Tim Whitworth and chums continue to play the Blenneville or Bust! campaign. We seem to have missed out on an AAR for the second scenario, but here’s the report for their third game: Pierrecourt.
The Germans are defending, the Americans attacking. Who will prevail? Click on the picture, below, to see all.
Tim Whitworth and friends have started playing through the Blenneville or Bust! scenario pack: a pyramid campaign set in Normandy in 1944.
In the first encounter, #01 West of Pierrecourt, American reconnaissance troops probe forward looking for a bridge over the river that will take the weight of their armour, but the Germans lie in wait…
Click on the picture, below, to see what happened.
Here’s another of Mark Luther’s superb 6mm games of IABSM: West of Verba.
Set on the Eastern Front in June 1941 (i.e. as part of Barbarossa) it involves a German Panzer attack on a Soviet position in rolling countryside.
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Desmondo and Iain played their superb Sword Beach terrain again last weekend. Rather than using pure IABSM, they used the I Ain’t Been CoC’d Mum variant that uses Chain of Command dice rather than cards for activation.
Click on the picture below to see a pictorial report of their rather lovely game:
Here’s an After Action Report from a game from this weekend that I was due to play in but eventually could not make because of scheduling issues!
Friends Bevan, Mark and Dave have started to play through the Bashnya or Bust! scenario pack for I Ain’t Been Shot Mum, and here’s the battle report from the first game: #01: Near Osen.
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Recently there have been quite a few requests across the TFL Forum and IABSM Facebook Group for “how to play” videos for I Ain’t Been Shot Mum.
Now that sort of thing is currently way beyond my capacity to provide either in terms of time or ability, but fellow Lardy Alex Sotheran, from the Storm of Steel blog, has risen to the challenge and posted the first of three such videos on YouTube, this initial offering covering an introduction to the rules, what you need to play, along with the activation cards and how Blinds work.
This is a cracking presentation and has been needed for some time, so well done Alex! Can’t way to see the follow ups.
Click below to see the first video:
Great little I Ain’t Been Shot Mum After Action Report from Rob Goodfellow covering a game played using the second scenario of the Blenneville or Bust! scenario pack.
After an American recon force drives off its German opposition, British armour tries a thrust through Avaux..but the Germans are waiting for them.
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Here’s another of |Mark Luther’s great 6mm IABSM battle reports.
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Yes, I know we have had two lots of Arras already (three if you count the 15mm game from a couple of weeks ago) but here is another set of photographs taken from this last weekend’s Salute-warm-up Arras game.
These are all by Phil Turner, one of the players in the game, and are lifted from the IABSM Facebook Group.
I would recommend a look at these, even if you think you’ve “seen it all before”: there are some cracking close ups well worth gander!
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Here are more great shots of Michael Curtis and Friends’ Arras Counter-Attack demo game planned for Salute this year.
This was the second run-through of the weekend, with a slight change to the British start position to see whether that would speed up the “action” part of the game.
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Michael Curtis and friends are putting on a demo game of I Ain’t Been Shot, Mum at Salute this year. The scenario chosen is the Arras counterattack of May 1940.
Demo games need a lot of preparation, and a good few run throughs before they are ready for public consumption. Click on the pic below to see this one:
Those of you who regularly visit this site will know that we had a different Arras battle report last Tuesday. Here’s the link so that you can compare the two.
A nice little pictorial battle report from Joe McGinn featuring a game of I Ain’t Been Shot, Mum and the British counter-attack at Arras in May 1940.
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Here’s a rather nice battle report from Alex Sotheran covering a game played just before Christmas last year, and taken from Alex’s excellent blog Storm of Steel.
The action is once again set in Malaya in late 1941, and covers an action very similar to the encounter at Slim River.
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Here’s another great I Ain’t Been Shot, Mum AAR from Desmondo Darkin: Krickenbeck.
This time it’s a late war game, with German Volkstrum defending a narrow river crossing against overwhelming British numbers.
Click on the picture below to see how the game turned out…
Nice little battle report from Desmondo Darkin taken from the IABSM Facebook Group.
This was an early war game based on the “Arkforce” that was left to defend a perimeter near Le Havre in June 1940.
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Here’s the final episode from Just Jack’s incredible “On the Northern Shoulder of Kursk” series of battle reports.
Here the Germans launch a last-ditch attempt to take the 1st May Collective Farm is the face of the usual determined Soviet defence.
This is another truly epic report (146 photographs plus plenty of text) so well worth a look. Click on the picture below to see all:
Check out Just Jack’s blog by clicking here.
Another of Mark Luther’s great After Action Reports: this time a game of I Ain’t Been Shot, Mum in 6mm set in Normandy 1944.
No words, but some cracking images. Click on the picture below to see all.
Here’s another great I Ain’t Been Shot, Mum! after action report from the pen of Tim Whitworth and picked up from the IABSM Facebook Group.
This time, Tim and friends play one of the scenarios from the pen of Mike Whitaker that can be found in the various Lardy Specials. I can’t remember which one it is, so you’ll have to get them all to find out!
This encounter is set around the Gothic line in 1944. A British company attack supported by Sherman tanks and artillery against Germans dug in and determined to fight for the last inch of their territory. Click on the picture below to see all:
And why not compare the action here to Mike’s original report, which can be found by clicking here.
Here’s a battle report from a game of I Ain’t Been Shot, Mum played last weekend against John and Dave.
Unusually for us, the scenario was late war, eastern front: with the Soviets rushing forwards to secure a gap in a ridge that the Germans were also seeking to block.
It was a very close run thing, with a fair degree of carnage on both sides. Click on the picture below to see all…
A quick AAR from Julian Whippy and friends taken from the IABSM Facebook Group.
The game features a huge 12’ by 8’ table, and a German assault on stubborn British infantry.
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