tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-152186152012-01-16T14:47:17.712-06:00Banzai!! Pipeline This blog is dedicated to Advanced Squad Leader. It contains Announcements, After Action Reports, Product Reviews, Scenario Analysis, and articles on tactics, storage, etc.Samhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17459569194818082113noreply@blogger.comBlogger2471100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15218615.post-14242363498914536492012-01-16T11:10:00.003-06:002012-01-16T11:14:52.394-06:00

Doyle Motes Russians: Doyle MotesGermans: Matt ZajacTom's event on Saturday was a must see. It has been a long time between meetings for me. But, enjoyed the early moring drive and the ASL event.I matched up with Matt Z. of north Houston. I was the Russians in FrF 49 - One Last Mighty Hew. Matt Z was the early war Germans. The objective was to hold one objectives and there adjacent hexes (there

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Scott BellFrench: Art DouglasGermans: Scott BellArt Douglas and I played an interesting scenario this weekend, called "Shooting Gallery." It is scenario #9 from the Critical Hit pack titled "Grossdeutschland at...... Stonne 1940." (2nd edition).The map is outstanding. It encompasses the fight for the town of Stonne, which is on a hill. The terrain is unlike anything I have seen on any other board

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Brian RoundhillJust got my Starter Kit style map bundle in the mail, and I already have several thoughts. Let's take a trip.I do like the crisper art for the buildings. Not sure about some of the shading of the buildings, but it is not bad. Board 1 just pops at me.Ooo, 3-d looking shellholes. Real nice.Board 5 feels sterile. I think I prefer the old style woods. Board 7 is completely different -

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Zeb DoyleThe Christmas elves at CH have been busy this holiday season and have brought us Kursk-Devil's Domain and Peleliu: White Beach One just in time for Christmas! My copies showed up yesterday, and I've spent all of 40 minutes looking at the new products, so this is in no way a review. Instead, I'd like to share my first few preliminary impressions.First off, let me say that I understand ASL

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Zeb DoyleAustralians: Matt SchwoebelJapanese: Zeb DoyleAnyway, moving onto actual ASL content, work and the flu have kept me away from doing much lately, but I was fortunate enough to get in a game with the redoubtable Matt Schwoebel a few days ago. We went with BFP-42 Bukit Full of Trouble, one of the many good-looking offerings from Bounding Fire’s Blood and Jungle pack. The scenario is set in

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Jay HarmsGermans: Jay HarmsRussians: Randy GarlingtonI had a great time at the gameday this weekend over at Matt Zajac’s place up on the north side. Randy and I sat down to a game of “After the Disaster” from one of the Out of the Attic journals. We diced for sides and I got the Germans who were attacking a Russian trench line. The setting was Oct 44, with the Germans counterattacking a Russian

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Zeb DoyleRussians: Zeb DoyleHungarians: Eric GerstenbergMy next fun August ASL experience was with Eric Gerstenberg in TAP20 The Buda Probe. This is a mini-monster East Front action somewhat reminiscent of G34 The Liberators. A huge Russian force of 32 squads and 15 tanks gets to slap around a dug-in company of Hungarians, who are reinforced on turn three by a bunch of Germans who arrive in style

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Zeb DoyleChinese: Matt SchwoebelJapanese: Zeb DoyleFor most of this summer, I was in an ASL drought, but fortunately things picked up in August and I got in some really fun gaming. One of my more entertaining battles was against Matt Schwoebel in BFP-32 Slaughter At Nanyaun. This is a nifty 1938 Japanese-Chinese battle across the relatively open boards 43 and 17, with the Japanese trying to get

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Tom GillisThanks for coming by dudes...! It was an awesome game day1Rupert and I had a hell of a firefight in "Tanks, but no tanks" from schwerpunkt. We both rated it an 8 for ROAR. His early war poles held a tough defensive line with aplomb despite the intense pressure from my Red Army soviets...His two swedish 37L bofers atgs eventually got all 5 of my tanks...I captured his cool ATR but never

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Ed BeekmanGermans: Jerry SimmonsAmericans: Ed BeekmanWe had a small gathering for some cardboard clashes at Jerry's ASL bunker this past weekend. We had one new face, Steve; Patrick Ireland, Jerry and I rounded out the group.Patrick convinced Steve to try a little bit of Starter Kit, he'd played original Squad Leader years ago but nothing for a long time. They got a couple of turns of SK1 Taking

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Mark CarterThanks for coming over, Chris and John.Here is a little note on the other games going on that day across the room from Chris and John.We ended up odd numbered on Saturday, so I drafted my 12 year old son Race, who has played quite a bit of ASL, both SK and some full rules. He usually wins against me. But this time I wanted to ratchet up the fun for the kid. So out came Zombie Pack 1!

