Today's achievements are from yet more from Kev (the man is a machine); Craig Ambler; Mr Bax; Mr Douglas; and Mr Danziger. There are now quite a few people poised to sweep through the 1,000 point mark.
Today's picture is of Mr Luther's palms:
Great AAR from Grah, who moves from Stalingrad to Normandy with this pic-heavy AAR of a recent D-Day game.
I don't usually post this sort of thing, but this particular piece of terrain tickled me pink.
No comments about moving SP guns into hull-down positions please.
And, no, that isn't me...either of them!
And the achievements are just pouring in!
Today we have Mr Bax and some sci-fi officials; Mr Bailey and a brace of Matildas; the indefatigable Kev with yet more SYW goodness; and the Mad Padre with literally hundreds of Frenchies.
Today's picture is Mr Bax's sci-fi officials. Lovely paint jobs:
I found a new source of IABSM After Action Reports today: a blog by a member of the Metropolitan Wargamers of Park Slope, Brooklyn, New York City, aptly named Brooklyn Wargaming.
Kimber has recently discovered IABSM, and has written a review here.
He has also posted a couple of short After Action Reports from the Where The Hell Have You Been, Boys?scenario pack.
#1: Find the Guns
#2: Holding the Pointe
#4: South of Vierville
Lots of achievements today. Must be something to do with the weather!
We have cops and dogs from Matt Slade; much weirdness from Fred Bloggs; ruins from Mr Hodge; fifty-one infantry from Melvyn; Soviets from the Mad Padre; Mr Luther with his palms and sixty-five 20mm infantry; Kev, still painting despite his knees; Dave Bailey with a big entry; and, to finish, Treadhead with some more Finns (did you see what I did there?).
Today's picture is from the Mad Padre:
An AAR covering the next game in the Bashnya or Bust! campaign I'm currently playing against my regular opponent, Neil.
Following the events of the last game, the initiative had passed to the Germans. Their objective: to take the ford at the village of Sorok...
Today's achievements are from Kev (despite the fact that he's on his knees!); Alexandros (mixing his scales in a dizzying fashion); Mark Luther (more trees, but enough to take him through the 1,500 point mark); Jon Yuengling (more ships, and enough to take him through the 2,000 point mark); and finally the Mad Padre (who bursts from cover with a tremendous update).
And, in other news, I have finally broken the 500 point mark myself. Huzzah!
Today's picture is from Alexandros: one of his 15mm T-34s. Yes: 15mm!
One of the good thing about Battlefront extending its range to the Soviet-Japanese border conflicts of 1938/9 is that it's a great opportunity to fill in the gaps in my Japanese WW2 army.
Here's one example: I finally have the Type 41 75mm infantry/mountain guns that form part of the brigade assets of a Japanese infantry regiment. Nice models.
A unit of Walker Bulldog tanks from the Battlefront Vietnam range. These are really lovely models that I picked up in their 40% off sale.
I know these are technically a bit cheesy marked up as US tanks, as in Vietnam I believe these were only issued to AVRN forces, but they will suit for US troops in Korea...and they were 40% off and do paint up nicely!
Finally finished the second platoon of Chuhuac. These look so much better in the flesh than they do in the photograph! Just the grav bikes and the special forces mobile troops to do now.
Today's achievements are from Mark Luther (who bursts through the 1,000 point mark with some very annoying coconut palms); Jon Yuengling; Jason Ralls; Dick Bax (who breaks the 500 mark); and Chris Stoesen.
Another great AAR from the Mark Luther archive (all available on Flickr but gradually being added here too). This is another IABSM game in 6mm: this time it's action on the Eastern Front as a German column retreats.
Added a couple of archive battle reports from Amokfigur: these date back to 2006 and are taken from a website that declares itself in hiatus. Well, I hope all is good with Amok and he's still playing IABSM...and I do love the way that King Tiger is painted.
Heldenhausen
Somewhere in Russia
Achievements today from Mr Ralls (more aircraft); Alexandros, whose lovely DAK half-tracks and Soviet BT-5s take him past the 500 mark; Mr Plowman (some nice sci-fi figures); Owen and his Wild West buildings (now a town bigger than Scarborough); and Treadhead with his big poles.
Significantly, Owen's entries make him the first person to go past the 2,000 point mark. Most impressive, and let's see if you can do 5,000 before the new year!
Today's pictures are another double. The first is of Alexandros' half-tracks, the second is Mr Plowman's GZG grav bikes and APC:
PS If any of you do notice that my maths is out on the Scorecard, or that I've forgotten to add an entry, do shout out. I tend to update this late at night when my usual attention to detail might be wavering slightly!
Also, thanks for all the kind words from those of you who have said that the challenge is increasing your output significantly. Don't worry: I'm not burnt out yet, and have every intention of carrying this through to the end of the year!
Quite a few post-second quarter entries today. We have achievements from Pat G, the Ambler Gambler, Mr Ralls and Mr Slade.
There are two pictures today, as I couldn't choose between Mr Ralls' WW2 Heinkels and Mr Slade's sci-fi Warthogs:
Bumper entries today as people rush to get in their entries before the end of the second quarter!
So today we have achievements from:
And Kev and Craig: you were indeed imprisoned in my spam box, but should now be recognised as legit for future entries.
Here are Egg's beautiful boats:
Craig Ambler finishes his Vyazma or Bust! campaign with Scenario 3B: The Outskirts of Vyazma. I can't wait to see what he makes of Bashnya!
PatG has finally broken his duck: scoring twenty points for five 28mm Victorian Sci-Fi figures. Nice to see you finally on board, Pat!
In other news, Manuel adds some more Franks, Jason Ralls cruises past the 1,500 point mark with forty 15mm foot and twenty 28mm foot, and Thomas paints some troops for Dust.
Craig Ambler continues his Vyazma or Bust! campaign with Scenario 2A: the Bridge at Urk.
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