My latest game of Advanced Squad Leader saw Mick and me facing each other over the fields of Sicily. The victory condition of this scenario required the Germans to get a certain portion of their force off the far side of the map (lengthwise), whilst not losing too many of his own units. Mick chose to play the Germans (who have a slight advantage on … Continue reading Advanced Squad Leader report: S11 A Long Way to Go

Scenario S10 is the first scenario in the ASL Starter Kits to feature two “minor” nations of World War II fighting each other. In this case, it is the Greeks against the Italians in a chase across the board. Set in November 1940, Italy’s leader, Mussolini, had decided to impress his German allies with a “parallel war”, and so had sent his troops into Greece. … Continue reading Advanced Squad Leader report: S10 Paper Army

Continuing my tour through the ASL Starter Kit scenarios, I’ve come to the first of the Starter Kit 2 scenarios. This is still an infantry-only scenario, but it adds two major features over the first Starter Kit. The first is that the map now has hills on it, leading to different levels in the Line of Sight rules. The second is that the list of … Continue reading Advanced Squad Leader report: S9 Ambitious Assault

I played this game against Popey, who had played the ASL SK once before with me, but that was now a year ago, so he was understandably rusty on rules and tactics. He chose to play the Americans in this scenario, which required them to take at least one squad and one leader off the central road (Q10) – and if I moved any squads … Continue reading Advanced Squad Leader report: S8 Ad-Hoc at Chef du Pont

It’s a relief to get away from the first three scenarios, which are really different variations on one, to the wilds of Russia. Hills! Trees! More complicated line-of-sight rules I’ll get wrong! Off-board Ordnance! And no tanks! (This is the last Squad Leader scenario without tanks for a bit. I’ll just enjoy the infantry-only battle for a bit). However, Piepsk has one particular special rule … Continue reading Squad Leader report: Scenario 4, The Hedgehog of Piepsk

Kalum wandered by on Friday afternoon and we had a second game of ASL Starter Kit 1. Kalum is quite young, and doesn’t pick up rules as quickly as I do, but his unconventional tactics actually posed a problem for me in this game. I’m also growing old and forgetful, which didn’t help. This scenario sees a lot of badly-trained Russian defenders trying to stop … Continue reading Advanced Squad Leader report – S2 War of the Rats

Thursday evening was a light night for boardgaming – both of my regular opponents cancelled on the day, and so I went home early. I did manage to play through one game of the Advanced Squad Leader Starter Kit though, playing through scenario S7, the first of the scenarios printed in Operations magazine. I have played this scenario before, although I can only remember how … Continue reading Advanced Squad Leader report: S7 Prelude to Festung Brest

The third scenario in Squad Leader does an interesting trick: it takes the first two scenarios (The Guards Counterattack and The Tractor Works) and puts them together, depicting a rather busy day in the fighting for Stalingrad. Indeed, it’s a very crowded map when set-up, with the Russians having a total of 60 squads on the board! Squad Leader uses a system of teaching the … Continue reading Squad Leader report: 3a – The Streets of Stalingrad

Friday afternoon arrived and, much to my delight, so did Mick. As a result, we were able to play the latest in our series of ASL Starter Kit games. This is our fourth game together, I think. This time we were playing scenario S6, Released from the East, the final scenario in Starter Kit 1. After perusing the scenario set-up, Mick chose to play the … Continue reading Advanced Squad Leader report: S6 – Released from the East

My afternoon games of ASL have continued, although not always against the same players. This was another new opponent, a younger gentleman who otherwise was unoccupied on a hot Thursday afternoon. Seeing as I haven’t posted a report in this run for the first scenario in SK1, Retaking Vierville, despite playing it a couple of weeks ago, I thought now would be a good chance … Continue reading Advanced Squad Leader report: S1: Retaking Vierville