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Chris BuehlerGermans: John HylerAmericans: Chris BuehlerThe 7/24 Houston game day took place at Mark Carter’s home so first I would like to thank Mark for hosting, providing beverages, and tasty brisket!I had the opportunity to face John Hyler in “A Few Rounds More” (J100) from Journal 6 set in Germany in March of 1945. This scenario features a 6.5 turn match-up that features an attacking force

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Zeb DoyleAmericans: Zeb DoyleGermans: Matt SchwoebelWell, yesterday was my opportunity to finally play a game out of CH's latest offering, their Afrika Korps desert series. This is a set of six related scenario packs that (in total) come with 50 or so scenarios covering the fighting in North Africa. The heart of the pack is a huge map with nothing on it but scrub, and a ton of overlays that are

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Ed BeekmanGermans: Ed BeekmanRussians: John FarrisI paid a visit to the Oklahoma City Club this past weekend with the idea of getting some face time to talk about the November Thunderbird ASL Tournament (hint, hint, put it on you calendar for Nov 12-14) and play some ASL. When I arrived Mike Cadieux and Greg Parker were setting up AP42 Frontiers and Pioneers while John Farris and I selected Lone

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Zeb DoyleRussians: Zeb DoyleGermans: Sam TysonSo, I had a pretty fun weekend of ASL--Friday night, I had the pleasure of hanging out with Sam Tyson, eating some tasty pizza at Conan's (and getting to check out all the Frank Frazetta artwork there the same week he died), and playing Shouting Into The Storm from the latest Action Pack.Shouting Into The Storm is a late-war 1945 East Front scenario

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Ed BeekmanRussians: Glenn SchoolsGermans: Cory SosebeeGlenn and Cory played AP62 Shouting into the Storm from the new Action Pack. It is the 1945 scenario featuring a local German counterattack using StuGs and King Tigers. Aside from the late war heavy metal, the scenario features a variable OB. The Germans are allowed to supplement their force with either a platoon of Assault Engineers with DCs

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Jeff Toreki, Zeb DoyleI managed to squeak out a win on the German CVP cap VC, but I felt like I was pretty much getting my ass kicked the whole time. Zeb was crushing me from two sides in a vice grip, and then I got a bit lucky when he parked a few vehicles in LOS of a 57LL, and killed 23 CVP in one turn. There are also instant VC of the Germans winning at the end of turn 4 if no GO Russian

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Steven MillerGermans: Steven MillerAmericans: Tom GillisWhat happens when you lose 75% of your infantry and 83% of your armor? Why, of course, you win! Tom and I played one of the scenarios in the new Winter Offensive pack. It is early in the Ardennes Offensive and the Germans have to control a bridge. There are not a lot of turns but the Germans do get three panthers, three MK-IV's and four

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Jay HarmsRussians: Jay HarmsGermans: Doyle MotesPlayed J118 Elephants unleashed from the latest annual. Played this one against Doyle at Marks get together last Saturday. I had the Russians and Doyle had the Germans. It is a fun little scenario that has toys for both sides. VCs are the Germans need to exit either 22 points off the board or take 6 of 7 building hexes. I set up with my speed bump

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Nick DrinkwaterGerman: Nick Drinkwater [ELR 4, SAN 2]Russian: Tom Gillis [ELR 4 SAN 2]In what turned out to be my final ASL game in Houston, Tom and myself faced off in this nice little meeting encounter from the Rally Point pack of scenarios. I was officially in transit between the USA and Angola, living in a hotel room in South Houston with one wife and two black cats, as our house was now

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Chris BuehlerI’ll add a few comments to what Tom wrote about our playing of “The Wrong Side of Victory” (SP153 from Schwerpunkt 13). ROAR currently lists this scenario as fairly even 13 to 11 in favor of the Japanese. I don’t have the scenario card handy but IIRC, this 6.5 turn scenario features a reinforced company of Japanese (2 elite, 7 1st line, and 8 2nd line squads) attacking a company of

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Tom GillisBritish: Tom GillisJapanese: Chris BuehlerMy East Africans pulled a very close one out against Chris's Japanese in 'wrong side of victory'...winner had to have more infantry VPs within a certain distance of a (supposed) water hole on bd 32...I had 14, Chris had 12! Chris had a tank hunter hero blow one of my two Humbar IV ACs to kingdom come, (flamed.) And my other malf'd his MA and 6'd

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Zeb DoyleWhite Russians: Zeb DoyleRed Russians: Sam TysonThe Austin Game day went off well, thanks to Rick stepping up after Mike S. had to back out. Thanks, Rick! We didn't have a huge turnout, but those that could make it really enjoyed the hospitality. Highlights included Eric's paradropping Germans being slaughtered before they could pick up their weapons canisters by David Hailey's British

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John HylerRussian: Mark CarterGerman: John HylerKAPOW!!!!!!!...............................?????????....................................WTF!?!?!?!?!?That was the sound of Mark Carter's first-ever (I believe) crit/dud DR sequence. It came in turn 2 or 3 of our scenario, DASL-A, To The Last Man. One of his JS-IIs got the critical hit with its 120L gun. The doubling of FP made it a 48, or a heavy

