ASL

ASL The premier game system of tactical-level World War II combat uniquely combines soundness of design with attention to detail and ease of play. Built on the popular Squad Leader system, ASL has long been the ultimate in tactical wargaming. Now, ASL has just gotten better with the introduction of the ASL RULES 2nd Edition. Not only are the Rules back in full color, but the 2nd Edition also benefits from all the fine-tuning accumulated over the past 15 years. The 2nd Edition also contains material not previously included in the basic Rules, such as: more examples of play throughout, the advanced rules of Chapter E (night, weather, boats, planes, skis, convoys, etc.), the beginner's Training Manual in Chapter K, an expanded Index, and widely-acclaimed playing aids such as the Offboard Artillery Player's Aid and the Overrun Flowchart.Each chapter is in a larger font for ease of reading.

ASL Starter Kit #1 is a self-contained module which will let players start playing Advanced Squad Leader almost immediately. A liberally-illustrated rules tutorial teaches gamers ASL using a conversational style to teach the concepts of ASL.

ASL Starter Kit #2 is a self-contained module which will let players start playing Advanced Squad Leader almost immediately. A liberally-illustrated rulebook teaches gamers ASL using a conversational style to teach the concepts of ASL. If you own and play ASL Starter Kit #1 you will be plesantly surprised to find how easy it is to spot the new rules ASLSK#2 adds - we've highlighted the new rules so that you can skip rereading what you've learned in ASLSK#1 and get right to the new rules!

What does ASLSK#2 add? GUNS! Artillery pieces. Anti-tank guns. The famous and deadly German "88". Mortars and bazookas! ASLSK#2 adds the "to hit" procedure to the foundation you learned in ASLSK#1. And if you didn't get ASLSK#1? There are two "infantry only" scenarios to get you up to speed!

ASL Starter Kit #3 - TANKS! features armored fighting vehicles (tanks and armored cars) of the Advanced Squad Leader series. ASL Starter Kit #3 contains the refined rulebook from ASL Starter Kit #2 with new rules added and old rules clearly marked so that no rereading is required!

ASL Starter Kit #3 is a complete game, everything you need to play the scenarios in the game is in the box!

ASL Starter Kit #1 or #2 are not required to play ASL Starter Kit #3, although players may wish to own the maps and scenarios from those earlier modules.

December 1942: Having already surrounded the German 6th Army at Stalingrad, the Red Army launches its most ambitious offensive to date, Operation Little Saturn, designed to cut off and destroy all Axis armies in southern Russia. The first target of Saturn's fury is the Italian 8th Army, stretched across a thin defensive line along the frozen Don River. Two full Soviet Armies with hundreds of tanks launch themselves at the Italian positions. After several days of fighting, they achieve a breakthrough, which they rush to exploit. Encircled remnants of two corps of the Italian 8th Army embark upon a desperate trek to escape the encirclement.

To the north, the Italian Alpini Corps, consisting of the best troops of the Italian Army, a match for the troops of any nation, stand firm, resisting numerous Soviet attacks. Unfortunately, in January, a second Soviet offensive against the Hungarian 2nd Army to the Italian north breaks through the Hungarian lines. With breakthroughs to their north and south, the valiant Alpini are surrounded and they too must retreat to avoid destruction.

So begins the most desperate struggle faced by the Italian Army as the Alpini and other Italian formations march through the frozen wastelands wtihout food, without supplies, and surrounded by thousands of hostile troops. To stop marching is to die; the only chance of salvation is to keep moving and kill any Soviet troops who stand in their way. Of the tens of thousands of Italian troops who embarked on this desperate struggle for survival . . . only a few returned.

Few Returned contains:

ASL Action Pack #4 – Normandy 1944 is a scenario bundle featuring action in the bocage country of Normandy after the D-Day invasion. The scenarios represent a wide variety of situations involving German, American, British and Polish forces. In addition to three new mapboards (53, 54 and 55), AP4 also comes with revised rules pages B9 and B10 which have been greatly expanded with clarifications and new examples of play covering Wall Advantage and Bocage.

ASL Action Pack #4 – Normandy 1944 contains:

Armies of Oblivion is the long-awaited module adding the Axis Minors order of battle to the Advanced Squad Leader tactical game system.

Contents:

ARNHEM —THE THIRD BRIDGE is a detailed ASLComp VARIANT that tells the story of the Battle of Arnhem. This battle was the result of Montgomery’s bold plan to force the Rhine by coup de main using an airborne operation like none seen in the annals of military history. If successful the greatest natural barrier protecting Nazi Germany would be breached—shortening the war dramatically. If it failed, the ‘Red Devils’ of the British 1st Airborne Division would be at the far end of a tenuous supply line, in the midst of enemy territory. Allied planners had failed to take note of two elite Waffen SS divisions resting and refitting following the rucksmarsch, the headlong flight that followed the German collapse in Normandy. This intelligence failure would place John Frost and his men of the 2nd Parachute Battalion in a precarious position in the urban battlefield of Arnhem.

