Modern AAR: A Fight in Lebanon

Another amazing Rock the Casbah AAR from the archive of Anton Ryzbak's excellent blog Anton's Wargame Blog, this one dating back to 2013.

The scenario is an Israeli penetration into a PLO controlled area in Lebanon. Each side had specific, and potentially asymmetric, objectives as well as very different forces and capabilities...which made for a very interesting game.

This AAR is so big that it originally appeared as three separate posts on Anton's blog. You'll be pleased to hear that I've combined everything into one enormous report that is absolutely definitely well worth a look.

All hail the indestructible killdozer!

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What a great set up!

Rock the Casbah AAR: The Al Bass Crossroads

Another brilliant Lebanon 1982 battle report from Anton Ryzbak's blog, Anton's Wargame Blog.

This AAR, from 2012, covers the further adventures of the Israeli column featured in his last two games, and is actually written by fellow player Justice and Rule. 

The report features vast numbers of pictures (seventy-five in all!) showing off some of the wonderful terrain they were using. Viewing is highly recommended. Click on the pic below to see all:

B'Maso AAR: Diamonds Are Forever

Fantastic modern Africa battle report from the archives of Anton Ryzbak's excellent blog.

When diamonds are discovered, the government of a small African state regrets giving its mining rights away, but the company that has them are reluctant to give them back.

Click on the picture below to see what happens when the government "negotiators" move in...

Rock the Casbah AAR: Concrete Jungle

Another great Lebanon '82 after action report from Anton Ryzbak and crew, from Anton's excellent blog Anton's Wargame Blog.

This one dates back to a game played in 2011, and features the Israeli's trying to clear a town of PLO. Click on the pic below to see all...

B'Maso AAR: The Rhodesian Light Infantry Strike Back

Reading through the battle reports on Anton Ryzbak's excellent blog, Anton's Wargame Blog, I am getting really tempted to dive into the period and theatre covered by B'Maso.

Here's one of Anton's AAR's covering a sweep by the Rhodesian Light Infantry. Click on the pic below:

Rock the Casbah AAR

Here's another moderns AAR from Anton Ryzbak's excellent blog, Anton's Wargame Blog.

This time it's off to Lebanon with Rock the Casbah, as Israeli infantry try and clear the table against PLO opposition.

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B'Maso AAR: Saving Shavanje

I'm painting hard at the moment, trying to get everything ready for next Saturday's game of IABSM. That's the trouble with deciding to try a new theatre, setting up the table, then realising that work, training etc means you have precisely this weekend to paint the ten vehicles you need for the scenario you want to game!

So, to give me (and my back!) a break from the painting table, I've found the time to upload another great B'Maso battle report from the archive of the excellent Anton's Wargame Blog.

Again it was set in Rhodesia in the 1970s, and was a battle to rescue the legendary rebel leader, Garfield Shavanje, from the hands of the Rhodesian Police. He had been wounded and captured in an earlier battle after a heroic resistance along with a few other rebels. Rumor was that they were being held in the local Police Station.

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A Rhodesian Police Patrol

Taking a break from the second part of The September War scenario pack, I find myself getting very interested in expanding my wargaming interests further into the modern era. We're talking later than the conflicts of the  1960's (French Indochina, Vietnam and the Six Day War) and right into the 1970's and beyond.

That's partly due to Team Yankee and all those pictures of shiny new 1980's toys that just belong in my collection (and see also some of the recent entries into the painting challenge) but mainly down to discovering a couple of excellent compilations of modern AARs using IABSM, CDS, and the supplements B'Maso and Rock the Casbah.

Some of these have already started to appear on this site (e.g. Mark Kinsey's excellent Angolan games) and now here's the first from Anton Ryzbak's excellent blog Anton's Wargaming Blog.

This first AAR dates back to 2011 and, using B'Maso, covers a Rhodesian Police Patrol. Click on the pic to see all: 

Modern AAR: Beirut '82

Here's another of Mark Kinsey's excellent AAR from his blog Daddy's Little Men.

Like me, Mark uses a mixture of IABSM and CDS, with a bit of Rock the Kasbah thrown in, to play out modern middle east encounters rather than WW2 or Vietnam.

Here's his gigantic Beirut 1982 game from the 2012 Cold Wars convention. Click on the pic to see all:

Another Modern AAR: Chetequera

As people seemed to like yesterday's modern AAR, taken from Mark Kinsey's excellent blog Daddy's Little Men, here's another in the same vein.