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Walter EardleyGermans: Rupert CullumRussians: Walter EardleyRupert and I squared of in the WCW classic Eye of the Tiger. Since I selected the scenario, Rupert picked the attacking SS. The big 280mm OBA was a big dud doing nothing but create a few shell holes and setting some woods on fire. None of this had any affect on the game. Rupert pushed his left flank initially and then decided to switch

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Matt SchwoebelAmerican: Matt SchwoebelJapanese: Zeb DoyleI hosted an impromptu mini-game day at my place on Saturday. Zeb has returned to the Center for Treatment of Addiction to Squad Leader after too long a hiatus. Seeing the report by Hyler wherein Zeb apparently forgot how to roll dice in his rustiness (if not how to criticize Nick's tastes in everything, always a popular pasttime that we all

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A Repost From Gents Down Under...The English are feeling the pinch in relation to recent terrorist threats and have raised their security level from "Miffed" to "Peeved." Soon, though, security levels may be raised yet again to "Irritated" or even "A Bit Cross." The English have not been "A Bit Cross" since the blitz in 1940 when tea supplies all but ran out. Terrorists have been re-categorised

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Zeb DoyleJohn, thanks a lot for taking the time to write up an AAR and for the kind words. Although I don't think you missed or omitted anything, I'd like to respond with my view of the action and give my own idea of the balance. So, here's my official BFP-67 Coke Hill AAR:It all started with a white-knuckle drive from Austin to Houston on Friday. The plan was to spend the evening giving our own

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John Hyler Australians: John HylerJapanese: Zeb DoyleLast Saturday, at Jay Harms' house on our Monthly HHS ASL meeting, I had the pleasure of playing Zeb Doyle. I had not played Zeb since Owl-Con, 2008, so I anticipated a fun match. I was not disappointed. I have wanted to get into the PTO, so we decided upon BFP-67 Coke Hill, from the new Blood and Jungle scenario pack published by Bounding Fire

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Mike CadieuxGood little scenario here. It features early war Filipino troops against Japanese in Dec, 1941. The Filipinos had 10 squads, three leaders, two MMGs, two LMGs, an ATR, mortar, some foxholes and some concealment counters. The Japs had 11 squads equivalents, two tankettes, two mortars, three LMGs, one MMG, one crew and three leaders.It played quickly with the Japanese making their main

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Nick DrinkwaterJay is doing himself a bit of a dis-service...my luck wasn't great admittedly but he did set up a really good solid defense and I pretty much found every one of his BS locations the hard way with fairly grim consequences each time - amazingly I walked away from the 9-2/MMG boresight spot with only a couple of pins, but pretty much everyone else got shredded. I smoked in as much as

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Jay HarmsGermans: Jay HarmsAmericans: Tom GillisGame two saw me facing off with Tom in a meaty RBF scenario "Third Hotspot -RBF17". Again I was the German defender against some corn fed Americans. This game was more balanced from a luck standpoint with Tom using his Arty very well. He came on spreadout hoping to surround my troops who are holed up in the board 10 town. Highlights included his 9-2

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Jay HarmsGermans: Jay HarmsBritish: Nick DrinkwaterFirst off Thanks to everyone who showed up to make the game day a blast! Doors opened at 9am and by 10 we had 5 games going! I was lucky enough to face off against Nick in ASL J50 - The Cactus farm. And I mean it when I say lucky enough as Nick is an oustanding opponent who plays a quick and very friendly game. Also, his luck is not something you

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Zeb Doyle It's a fun scenario, but I think a bit of a stretch in terms of the history. All the Great Powers had diplomatic outposts in China (I think Shanghai) that the Japanese shut down after capturing them early in WWII. The Italian outpost was the one exception, since they were an allied Axis power, and the embassy just carried on. Apparently, that state of affairs continued until Italy

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Walter EardleyNice over view of the scenario. While my dice were not great, I made mistakes early which really cost me in the end. The initial force was setup too close to the entering British. It should have been further back where it could have hopefully survived. My second mistake was attacking one way and then deciding I really needed to attack the other way. While I was able to shift, it

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Jay HarmsGermans: Walter EardleyBritish: Jay HarmsSat down with Walter the over the last month and we just finished playing “Hasty Pudding” out of one of the recent scenario packs (Turning the Tide). It is an old scenario that was redone recently, and featured a “speed bump” force of Germans (two 467s MMG and 9-1) covering a board 7 bridge initially against ~9 squads of brits led by a 9-2, two 94

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Scott BellGermans: Scott BellAmericans: Dan PrestonI had an opportunity this past Saturday, to play against the Minister of Defense (Dan Preston), in an interesting scenario by Schwerpunkt (SP154 "On the Road to Hell")This scenario takes place in Holland (1944), and involves a remnant German force that attacks and gains control of a portion of Hell's Highway, near Koevering, Holland. The Allies

