IABSM AAR: Andreevka Southern Front Kursk Game
/Another stunning 6mm game of I Ain’t Been Shot Mum from Mark Luther: the Germans defend as the Soviets advance on the Kursk southern front.
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IABSM AAR: Taking the Starmaskaya Bridge
/Regular visitors will have seen the two recent reports featuring the excellent Starmaskaya table put on by legendary IABSM duo Phil and Jenny: one from a preview game and one my own report from this year’s Operation Market Larden event.
Here now is a third report using the same terrain layout, but an earlier, playtest battle with a report from the excellent Bleaseworld blog: highly recommended as a regular site to visit.
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IABSM AAR: The Defence of Calais
/Another amazing looking I Ain’t Been Shot Mum tabletop from a Mercian Miniatures post on the IABSM Facebook Group.
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IABSM AAR: Storming the Starmerskaya at OML11
/Fantastic game of I Ain’t Been Shot Mum at the afternoon session of this year’s Operation Market Larden Lardy Day.
The game, set during Operation Barbarossa in June 1941, involved me leading a Soviet force forward to clear the field of an advancing German recce force before securing the bridges over the river.
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IABSM AAR: Somewhere Near Calais
/Here’s another great game from Mercian Miniatures and 1st Corps, taken from the IABSM Facebook page.
Some really nice early war kit on show, although the Germans fielding their precious few 251’s so close to the front line might be considered a bit cheesy!
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IABSM AAR: Return to Tomaszow Lubelski
/Great game of I Ain’t Been Shot Mum with Rob: superb German tactics showing what happens when one side concentrates their forces in a schwerepunkt whilst the other splits his force into two.
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IABSM AAR: Storming the Starmerskaya
/This weekend coming up I’m off to Evesham for the annual Operation Market Larden event: a cornucopia of Lard now in its 12th year. I’ve been to every OML so far, and had a whale of time on every occasion.
This year I’m playing Sharp Practice in the morning and I Ain’t Been Shot Mum in the afternoon, so it was with great pleasure that I saw that Phil & Jenny Turner have been playtesting the game in preparation. Click on the picture below to see pictures of that playtest…can’t wait!
IABSM AAR: Anzio #05: The Huts
/Mark Luther ran a teaching game of I Ain’t Been Shot Mum to introduce a new player to the system, choosing scenario #05 from the Anzio: Wildcat to Whale scenario pack: The Huts.
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IABSM AAR: Action East of Vitebsk, December 1943
/Here’s a pictures-only After Acton Report of a game of I Ain’t Been Shot Mum played in 6mm at the Gigabytes Cafe in December last year.
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28mm IABSM on the Eastern Front
/Here are some shots of an amazing looking game of I Ain’t Been Shot Mum played in 28mm down at 1st Corps Miniatures HQ. All images taken from the IABSM Facebook Group.
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IABSM AAR: Citadel #04
/Will Depusoy and friends recently played a super-charged version of a Chain of Command scenario set on the Eastern Front during Operation Citadel.
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IABSM AAR: The September War #01: Chojnice
/Here’s a battle repot from a game of I Ain’t Been Shot Mum played in March.
It’s set on the first day of the second world war and involves advancing Germans trying to stop Polish engineers blowing a vital railway bridge so that they can bring up their armoured train.
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IABSM AAR: Eastern Front Game
/Here’s an After Action Report of a really good looking game of I Ain’t Been Shot Mum played by Michael Curtis and friends, taken from the IABSM Facebook Group.
There are some great pictures taken of the game, just one of which appears below.
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IABSM AAR: Storming the Citadel III
/Will Depusoy and friends played a tank-heavy game of I Ain’t Been Shot Mum based on the third table from the Chain of Command Pint-Sized Campaign Citadel: The Breakthrough.
This report taken from the IABSM Facebook Group. Click on the picture below to see all.
IABSM AAR: Cristot, June '44
/Some great pictures of a game Nick Bellamy and friends played recently featuring the British assault on Cristot in June 1944. The report is taken from a post on the IABSM Facebook Group.
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IABSM AAR: Where the hell have you boys been? #19: Pouppeville
/Great little battle report from Andy Cowell originally posted on the I Ain’t Been Shot Mum Facebook Group.
The AAR uses scenario #19 from the Where the hell have you been boys? pack: Clearing Exit One if you’re the Americans or, if you’re the Germans, Blocking the Exit.
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IABSM AAR: Imaginations - Clash at Kleindorf
/James Mantos has been building forces for an “imaginations” campaign using I Ain’t Been Shot Mum to play out battles in the 1950’s.
His superb blog Rabbits in my Basement has all the details, and you can see a “parade ground” of his figures by clicking here.
James has also just fought his first battle in his imaginations campaign, a report on which can be seen on the blog or by clicking on the picture, below:
IABSM AAR: Hong Kong, Christmas 1941
/A lovely set of photos from Alex Sotheran showing a rceent game of I Ain’t Been Shot Mum featuring a Christmas 1941 Hong Kong scenario.
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IABSM AAR: Paras in the Woods
/Here’s a quick battle report from Nick Bellamy, taken from the IABSM Facebook group.
It’s September 1944, and some Paras are trying to get through woods to help their comrades at the bridge.
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IABSM AAR: Defence of Calais scenario
/Here’s a pictorial battle report from the camera of Michael Curtis and Mercian Miniatures coveing a recent Defence of Calais scenario played out using I Ain’t Been Shot Mum.
This looked to be a truly spectacular game, and the pictures are wonderful.
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