The new version includes a larger map, including larger hexes compared to the original edition. The scenarios have all errata input, and are fully remastered, including all new art for MMCs and SMCs! You also receive a BONUS ninth scenario, as well as a 16 page special rules + historical notes booklet + campaign game.

You'll use your existing BEYOND VALOR(tm) and WEST OF ALAMEIN(tm)/FOR KING AND COUNTRY(tm) game pieces on the gorgeous map!

BERLIN—Fall of the 3rd Reich is a detailed new Historical Module VARIANT product for owners of BEYOND VALOR(tm). Now hold on one nano-second. This compatible thing is getting a new twist. This product comes with all the SMC, MMC, AFV and Gun counters you need to play. Just bring your rulebook, SW and marker counters. We provide a complete set of FULL COLOR VARIANT counters to play the game. Every tank, gun and man you need to play the scenarios is provided.

The street-level map at 50-yards scale is simply unprecedented. Fight your way across the urban Berlin battlefield literally from house-to-house. The map is the closest thing to an aerial photo-with-hexes ever published—without hexside issues. The map is flat out playable and pretty at the same time. Check it out for yourself using the link below—but be sure to note you just do not get a feel for how LARGE this map is—it consists of two 24" x 36" sheets.

The NEW DIE CUT COUNTERS provide Red Banner squads, fanatic Hitler Youth, Volkssturm and MORE, using professional new art for each little man. You also receive AFDs like the ISU 152, Soviet Artillery tractors, Konigstigers, and a heck of a lot more—all in new FULL COLOR VARIANT editions. All of this and a lot more is found in Berlin—Fall of the 3rd Reich.

Beyond Valor is the first, and most important, of the Advanced Squad Leader modules. BV contains the German and Russian orders of battle from 1939-1945 as well as three different squad-types of Finnish troops. Additionally, the module contains the necessary markers and fortifications required by the ASL Series.

The newest, and we anticipate the last (should further reprintings be required the contents are not expected to change), printing of Beyond Valor has 10 ASL Starter Kit-style maps and 24 scenarios which use just those maps and the counters in the module. Paired with the ASL Rulebook, Beyond Valor is quite a lot of ASL in a single box. DYO possibilities are endless, and additional scenarios using only the components in BV can be found on our website in the downloads section.

BEYOND VALOR contains no rules; ownership of the ASL Rulebook is required for play.

Busting the Bocage 3rd Edition updates the venerable ASLComp classic fast-playing NORMANDY map-pack with a new take on the map, the nicest ever PLUS all the scenarios have been tweaked, renamed and freshened up to create a new play experience.

The pack features 6 scenarios—the most detailed ever on the subject—and a newly re-mastered map, originally created by artist and researcher Phil Nobo following his intense on-site cartography session. This set focuses on the battle after the landing—no difficult LC rules to learn or use.

Here, at last, is the long-awaited French addition to the ASL system. Compared to the old Crescendo of Doom gamette, CROIX DE GUERRE offers greatly expanded coverage of the French, in terms of both counter types and historical research. Contained herein is not only the entire ASL order of battle (all personnel, weapon and vehicle counters) for the French in 1939-40, but also that of the subsequent Vichy regime's overseas colonies, plus many extra counters for equipment used by the Free French but never included in YANKS or WEST OF ALAMEIN. Enclosed as well are two new mapboards (#s 40 and 41), one new sheet of building, stream and open-ground overlays, eight revised rulebook pages for Chapters A, B and F, eight new scenarios, and the usual detailed Chapter H historical and Design-Your-Own information (including many facts never before published in the English language). Last but not least you'll find the Chapter N divider, which contains both an updated Sequence of Play (incorporating Chapters E, F, G and O) and a standardized "check list" of pre-game functions for printed and DYO scenarios.

CROIX DE GUERRE is not a complete game. Ownership of ASL Rules, BEYOND VALOR, YANKS, and WEST OF ALAMEIN is required.

0230 hours, 29 NOVEMBER 1950, TOKTONG PASS, KOREA: At 0200 hours a voice called out of the pitch darkness and identified itself as an 'American lieutenant'. The voice called out the positions of the Fox company perimeter, and further added, eerily “…the Chinese will give you warm clothes, and good treatment, if you surrender now.” Many Marines fired their 'answers' out of the barrels of their guns, off into the darkness. Within thirty minutes Chinese bugles and horns started blowing, flares went up into the night skt and Marine machine-guns laid down fire lanes in the expected avenues of attack...