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Nick Drinkwater German Player [ELR 3, SAN 4]: Nick DrinkwaterBritish Player [ELR 3, SAN 3]: John HylerThis is a fun mid-sized scenario that demonstrates the full majesty of a British set piece infantry attack with all the toys. The Brits need to take 4 multi-level stone buildings in the centre of the Board 46 village from a tough little German defense of 7 x 4-6-7, two Pak 40s and two Stugs with

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Nick Drinkwater Game 1:German Player [ELR 3, SAN 3]: Mark CarterBritish Player [ELR 3, SAN 4]: Nick DrinkwaterMark and myself found ourselves playing this one as our introduction to MAGCON, a new event for ASL in Houston, held at a really nice hotel in Kingwood. We had an evening free to play this so we opted for a shorter scenario that Walter was running as a mini called BritFest (the second

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Matt ShostakSaturday I found that I had qualified for the prestigious main event, and my first opponent was Glen Gray, a very good player that I've tangled with many times before. We chose The Boszoki Relay and diced for sides, which gave me the Hungarians. This scenario is a different challenge than most. To win, the Hungarians must exit a certain number of their onboard forces through Russian

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Brian RoundhillQualifying Round 1 - Ed Beekman in 'Tanks But No Tanks'I don't think I've ever played Mr. Ed before, so I was happy to get this chance. I'd seen 'Tank But No Tanks' played at a gameday, and it looked like lot's of fun, so I suggested it and Ed agreed. Polish infantry with 2 AT guns and an 81* mortar defending half of board 42 and board 49 against the invading Russians with 3 AFVs,

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Matt ShostakThe Oklahoma tournament is run a little bit differently than ours (Texas Team Tournament). Friday's games were used to qualify for the main tournament, which would occur on Saturday and Sunday. In conjunction with that, there would be an "other" tournament for the non-qualifiers. Since there were 24 players, that easily split into 16 for the main tournament and 8 for the other (or

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Nick DrinkwaterTom and anyone else going to England....Depending on your schedule and location, if you are confined to London, then first and foremost I would recommend the Imperial War Museum which is on the south bank of the River Thames in central London. It is an outstanding collection with a ton of funky stuff, and best of all its free! Leave a day for this one - its big. Its exhibition on

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Nick DrinkwaterChris, Matt, Zeb.Agreed with everything you've all said. With these equal split victory objective games, as the defender, its perhaps a little easier as you really do get to fight the ultimate battle on a battleground and force balance of your own choosing (try AP20 Victory is Life as another example of this where the Russian attackers have to choose force balance quite accurately

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Zeb DoyleTotally agree with Chris: The Ceramic Factory is a big fun scenario that might favor the SS a bit. I played it as the Soviets against Eric's SS. He opted not to defend the smaller factory with anything other than dummies, and that allowed me to really focus my entire force on just one objective. In hindsight, we both agreed that made my job quite a bit easier. It was still tough going

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Chris BuehlerIt took us about 9 to 10 hours to play the Ceramic Factory. We started at Tom’s on September 24 and finished at Nick’s last night.It’s a great scenario with quality troops, large forces, and very tough decisions for both sides. Particularly, how to split your assets between the two factories for both the Russian attacker and SS defender. Even with Nick’s SS troops walking away from

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Scott BellAmericans: Scott BellGermans: Hondo NelsonYesterday (Saturday) at San Antonio ASL day, Hondo and I had a chance to square off in a "new" scenario from "Dispatches from the Bunker." It was the first time we have had a chance to play against each other, and it was nice to play something that few if any players have played yet. This scenario just came out."Out of the Shadows" is a scenario

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Nick DrinkwaterGerman (SS) Player [ELR 5, SAN 2]: Mark CarterAmerican Player [ELR 4, SAN 2]: Nick DrinkwaterMark and myself hooked up with this one as a last minute substitution for our original all-infantry choice as Mark wanted to practice more both as the defender and get some more practice in using AFVs. This 4.5 turn scenario out of the second Rally Point pack appealed as it had a Tiger(!)

