Another quick AAR from Joe Patchen.
The Americans are pushing towards a bridge in Southern Italy that the Germans are trying to destroy. Will they take control of this vital river crossing in time? Click on the picture below to find out:
The early war period is my favourite, so I'm very happy to post another great battle report from Mark Luther set in Poland in 1939, and featuring a great looking armoured train.
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A bit of a change this time: an AAR from the Stipsicz Hussars with an encounter set in French Indochina in 1951.
The game uses IABSM rather than CDS, perhaps appropriate given the period, and features a huge 6m table. A French column begins the game at either end, and heads towards a Point d'Appui in the middle. Needless to say, neither column nor PA escapes the attention of the Vietminh.
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More I Ain't Been Shot, Mum! action from Joe Patchen: with a move to the Eastern Front in 1942.
The Soviets must break through the German lines. Will they do it? Click on the pic below to find out...
I have been trying to use scenarios other than those I've written myself, so my latest game of I Ain't Been Shot, Mum! featured a game taken from the TFL Summer Special 2005 based on the Royal Tanks scenario adapted from Skirmish Campaigns by Tom Ballou.
The game was quite short: involving me being completely tactically outsmarted and looking certain to lose until a sudden and very major reverse turned the tables on my opponent with devastating effect...on both his chances of winning and his temper!
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Another great write up from the gaming table of Joe Patchen. The Americans are driving forward into occupied France: their next obstacle a small village bordering the road they are moving down. Is it safe to advance? Or is the village crawling with the enemy?
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A change of scale now, with another 6mm I Ain't Been Shot, Mum! battle report from Mark Luther.
This features the third game played on the same "Operation Epsom" table: an encounter that saw the Tigers coming out to play!
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The third I Ain't Been Shot, Mum! after action report from Joe Patchen to be showcased this week.
This was a cracking clash between German and American forces near Anzio, but not at "Wildcat to Whale" time: much later on in 1944.
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Another excellent battle report from Joe Patchen: this time set on the Eastern Front in 1942.
It's July 1942 and the Russians need to break the siege of Leningrad. A new batch of brand new American lend-lease armor has made its way through U-boat infested waters to Murmansk and down by rail to the battle area. Into the maelstrom it is thrown...click on the picture below to see all.
Great battle report for I Ain't Been Shot, Mum! from Joe Patchen featuring a German assault on an American held town.
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Incidentally, this AAR hasn't appeared elsewhere on the web: Joe sent me the images and words to be loaded specifically onto the Vis Lardica site. Anyone else who wants to do the same for any of the TFL company-sized games (IABSM, CDS, Q13) should feel free to follow suit. Prompt service guaranteed! E-mail me at admin@vislardica.com with the "deets" (as my daughters would say).
A quick seven-picture AAR from Mark Luther, featuring a huge game played at Gigabytes in August 2010.
There's only a few pictures because Mark was too busy running the game to take more!
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Recently, Martin981463 posted the text of an IABSM after action report onto the TFL Yahoo Group. He also popped the pictures to accompany the words into the Group's photos section.
I hope he doesn't mind, but I've joined the two together in the AAR that you can reach by clicking on the picture below. That way, you can see words and pics together.
It looks like an excellent game of IABSM, unusually fought in what looks like 28mm scale. Click below to see all:
Another great I Ain't Been Shot, Mum! battle report from the Mark Luther archives.
This is a follow-on game from his last AAR: this time the its the Germans who are on the advance, counter-attacking towards Mouen.
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This weekend, I played my first game of IABSM in 2016. Wanting to make it a bit of a special one, I decided to empty my terrain cupboard of all buildings with a possibly Soviet flavour and play a giant Stalingrad-style city game.
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Fellow Lardy Patchen1863 posted the following battle report and photos on the TFL Yahoo Group recently. Hopefully he won't mind me reproducing it here so that people can see the words and pictures together.
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Here's another CDS after action report from Marcus B.
This time he's playing a scenario auto-generated from the rulebook. Click on the pic below to see all:
Here's an I Ain't Been Shot, Mum! battle report from the excellent Tracks and Threads blog.
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I played the third scenario from the Fall of the Lionsgate scenario pack this week with the boys from Benson. Two great games featuring plenty of action. Click on the picture below to see the full reports:
The first of three or so IABSM after action reports from Mark Luther, all based around Operation Epsom.
Here we see the British on the attack at the start of the campaign. Click on the pic to see more...
Vaggelis has begun playing his way through the Defence of Calais scenario pack, beginning with scenario #01: Les Attacques.
It is May 1940, and with British troops being evacuated from the beaches at Dunkirk, the ancient port of Calais stands on the critical western flank of the Anglo-French lines. In a desperate bid to shore up this flank, Churchill has committed the British 30th Infantry Brigade to defend Calais to the last...
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