Another cracking battle report from Brooklyn Wargaming, with an AAR dealing with the second game in their Heroes of Omaha and Panzer Lehr campaign set in France in 1944.
After a narrow American victory in game one (see the Hauts-Vents AAR), the Germans counter-attack!
Click here or on the picture below to see what happens...
Brooklyn Wargaming have some fantastic IABSM AAR on their website, which can be reached by clicking here.
They have generously agreed that I can add them to the Vis Lardica site so, for your enjoyment, here's a battle report from the end of last year featuring a game set near Hauts-Vents in France, 1944.
Click here, or on the picture below, to see the full report.
If you have an AAR for one of the TooFatLardies company-sized games (IABSM, CDS, Q13) do feel free to submit it for inclusion to admin@vislardica.com. No need for anything fancy: just a few pics and words, or even just pics or words, will do.
And if you've enjoyed this AAR and any other bits of content on the site, please comment, like or, if you own your own website, put a link to Vis Lardica on that.
Cheers
R
Time to go back...back...back in time to 2007, and an AAR for IABSM from The Mad Padre rescued from the depths of the Internet.
It's France 1940, and the French are counter-attacking. Click on the pic to see more.
Saturday morning before the rugby saw a great game of I Ain't Been Shot, Mum take place as the Benson boys and I played the first scenario of the Vyazma or Bust! campaign.
Click here or on the picture below to see how the game unfolded. Be warned: it was bloody, very bloody!
Here's the third and, for the moment, final AAR from The Wargaming Addict played on a wargaming engine as opposed to the tabletop.
This time the Addict picks a scenario from the Blenneville or Bust! scenario pack, set in Normandy: the opening game involving the clash of two recon forces just west of Pierrecourt.
Click here or on the picture below to see the whole report
As those who follow this blog will know, I have recently painted a squadron of plastic British A13 cruiser tanks from Zvezda in desert colours. I was naturally keen to get them onto the tabletop, so invited my regular opponent, Neil, round for a battle.
I'd determined to use one of the two 'all tank' scenarios from the Operation Compass scenario pack (written by me and available to purchase from all good retailers: well, here and the TFL main site!) so carefully printed off the pages we'd need for Scenario 10: The Road From Fort Capuzzo.
It wasn't until I'd laid out the terrain and turned to getting the figures out that I realised that Scenario 10 doesn't feature any A13s: just A9s and A10s!
No bother: the newly painted tanks will have to wait their turn as my BEF tanks demonstrate what they can do re-tasked to the desert.
So click here or on the picture below to see what happens when Rae Leakey and his tank squadron drive towards the road from Fort Capuzzo in December 1940: an interesting game that takes place up in the blue in the dead of the night...
Rae Leaky up in the blue in the dead of the night
Here's the second of the three promised IABSM AARs from The Wargaming Addict.
Keen to make up for his previous performance, the Addict plays the same scenario again, but this time with very different results.
Click here or on the picture below to see another great battle played out not on the tabletop, but on the Battleground Engine.
All this posting of AARs has made me quite jealous for a game: lucky I have one tomorrow night!
Oh, and I'll update the painting challenge this weekend too.
Although I have occasionally played computer wargames or wargames moderated by a computer, I have primarily always been a wargames who games on the tabletop with figures, dice and a rulebook.
There's something immensely satisfying about pushing lead around a tabletop loaded with brilliant terrain, and nothing beats the feeling of dice in the hand ready to roll just what you need!
Tabletop gaming, however, does require an awful lot of room.
I, for example, have only recently reclaimed my wargaming room from its sabbatical as a 'kids playroom', and so am very familiar with the effort involved in having to clear the living room, set everything up, and then put it all away before the house can resume normal function.
The Wargaming Addict has apparently solved that problem with the use of the Battleground Gaming Engine. You can visit his site by clicking here, or more simply read the AAR describing his first foray into non-figure gaming using IABSM from December 2013 by clicking on the picture, below.
Interesting stuff...with two more AARs to follow over the next week or so.
Martin981463 posted some great photographs of a recent IABSM game onto the TFL Yahoo group, but Yahoo being Yahoo, the pictures came out in all the wrong order and without the captions.
Here are the pictures again, carefully organised into a gallery, and with captions included.
Click here or on the picture, below, to see the storyboard unfold: enjoy!
Another amazing AAR gallery from Mark Luther. This one dates from 2008, and features the battle of Skirmanevo on the eastern front in November 1941.
There are over 85 photos in the gallery (I know, I've just spent three days captioning them all!) and although 6mm might not be my thing, you've got to say they look fantastic.
Click on the photo, below, to see them all.
Skirmanevo Before The Storm
Here's another blast from the past: a 6mm IABSM game played by Mark Luther dating back to 2007.
I'm gradually loading up all Mark's 6mm AAR: they do look jolly good!
Click on the pic to see the whole gallery.
A quick IABSM AAR from Mike Whitaker from his excellent blog "Trouble at T'Mill" as an understrength company of Germans tries to hold out against an amis attack.
Mike's blog also contains a great article on passwords and the need for online security: well worth reading...and I'm just off to change all mine!
Click on the picture below for the AAR, or on the link above for Mike blog as a whole.
A quick battle report dating from December last year.
The Mad Padre and James Mantos get together for what looks like a cracking game of IABSM. Click here or on the picture, below, to read the AAR.
A cracking battle on the Dunkirk perimeter last Saturday, with the plucky Brits trying to hold the Germans off from a vital railhead until the beaches were clear.
Find out how one unnamed antitank crew member held off the panzers almost on his own by clicking here or on the picture below.
I like to trawl the web looking for IABSM battle reports. Here's one I've found from Feb 2014 from the Painted Thumb blog with some lovely figures and terrain!
Click on the photo, below, to see the report here, or click here to go straight to the blog.
Not really a full battle report, but more displaying the pictures of a recent IABSM game that tiger1arnhem posted in the Photos section of the TFL Yahoo Group.
Apparently he had written a full AAR, but lost it all due to technology issues. I feel his pain, and can only repeat the mantra "CTRL+S, CTRL+S"!
Click on the picture to see more:
Those of you who do wish to submit full AARs, whatever size or quality, for IABSM, CDS or Q13, can do so by e-mailing me at the same address as for the painting challenge: adminATvislardicaDOTcom.
Not the first game of the new year, but the last game of the last year!
An exciting class between British Paras and German garrison troops in Normandy just after D-Day in June 1944.
Exciting news! I have taken advantage of the Christmas break to catch up on the re-loading of content onto the new website, and am pleased to say that all the previous IABSM after action reports are now done. That's a huge library of battle reports to browse at your leisure, many with complete scenario information allowing you to re-play the action for yourself.
To celebrate, here's a new AAR, Pasting the Padre, which gathers together the reports written by James Mantos and the Mad Padre about the same game of IABSM played in November this year.
Click here or the picture to read the report; or use the top navigation bar to go to the IABSM After Action Reports section of the website to see literally hundreds more!
The Christmas holidays mean I have more time to finish re-loading all the content onto the new VL website.
I'm still working my way through the IABSM AARs, and great fun it is too. I have done all the scenario pack AARs, and the one-off game AARs, and am now working my way through the TFL Games Day AARs.
I have just finished uploading all the reports from the 2006 Malaya Games Day: a colossal battle involving over a battalion of infantry on either side at 1:1 scale, with the Japanese trying to force their way through the Lardak position, held by British Indian troops.
Click here to go to the IABSM AAR page. The Malaya Games Day reports are in the right hand column, down near the bottom.
Here are a few photos to whet your whistles...
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