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Zeb DoyleEvery year, the Texas Team Tournament is my favorite ASL event by far, and Rick has never disappointed yet. This year was one of the best in recent memory for me, and I want to say thanks to everyone that managed to come and turn it into such a fantastic event. Congratulations to Mike Seningen and Chris Buehler for taking home the serious trophies, and to Jim Ferrell as well. Making it

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Matt Shostak The Best of the 2009 Texas Team Tourney======================Best Bandana: Pete Shelling's Monopoly railroad themed doo-rag. Awesome.Best Slam: Eric Gerstenberg, while looking through the scrapbook of old tourney photos, says, "Hey Matt, you really looked different way back then, huh?" as he points at a picture of Russell Mueller from 1992, thus insulting both of us with one

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Walter EardleyHowdy Folks,I must say the annual Austin Team Tournament sure was a lot of fun. A BIG thank you goes out to Rick and the rest of his team for putting on a great event. A+ top notch all the way!I played two games because of a late start on Friday and having to head back to HotAndHumidston on Saturday night. I finished 0-2 but both games I played went down to the very last CC DR on

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Mark CarterCongratulations to all champs!Well done to Rick for a great event which was a lot of fun. Also thanks to the guys for welcoming a newbie and being so encouraging. Even though I’ve only played since February everyone was friendly and those who played me were very patient and all took the time to give me pointers. A great experience.After my last game against Mike Seningen, who had taken

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Matt SchwoebelAttacker: Matt Schwoebel (Americans)Defender: Scott Bell (Germans)The June Austin game day at Brian Roundhill’s house was at maximum capacity. Almost everyone was warming up for the much anticipated June CTASL tournament. Knowing I could not attend this august event due to family commitments, I wanted to play a fun scenario against a challenging opponent. Scott Bell came all the

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Walter Eardley(... or this is what I get for throwing a newbie a bone.)The only way to grow our game is to bring in new players. New blood! The future of our hobby! With these new players come new “ideas”. That is the problem with newbies … They think … therefore they are …Case in point, over the last several weeks, I have been looking forward to the May HHS gathering at Nick’s Super Groovy ITL

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... or A Very Long AAR for a Quite Long Game, complete with Pink Floyd allusionMark CarterRussians: Mark CarterGermans: Walter EardleyAt the beginning let me thank Nick for hosting a great day of gaming. The turn out from Austin was welcome as well so thanks for coming to town Eric, Matt and Zeb. It was a great time.My opponent and mentor once again was Walter. Walter is a blast to play with and

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John HylerAmericans: Chris BuehlerGermans: John HylerLast Saturday, at Nick's Super-Cool ASL Pub Party, I had the pleasure of playing against the always affable Chris Buehler. We played SP17 - Cross Of Lorraine, a rather violent firefight set in Alsace, France, in January 1945. The Americans are on defense with a well-armed but armor weak force against a brittle (ELR2) German infantry force that

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Zeb DoyleAmericans: Zeb DoyleGermans: Bryan RegisterWednesday was a good day for me. I got in a super-rare Bryan Register sighting and played some fun ASL with him too. The scenario was from the Dispatches from the Bunker boys, DB066 WN63, and features a company of GIs just off Omaha Beach storming a German strongpoint nestled down in a small French village. Given the years of time and

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Nick DrinkwaterInstant Out of the Wrapper Review: Part 2 - BFP2 Operation CobraMaking up the second half of the last week's ASL party pack was Bounding Fire Productions 2: Operation Cobra, another excellent contribution by Chas and the BFP team. Unlike BtB2, with the two loose leaf covers, this is full-on magazine style format, with unsurprisingly, a full on focus on aspects of Operation Cobra,

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Nick DrinkwaterInstant Out of the Wrapper Review: Part 1 - Beyond the Beachhead 2; Part 2 - BPF2 Operation CobraIts here at last - the next instalment from Bounding Fire Productions after the outstanding Into the Rubble pack is now winging its way across the country to the waiting masses and another excellent product it is too. BtB 2 and BFP 2 can be bought from Bounding Fire in a combined

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Nick DrinkwaterGerman Player (SS): Nick DrinkwaterAmerican Player (US): Stephane GracietStephane and myself are about to start the short KGPII Bridge at Cheneux Campaign Game, but we thought we'd start with a warm-up scenario from the HASL packs to get used to the Mist rules, the barbed wire fences, slopes and pinewoods. This mini-scenario set on the far southeast corner of the Stoumont map

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Zeb DoyleI'm happy to say that the April game day was flawlessly hosted by Matt Shostak and was a big success. There was a decent turn-out, boosted by Mark Carter from Houston and Scott Bell and Hondo from San Antonio. Thanks for making the drive, guys, and thanks even more for bringing the great coffee, Mark. A lot of good ASL got played, but the best part of the day was seeing all those

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Matt SchwoebelGermans: Eric GerstenbergRussians: Matt SchwoebelWinning and losing in ASL can be all about the pre-game preparation. So when I invited Eric the Gberg over on a Friday Night to drink beer and pick a scenario for Saturday morning, I made sure to stock the fridge with tempting, quality beer. We drank and looked through scenarios eventually settling on Ghost Riders. After looking at

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John HylerGerman: Tom GillisRussian: John HylerLast weekend, at the HHS group meeting at my house, Tom Gillis and I matched up in AP48, Up Inferno Hill. Tom was the German player and I the Russian. Although Tom and I have not played that frequently, all of the games have been immensely fun and I looked forward to another entertaining match-up. I was not disappointed. Unfortunately, I did not have

