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

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