This is KOREA 1950: TOKTONG PASS, the brand new module from Critical Hit for its ASLComp line of VARIANT products by Larry Winslow. The game is meticulously crafted, featuring a detailed map of the terrain fought over by Chinese Communist forces and the US Marines amidst cold, bleak hills. The action is fierce, unrelenting, and will get your blood racing.

Are you ready for another collection of COLOR die-cut counters, including ChiCom BUGLERS, SUPPLY CANISTERS, US MARINE CORPS soldiers newly drawn in WINTER UNIFORMS...we thought you were. And that's why we're providing another unique module, complete with all the counters you need to play, JUST BRING YOUR OWN Prep, DM, etc. MARKERS FROM BV OR ANY MODULE. Wow!

For King and Country contains the complete (in ASL terms!) Order of Battle for the British along with four mounted mapboards (not available in any other ASL module) and 20 revised and updated scenarios from our favorites which appeared in past magazines or modules that are now unavailable.

These scenarios have been updated to incorporate existing errata and some have been changed to try and make them better balanced scenarios. You can download the changes that were made when updating FKAC scenarios so that your already owned versions of these scenarios will be up to date!

GROSSDEUTSCHLAND AT STONNE 1940TM depicts the bitter battle for the crucial village of Stonne, and its dominating heights, during the battle of France, 1940. This is early war tank warfare with waves of B1 bis, H-39 and FCM 36 tanks sweeping into the village of Stonne with orders to force the issue and force the enemy back over the Meuse crossings.

This all new edition comes with a fully remastered map, including new terrain changes, freshly researched on site. It also includes 16 scenarios and three campaign games, and an 8 page CG + VARIANT RULES booklet. In a retro touch, you also receive the very same 32 free bonus die-cut counters previously provided!

Contains: 16 scenarios + ONE 8 page campaign and special rules booklet + one historical large hex map + 32 bonus free retro die cut counters (same counters are provided in the original stonne 1940 product).

You've fought on the Eastern and Western fronts, in the Mediterranean and North African theaters, on the plains of Manchuria and in the jungles of Burma and New Guinea. You've experienced paradrops, glider-borne landings, Stuka attacks and opposed river crossings. Only one major type of WW2 land combat remains unexplored: the classic amphibious assault. Now, in GUNG HO!, this too is added to the combat repertoire of ASL. And what better way to present assault landings than with the introduction of the U.S. Marines. GUNG HO! offers four types of U.S.M.C. squads, reflecting their evolution through the war years, along with the most comprehensive tactical-level amphibious assault rules ever offered in a wargame. It is all here in the balance of Chapter G: deep and shallow ocean, beaches of variable width and slope, sea walls, piers, beach obstacles, reefs, heavy surf, naval gunfire, and all the important types of landing craft used by the Allies and Japan throughout the war. As if this weren't enough, GUNG HO! also introduces rules and counters for the infamous cave defenses employed by the Japanese, plus new infantry counters for the early U.S. Army in the Phillipines and the entire order of battle of the Chinese Army. Last but not least, two new mapboards, several sheets of overlays and eight scenarios are included.

GUNG HO! is not a complete game. Ownership of ASL Rules, BEYOND VALOR, YANKS, WEST OF ALAMEIN and CODE OF BUSHIDO is required.

Eight brand new fast play tournament style scenarios usable with ASL.

Hero PAX 3: PTO Made Easy, the new pack that brings owners of Code of Bushido to the dense, dark jungles of New Guinea and beyond with nary a cave or LC to ruffle their gaming feathers. And in keeping with the HERO PAX philosophy, each scenario is a fast-playing, tournament style action and features a Hero in every OB. Ooh wah! That's the way you like it! USMC 1-4-9's dashing into the action and saving the day.

Hero PAX 4 follows in the footsteps of its successful and longstanding HEROIC brethren with even MORE value! This time around the pack includes the usual EIGHT tournament style scenarios PLUS two more FREE, PLUS a THANKS FOR THE SUPER LOYALTY BONUS additional scenario for a total of ELEVEN, the most yet in a HERO PAX set.

This is an ASLComp variant for die hard ASLers. Color cover. Ships in Ziploc® style bag. The theme is Mediterranean Theater of Operations and these scenarios retain that special HERO PAX flavor -- just the right size, low piece density, few SSRs, PLAYABLE!