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Nick DrinkwaterSo, I'm a weak willed person with no spine and have gone and ordered this beast too from the Gamers Armory. For a while, I was in two minds on this one too as a) its pretty pricey and b) Zeb's comments on the rules chrome below had struck a real chord with me too, but then again, its ultimately all about a glorious feat of British naval and martial arms and that was the ulimate

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Zeb DoyleBefore I get into the latest Le Franc Tireur offering, I want to offer up a huge thank you to the Banzai editorial staff. Matt Shostak and Rick Reinesch do a huge amount of work behind the scenes to bring us Banzai and their efforts are worthy of public praise and acclaim. It's always a pleasure to download their latest opus and it's due to such unsung heroes that the ASL hobby is alive

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Zeb DoyleGermans: Zeb DoyleRussians: Robert DelwoodAnyone who has been reading through my serial Owlcon AAR will be relieved to hear that this next game took place on Sunday morning and was my last match of the tournament. I had been slated to play Rob Burton again (aka Sergeant Mayhem, which aptly sums up his fun approach to the game), but family obligations intervened and fate robbed me of yet

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Zeb DoyleRussians: Zeb DoyleGermans: Walter EardleyTrying to finish up my Owlcon AAR here, after escaping with a victory over Rob in The Mius Trap, I managed to pry Walter away from running Starter Kit stuff and we sat down to pick out a scenario. Walter really goes above and beyond during Owlcon, running the tournament, helping people out with rules, making real headway in bringing in fresh

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.... or "My Owlcon adventure continues..."Zeb DoyleRussians: Zeb DoyleGermans: Rob BurtonAfter my very fun game against Ken, Walter matched me up with Rob Burton and we decided to head to the East Front for some mid-war action in SP79 The Mius Trap. This Schwerpunkt scenario caught our eye for several reasons; it's reasonably sized, features some interesting VC, and takes takes place shortly

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Zeb DoyleOwlcon AAR Part III; Saturday Morning:British: Zeb DoyleGermans: Ken HavlinekI was pretty excited about the Saturday morning scenario since it was to be the prearranged duel on the drumlins with Nick Drinkwater. I’d actually had a beer mug commissioned especially for the occasion, with a picture of a lion on one side (his troops) and a donkey (Nick) on the other side for trash talking

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Zeb DoyleHere's another report after my successful exfiltration from Houston:I'd been inserted into the Bayou City ostensibly to reclaim a 'lost' rulebook, but my real mission was to monitor Houston ASL activity and see if they pose any threat in the Texas Team Tourney this year. Gentlemen, the reconnaissance was successful, but I bear grim tidings. Walter's Starter Kit work at Owlcon is really

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... or Friday Night FightZeb DoyleGermans: Zeb DoyleRussians: Brian RoundhillAfter the fun and games at Nick’s house, it was time to head over to Walter’s domain and get in some actual Owlcon action. My first scenario here was against the cagey and crafty Brian Roundhill. We’ve crossed swords a number of times before, and although I’ve generally had the better of it, it’s usually due more to luck

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Nick DrinkwaterBritish Player: [SAN 0, ELR 5] Stephane GracietGerman Player: [SAN 0, ELR 4] Nick DrinkwaterA very short and sweet scenario that we completed in approximately 2.5 hours. The Germans have 5 turns in which they have to control six of the eleven available buildings within the British setup area. Weather is continual, non-changing (by SSR) light rain and that limits both attack and

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Nick DrinkwaterGerman Player [ELR 4, SAN 3]: Matt SchwoebelBritish Player [ELR 4, SAN 4]: Nick DrinkwaterThis is a fun scenario. I really enjoyed this one and would recommend it to anyone to play. There are several great little challenges to overcome in this for both players, lots of fun toys for either side and it should come down to a nice close little denouement around the main cross-roads in

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Nick DrinkwaterGerman Player: [ELR 4, SAN 3] Nick DrinkwaterBritish Player: [ELR 4, SAN 4] John HylerA good, solid tourney scenario set in Tunisia in April 1943. Some desperate Irish Guards are holed up on a bare rocky massif and they have to stop a pretty nifty German elite infantry force from having any kind of toe-hold on level 2 or higher hexes on Board 9. This is a very straightforward

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Nick DrinkwaterPolish Player [ELR 3, SAN 3]: Tom GillisGerman Player [ELR 4, SAN 2]: Nick DrinkwaterPoland 1939 for the final Owlcon game and my good friend Mr. Gillis as my worthy opponent with the doomed but doughty Poles. Tom and myself have been developing a finely tuned friendly rivalry where we seem to have taken it in turns to beat the other over the last few months. He slaughtered me hard

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... or ANPOG: Panzers on the DrumlinsZeb DoyleAnother Owlcon has come and gone and many good times were had. A huge thank-you to everyone who was involved in planning, preparing, and hosting this fantastic event. Special thanks to Nick Drinkwater, who for the second year in a row very kindly opened up his house for some pre-convention gaming, and to Walter for making all the magic happen. All of

