James Mantos has been building forces for an “imaginations” campaign using I Ain’t Been Shot Mum to play out battles in the 1950’s.
His superb blog Rabbits in my Basement has all the details, and you can see a “parade ground” of his figures by clicking here.
James has also just fought his first battle in his imaginations campaign, a report on which can be seen on the blog or by clicking on the picture, below:
A lovely set of photos from Alex Sotheran showing a rceent game of I Ain’t Been Shot Mum featuring a Christmas 1941 Hong Kong scenario.
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Here’s a quick battle report from Nick Bellamy, taken from the IABSM Facebook group.
It’s September 1944, and some Paras are trying to get through woods to help their comrades at the bridge.
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Here’s a pictorial battle report from the camera of Michael Curtis and Mercian Miniatures coveing a recent Defence of Calais scenario played out using I Ain’t Been Shot Mum.
This looked to be a truly spectacular game, and the pictures are wonderful.
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Andy Cowell ran a Normandy game of I Ain’t Been Shot Mum at a couple of events recently.
The first run-through was at a Knoxville, Tennessee fundraiser for the American Red Cross to raise money for Hurricane Helene relief as part of the Knoxville Blood Bowl League (KNOBBL).
In the game, US Airborne troops are assaulting a small village amongst the Normandy hedgerows.
Andy then ran the game again as part of the East Tennessee Miniature Wargaming games day, also in Knoxville.
The game was scaled up a bit for a larger table: a full company of Airborne with a platoon of Shermans assaulting a village crossroads held by a Germany company with PaK 38s and an 8cm mortar battery.
I didn’t get to The Other Partisan this year: real life getting in the way of wargaiming again!
A pity, as there look to have been many excellent games on display including those in the now usual Lard Zone.
Featured below are photographs from Michael Curtis from the I Ain’t Been Shot Mum Facebook Group of the superb 28mm Gold Beach, King Sector, 6th June 1944 game.
Dan Albrecht and friends have played the St Eugenie scenario from the Falaise Firestorm scenario book from Skirmish Elite.
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Here’s another great I Ain’t Been Shot Mum after action report from the keyboard and camera of Mark Luther.
Action from the Eastern Front as Hungarian assault gun batteries and grenadiers of Feldherrnhalle take on the Soviet 4th Guards Mechanised Brigade in April 1944.
This game was played at GigaBites Cafe in August 2024. Click on the picture below to see all:
Great game of I Ain’t Been Shot Mum played by Mercian Miniatures and friends.
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Here are some great pictures from a game of I Ain’t Been Shot, Mum played in 20mm by Mercian Miniatures, taken from the IABSM Facebook Group.
Richard T from the IABSM Facebook Group played his first game the other day, and here are a few photos of the battle.
Richard commented:
Our first game ! Pretty fun day was had. Think they tick all the boxes for me, really like the 'blinds' and the activation deck particularly. Command, control and communications are simple and smooth...wonderful. Early days still, but I have high hopes.
Lovely looking figures: I really like that style of painting.
Chris Lane played a quick refresher game of I Ain’t Been Shot Mum the other day, set around Operation Barbarossa: the invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941.
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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.
Nick Bellamy and friends recently played through the A Canadian VC scenario from the IABSM v3 rulebook on a spectacular looking table.
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Ken Snell and friends have been up in the Blue, playing several games of I Ain’t Been Shot Mum in a Western Desert setting.
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Here’s another pictorial battle report from Ken Snell, with some more western desert action taken from the I Ain’t Been Shot Mum Facebook Group.
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Ken Snell posted a few shots of a recent western desert game of I Ain’t Been Shot Mum.
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Sergeant Steiner, who runs an excellent blog that can be found here, has been dabbling with a bit of solo I Ain’t Been Shot Mum.
Click on the picture below to see the first part of his report on playing out the Action at Galmanche scenario from the IABSM rulebook:
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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Ken Snell and friends played through A Canadian VC: one of the free scenarios included with the I Ain’t Been Shot Mum rulebook.
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