Fellow Lardy Patchen1863 posted the following battle report and photos on the TFL Yahoo Group recently. Hopefully he won't mind me reproducing it here so that people can see the words and pictures together.
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Here's an I Ain't Been Shot, Mum! battle report from the excellent Tracks and Threads blog.
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I played the third scenario from the Fall of the Lionsgate scenario pack this week with the boys from Benson. Two great games featuring plenty of action. Click on the picture below to see the full reports:
For those who need to buy some more Lardy products (cough, my scenario books, cough*), Rich is running a 15% off sale over at the main TooFatLardies webstore. You can get there by clicking here.
Not sure how long the sale will last: Rich says until he's finished the Xmas Special...so Easter then!
*all my scenario books are updated for IABSMv3...and if you don't fancy them, there's always Q13!
Earlier this year I added Waugh Games to the list of WW2 figure manufacturers. If you remember (assuming you follow this blog fairly regularly) I ordered three Opel Maultier from them at the bargain basement price of £2.50 each: under half the cost of the Battlefront equivalent. I've now had a chance to paint them up, giving my Gebirgsjaeger a bit of additional transport.
So, how did they turn out?
The first thing to point out is that they come with a HUGE base built in i.e. on one side of the truck the base sticks out at least an inch; on the other, at least a centimetre. I'm not sure why they come like this, but they do. Here's the picture from their website that shows what I mean.
The other thing the picture shows is the holes in the resin: you can see a big one on the door, and lots of little ones in the main body's wooden panels.
Well, I could do something about the bases - snapping them off to a decent distance from the tracks wasn't too difficult - but I decided to ignore the resin bubble holes: far too fiddly to fiddle with.
A black undercoat was followed by an all-over coat of a medium dark grey. I then dry-brushed the canvas top in a lighter grey, then dry-brushed both canvas and body with white. The windscreen and other glass was dark blue and then my (only slightly successful) attempt at a glare effect. The tracks were my usual gunmetal covered with flesh wash. Here they are:
As you can see, the resin holes aren't really significant: they just look like wear and tear. The bases are still a bit thick, and aren't very even...but that won't show on the tabletop either. The only real disappointment is the bit between the tracks and the main body paneling: there's a big resin bulge that looks like, well, a big resin bulge.
In all, however, not bad for £2.50 a time. The old adage that you gets what you pays for has certainly held true!
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The first of three or so IABSM after action reports from Mark Luther, all based around Operation Epsom.
Here we see the British on the attack at the start of the campaign. Click on the pic to see more...
Vaggelis has begun playing his way through the Defence of Calais scenario pack, beginning with scenario #01: Les Attacques.
It is May 1940, and with British troops being evacuated from the beaches at Dunkirk, the ancient port of Calais stands on the critical western flank of the Anglo-French lines. In a desperate bid to shore up this flank, Churchill has committed the British 30th Infantry Brigade to defend Calais to the last...
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Cracking game of I Ain't Been Shot, Mum! at the weekend, with a scenario from the Fall of the Lion Gate scenario pack.
See if the British can stop the Japanese advance into Malaya at the village of Ban Sadao. Click on the picture below to see the whole report.
One of my purchases at Warfare were some of Commission Figurines 15mm ruined buildings in laser-cut wood.
I was quite excited by these, so let one of them jump to the head of the painting queue, and knocked it up in a few hours late on Sunday.
This particular building, Konig Strasse, is easy to put together: four walls slot together and then mount onto the four pavement pieces if pavement is required.
Painting was pretty simple too: I painted the whole thing orange, then put a very heavy black ink wash over the top. Once that was dry, I dry-brushed very lightly in orange again, and then in a bone colour to bring up the relief. The doors I did in brown, the pavement in three shades of grey. The interior I just painted all grey, with no washing or dry-brushing.
I'm very pleased with the result, and can't wait to build the others. I think they'll do for any big city: Berlin, Stalingrad and even sci-fi...and at £13 for the one below, quite good value too.
The Wasatch Front Historical Gaming Society (WFHGS) produce an excellent quarterly, free, full color wargames journal available to download from their site, called Warning Order.
