A great game of IABSM at the Gert Lush Lard 2021 event at Bristol Independent Gaming yesterday.
Phil Turner and Jenny Owens put on their quite magnificent 1940 Defence of Stonne game.
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Another superb 6mm I Ain’t Been Shot, Mum! after action report from Mark Luther.
This time Soviet Naval Infantry take on a German recce force in the north Caucasus in August 1942. The Germans were closing in on the port of Novorossiysk from the north and the Soviets had set up blocking positions before Verkhnebakanskiy. This represents the 83rd Naval Infantry Brigade's fallback spot. They were facing the 125th Infantry Division with some StuGs and armored cars.
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Another great 6mm IABSM after action report from Mark Luther, this time featuring scenario eight from the September War Part One scenario pack (available from this website).
Played at Gigabites Cafe, Marietta, September 2021, the game involves the Germans attacking Grudziadz, a town in the Polish corridor in September 1939. The Germans thrust was from East Prussia i.e. they were actually attacking from the east.
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Here’s another great battle report from Mark Luther. The game was I Ain’t Been Shot Mum in 6mm played at the Gigabyte Cafe in September.
This was a pretty basic Soviet attack on the defensive line NE of Seelow , 16 April, 1945. Elements of the 26th Fallschirmjaeger Regiment were dug in forward/east of Alt Langsow and the 301st Rifle Division and 220th Tank Brigade were ordered to overrun them and head to Neu Langsow.
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Clotted Lard is the annual TFL Games Day run by the Devon Wargames Group. After a COVID-induced hiatus, the event was back with a bang in 2021.
One of the great games on show was Phil & Jenny’s fantastic rendition of The Battle for Stonne played using I Ain’t Been Shot Mum.
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Another fantastic D-Day game After Action Report from Des Darkin and friends using the dice-driven version of I Ain’t Been Shot Mum.
A spectacular tabletop and what looked like a great game.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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