Another absolute treat for you today: it’s another of Alan Curtis and friends’ I Ain’t Been Shot Mum games taken from the IABSM Facebook Group.
This is another truly stunning set up and well worth a browse.
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Another superb looking game of I Ain’t Been Shot Mum! from Alan Curtis and friends.
Lead units of 7th Panzer supported by elements of Tottenkopf Division bump into a BEF company with attached anti-tank guns deployed to contest a river crossing somewhere in Flanders.
An amazing set-up that is well worth a browse. Click on the picture below to see all:
Another great 6mm game of I Ain’t Been Shot Mum from Mark Luther, this time featuring his annual pilgrimage to Kursk.
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Another great 6mm I Ain’t Been Shot, Mum after action report from Mark Luther.
This time the action is on the eastern front, with the Germans trying to open a way through defending Soviets.
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Off to Dave’s for my first face to face game of I Ain’t Been Shot, Mum since before lockdown!
The scenario was set on the Eastern Front in 1943, and based on an historical encounter. Elements of the Soviet 5th Guards Tank Army (played by me) had to advance onto the table and take a village, Prokhorovka, defended by German armour. Yes, unusually for IABSM, this was to be an armour versus armour game with no infantry present.
I had what looked like an overwhelming force: a first wave of an HQ element, two platoons of three t-34s each, and a third platoon of three BT-17s. Following that, I had six more platoons of armour split into two more waves for a total of six more T-34s, three venerable KV-1s, three SU-76s, two SU-76is and, the piece de resistance, two SU-152 big beast tank killers.
If that’s what I had, I was a little nervous about what I was going to face. I’d been told to watch out for the new German Tiger tank: presumably I’d be facing about 20 of them!
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Dan Albrecht and friends played out the second scenario from the All American pack the other day. This report lifted, with Dan’s kind permission, from the IABSM Facebook page.
Great looking game. Click on the pic below to see all:
Our third IABSM battle report in a row, and it’s another cracker!
Well, technically it’s an IBCYM AAR, as Des Darkin and friends used their CoC dice driven version of I Ain’t Been Shot Mum to play out an amazing-looking D-Day game.
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Another superb pictorial After Action Report taken from the I Ain’t Been Shot, Mum Facebook Group.
This time it’s Michael Curtis’ superb D-Day set-up on show, first published on the June 6th anniversary date.
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Superb pictorial after action report of a recent Defence of Calais game of I Ain’t Been Shot Mum by Phil Turner and Andy Crow, taken from the IABSM Facebook page.
A really stunning set up: click on the picture below to see all:
Another absolutely beautiful battle report, this time featuring a game of I Ain’t Been Shot Mum played using the first scenario from the Defence of Calais scenario pack.
The report was originally posted on the IABSM FB group, which you can access by clicking here.
It’s May 1940, and with British troops being evacuated from the beaches at Dunkirk, the ancient port of Calais stood on the critical western flank of the Anglo-French lines.
In a desperate bid to shore up the flank Churchill committed the British 30th Infantry Brigade to defend Calais to the last. What ensued was an heroic struggle that is writ large in the annals of British military history.
This first scenario features men from the Searchlight Battalion, supported by anti-tank guns, trying to hold off the leading elements of the German advance. Click on the picture below to see all:
Absolutely brilliant After Action Report from Des Darkin, taken from the IABSM Facebook Group, featuring action in France in June 1944 as a British attack tries to push some Germans back. The game was played using the IABCYM dice-driven variant of I Ain’t Been Shot, Mum.
Played and reported in four sessions, this AAR combines Des’ various FB posts into one document with loads of great pictures: recommended reading.
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Great little pictorial battle report lifted from the I Ain’t Been Shot Mum Facebook Group.
Phil Turner’s game featured the British trying to hold off the Germans somewhere near Dunkirk. Click on the image below to see all.
With no sign of any real-life games on the horizon, I decided to bite the bullet and ask to join a virtual game of I Ain’t Been Shot Mum run by my friend Bevan.
My previous reluctance to try anything virtual was mainly down to the fact that I spend a lot of the day working via Zoom now, and although it is truly a marvelous communication tool, it’s also quite draining to use. Nevertheless, with the Beardless King (daughter #2) busy with schoolwork and Kavan (daughter #1’s boyfriend) back at Uni, it was Zoom or nowt!
The scenario was a simple one set in France 1940. I would play the Germans, and would start the game in situ defending a bridge against an anticipated attack by a French armoured column. At my disposal I had three Big Men, a platoon of infantry, a platoon of anti-tank guns, and a support platoon consisting of a couple of MMG teams.
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Here’s another excellent I Ain’t Been Shot Mum AAR and video AAR from Alex Sotheran, this time set in 1941 as Operation Barbarossa gets under way. The game is taken from Alex’s very readable Storm of Steel blog.
Unusually, it’s not the Germans that are facing off against the Soviets, but the Roumanians: some nice-looking infantry supported by R-2 tanks.
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Here’s a great After Action Report from Alex Sotheran, taken from the IABSM Facebook Group and Alex’s equally excellent Storm of Steel blog.
It’s Kursk 1943, and Alex plays through a solo game with the Germans attacking a Soviet-held village. There are plenty of “big cats” out to play, and there’s even a link to the YouTube video of the game.
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Here a set of pcitures taken from the IABSM Facebook Group showing moments from Rod Redden’s latest game. It’s Belgium 1944, and 11th Armoured Division with 1st Airborne support takes on 2nd SS Division.
Over the last couple of weeks, Des Darkin has been playing out an excellent looking game of I Ain’t Been Shot Mum on the IABSM Facebook Group.
I say IABSM, but Des has actually been playing using his variant I Ain’t Been CoC’d Mum Yet, which uses dice rather than card activation. That variant is available in the Lard 2019 Magazine.
Click on the picture below to a full AAR, combining the four posts that Des made as he played through the game…
Here’s a great battle report from Dan Albrecht and friends, first published on the IABSM Facebook Group.
The game is taken from the Falaise Firestorm scenanario book from Skirmish Campaigns, and involves action around Mount Ormel in the Falaise Gap.
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Here’s another I Ain’t Been Shot Mum battle report from the A Wargamer in Cyprus blog. It’s another adaptation of one of the scenarios from the Operation Compass scenario pack: a third scenario from the Australian assault on the Italian fortress of Bardia.
16th Australian Infantry Brigade are within the Italian perimeter and have made some progress against a fairly irresolute defence. The Aussies have followed a wadi and discovered a second line of Italian defences ready for them. Click on the picture below to see what happens next:
Here’s a great I Ain’t Been Shot, Mum AAR from Tim Whitworth and his friends at The War Room featuring the second scenario from the Anzio ‘Wildcat to Whale’ scenario pack.
At dawn on 25th January 1944, the Guards Brigade, headed by Number 1 Company of the Grenadiers and with Shermans from one squadron of 46th Royal Tank Regiment (crewed mainly by Welshmen from Liverpool) in support headed back towards Aprilia. Using the embankment of the disused railway line (the “Bowling Alley”) as their start point, they first had to take Carroceto.
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