Each issue of Warning Order features battle reports from their Friday night games, reviews of board games, figures, and gaming products, gaming analysis, and several regular features plus an editorial.
It's a very good read: I particularly like the regular Memoirs of a Miniatures & Board Wargamer and Blast from the Past columns...which shows you what an old fogey I'm becoming! The reviews are always useful as well.
Here's a IABSM battle report from the Spring 2015 edition (#40). Click on the pic of the front cover to see it.
A nice little battle report from Mark Luther dating back from 2010.
Click on the picture to see all.
I have noticed a dearth of AARs for the TFL company-sized games (IABSM, CDS or Q13) out there on the net at the moment.
Don't forget that the offer is always open to post any reports you might have up here on Vis Lardica: just send me in the words and the pictures and I'll do the rest.
In the meantime, plenty of content to browse on here: over 250 AARs and growing fast!
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Another great IABSM battle in 6mm from Mark Luther, this time featuring the charge of the French Char B1 bis tanks near Juniville in France 1940.
Some lovely terrain, especially the central objective of the battle: Pommery Farm.
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Superb After Action Report from Carojon featuring a game based on one of the scenarios in the All American scenario pack.
The tiny village of Pouppeville covered the end of one of the four designated exits from Utah beach on D-Day, so members of the US 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions were dropped behind Utah beach to help in the clearing and securing of the area prior to the landing of the seaborne troops.
See how they do by clicking on the picture, below:
Another quick trip to Mark Luther's Flickr archive provides us with today's AAR: an Eastern Front game set in...well, I've called it 1944 but on reflection it's probably more like 1943.
Whichever, it's a Soviet attack on German positions in 6mm, and well worth a look! Click on the picture below to see the gallery.
Waugh Games, a wargaming retailer/online shop based in Teeside, is now producing its own range of resin 15mm WW1 and WW2 vehicles.
At the moment all that is available is a handful of German vehicles, but they look good to me and are very competitively priced.
The vehicles are in resin, with integral bases (which won't please everyone, but that I quite like) and metal turrets/gun barrels.
Currently listed in their store are:
And at the moment they are running a series of promotions that make the models even more affordable.
They need some good pics to really sell the models, but here's the Opel Maultier:
Now I need some Maultiers for my Gebirgsjaegers, so I'm going to buy some (probably the three for £7.50 offer...very good value) despite the fact that although, as I said, I like cast-on bases, the base shown above is VERY big and, if you look carefully, there do seem to be lots of bubble-holes in the paneling on the main body of the truck. Or maybe they are supposed to be, or will look like, bullet holes. We shall see!
Another great 6mm After Action Report from Mark Luther, this time centring on th action around the Broekhuizen Bridgehead, where the Monmouths will try their best to take a town.
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I'd been wanting to add Minairons' 15mm Flakpanzer Is to my early war German army for some time, but had been put off by the cost: £17.25 for a box of two makes for just over £8.60 per model, and they are mostly plastic. Must be something to do with the import from Europe, but that makes them even more expensive even than Battlefront!
Anyhow, a Plastic Soldier Company sale gave me the excuse I needed to get them, so get a box I did.
The models go together pretty easily, although I did have a problem with bent gun barrels. They arrived a bit bent, and must have been battered during the construction process somehow, as one barrel needed gluing to keep it from falling apart, and the other took ages to get properly straight.
The crew figures that you get with these models are nice, but pretty damn tall. The chap standing up leaning forward slightly, must be at least 6' 9" tall; and the kneeling guy is as tall as a standing infantryman from most other manufacturers.
Here they are painted up. In summary: nice models, but crew very tall, and very expensive for what they are.
Another blast from the past from Mark Luther: this time from December 2009, a 6mm game of IABSM set in Poland in 1944.
Click on the picture below to see the report.
Excellent battle report from Topi featuring a what-if scenario from the Market Garden campaign.
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An excellent battle report from Vaggelis featuring scenario 14 from Chris Stoesen's excellent IABSM scenario pack: The Campaign for Greece.
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