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.
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.
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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Quick post taken from the IABSM Facebook Group: Michael Curtis played a 1944 Falaise Gap scenario on one of Phil and Jenny Turner’s amazing tables.
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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:
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!”
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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Here’s a cracking After Action Report from Steve Blease from his Bleaseworld blog.
The Welsh Guards are trying to break through to Brussels, again. Click on the picture, below, to see all…
One of the games I played in at this year’s Operation Market Larden was a superbly presented I Ain’t Been Shot Mum scenario put on by Phil and Jenny.
Iaon and I would lead tanks from the Welsh Guards supported by motorised infantry from the Grenadier Guards in a race across Belgium to be the first units into Brussels. Historically, the only opposition encountered was in the town of Halle, and that’s what the day’s affairs would recreate. Our mission was to get a “significant force” off either of the bridges at the other end of the table.
Unfortunately, things did not go entirely to plan mainly, I hasten to add, due to a spectacular cock-up in tactics on my part!
Click on the picture below to see how easy it is to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory!
At Operation Market Larden 9 last Saturday, my morning game was a superb Race for Brussels game put on by Phil and Jenny.
The Dynamic Duo had playtested the game a few days before, and Steve Blease has written a lovely After Action Report that you can read by clicking on the picture below:
But how did you do at the game, I hear you ask?
Rest assured, I’ll be writing a full report concerning my execrable performance when I have time to do so but, put it this way, it was definitely an “interview without coffee” for my company commander when he limped back to base!
Another beautiful game of I Ain’t Been Shot Mum from Phil Turner, with help from Dee VonDoom, Steve Blease and Jenny Turner.
Highly recommended.
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