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Nick DrinkwaterBritish Player: [ELR 2, SAN 4] Nick DrinkwaterGerman Player: [ELR 2, SAN 2] Johnny JohnsonWhilst everyone else was taking part in Brit Fest, I was happy to play Johnny Johnson in one of the simpler Tactiques scenarios from days gone by, where a bunch of early war, war crimes specialists get shown a lesson or two in how to play at real soldiers by members of His Majesty's Royal

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Nick DrinkwaterWalter (l) and Matt (r) in the foreground, Ken (l) and Eric (r) in the background.Rick (l) and Rob (r), foreground and Brian (l) and Ken (r), background, playing dueling Pyrric Victory as a part of ANPOG at Nick's place.Ken counting up his exit VPOwlcon championship match between Zeb (l) and Rob (r). Zeb won the game and the championshipWalter (r) showing some new blood the finer

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Nick DrinkwaterAnyway, to echo Brian, massive thanks to Walter for organising the beast in his usual calm and collected manner - brilliant! This time the mech heads behind us seemed much less annoying and it was a more serene experience being in the main hall again this year. Great stuff!Yeah, I was flicking pieces of brain-melt off my shoulders last night too - there may be a piece stuck in my

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- or a review a Turning the Tide and AP#5 Matt ShostakThis is serious. Seningen just arrived at my place yesterday to exchange some ASL goodies we had gotten for each other. He dropped off the East Front Action Pack and the Turning the Tide Scenario Bundle, and in a very nice touch added a bonus of Operations #52, which includes some nice articles on A Victory Lost, a truly tremendous game that I

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Randy WaxmanGermans: Randy WaxmanRussians: Tom GillisTom Gillis and I played The Meat Grinder from the new AP5 this weekend.The strategic setting was set in the first few days of Barbarossa in far northwestern Ukraine at Lutsk. Lutsk was vital as it controlled 2 major bridges over the Styr River including the main west to east highway that eventually lead to Kiev. Some of the more vigorous

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Mike SeningenIt was with great pride that I knocked off Steve Pleva at Winter Offensive -- Steve is a phenomenal player, gracious in victory and in defeat and epitomizes the type of player I strive to be on all fronts.I've had the pleasure to play Steve several times now and I have also shared a few meals, beers, and conversations with him..... A good friendship - if you can call someone you see

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Tom GillisWow, great game day guys. 7 bodies showed up and everyone got a scenario in. And the first arrivees got a special T shirt made by Walt's wife. Very cool! Make sure to thank her Walt!Scenarios played:Doyle v Steve in Fri the 13th I believe Doyle's Russians were able to stymy Steve's Germans...John v Steve in Undarnik Bridgehead. Johns 'farm collective workers yesterday' i.e. conscripts

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Walter EardleyWhile doing my setup, I had no idea how I was going to keep Tom from controlling 6 buildings with only 3 447s and 7 436s and ELR 2. I was very excited to have three nifty 20L IFE 6 ROF 3 guns for support plus a 75L AT, 2 Panthers and 2 JgPz Vs (or something). I was very surprised the 20Ls did not do more for me. Both Panthers died without taking anyone with them. The Jgs were money

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Steven MillerGermans: Steven MillerRussians: Randy GarlingtonRandy Garlington and I tried this one. I was the Germans and he was the Russians. It is a relatively small scenario; eight turns and four half boards put sideways. The Germans have seven first line squads, three tanks (a Panther and two MK-IV's), three leaders (9-1 the best), a 50mm mtr and a 75 AT gun. The Russians have eight elite

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Scott BellGermans: Scott BellRussians: Dan PrestonDan and I squared off yesterday in what I believe is a relatively new scenario (S 28), which is out of the ASL "Starter Series."The scenario takes place in Baruth, Germany (April 26, 1945).It is a battle that is fought in the muddy wetlands, and involves a large German force led by Colonel Hans von Luck, which tries to break out to the West. The

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Nick DrinkwaterRussian [ELR 3, SAN 3]: Nick DrinkwaterGerman [ELR variable, SAN 3]: Stephane GracietA very quick playing six-turn deluxe scenario that amazingly we finished in under two hours. Its set on Board b and also on HOB's Deluxe board BF2 (which came with one of their Recon By Fire Magazines). Its a simple enough concept - a moderate force of Russians have to have more good order squads

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Tom GillisRandy and I hooked up on this one the other day. Early August 1940 Copenhagen...Randy was the Landsers, and I the defending Vikings, I mean Danes...It is a really fun small 7 turn scenario from our 'recon by fire' friends. It was early war Germans vs Danes in a scenario called Kings Gambit. The defending Danes are trying to protect the King and palace on bd 45 from a reinforced German

