AAR: Defending Kobrin
/Originally posted 3rd March 2012
Continuing the eastern front theme, here's another AAR from Tony Hobbs covering the defence of Kobrin.
PaK40s from Battlefront
/Originally posted 25th February 2012
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.
AAR: First Game
/Originally posted 25th February 2012
Katzenstein reports on his first game of IABSM:
LCVPs from Battlefront
/Originally posted 12th February 2012
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!
AAR: Down on the Farm
/Originally posted 12th February 2012
Chris Stoessen converts one of the scenarios from the new IABSM v3 rulebook:
AAR: Retirata! Inferno!
/Originally posted 28th January 2012
An AAR from Sicily courtesy of Victor.
AAR: An Ace in the Pack
/Originally published 28th January 2012
More winter warfare goodness from Kev. Amazing terrain and figures.
Hummels
/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!
AAR: The Drive On Minsk
/Originally posted 22nd January 2012
Some lovely 20mm action from Tony Hobbz: it's Operation Barbarossa time!
French CDS
/Originally posted 22nd January 2012
Pascal posted a few pictures of a game of CDS that his group ran at the Nerviens convention in northern France.
AAR: A Warm Bed For The Night
/Originally posted 15th January 2012
Great Eastern Front Winter Warfare AAR from Kev: fantastic scenery and figures.
Christmas Painting Part 2: Wespes
/Originally posted 7th January 2012
A couple of Wespe self-propelled guns for my nascent later war German force. These are Battlefront miniatures, and painted up very nicely indeed.
Christmas Painting Part 1
/Originally posted 7th January 2012
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!
AAR: New Year's Eve
/Originally posted 1st January 2012
An AAR from the last battle of 2011. A tale of mismatched sides and an attempt at shameful gamesmanship!
AAR: A Canadian VC (or Three!)
/Originally posted 29th December 2011
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!
AAR: A Bird in the Trees
/Originally posted 24th December 2011
A great Charlie Don't Surf AAR from Benito in Spain...and even on Christmas Eve I covet that tabletop!
Operation Compass Redux
/
Originally posted 24th December 2011
My final scenario pack updated for IABSM3 takes us to Libya and the opening phase of the war in the Western Desert: Operation Compass.
Tigers!
/Originally posted 24th December 2011
Tanks for my mid- and late-war Germans. I'm still not happy with the late war camouflage...but I'm getting happier!
AAR: The Road to Scoglitti & The Biazza Ridge
/Originally posted 17th December 2011
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
AAR: Action at Grise Farm
/Originally posted 17th December 2011
Ed Sturges takes us to Normandy for another great IABSMv3 battle
