IABSM at OML10

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My afternoon game at Operation Market Larden X was Phil & Jenny’s excellent Throw Them Back scenario for I Ain’t Been Shot Mum.

This involved a German counterattack on one of the Normandy beaches just after D-Day, with my instructions being, as one of the German players, to get a significant force “onto the sand”.

This turned out to be a cracking encounter with exciting action right from the start.

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And thanks, as ever, to Adrian and team for organising such a great event overall.

IABSM AAR: Kiwis on the Road to Orsogna

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Another great battle report from Mark Luther from the Gigabytes Cafe.

This AAR, written in November last year, covers a feint made by a battlegroup of the 18th Armoured Regiment, 22nd Motorised Battalion and some armored cars of the Divisional Cavalry as the 2nd New Zealand Division pushed west towards Orsogna.

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IABSM AAR: Northern Shoulder Kursk

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Nothing on IABSM for ages and then two AARs arrive at once!

Here’s a photo-report from a game played by Mark Luther and friends at the Gigabytes Cafe in July last year.

The game takes place a few days into Citadel with the German offensive running into a counterattacking Soviet force in wide open terrain.

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IABSM AAR: Storming the Citadel V

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It’s been ages since we’ve had an I Ain’t Been Shot Mum after action report, so it’s great to pick this one up from Will Depusoy on the IABSM Facebook Group.

Will and friends are working their way through the PSC Storming the Citadel campaign.This is the report from their table five game: the Soviets are falling back from village of Butovo with the Germans in hot pursuit.

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IABSM AAR: Storming the Citadel IV

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Will Depusoy and friends have been playing through the PSC Storming the Citadel campaign set during the battle of Kursk , 1943, and posted this After Action Report on the IABSM Facebook group.

Here, the Soviet 67th Guards tries to hold the village of Butovo against German Grossdeutschland divison.

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IABSM AAR: Soviet Steamroller Wins!

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Here are some shots of a game of IABSM that Chris Lane posted on the IABSM Facebook Group.

As Chris says: The sprog and I had a good game last night of the Russians trying to take a village. Suffice to say I lost as the sprog’s T-34s steamrollered the left flank.

IABSM AAR: South of Cherbourg

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Here’s a quick AAR from Alex Sotheran featuring one of the v3 rulebook scenarios: click on the picture to see all:

Alex ran another game recently: introducing four new players to I Ain’t Been Shot Mum. In this game, the British were held up on the left flank, but smashed through on the right to cut off the Germans retreat and capture the crossroads:

IABSM AAR: Club Night Game

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Here’s a quick AAR from Alex Sotheran taken from the IABSM Facebook Group.

As Alex says: “IABSM at the club tonight. Despite one British platoon commander not attending the 'O' Group they managed to push on to the German held crossroads and using a combination of smoke and manoeuvre threw them out at the point of a bayonet!”

IABSM AAR: Storming the Citadel

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Will Depusoy and friends have been converting the Kursk “Storming the Citadel” campaign to I Ain’t Been Shot Mum, but using Chain of Command activation and buying support “platoons” instead of single models.

Here’s a quick report from one game taken from the IABSM Facebook Group. Click on the picture below to see all.

IABSM AAR: A Final Effort

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Great After Action report from Dan Albrecht and friends, originally posted on the IABSM Facebook Group.

The battle recreated an engagement between 12th SS Panzer Division and the British 11th Armoured Division on June 27th near Caen. Order of Battle is from the excellent book Monty's Epsom by Skirmish Campaigns.

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