Dan Albrecht and friends played a great game of I Ain’t Been Shot Mum the other day, using a scenario from the Sicilian Weekend pack: the Herman Goring Division attacks US Airborne and infantry forces on the Piano Lupo.
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Had a great game of IABSM yesterday, using the first Gela scenario from the Sicilian Weekend scenario pack.
The game involves a composite force of US Rangers and combat engineers carrying out an opposed landing against a company of troops from the Italian Coastal Defence Battalion.
Click on the picture below to see whether the Italian commander got to finish his breakfast...
Another great AAR from Brooklyn Wargaming, this time covering scenario #09: Gela 2 from the Sicilian Weekend scenario pack.
Click on the picture below to see the whole report:
Another superb IABSM battle report from Brooklyn Wargaming, this time scenario #08 from the Sicilian Weekend scenario pack: Americans and Italians run into each other "East of Butera".
Click here or on the picture below to see the AAR.
Martin981463 posted some great photographs of a recent IABSM game onto the TFL Yahoo group, but Yahoo being Yahoo, the pictures came out in all the wrong order and without the captions.
Here are the pictures again, carefully organised into a gallery, and with captions included.
Click here or on the picture, below, to see the storyboard unfold: enjoy!
It's off to Sicily for two great AARs covering battles from the Sicilian Weekend scenario pack.
First, Brian Cantwell takes us along the Road to Scoglitti, where US Airborne troops take on Tigers with nothing more than grit and determination.
Secondly, Robert Avery (i.e. me) follows the fortunes of the same paratroopers as they fight for their lives along the Biazza Ridge. The Tigers are on the rampage again!
The Road to Scoglitti
The Biazza Ridge
The next two scenario packs updated for IABSM3 Sicilian Weekend (Operation Husky) andAnzio: Wildcat to Whale:
Hit the beaches or counter-attack from the hills with Robert Avery's latest pdf scenario booklet for "I Ain't Been Shot, Mum!"
An extensive history of the first two days of Operation Husky, the Allied invasion of Sicily, covering the 10th and 11th July 1943, and accompanied by seventeen unique scenarios for "I Ain't Been Shot, Mum!" including attacks, counter-attacks, encounter battles, desperate defences, fighting retreats, and ambushes!
From the initial and largely disastrous airborne assault through to the immediate aftermath of the main landings, you'll encounter British and US Paratroopers; regular British and American infantry and armour; Italians of all shapes and sizes; and maybe the odd German or two as well!
Each scenario contains a background history, maps, a full game briefing, and a full briefing for each player. Simply print out the pages you need, unpack your figures, set up the table, and away you go!
Available from www.toofatlardies.co.uk along with Robert's previous booklets The Defence of Calais; Vyazma or Bust; Fall of the Lion Gate; Bloody Burma; and Anzio - Wildcat to Whale.
Sicilian Weekend contains the following scenarios: The Ponte Grande Bridge; The Piano Lupo 1; North of the Pachino Airfield; Gela 1; The Piano Lupo 2; The Piano Lupo 3; The Road to Scoglitti; South-East of Butera; Gela 2; The Abbio Priolo; The Gela Plain; The Biazzo Ridge; Palma di Montechiaro; Canicatti; Favarotta; Campobello & South of Priolo.
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