Brett had needed to leave, but Mick had arrived in the meantime, and so I was able to have the unusual experience of playing Advanced Squad Leader three times in one day! Admittedly, just the starter kit rules, but nonetheless, it was a good experience. Mick’s now played a couple of games with me, and having seen quite enough of S4 Welcome Back, I moved … Continue reading Advanced Squad Leader report: S5 Clearing Coleville
After the extremely short and brutal game we’d just had, which was basically over before Brett had even finished his first turn, we reset the board and began again. This time would be different! It was too – Brett took advantage of the cover given by the tree line to move down and get closer to his goal. But could he get his units off … Continue reading Advanced Squad Leader report: S4 Welcome Back (take 2)
Brett had indicated an interest in ASL (Starter Kit) when I’d been playing a couple of weeks ago, and discovering him this afternoon with nothing else to do, I suggested a game. He happily accepted. Thus began one of the more lopsided games in my experience. It’s the game a moderately experienced player has against a complete newbie – not only to ASL, but to … Continue reading Advanced Squad Leader report: S4 Welcome Back
Much to my delight, I’ve been able to play two games of Advanced Squad Leader (Starter Kit version) in two days; Mick was more than happy to play the game again, and it looks like our sequence of games will be continuing, whenever both of us are free and it’s just the two of us. (So, not daily!) We moved onto the third scenario of … Continue reading ASL Starter Kit: S3 Simple Equation session report
One of my hobbies is Advanced Squad Leader, a board game first published in 1985 (and deriving from the original 1977 Squad Leader). Well, when I say it’s one of my hobbies, it’s sort of two: one hobby is collecting it and another is wishing I could play it. Time is not really the problem here; instead, it’s finding players who are interested. However, one … Continue reading ASL Starter Kit: S2 War of the Rats
I wasn’t able to play BattleLore last night, but I did manage to play both Space Hulk and Advanced Squad Leader. Space Hulk was a lot of fun. Randy and I were playing the second mission in the set, which requires the Space Marines to hold down two access points that the Genestealers are getting into the area. I sent three marines in one direction … Continue reading Space Hulk, Advanced Squad Leader
Randy and I have been playing a few World War 2 games recently: Combat Commander: Pacific and Memoir ’44 (with the Campaign Book) in particular. Our game in the Pacific Theatre last night was dreadful for my marines: we were landing on a beach where Randy’s Japanese had a most incredible defensive structure. The initial landing saw the death of all three of the first … Continue reading Back in World War 2
Randy and I had a good time last night – he slaughtered me in CoH, then I slaughtered him in ASL. All is right in the world. 🙂 That game is Conflict of Heroes. Randy has only two units visible on the board… the rest are hiding! The full session report is here: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/378744 After that, ASL (Starter Kit #1). I’m very happy with my command … Continue reading ASL, Conflict of Heroes
I had a couple of queries on Gleemax about my ASL SK review that indicated a belief that ASL was dead and out of print. I certainly understand where that belief comes from… but it’s not actually true. It just isn’t supported by Avalon Hill any more! ASL is currently published by Multiman Publishing (MMP), under license from Hasbro (who now own Avalon Hill and … Continue reading The current status of Advanced Squad Leader
Advanced Squad Leader wasn’t really published all that long ago, when you think about it. It was 1985 when it first hit the shelves, and was the successor to the astonishingly successful Squad Leader (1977), which had itself sold over 200,000 copies1. I doubt ASL has ever sold that many copies, but in terms on longevity it’s doing quite well. Although ASL might not quite … Continue reading Advanced Squad Leader Starter Kit #1 review
