Great write-up of a game at the August meeting of the Devon Wargames Group taken from the Blenneville or Bust! scenario pack.
The action took place Near Avaux: as an embattled German force attempts to hold out against a strong attack by British armour.
You can read all about on the Devon Wargames Group page (click here), or on this site by clicking on the picture, below.
So here they are: the dismounted Polish cavalry of the previous post rescued from their terrible frosting at the hands of a can of GW Purity Seal with a liberal application of olive oil, and then re-sprayed with Army Painter seal:
Now they don't look perfect, being still a little granulated with tiny particles of Purity Seal, but they look a whole lot better than they did before!
What I am also hoping is that they will improve even more with time and a bit of handling i.e. that the granules are worn smooth or continue to be absorbed in some way. They are not a disgrace now, though, and that's the main point.
Battlefront figures, BTW. Quite nice, although the faces were not particularly well defined and were difficult to paint into anything remotely resembling humans. That could be down to coming from an old mold, but is still disappointing. I've gone Forged in Battle for the mounted cavalry, so we'll have to see if they are any better.
Here's another couple of shots. Oh, and they look a bit weird on my custom bases as they don't have any LSW teams, and the bases are designed to take eight singles and a two-man LSW team, not ten singles. Should make playing with them interesting, as that's down one dice on all firing!
PS the painting challenge scorecard is now updated as well
Great battle report from Joe Patchen describing a recent game of I Ain't Been Shot, Mum that featured a German assault on British Paras covering the access route into Oosterbeek during the "Bridge Too Far" Arnhem incident.
Click on the pic, below, to see all...
As I said in my previous post, I have plenty of early war German kit: I just needed to re-photograph some of it to fit in with the specific Germans in Poland infantry company list.
That's now happened, (click here to go to the gallery) and I know exactly what I need to buy in order to be able to field anything I might need to.
As expected, the only real gaps are in the number of tanks and armoured cars I need...but as that's not critical, as IABSM is more about infantry than tanks and it's going to be a rare occasion indeed that I need to field an entire tank company, I can just fill these gaps with cost-effective vehicles from Zvezda as and when I feel like it.
I reckon if I bought six SdKfz 221s; five Panzer 35(t); five Panzer 38(t); and six Panzer IIs then I would have all the early war German tanks I could ever realistically need...and at Zvezda prices, I could probably get the whole lot for the same amount as one Battlefront late war tank killer box set! All hail Zvezda!
In fact, the only real gap is the two-squad infantry scouting unit which, obviously, I could represent on foot, but would like to do as cavalry: the first German cavalry I would then have. A trip to Peter Pig for them, I think, as I quite like PP's cavalry figures.
So, infantry company gallery now done: next up will be the Schutzen and the Gebirgsjaeger galleries. After I've been shopping, of course...
Now that I have finished the IABSMv3 1939 September War lists for the Germans and Poles, it's time to see what I have got in my collection...and therefore what I haven't got as well!
Easiest way to do that is to build galleries for each potential force: then I can clearly see where the gaps are, and how big my next shopping spree needs to be.
Well, the first of the Poles are still on the painting table (just need to finish the bases), so it's the Germans that will start things off.
Don't forget that you can download the IABSMv3 Polish and German lists from the Poland 1939 page under the IABSM tab at the top of the page. Feedback always appreciated.
I have now finished the IABSM v3 compatible German lists for the 1939 September War to go alongside the Polish lists that I posted a month or so ago.
These lists allow you to field a variety of German forces based on everything from a standard infantry company to a light trucked tank company. As with the Polish lists, they are largely taken from Anatoli's excellent work, converted to IABSM v3 alongside additional info from my own research.
Click on the pic to download the list, or visit the Poland 1939 section of this website (under the I Ain't Been Shot, Mum! tab at the top).
Any feedback gratefully received: either comment or send me an e-mail at the usual address.
Regular visitors to the Vis Lardica site will know that one of my favourite builds this year was the Warbases' Pegasus Bridge model. This enormous piece of scenery took me some time to put together and paint, including a short hiatus whilst Warbases, showing their usual high levels of customer service, replaced a part that I had superglued into the wrong position and then destroyed as I tried to re-position! Now that the thing was built, it was time to get it onto the tabletop and into action.
