Another great IABSM AAR from Mark Luther's archive. This time, the action takes place in Belgium in 1944, near the Albert Canal.
German SP guns and some Luftwaffe infantry try and hold off the Durham Light Infantry supported by Shermans.
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Those excellent gentlemen at The Stipsicz Hussars recently played a game of I Ain't Been Shot, Mum using scenario #20: Nee Soon from the Fall of the Liongate scenario pack.
Click on the pic below to see a few photos of the game:
Barring major disasters, The September War, my new scenario pack for IABSM containing 33 scenarios from the German invasion of Poland in September 1939, should be published tomorrow, Wednesday 15th March 2017.
The September War is largely based on Alexander Kawczynski's supplement for another rule system, but with the scenarios fully adapted for IABSM. As usual with my packs, each scenario generally consists of six pages: two for the Umpire and two for each player. Once you add the background and support material, The September War comes in at 240 pages long and will cost £9.50.
To wet your collective whistles, here is an AAR from the playtest of scenario #01: Chojnice. Will the Poles manage to blow the vital railway bridge in time? Or will the Germans manage to capture the bridge and defuse the explosives, then send their armoured train in to wreak havoc on the Polish border defences? Click on the picture below to find out more...
Mike Whitaker, fresh from proof-reading the Poland scenario pack for me (it's out next week), presents a lovely little battle report from the first game in his club's IABSM campaign.
It's Italy, 1944, and the Allies are tasked with capturing a village from the Germans. As it's a campaign, the players get a core force and get to choose some supports. I wonder if they chose wisely...?
Click on the pic to the right to see how the game went.
You can visit Mike's blog Trouble At T'Mill by clicking here.
Another great battle report from Mark Luther: this time, action on the Eastern Front from 1941.
The game is played in 6mm, and Mark uses some rather natty Shapeways 3D Printing vehicles that, presumably, you can't get anywhere else. Well worth a look.
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Another great AAR from the archives of the "Burt's Stuff" blog, a Spanish-language blog that you can visit by clicking here.
This time, it's a random game set on the eastern front, with the Germans trying to take a small town from its Soviet defenders.
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Nice to see someone playing a scenario from Vyazma or Bust!
Here, fellow Lardy Vaggelis plays #2A: The Bridge at Urk in 6mm. Will the Germans manage to find a way through to outflank Sychevka? Will the Soviet commander survive the disgrace of his last battle? It all happens around the bustling metropolis that is Urk. Click on the pic below to see the story unfold...
You can visit Vaggelis' excellent looking blog Wargames and History by clicking here.
Charles Eckart has sent through a nice little Charlie Don't Surf! after action report.
Here we see the US carrying out a Search & Destroy mission: a company of 173 Brigade infantry reinforced by three ACAV tracks and three M48A3 tanks searches for the newly arrived NVA 95B regiment that is trying to establish a base in South Viet Nam near the Cambodian border.
It is an unusual game, in that the PAVN forces are strong enough to put up a semi-conventional fight combined with guerrilla tactics.
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Many of you will have seen some of Egg's beautiful models in the pictures from the TFL Painting Challenge. Here's a chance to actually see them in action, with a quick AAR covering Scenario #01 from the Cymru Am Byth Welsh Guards scenario pack: the Defence of Arras.
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Egg has unearthed a couple of IABSM battle reports for us all to enjoy.
The first is set in Syria in 1941, and sees British troops attempting to hold a town against Vichy French attackers.
There are full briefings and OBs for each side, allowing you to play the game as well. Click on the pic below to see all:
Another quick Lebanon 1982 AAR from Jon Yuengling.
This time a column of Israeli armour, supported by infantry, look for both the PLO and a way out of town. Click on the pic to see all.
Another great AAR from the pen (table?) of Joe Patchen. This time the action takes place in the desert: in Tunisia, in fact, as the Americans wait for the might of the Afrika Korps to hit their line.
Can the US infantry get away before the panzers strike? Find out by clicking on the pic below:
I'm loving adding all the modern AARs using IABSM and/or CDS: some really nice photography of some really nice models.
Here's a quick AAR from Jon Yuengling's excellent blog, Basement Games, dating back to November 2010. The IDF are trying to rescue a downed pilot from in amongst the Syrian militia. Click on the pic to see all...
Fellow Lardy Count Belisarius played in a Falklands War game at the Whitley Bay 3D Gamers club at about this time last year.
This battle report appeared on his excellent blog Another Slight Diversion, which you can visit by clicking on its name in the sentence above. Hopefully he won't mind me reproducing it here.
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Some of you will remember that I use a variant of CDS to wargame battles from the Six Day War. Other people also use the core IABSM and CDS systems to fight other periods in history, especially those campaigns that we wargamers call 'Moderns': Yom Kippur and other later Arab/Israeli conflicts, the Cold War, the Falklands and more.
So today I've added a page where all these AARs can be collected together. It's under the CDS section in the NavBar at the top...and the first AAR to appear is an excellent 1984 Cold War game from Egg: Stellingbostal.
Click on the picture below to see if the British can hold the village in the face of the Soviet steamroller...
Another great battle report lifted from Burt Minorrot's excellent Las Partidas de Burt ("Burt's Stuff") blog.
This time, it's a big game involving the Soviets advancing on a German occupied-town. Worth having a look just for the pictures of the Russian katyushas and their effect! Click on the pic below to see all:
Monster tanks, heroic last stands, futile human wave attacks and a cavalry charge! And snow, lots of snow.Excellent I Ain't Been Shot, Mum battle report from Iain Fuller's equally excellent Tracks and Threads blog.
The action takes place on the Eastern Front, Winter of 1941, and seems to have had everything: as the author says: "monster tanks, heroic last stands, futile human wave attacks and a cavalry charge! And snow, lots of snow".
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The four scenarios in the IABSM v3 rulebook continue to prove a source of inspiration.
Here we have Vaggelis' pictorial battle report using the last rulebook scenario, A Canadian VC, played in 6mm.
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You can see more from Vaggelis by visiting his blog: click here to do so.
Another great AAR lifted from the "Burt's Stuff" blog, which can be visited by clicking here.
The Soviets are advancing forward as part of Operation Bagration, the Germans have scraped together a kampfgruppe to stop them. Click on the pic below to see all:
Once again I feel honour bound to point out that I haven't been able to get hold of Burt to check he's happy for me to translate his work onto the Vis Lardica site. I hope, when he does find out, that he doesn't object, and realises that I am only trying to give his work greater coverage, and to make the VL site as complete an archive of the TFL company-sied games as possible.
Fellow Lardy Vaggelis ran a 10mm participation game of IABSM at this year's Strategikon, which seems to have gone down very well with everyone who played.
His excellent blog, Wargames & History, where this AAR first appeared, can be visited by clicking here.
And you can also read the AAR on this site by clicking on the picture, below:
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