All this spare time at home has given Mark Luther a chance to write up an AAR that has previously just been a collection of pictures.
So here’s the Operation Express battle report again, but this time with the pictures correctly labelled and ordered.
Click on the picture below to see all. This is a magnificent report of a great looking game, so recommended!
Fantastic battle report from Tim Whitworth on a game of I Ain’t Been Shot, Mum played just before we all went into lockdown.
Tim and his friends have been playing through a Blenneville or Bust! campaign taken from the scenario pack of the same name. This was the final game in the series, and a chance for the Germans to achieve maximum victory points.
Find out what happened by clicking on the link below. Highly recommended: this is a serious after action report!
Some nice pictures from a game of I Ain’t Been Shot, Mum run by Julian Whippy and friends, and taken from the IABSM Facebook page.
British Paras hold a bridge waiting for their relieving armour to arrive. Click on the pic below to see all:
George Anderson reports on his second game of I Ain’t Been Shot, Mum, taken from his excellent blog Musing on Wargames and Life.
George still isn’t sold on the game, but let’s hope he gives it a few more tries. Click on the picture below to see what he thinks.
Lovely After Action Report from the pen of Tim Whitworth, taken from the IABSM Facebook page and his own blog Eagles & Lions Wargaming.
As the Germans had halted the American attack at Pierrecourt they were back on the counter offensive again, this time with a combined force of 30th Panther and 30th Panzer Grenadier regiments.
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Time to break out the I Ain’t Been Shot, Mum again with a scenario taken from the second September War scenario book: #60 Szack.
Szack was a small village in what was south-eastern Poland (it’s now just inside Ukraine) that was the site of a backwards-and-forwards series of actions between the Poles and the Soviets in very late September 1939. The scenario covers the first Soviet attack:
Soviet troops consisting of the 112th Infantry Regiment, some 13,000 soldiers supported by fifteen T-26 tanks and fifteen guns, arrived at the village of Szack on September 28th.
The Polish force near the village numbered 4,000 men of the Border Protection Corp, including General Wilhelm Orlik-Rückermann, and sixteen anti-tank guns.
Having taken the village, the Soviets then charged the Polish positions with infantry supported by the T-26 tanks. The Poles waited until the Soviets were right on top of them before opening fire with their anti-tank guns, destroying eight tanks.
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The TFL Specials are a great source of scenarios and gaming ideas. Here’s a battle report from Dan Albrecht and the Vermont Historical Gamers Group playing the Walking in a Winter Wonderland scenario from the TFL 2005 Summer Special.
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One of the great things about the world of Lard is the growing profusion of Lardy Days, where Lard-minded gamers can get together and indulge in their favourite pastime.
One of the early events on the 2020 Lard calendar was the Big Winter Wonder-Lard day held by Bristol Independent Gamers at the end of February. About twelve games, all fully participation, were run in each of the morning and afternoon sessions, covering just about the whole spectrum of Lard: What A Tanker; Chain of Command; Bag the Hun; Sharp Practice and, of course, I Ain’t Been Shot, Mum.
That game was run by Phil and Jenny, and featured action from the Arras Counter-Attack in May 1940. Click on the picture below to see an excellent pictorial report of the day’s events (lifted from the IABSM Facebook Group):
Here’s the next video in Alex Sotheran’s series explaining the basic I Ain’t Been Shot, Mum rules.
This episode covers combat, the effects of shock, and artillery.
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I was browsing the Internet the other day when I came across George Anderson’s excellent blog Musings on Wargaming and Life. Some really good content on the site, including a battle report from his first time playing IABSM.
George has played other TFL games but, as I said, this was his first time playing IABSM. Hopefully he’ll give it another go, but this does go to show that here on VL you’ll find every IABSM battle report, even the ones that aren’t totally positive.
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Alex Sotheran continues to explain the basic I Ain’t Been Shot, Mum rules in the second video in the series.
This episode covers Spotting, Movement and the use of Big Men.
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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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