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After starting out as one of 16 participants in the "Sour Sixteen", both Wes Vaughn and Randy Shurtz faced off against each other for the Thunderbird Trophy on Sunday morning.They played the scenario "About His Shadowy Sides" (Friendly Fire Pack #19) with Wes Vaughn winning. He received the Championship Trophy and Randy got the Runner-Up Trophy.Two other games were played to determine winners for

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Nick DrinkwaterHungarian: Stephane GracietRussian: Nick DrinkwaterI was going to write a bigger AAR on this, but then I checked out the existing one on the Banzai Pipeline Blog from January 2007. That was an excellent and illustrated one, so I thought I'd just write a quick summary of how my latest dice-rolling disaster differed from that!Unlike Zeb as the Russian in that write-up, I went in the

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Rupert BGermans: John HylerRussians: Rupert BJohn Hyler and me faced off on J106 Marders not Martys from J7 last night. Since it was my turn to host, I took the Germans on defense.Scenario has a small German infantry force of 5 squads and two Marder 1f setting up on Board v (the new board that comes with J7) to repel a horde of Russians who have to exit 17 VP off hex row I. One 9-1, one 7-0

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Nick DrinkwaterAustralian [ELR 4, SAN 3]: Zeb DoyleJapanese [ELR 3, SAN 3]: Nick DrinkwaterA fast playing but challenging "meet then hold" scenario from the dying days of the war in Borneo that has a really interesting beginning in which the two players roll to see who moves first, both starting from offboard. The winner of the dice-off gets to dash on first and grab a majority of victory

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Nick DrinkwaterUS Player: [SAN 3, ELR 3] Nick DrinkwaterJapanese Player: [SAN 5, ELR 3] Zeb DoyleA real slogging match set on Bougainville in 1944, where US troops from the 37th Buckeye Division have to eject an intrusive force of Japanese who have just captured a chunk of a large massif overlooking an American airbase. The game is set solely on Board 39 and strict setup limitations mean that the

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Ed BeekmanVichy French [ELR 2, SAN 4]: Ed BeekmanAmericans [ELR 3, SAN 2*]: Doyle MotesDoyle and I were matched up in Round 5 of the VASL League and we decided to give this scenario a try. What makes this scenario unusual is that each side gets to make a couple decisions about its Order of Battle. These decisions are made at the start of the turn the reinforcements are due and affect either

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Rob BurtonGermans: John HylerAmericans: Rob BurtonJohn Hyler and myself faced off on this Schwerpunkt scenario last night for a quick game.Scenario has John with his German 5 squads, a Pz IVJ and an OT PzJg III/IV defending a village against the good guys consisting of 9 American 1st Line squads and three Shermans. The Germans have PF and a PSK, MMG, LMG, an 8-0 and Cpl Hyler himself, in the star

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Nick DrinkwaterThe battered survivors of hurricane Ike gathered together to get a fun day of gaming in on Saturday and to compare tales of woe of course. Numbers were down as several people needed to stay at home and fix things up (priorities clearly wrong there!), but a dedicated few hunkered down for some fun action.Eric and Matt came down the night before and, after a couple of beers and some

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Nick DrinkwaterAustralian Player [ELR 5, SAN 4]: Matt SchwoebelJapanese Player [ELR 3, SAN 3]: Nick DrinkwaterAfter a half day playing "Up the Numa Numa Trail", Matt and myself switched sides and played this micro-scenario from HOB's Tropic Thunder Pack on the Australian 1945 invasion of Borneo and Tarakan. In this Matt had a platoon of three 648 Australian commandos, a hero and an 8-1 with Lt

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Nick DrinkwaterHungarian [ELR 3, SAN 4]: Nick DrinkwaterRussian [ELR 4, SAN 2]: Eric GerstenbergGasp! Eric plays the Russians!!! Shock!! Horror!! Awe!! Eric is not playing the Axis!! Hold the Front Page!!Having got over the seismic-scale tremor of Eric agreeing to play the Soviets, we quickly settled down to a fast three-hour tour through this 4.5 turn quickie out of the recent Rally Point pack (

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Jack O'QuinAmericans: Jack O'QuinGermans: Jim MartinJim Martin and I played this scenario from the new Action Pack 4 at the Austin game day last Saturday.For me, the appeal of this scenario is as an introduction to bocage rules [B9.5] and tactics. The date is 17 June, 1944, when the allies are trying to cope with the unanticipated difficulties of that uniquely Norman terrain feature. No special

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Nick DrinkwaterBritish Player [SAN 3, ELR 3]: Nick DrinkwaterItalian Player [SAN 4, ELR4]: Tom GillisTom and me hooked up for a second time this week for an afternoon of ASL. Our first foray was a disaster as we took a brief spin through the Friendly Fire Scenario Adolf's Amateurs where, after two turns, I declared victory after crushing 8VP of Tom's Russians, and we both declared it a huge

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