It’s June 1941. The Germans are attacking Russia as part of Operation Barbarossa. 112 Russians, two Russian tanks and one gun must protect a small Lithuanian village from 122 Germans soldiers and six tanks… Continuing with my run of ASL Starter Kit scenarios played solo, I’ve reached the sixth scenario of SK#3. So, of the 22 scenarios included in the kits, I’ve now finished 20 … Continue reading ASL SK S25: Early Battles
.. One of the oddities about Advanced Squad Leader (ASL) is that if you want to play the game well, you need to spend more space storing the counters so that you can find them quickly than is taken up by the original boxes the game came in! See on the left-hand side of the photograph: ASL rules, then modules (maps, scenarios) and then counter … Continue reading Storing ASL
I’ve been busy recently with a bunch of other games, but I found myself yesterday able to get out my ASL maps and counters for another shot at teaching myself this venerable warhorse of wargaming. The ASL Starter Kits have been a real boon, although the rulebook for the third of the series is probably the worst of the series: there’s so much in it … Continue reading ASL SK#3: Sherman rides west!
I really don’t think there’s a game with a more complicated publication history than Advanced Squad Leader; certainly not if you look at the dependencies required to play any scenario from it. You see, originally ASL was published as a successor to the incredibly successful Squad Leader. How successful was Squad Leader? Very. Over 200,000 copies of it were sold, according to Greg Costikyan in … Continue reading Yanks! – ASL Module 3
S20 “Joseph 351” is the first scenario in ASL SK#3, and the only one without tanks. However, it isn’t a simple scenario, and beginning ASL players would be well advised to begin learning the game with the much simpler scenarios in ASL SK#1. In the beginning of this scenario, the Germans have a hill. The Germans protect the hill Interestingly, the Germans don’t have to … Continue reading ASL SK#2 S20: Go the Russian POWs!
The network was back up today, so I spent most of today in at work, mainly dealing with annoying things that were left over from last year. One of them I really should have done at the end of last year, but in the business of end of term, it got left behind. Oh well. Perc will forgive me, I think. My good friend Jess, … Continue reading Work, ASL, and Miles Vorkosigan
