The official, Gallery shot of my latest paint job: a PaK40 platoon from Battlefront. I've also included a couple of close-up pictures so the detail can be seen. Nice figures that paint up well.
Katzenstein reports on his first game of IABSM:
Here is the LCVP (Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel) set from Battlefront. The ships are nice models, and paint up well, but the infantry-being-carried were bloody awful: badly cast with none of the usual detail.
Incidentally, the infantry come in strips of four half-bodies. I mounted six strips in two rows of three on a thin base so that I can either have the LCVPs full of men, or empty, or put a vehicle in them.
These three are now all ready to carry the Rangers ashore for the fourth scenario from the Sicily pack: Gela 1!
Chris Stoessen converts one of the scenarios from the new IABSM v3 rulebook:
An AAR from Sicily courtesy of Victor.
More winter warfare goodness from Kev. Amazing terrain and figures.
Originally posted 22nd January 2012
A couple of Hummel's:
You can see where the wash hasn't taken to the underside of the far vehicle's gun barrel: something I shall correct in just a moment!
Some lovely 20mm action from Tony Hobbz: it's Operation Barbarossa time!
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Pascal posted a few pictures of a game of CDS that his group ran at the Nerviens convention in northern France.
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Great Eastern Front Winter Warfare AAR from Kev: fantastic scenery and figures.
A couple of Wespe self-propelled guns for my nascent later war German force. These are Battlefront miniatures, and painted up very nicely indeed.
With the forthcoming launch of my IABSM-based, company-sized, sci-fi rules, I also spent a lot of time painting sci-fi figures. The biggest holiday project was painting up the Chewks from Khurasan: they are cracking models a bit like the Jawas from Star Wars.
One of the best things about Khurasan is that they make an effort to produce figures that will give you more than just infantry squads: as a rule, each of their ranges (and they have many!) have infantry, command, support weapon and vehicle models...and lovely models they are too. Particularly good are the Chewk drilltanks: vast tunnelling AFVs which come with option to have a chewkannon artillery piece mounted on a boom arm. Here they are in troop carrying mode: click to go to the gallery to see the whole range.
Other manufacturers are also realising that they need to produce entire ranges rather than just infantry squad models. Highlander Studios, manufacturers of the excellent Space Bug range, have augmented their basic offering with anti-tank, anti-aircraft and flamethrower teams: also painted up over Xmas.
Finally we go back to Khurasan again for some APCs for the Karkarine Landser "shark-headed" infantry from their Pelagic Dominate range. Called, appropriately, Karkwagons, these are all plastic kits that are really nice to paint. They seem a bit small for the size of the Karks themselves i.e. it looks like it would be a tight fit to get a squad of seven inside...but they will look good on the tabletop anyway!
​So that was Christmas 2011: a couple of cracking games of IABSM3 (see the AAR below) and a load of painting. About 150 foot and nine vehicles: not Kev standards, but not bad! Roll on 2012!
Originally posted 1st January 2012
An AAR from the last battle of 2011. A tale of mismatched sides and an attempt at shameful gamesmanship!
A magnificent day's gaming today!
It's always nice to welcome a new player to your favourite set of rules, so I was very pleased to be invited round to new-to-IABSM Paul's house for a game.
Here is the report of how we played the "A Canadian VC" scenario from the IABSM3 rulebook not once, not twice, but three times in a row. I'm shattered!
A great Charlie Don't Surf AAR from Benito in Spain...and even on Christmas Eve I covet that tabletop!
My final scenario pack updated for IABSM3 takes us to Libya and the opening phase of the war in the Western Desert: Operation Compass.
Tanks for my mid- and late-war Germans. I'm still not happy with the late war camouflage...but I'm getting happier!
It's off to Sicily for two great AARs covering battles from the Sicilian Weekend scenario pack.
First, Brian Cantwell takes us along the Road to Scoglitti, where US Airborne troops take on Tigers with nothing more than grit and determination.
Secondly, Robert Avery (i.e. me) follows the fortunes of the same paratroopers as they fight for their lives along the Biazza Ridge. The Tigers are on the rampage again!
The Road to Scoglitti
The Biazza Ridge
Ed Sturges takes us to Normandy for another great IABSMv3 battle
Two Charlie Don't Surf after action report from Benito in Spain
The Great Rice Hunt
Playing the Beanball
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