Smudge Marks & Engel Werks Flash of Steel Playing at the World Dyson’s Dodecahedron Quest for Fun! Bruce Heard and New Stories CRRPG Addict Fantasy Cafe Sitrep Hex and Violence Banzai!! Dungeon Fantastic Gaming Ballistic Ravens N’ Pennies Let’s GURPS The Collaborative Gamer Don’t Forget Your BootsAfter finishing up in Tulle, Mark and I went back to Paratrooper, and scenario 17, “Lost Opportunities”. It’s D-Day, and the Germans are trying to retake Ste.-Mère-Église from 505th Parachute Regiment. They have six turns to take five buildings on[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After “Absolut Markajarvi“, Martin and I returned to the early Yanks scenarios for our next PBeM game. Both of us had slowdowns (I’ll admit to having more consistent ones), so the game took far longer than it should have, which[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After finishing up “Stand Fast”, a look for shorter ASL scenarios led me to 183 “The Pouppeville Exit” from the current version of Yanks. It has quite a publishing history, originally presented in the General as ‘quick-play’ SL/COI scenario F,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Mark and I have dedicated Monday nights to ASL, as he tries to come to grips with the system as a whole (he’s an old SL veteran). Part of the plan is to play through some of the old Paratrooper[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After The Marketplace at Wormhoudt, Martin and I went back to checking off various early scenarios, and up this time was 20 “Taking the Left Tit” from Yanks. This is the first night scenario done for ASL, and features an[…]↓ 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…
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…
A while back, Tom Arnold contacted me interested in playing an ASL game over Vassal. We ended up going for a scenario from the just-rereleased Yanks. I ended up taking the Germans in this late-’44 scenario set in Aachen (a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This was originally posted to my LiveJournal blog while the game was ongoing; I then posted the rest of it in replies to that post. I’ve reconstructed it here. Pointe-du-Hoc, France, 6 June 1944: Confusion had brought only nine of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…