Another great AAR from John Paul Hancock and friends, this time covering the action from Scenario 2B of the Bashnya or Bust! campaign pack for I Ain’t Been Shot Mum: Sorok.
Can the Germans roll over the Soviets, or will the fanatical defenders hold out. Click on the pciture below to see all:
John Paul Hancock and friends have begun playing through the Bashnya or Bust scenario pack for I Ain’t Been Shot Mum.
Here’s the After Action Report from their first game: click on the picture below…
New Lardy John Paul Hancock and friends fought their first game of I Ain’t Been Shot Mum. Click on the pic below to see how they got on:
Here’s an I Ain’t Been Shot Mum after action report from Alex “Storm of Steel” Sotheran based on the A Hasty Defence scenario generator from the v3 rulebook: a Soviet infantry company supported by T34s attack a Romanian position.
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Here’s a pictorial AAR from the Storm of Steel blog featuring a Soviet attack on a German held village.
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Here are two sets of pictures showing 1st Corps’ I Ain’t Been Shot Mum demonstration game at this year’s The Other Partisan show.
Beautifully presented, it’s a stunning simulation of the battle of Kamenewo, October 1941, where Soviet T-34s halted the Germans’ advance on Moscow.
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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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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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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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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!
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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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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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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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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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.
Chris Lane played a quick refresher game of I Ain’t Been Shot Mum the other day, set around Operation Barbarossa: the invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941.
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Nothing on IABSM for ages and then two AARs arrive at once!
Here’s a photo-report from a game played by Mark Luther and friends at the Gigabytes Cafe in July last year.
The game takes place a few days into Citadel with the German offensive running into a counterattacking Soviet force in wide open terrain.
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It’s been ages since we’ve had an I Ain’t Been Shot Mum after action report, so it’s great to pick this one up from Will Depusoy on the IABSM Facebook Group.
Will and friends are working their way through the PSC Storming the Citadel campaign.This is the report from their table five game: the Soviets are falling back from village of Butovo with the Germans in hot pursuit.
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Will Depusoy and friends have been playing through the PSC Storming the Citadel campaign set during the battle of Kursk , 1943, and posted this After Action Report on the IABSM Facebook group.
Here, the Soviet 67th Guards tries to hold the village of Butovo against German Grossdeutschland divison.
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Here are some shots of a game of IABSM that Chris Lane posted on the IABSM Facebook Group.
As Chris says: The sprog and I had a good game last night of the Russians trying to take a village. Suffice to say I lost as the sprog’s T-34s steamrollered the left flank.
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