I did think about replaying the actual Pegasus Bridge action itself but, at a loose end one day, I put together a rather nice set-up on the wargames table featuring the bridge as part of a small town. As I didn't want to take it all apart again and re-build to the correct landscape, I decided to just write a quick scenario featuring the bridge where it was.
Click on the pic below to read all...
Pictures from a game of IABSM in 6mm based on an unspecified scenario from Chris Stoesen's In the Name of Roma! scenario pack, covering the actions of the Italian 80th Roma Regiment in the Soviet Union between August and December 1941.
No captions unfortunately: just the photos.
Click on the pic below to see all:
A very colourful game of I Ain't Been Shot, Mum! in 6mm from Mark Luther.
The scenario involves one of my favourite situations: a clash of late war reconnaissance units. Forget the big cats and the swarms of Shermans: let's let the armoured cars and half-tracks out to play!
Click on the pic to see all:
I have slightly updated the IABSM v3 lists for the 1939 Polish Army, available by clicking the picture or from the Poland 1939 page under the IABSM heading.
Whilst working on the German lists for the same period, I realised that the IABSM v3 convention is to give medium mortars a crew of five rather than the v1 or v2 crew of three.
Small thing, especially as they will be off-table in most games, but now corrected.
German lists are coming along nicely: should be done by the end of the month. Wish my Polish cavalry painting was doing as well!
Had a great game of I Ain't Been Shot, Mum! on Saturday: a Sealion scenario that was played in a hall only a few hundred yards from where the battle was actually set.
Read all about it by clicking on the pic, below:
A couple more lists for the Germans for the 1939 Poland campaign.
Here we have one list based around an armoured car squadron, and anotherbased around a company of motorcycle troops.
Click here to go through to the Poland 1939 page, or click on the pic to see the pdf for the armoured car squadron.
Another excellent Western Desert battle report from Dr. the Viking, this time featuring a British assault on an Italian-held fort.
The Dr's blog can be found here, or you can see the report on this site by clicking on the pic below.
Another great battle report from Mark Luther: as usual playing his I Ain't Been Shot, Mum! in 6mm.
Mark's last AAR was from Poland 1939, this one if from Germany 1945: looks like he has the whole war covered!
Click on the pic, below, to see all:
Really powering on with the Germans now. Two more lists available today: the Light Trucked Tank Company and the Medium Tank Company.
Hi All
I've added two more army lists for the Germans invading Poland in 1939: the list for the 1st and 3rd Light Tank Divisions i.e. the ones using Panzer 35(t) and Panzer 38(t) tanks.
Click on the image below to go to the Poland 1939 page to see the lists...
Considering the work I'm currently doing on the Panzerspah list for the German army in 1939, it's a somewhat marvellous coincidence that the next battle report from the archive of Mark Luther is set in Poland in 1939 and features a German reconnaissance force attempting a river crossing in the face of Polish resistance.
Click on the image below to see all:
what an incredible table!
I've now started work on the German army lists to accompany the "First to Fight" pdf containing all the Polish lists.
The first two, the Light Tank Company and Light Tank Company A, are now available either by clicking on the images, below, or by visiting the Poland 1939 page of the website.
Note that I will post new lists as they are complete but, after they are all done, compile them into one booklet in the same way As I have done with "First to Fight".
Any comments or critiques welcome!
Another great looking AAR from Mark Luther featuring his impressive 6mm collection.
The game features action on the eastern front, centred around the village of Iakovlevo. Click on the pic below to see all...
I am very pleased to announce that the Polish Army Lists for IABSM for the 1939 September War are now finished and available as a free download on this site.
The lists are gathered into a single, 54-page pdf booklet that follows the same format as the two late war theatre supplements Vpered na Berlin and Battle for Liberation.
The booklet contains lists for the following forces:
In addition, there are rules for rating your Polish force, the Polish Armoury, and details of/rules for armoured trains.
Click on the picture of the front cover to download the list; or visit the Poland 1939 page on the IABSM drop-down, above.
Enjoy...and if you find any errors, or just want to let me know what you think, either comment on this post or drop me a line at the usual address.
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