And following on from his last battle report, here's another fantastic gallery from Norseygamer full of cracking pictures of a recent game of I Ain' Been Shot, Mum!, but this time set in the western desert.
The Brits advance against the Italians, but there are Germans around somewhere as well...click on the picture for more:
Another great write up from the Tracks and Treads blog.
This one features almost a continuation of the last game played, with the Germans again advancing against US Paras across the fields of Normandy.
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Following on from his last AAR, here is Joe Patchen's follow up report covering the next phase of his linked Operation Bagration games.
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Terrific, and huge, gallery from Norseygamer telling the story of a recent IABSM game set on the eastern front.
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A quick I Ain't Been Shot, Mum! battle report from the table of Joe Patchen: the Germans ty and evacuate a field hospital in the face of a Soviet breakthrough.
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I umpired a tremendous game of I Ain't Been Shot, Mum! on Saturday!
Using the fourth scenario from the Fall of the Lion Gate scenario pack for Malaya and Singapore, the game focussed on the British defence against the main Japanese advance down the Malayan pennisular on 11th December 1941.
Previously the Japanese of the Saeki Detachment have chewed through the British Indian troops at Ban Sadao and The Ledge (cf) but now come up against somewhat stiffer opposition in the shape of 2/1 Gurkha Rifles...
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Superb write-up by Carojon from the Devon Wargames Group using the Arnhem VC scenario from the TooFatLardies Christmas Special 2007.
The game focuses on the action at Oosterbeck that won Lance-Sergeant Jack Baskeyfield the Victoria Cross as he tried to hold off German self-propelled guns from the flanks of the British Para's positions.
Click on the picture below to see all. Recommended!
Another quick AAR from Joe Patchen.
The Americans are pushing towards a bridge in Southern Italy that the Germans are trying to destroy. Will they take control of this vital river crossing in time? Click on the picture below to find out:
The early war period is my favourite, so I'm very happy to post another great battle report from Mark Luther set in Poland in 1939, and featuring a great looking armoured train.
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More I Ain't Been Shot, Mum! action from Joe Patchen: with a move to the Eastern Front in 1942.
The Soviets must break through the German lines. Will they do it? Click on the pic below to find out...
I have been trying to use scenarios other than those I've written myself, so my latest game of I Ain't Been Shot, Mum! featured a game taken from the TFL Summer Special 2005 based on the Royal Tanks scenario adapted from Skirmish Campaigns by Tom Ballou.
The game was quite short: involving me being completely tactically outsmarted and looking certain to lose until a sudden and very major reverse turned the tables on my opponent with devastating effect...on both his chances of winning and his temper!
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Another great write up from the gaming table of Joe Patchen. The Americans are driving forward into occupied France: their next obstacle a small village bordering the road they are moving down. Is it safe to advance? Or is the village crawling with the enemy?
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A change of scale now, with another 6mm I Ain't Been Shot, Mum! battle report from Mark Luther.
This features the third game played on the same "Operation Epsom" table: an encounter that saw the Tigers coming out to play!
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The third I Ain't Been Shot, Mum! after action report from Joe Patchen to be showcased this week.
This was a cracking clash between German and American forces near Anzio, but not at "Wildcat to Whale" time: much later on in 1944.
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Another excellent battle report from Joe Patchen: this time set on the Eastern Front in 1942.
It's July 1942 and the Russians need to break the siege of Leningrad. A new batch of brand new American lend-lease armor has made its way through U-boat infested waters to Murmansk and down by rail to the battle area. Into the maelstrom it is thrown...click on the picture below to see all.
Great battle report for I Ain't Been Shot, Mum! from Joe Patchen featuring a German assault on an American held town.
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Incidentally, this AAR hasn't appeared elsewhere on the web: Joe sent me the images and words to be loaded specifically onto the Vis Lardica site. Anyone else who wants to do the same for any of the TFL company-sized games (IABSM, CDS, Q13) should feel free to follow suit. Prompt service guaranteed! E-mail me at admin@vislardica.com with the "deets" (as my daughters would say).
A quick seven-picture AAR from Mark Luther, featuring a huge game played at Gigabytes in August 2010.
There's only a few pictures because Mark was too busy running the game to take more!
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Recently, Martin981463 posted the text of an IABSM after action report onto the TFL Yahoo Group. He also popped the pictures to accompany the words into the Group's photos section.
I hope he doesn't mind, but I've joined the two together in the AAR that you can reach by clicking on the picture below. That way, you can see words and pics together.
It looks like an excellent game of IABSM, unusually fought in what looks like 28mm scale. Click below to see all:
Another great I Ain't Been Shot, Mum! battle report from the Mark Luther archives.
This is a follow-on game from his last AAR: this time the its the Germans who are on the advance, counter-attacking towards Mouen.
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I've been wanting to get some Soviet SU-100 tank killers for some time. I've had the lesser SU-85s for ages...but, frankly, they are so last season...and I just wanted the ones with the bigger guns...and I wanted them now! The trouble was, I didn't fancy shelling out for the metal versions at £8-£9 a time.
Fortunately Battlefront came to my rescue with the release of their box set allowing you to build five plastic SU-100s for the princely sum of £23.40 or £4.68 per model.
Now I actually quite like plastic tanks. Yes, nothing beats the heft of a decent metal or metal-and-resin tank, but the relative pricing (allowing you to build big units), incredible detail, and the way that they paint up make plastics a very viable option. I'd almost go as far as to say I prefer plastic tanks: try dropping a plastic and a metal tank and see which one survives better!
The box set comes with all sorts of options, including just what I wanted: five SU-100s.
The kits go together very easily (less than 5 minutes a tank) and paint up very well indeed. These were done with an undercoat/basecoat of Army Painter spray, washed with GW Agrax Earthshade, then highlighted with one of lighter GW greens...Loren Forest IIRC. I put together, painted and based all five in about four hours in all.
Excellent value, great kits: which is a good thing as I have another box of them to do for the Egyptians for the Six Day War!
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