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Last one for Winter Offensive. I ended up playing 8 games and went 5-2-1.

(I won this one as Brits)

Defiance! I'm German in this one!

Defending as Germans!

Day 2! I'm Soviets in this, attacking Elite Germans up north!

https://mmpgamers.com/slaughter-at-ponyri-p-423

I and a few o fmy old time co-gamers have recently reconnected and started playing board games periodically. The possibility of playing ASL came up. I did look for alternatives, assuming something perhaps more playable (espectially with more than 2 players) might have been released. Finding nothing clearly touted as better, I turned my attention to how we might make a modest start with ASL (the rule set was daunting for some).

Imagine my surprise to find the MMP site and head to SK1 (the logical starting place for such as we) only to find it sold out. To my greater dismay there doesn't seem to be any way to put your name on a list of some sort ... or pre-order to secure copies from the next print run. I can see some of the more esoteric HASL modules being only available periodically ... but I'd naively assumed the starter kits would be on hand.

Any insights on offer? Am I missing some approach MMP has to using the SK's as an onramp?

This kicks off this coming Thursday. Will you be there? I will!

Chime in below!

Just not good enough!

Played this great scenario. That blob, lower left, where the Victory Hexes are, was held by some 658 Super Men. Alas, they were pushed out by the ELAS forces. The relief effort went well, but not well enough. As Allied, I just missed out on getting one of those buildings back in my possession. Great game and I'd play it again, either side.

What have you been recently playing on VASL?

Hi all,

Trying to get into wargames, I discovered this game several days ago and I was fascinated about the depth. I'm watching guides, videos, I really would love to dive and enter into this fascinating world and learn and play. I only know a couple of players who play, and none of them online, and regularly either.

The thing is, looking for PBEM wargames, I always read in several places that ASL has a big and active PBEM community, but is being hard to me to find where exactly people meet to get matches, ladders (if it exists some kind of organized play) and so on...

After three days diving into the web, I'm starting to think about to throw the towel and invest in other game because I'm not sure if dedicate a lot of resources to learn a game to play a couple of games a year is worth to me. I'm passionate with the things I like, and love to focus on it competitively.

So, the question in the title. There are some place where players meet for digital matches?

I took this with me on my time off, with the expressed intent of playing it with a friend. So, yes, I'm actively recruiting! Problem? I misplaced it when I was going to set up a game. Turns out it was under my suitcase. So, in game terms, I failed my search dr. 😕

Close Assault 2025 Mini Tournament

A new ASL Mini-tournament that will be run over the January to May period.

This is an online mini-tournament offering additional rated games for those who want to play more during the year. in addition to the four games offered by the VASL league

The tournament involves four rounds of around 4 weeks per round and is designed for ASL players who have completed at least 10 rated games of ASL as per the ASL Player Ratings.

All of the scenarios should take at most 3 x 3 hour live sessions to complete so if you can commit to at least one session per week, you should have plenty of time to compete each scenario within the timeframe

I am looking for at least 12 players who can and will commit to finishing one scenario a month. Players will be divided into two pools according to time of entry: The Axis Player Pool and the Allied Player Pool. This will determine which side each entrant plays throughout the tournament.

Players will be matched via their respective ratings initially, rather than seeded per se, so we end up with people matched by approximate rating.

Please note all games will be played Live on VASL and use Discord voice channels. PBeM is not supported. Logs will be greatly appreciated but are not required, however if a game is unable to be completed by the designated time (which I'm hoping to avoid), the absence of a logfile may impact any adjudication outcome.

The first round will start from Friday 31 January 1300 Hrs GMT +13 and will end Friday 28 February 2400 Hrs GMT +13

We have our own discord server for the tournament so if you are interested in taking part, feel free to contact me here, currently we have 4 signups of the 12 required.

Pete

Looking at getting into hex and counter wargames and ASL caught my eye.

I've been scouring the websites of local game stores, countless online retailers, I've tried Amazon, MMP isn't shipping to Canada at the moment and prices on eBay are insane.

Is my only hope a PDF rulebook and VASL?

I would consider buying beyond valor as well, but again I can't find it anywhere but eBay for 1.5/2x the price.

I have pretty much all of the pre-2010 ASL boxes (including for some reason, Beyond Valour twice, hey ho, I can model Operation Bagration 1:1), but I just realised I bought an unpunched West of Alamein without Chapter F (I think the owner had added it to their manual and not put it back). I know Texas ASL has part of the rules (infantry) online, but does any kind person have an old scan of chapter F? I do not fancy buying the PDF of the whole ruleset as I also, somehow, own two ASL rule binders.

Cheers.

Uff da! I found a shrinkwrapped copy of Advanced Squad Leader Starter Kit #3 (that is what is says on the effin' box!) for $1USD at a SA store in West Chicago. What is the deal? My word, the game looks so complex based on the rulebook. Oh well, if time permits I will have a go at learning and hopefully enjoying this game! :)

Fare thee well!

End Game

I was matched against Martin today. He played Brits, me the Germans. In the end, I took out 2 carriers, needing now 9 buildings. I got 4, with a possibility of 4 more (at best). Great game, and my German Tanks all survived (less one: shocked then UK then lost forever) Albeit 2 missing Main Armaments (which I chose to not repair). Great fun for SP 40 Stand at Festubert!

Hey guys.

For the last game of the year, we have a 1940 swirling armour and infantry fest courtesy of Schwerpunkt. Can a small british infantry force supported by a number of carriers hold off the larger German one who have a plethora of tanks to support them? We willl find out as 12 of us battle it out!

I know decision at Elst is rather expensive and OOP but would anyone here have the British countersheet from that module? The one with the leader counters on it? If so and interested to sell or give away message mehere first. Thanks so much

Question in the title. I was very excited to find ASL starter kit #1 on sale for $5.00. I just cracked it open and it seems to have all components of starter kits 1-3! Unfortunately, it only contains the rules from kit #3 (the vehicles one).

Opened up the rulebook and was immediately overwhelmed. I did a cursory search on the net and I can't find a . PDF of #1 rulebook anywhere.

So does #3 contain everything I need to learn? How much simpler would it be if I did have rulebook #1?

Thanks for any help!

Our penultimate game of the year features 12 players in this late war scenario based on the famous film footage in Cologne.

You guys will get this

I was chatting with a friend about how alienating the various dependencies are when collecting to play in person versus playing on VASL where it basically does not matter (you still have to actually find the item you want in print or for normal amounts of money of course).

Do you mostly/entirely play in person, on vasl or a bit of both?

Did things like dependencies influence that decision or no?