When I asked Tracey after Might Makes Right if there was anything he wanted to try next, he asked to learn about pillboxes. That immediately brought to mind the old SL scenario that features a fairly solid defensive position to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Martin and I went back to a mutual project to play through more of the initial Beyond Valor scenarios after I grabbed a hill in Italy from him in Regalbuto Ridge. This time was scenario 9, “To the Square” set[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Way back in 2010, Patch and I decided to play another DASL scenario, and picked J123 “Charging Chaumont” from Journal #8 as our next game. Unfortunately, VASL didn’t properly support the DASL overlays at that point, and we ended up[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Mark came over on October 12th for another day of FtF gaming. He’s an old SL-series fan, and when we first started gaming, I was teaching him ASL. Then we got involved in SFB, and then in all the other[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After finishing up “Confusion Reigns“, I accepted a request for another game from Tracey. I looked around a little, and found a fairly simple and fast looking one with a minimum of fancy toys. J40 “Might Makes Right” from ASL[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Patch was wanting to see some regular American squads (as opposed to Elite 667 or 747s) in action for our next ASL game, so I looked through the new Yanks collection, and found 185 “Not Out of the Woods Yet”,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A while back, I got contacted by Tracey Love on BGG for a teaching game of ASL. He’s played the Starter Kits, and was in the middle of making the leap to the full system. This was an interesting experience[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After finishing up “In Sight of the Volga“, Martin and I arranged a second game. This time we went to the For King and Country set, and picked scenario 100, “Regalbuto Ridge”, which originally appeared in ASL Annual ’89 as[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For my next ASL game with Patch, I ended up looking at the earliest scenario I had available, which is set in the Spanish Civil War (this is actually our second scenario set there, though this one is even earlier[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Patch and I decided to go back to the Finns for our next ASL game, which led to us selecting 162 “Armored Car Savikurki” from Hakkaa Päälle. During the Winter War, a small group of Finnish troops (4 squads), aided[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…