This time, we go further back in time to Historicon 2010, where Mark and friends are running a game based on the battle of Chetequera: part of Operation Reindeer, which began on 4 May 1978, and was South Africa's second major military operation in Angola, carried out under the Apartheid regime. This phase of the South African operation consisted of an assault by 2 South African Infantry Battalion on two South West Africa People's Organisation (SWAPO) base complexes, Chetequera and Dombondola, near to the then-South West Africa/Angola border.

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Modern AAR: Cassinga

Here's an historical AAR I've been wanting to post for some time: Mark Kinsey and Jon Yuengling's Cassinga game for Fall In 2013.

The Battle of Cassinga took place on 4th May 1978 during the South African Border War. The battle involved South African forces raiding a suspected SWAPO base at Cassinga, Angola and, covered in the game below, the intervention of a Cuban armoured force operating out of the nearby Techamutete village.

The game was played using a combination of I Ain't Been Shot, Mum! and B'Maso!, the latter being the Wars in Africa 1950-99 supplement for IABSM.

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Modern AAR: SLA vs PLO

A quick battle report from the archives of fellow-Lardy Jon Yuengling's blog Basement Games.

The action is set in Lebanon in 1982, as the SLA goes in to investigate reports of an arms cache.

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Two Trips to Lebanon 1982

Here's a couple of quick AAR from the archive's of Lardy Jon Yuengling, both from games run at Cold Wars in 2011.

They are also both games from Lebanon 1982 using a variant of the WW2 rules, I Ain't Been Shot, Mum.

Click on the names of the games to see the reports:

Fight at Ishiya

Clearing the Orange Groves

Modern AAR: South of Sidon

Quick Lebanon 1982 report from the archives of Jon Yuengling.

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Modern AAR: Long Road

Another quick Lebanon 1982 AAR from Jon Yuengling.

This time a column of Israeli armour, supported by infantry, look for both the PLO and a way out of town. Click on the pic to see all.

Lebanon 1982 AAR using IABSM/CDS

I'm loving adding all the modern AARs using IABSM and/or CDS: some really nice photography of some really nice models.

Here's a quick AAR from Jon Yuengling's excellent blog, Basement Games, dating back to November 2010. The IDF are trying to rescue a downed pilot from in amongst the Syrian militia. Click on the pic to see all...

Falklands AAR using IABSM

Fellow Lardy Count Belisarius played in a Falklands War game at the Whitley Bay 3D Gamers club at about this time last year.

This battle report appeared on his excellent blog Another Slight Diversion, which you can visit by clicking on its name in the sentence above. Hopefully he won't mind me reproducing it here.

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Cold War AAR using IABSM

Some of you will remember that I use a variant of CDS to wargame battles from the Six Day War. Other people also use the core IABSM and CDS systems to fight other periods in history, especially those campaigns that we wargamers call 'Moderns': Yom Kippur and other later Arab/Israeli conflicts, the Cold War, the Falklands and more.

So today I've added a page where all these AARs can be collected together. It's under the CDS section in the NavBar at the top...and the first AAR to appear is an excellent 1984 Cold War game from Egg:  Stellingbostal.

Click on the picture below to see if the British can hold the village in the face of the Soviet steamroller...

6DW: Israeli Anti-Tank Jeeps

As an alternative to the reconnaissance platoon featured yesterday, the Israelis can field a platoon of anti-tank jeeps. These are basically a jeep with a 106mm Recoilless Rifle fitted on top of it. 

Now this seems a little crazy to me. I can understand sticking a RR on top of a jeep in order to give your infantry a bit of bunker-busting support, but to actively promote said jeep as an anti-tank vehicle? Well, as I said, I think you'd have to be very, er, brave, to take on a UAR T-55 tank, or even one of the ex-Soviet WW2 vehicles, in one of these!

A platoon of four anti-tank jeeps. Figures are from Battlefront.

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6DW: Israeli Reconnaissance Jeeps

These have been sitting on my painting table for some time, and only a concerted effort over the Christmas break got them finished.

As always, however, the most difficult part of the painting process was actually starting: once I'd put the first bit of paint on the first jeep, everything flowed from there.

So, an Israeli reconnaissance platoon for my Six Day War force: four jeeps containing two squads of infantry. Figures are from Battlefront.

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