This is HOLLOW LEGIONS - the long-awaited Italian ASL module. Here is the complete order of battle for a new nationality - one never before offered in the long history of the SL/ASL systems. The Italian soldier of the Second World War has been much maligned - but is this view totally justified? How much was his performance affected by the quality of his weapons and the abilities of his small-unit leaders? Playing HOLLOW LEGIONS, which incorporates the results of extensive research on this lesser-known army and its equipment, will allow you to form your own opinion by giving you the opportunity to command every major vehicle, gun and troop type employed by the Italians in North and East Africa, Russian, Sicily, the Balkans and Italy during World War II. The two mapboards (#s 30 and 31) contained herein depict open desert; added to those in WEST OF ALAMEIN, they allow you to re-create North African battles of even greater expanse than was possible with just the British module. But HOLLOW LEGIONS is certainly not limited to the desert; indeed, of the eight scenarios in this module, five are set in Europe. Also included are the ASL Chapter H (Design Your Own) Italian vehicle and weapon listings, point values, historical notes and DYO charts - plus the ASL Chapter N (Armory) pages for the countersheets in HOLLOW LEGIONS, those for the Allied and Axis Minor infantry and support weapons, and those for British ordnance and transport.

HOLLOW LEGIONS is not a complete game. Ownership of ASL Rules, BEYOND VALOR, YANKS and WEST OF ALAMEIN is required - as are boards 4, 7 and 12 for three scenarios.

HURTGEN SURPRISE/101st AIRBORNE AT BRECOURT MANOR COMBO PACK brings the ASLComp gamer to the dark, foreboding region known as the Hurtgenwald, and the village of Strass and its outskirts. There, German troops surprised men and tanks of the 83rd Division in a brutal fight to the finish.

In addition to a brand new Hurtgen Forest map you also receive a map of Brecourt Manor, used to recreate the battle there by the 101st Airborne.

The set consists of two historical maps and six scenarios. As a special FREE BONUS you also receive 208 color die-cut counters depicting 101st Airborne and 83rd Infantry Division shoulder-patch infantry counters, SW, SMCs, HS, crews, new US armor crews, all featuring BRAND NEW ART + AFV counters -- ALL USING THE NOW STANDARD CH BERLIN STYLE COUNTER ART.

Into The Rubble (ITR) offers players the opportunity to do cardboard battle in cities and railroad yards. The scenarios range from 1938 to 1945 with a variety of forces including American, Chinese, German/SS, Hungarian, Japanese, Nationalist Spanish, Republican Spanish, Romanian and Russian.

The Battlepack includes the following:

OPERATION: WATCHTOWER is not a complete game. Ownership of the ASL rulebook, all core modules, Action Pack #2, and boards 5,15, 43, and 52 are required for play.

Operation: Watchtower is the first of the Historical Studies, which is appropriate since Guadalcanal was the first American offensive in the Pacific. Hopefully, once a player has played through the sixteen scenarios within, they'll better understand the campaign and its outcome.

This ASL historical study covers Operation Veritable, the Commonwealth offensive along the German-Dutch border in February 1945 to drive the Germans back across the Rhine. The Reichswald, flooded towns, and plowed fields. Can your British and Canadian troops overcome all these obstacles while dealing with 88s and Panthers?

Out Of The Attic is 48 pages of old-time ASL goodness. It contains 16 scenarios, an excellent replay of Sicilian Midnight (also included in the magazine), and several other fine (and difficult to find) articles on ASL gameplay.

This is PARTISAN! - the fourth ASL module. The eight scenarios contained herein focus on historical World War II battle situations involving the Resistance forces of various countries vs. the German and Axis Minor troops occupying their lands. PARTISAN! will challenge your abilities in basic infantry combat as you maneuver and fire your squads, leaders and supporting weapons in scenarios whose forces run the gamut from elite Germans to poorly equipped but highly-motivated freedom fighters, to low-grade occupation troops. Experience - as only ASL can let you - the vicious, no-quarter ambushes, surprise raids and set-piece assaults that characterized guerilla warfare in the cities, forests and mountains of Europe. Regardless of your preferences (including solitaire play), if you're an ASL infantry-grognard you're bound to find something pleasing in the wide assortment of PARTISAN! scenarios, which range from the large, high-piece-density type to the small, quick setup kind. One is even "three-dimensional", with most of the action occurring underground, using separate boards for the above and below-ground levels.

PARTISAN!, along with its eight scenarios, contains one countersheet of Axis Minor infantry and support weapons - and also includes two boards: 10, with new, revised artwork; and 32, which features dense woods, a stream and a small cluster of buildings. Only ASL, BEYOND VALOR, and SQUAD LEADER boards 1-4 are needed to play PARTIS