".
Click here or on the picture below to see the AAR.
Another short but sweet battle report from the Stipsicz Hussars: this time an early war encounter between the Ardennes Chasseurs supported by French tanks and a German invasion force.
As always, forgive my poor translation...click here or on the picture, below, to see the report.
Another great 6mm AAR from Mark Luther: an encounter on the Eastern Front in 1944: see the Panthers run amok...at least for a time!
Reading some of the posts that people have written about the AARs on this website, I would just like to emphasise that they, and the painting challenge, are meant to inspire.
Yes, some of them are full of amazingly painted figures placed amongst amazingly beautiful terrain, but others (many of mine, for example) feature averagely painted figures amongst workmanlike terrain. Who can forget the fact that I used to use green ring binders as hedges!
So don't be put off by what you see here: be inspired!
Here's Mark Luther's latest piece of inspiration. Click here or on the first picture below to see the whole AAR...and if you scroll down a bit further: yes, it's a reminder about those green ring binders from me!
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Bit further...
1940's action amongst the ring binders!
Another IABSM battle report, but up a scale this time.
Here is a 15mm Eastern Front game that comes from Brooklyn Wargaming's website, which is in itself a good place to visit.
Today's action is from the early part of the Battle of Kursk: a Soviet tank advance west of the Oktiabrski State Farm. Click here or on the photo below to see more...
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