AAR: Outflanked!
/Originally posted 6th October 2012
Chris Stoesen gives us our first battle report from the Campaign for Greece scenario pack: scenario #05 Outflanked!
Chris Stoesen gives us our first battle report from the Campaign for Greece scenario pack: scenario #05 Outflanked!
Mike Whittacker chips in with two battle reports using the North of Caen scenario from the IABSMv3 rulebook.
My latest sci-fi army added to the Tentacle gallery. The Harook are six foot tall birdmen, ably supported by grav tanks from Top Gun Marketing.
A battle report featuring the bird-like Harook versus the dog-like Protolene Khanate. Read about how my seemingly unstoppable Harook came very much a cropper!
The final two units of the Gebirgsjaegers company: the third platoon, and an anti-tank gun zug from Regiment.
Again I'm struck by the contrast in quality of figures from Battlefront. The anti-tank gun team are works of art: a joy to paint and come our brilliantly. The infantry are manikins: horrible compared to the ATG crew.
Ah well: just a few Peter Pig skiers to paint to finish the project, and then on to the Harook: bird men with guns from Mad Robot!
A long and bloody After Action Report featuring the Australians in action in Vietnam.
Three great shots of the excellent "Indian Country" demonstration game put on by the Abingdon Wargames Club at Colours 2012. Pictures from the Paint It Pink blog:
A couple of 'first game of IABSM' battle reports featuring scenarios from the IABSMv3 rulebook.
Action at Galmanche
North of Caen
A quick battle report from James Mantos featuring a great looking bridge.
More from the extremely talented Sergeant Perry: this time it's five different battle reports featuring the same scenario from the Welsh Guards scenario pack played at the same convention.
Just count those Churchills: I think they needed a bigger table!
"Sergeant Perry" is a long time contributor to the TFL Yahoo Group. He plays IABSM in 20mm with a stunningly beautiful collection of figures, vehicles and scenery.
His After Action Reports are always very picture heavy. Here are three featuring the same scenario from the IABSM v3 rulebook: Action at Galmanche.
More Gebirgsjaeger: this time the MMG platoon. I'm very disappointed. The casts from Battlefront were very poor, especially on the chaps actually firing the machine guns. If you look closely, you can actually see that one of them is missing half his head!
Well, Rob, you may say, why didn't you just get them to send you some more: they're very good at that sort of thing.
Well, I'd reply, they're very good at that sort of thing because they have plenty of bleedin' practice! If they had the quality control to start off with, then I wouldn't need to bother! I love BF stuff, on the whole, but sometimes they do themselves no favours.
No, the bad casts can stay up here for all to see: I'm bound to buy the three MMGs I need for theSchwerer Zug anyway so, assuming they are of respectable quality, they will be the ones I eventually use on the tabletop. Pity it's only Battlefront who do Gebirgsjaeger in 15mm. For now! Plastic tank anyone?
I'm just back from holiday: two weeks in the Nederlands. Whilst I was there, I managed to get over to the Murphy's Heroes club in Delft for a game of IABSM.
An excellent late war game put on and refereed by Dick Bax, set somewhere in Poland, where I played the Soviets attacking Derk Groeneveld's Germans.
Modesty forbids me from mentioning who won a glorious victory (!), but a big thank you to Dick and Derk, and the rest of the Heroes, for their hospitality.
Paul Scrivens Smith with a great AAR of a game from one of the scenarios in the IABSM v3 rulebook. Plenty of excellent pictures!
The second Gebirgsjaeger platoon has now been painted:
More Gebirgsjaeger painted: this time it's the mortars. Three in the Kompanie HQ, and three more in the Schwerer Gruppe (Weapons Platoon).
Sorry about all the errant flock...I always forget to brush it off until after I've photographed the figures!
Great game using a scenario taken from the Vyazma or Bust scenario supplement:
More Gebirgsjaeger from Battlefront. Some of my initial enthusiasm has worn off, but I still think they are very finely sculpted figures. I'm almost sure two sculptors did the range: most of the figures are amazing, but there are a few that are more blobby mannequins!
First off, I'm loving this Big Man. Full of character and paints up really well.
Next, here's the first infantry zug completed. I particularly like the standing LMG team, far left in the middle squad as you look at the picture:
Note that I've changed the way I base my infantry. Rather than singles on 5p pieces, I've used doubles on 2p pieces, with a five-2p-piece movement tray allowing even quicker deployment. The 2p coins do come out of the movement tray for casualty and in-cover deployment.
And finally, here's a group shot just to let you see some more of the sculpts:
Right: on to the mortars now!
Another great battle report from a Tony Hobbz solo game. Using a variation of Platoon Forward adapted for company-sized actions, a German force attempts to hold a small village against overwhelming Soviet assault. Some fantastic photos!
A Charlie Don't Surf after action report that features a game fought with flats rather than figures.
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