In my efforts to finally play all the original Beyond Valor scenarios for ASL, I’ve had two attempts on scenario 5, In Sight of the Volga. As is popular for the system, it’s a Stalingrad scenario. This one takes place[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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There’s a few things that Patch and I keep coming back to for more of in ASL, and looking through the Croix de Guerre scenarios, I spotted one with Vichy French versus Free French in the desert, which hit three[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Patch made it over for some FtF gaming back on the 16th, and after some looking over the various things I’d gotten over the past few months, we ended up trying this scenario from Winter Offensive #3. It’s been a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It was finally time to return to Festung Budapest for me and Patch (I had figured our previous game would be FB, but ended up in an early-war adventure instead) a couple months ago. It is now February 7th, and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After a little casting about, Patch and I ended up going for an ASL scenario with the Allied Minors, playing “Into the Fray” from Doomed Battalions. It’s the first day of the invasion of Poland, and Germans are attacking with[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After Patch and I’s last SFB game, we returned to ASL, and decided to try “Failure to Communicate” from the first Winter Offensive pack, which I’d picked up during MMP’s Fall sale. It’s May ’40, and a miscommunication leads to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A while back, I proposed the first Annual scenario to have not been reprinted as my next game with Tom Arnold, but we went with the much shorter 195 “Rocket’s Red Glare” instead, as there was limited time before he[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
ASL Journal 12 features a number of interesting scenarios, one of which reuses part of the Journal 2 Kakazu Ridge HASL map for an action in Syria. After our latest game, Patch and I were kicking around ideas for DTO[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Patch and I finally got back to Festung Budapest for our latest ASL game. FB has a lot of unusual scenarios, and that’s definitely true here, as there’s a four-hexrow overlap in the opposing setup areas, and anyone who sets[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For our next game, Tom and I ended up with a small scenario from the new Yanks (and originally from The General), 195 “Rocket’s Red Glare”. The SS are defending the board three village against a large number of American[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…