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Vic Provost | 18 Jun 2013 03:02
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Dispatches #37 Update & Playtesters Needed.

Hello to all my ASL Comrades. The subject lines says it all as we 
steam
ahead on Dispatch #37 and have 3 of the 4 scenarios ready for 
outside
playtesting. If you are interested in helping out, Please reply 
and let me 
know which one you want to play. As per usual, a FREE Copy of 
Issue
#37 is yours for trying either of the first 2 listed, anyone who 
likes 
large PTO melees check out the Mawchi Road, I'll give you 2 FREE 
issues
for taking on that one. Here they are:
Stossgruppe Schlicter: Nice tourney sized offering from Bruce Childs finds 
us in Norway 1940 as the German force is trying to remove a roadblock, 
cause
casualties and exit. Quick playing with variable game length. Boards 34 
& 37.
Anchoring the Line: The latest RB action from Any Hershey see the 
Germans
on defense on New Years Eve 1942 in the east-central part of the 
Barricades.
Reinforced infantry companies on both sides as the Russians try to take 
back
buildings from the German defenders. Variable VPs for buildings in the 
German
set up area lead to a guessing game on what they are worth. Nice SSRs 
spice
things up.
Mawchi Road: A big, large, nasty PTO fight from Joe Gochinski sees Brits
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geb3 | 17 Jun 2013 02:38

Today we take Chicago, or, "Please Don't Throw Me In That Cactus Patch" (AAR)

I played my first match and won my first victory on North American soil against Jim Serafin at an undisclosed
location deep in the suburbs of the City Of Broad Shoulders.  Gave Jim a short list of three scenarios I liked
and he picked J50, "The Cactus Farm" from Journal 3.  It depicts elements of Division Hermann Goering
trying to delay the inevitable 8th Army advance on Tunis.  We diced for sides and I drew the defending Jerries.

This scenario is set on the upper half of board 43 (to the north) and the lower half of board 11.  VC require the
Tommies by game end to both grab at least 6 building locations in a 2-hex perimeter around 43M8 (making up
what is commonly known as the Koresh Compound - the O10 stone building outside the wall is not one of these,
however) and prevent the Germans from accumulating >14 VP, awarded as 1 VP per above building location
controlled, and also Exit VP for units on an L2 plateau created from SSR by the grain depiction around 11Z5
on the L1 hill mass.  Thus the British must press the attack broadly across both boards and prevail in two
different areas to win, a fairly high bar at the outset.

This is not a desert scenario, but several not-too-obtrusive SSRs give it a distinct flavor.  The Germans
have ATMM and 100mm OBA (offboard observer), but the British have FB support (albeit not bombed-up).  The
British are required to move their vehicles through three specified trail breaks in a line of 3AT
minefield hexes stretching across the front of most of their entry area (NOTE:  The SSR does not specify the
hex sides the trail breaks cross; we agreed that the British could position them at will).  Grain is open ground.

The most notable SSR substitutes cactus hedges (hedge TEM, but Min Move, Low Crawl or Adv vs Difficult
Terrain to cross) for walls and hedges, and cactus patches (3x MF/MP, +1 TEM, inherent 1/2 level LOS
obstacle like rubble) for orchards.  This denied the Germans the +2 Wall TEM benefit but provided a few more
interesting places for them to hide, and made British capture of the renamed Kaktus Kompound a more
prickly proposition, if you will.

OBs at first glance suggest the Fritzes will have a tough go of things given that they face 9 Churchills (2
with unlimited smoke ammunition, plus an 8-1 AL), but a closer look reveals the British infantry to be
inferior, possessing less than a 2:1 squad advantage (64FP:44FP), which is not really offset by MGs
(24FP: 20FP when adjusted for rate).  They do receive two 2-inch MTRs, however, and although German
leaders are tough (9-2 & 8-1), there are only two so they are busy and brittle.  The PaK 40 (APCR only) have but
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Pete Phillipps | 14 Jun 2013 19:44
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ASL VFTT88 Out at last!

Hi Everyone,

	Well it's not May, but the May-Aug issue of VFTT, issue 88, is
finally out :-)
	As well as the usual stuff, this issue includes a PL1.0 CG, Tangled
at Tsangkou, by Steve Swann, which is set inthe Chinese Civil War in
November 1945.
	You can download both items by going to
http://www.vftt.co.uk/index.asp.

	And don't forget that the DOUBLE 1 ASL tournament will be under way
in Chelmsford two weeks today. You can find more details and register if you
plan on attending by checking this link:
	http://www.vftt.co.uk/double1.asp

Pete

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beer" - Frederick the Great, 1777
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Get the latest news about HEROES (ASL in Blackpool) at
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Get the latest news about INTENSIVE FIRE (Britain's biggest ASL tournament)
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Craig | 13 Jun 2013 15:19
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ASL Starter Kits for sale

Gentlemen,

I have decided to put my Starter Kits #2 and #3 up for sale on ebay.  If
anyone on this list is interested, here are the links to the Buy-it-Now
auctions:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/290930801450?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649

http://www.ebay.com/itm/290930801936?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649

thanks,

Craig

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geb3 | 29 May 2013 12:54

Windy City ASL opponent wanted

I have business in Chicago (Oakbrook Terrace) next week and would like to
see if I can arrange a face-to-face match either the afternoon of Sunday the
1st or evening of Tuesday the 4th.  Thus far I have one "maybe."  Probably
will be space at my hotel for two or three games, so happy to host a small
party, as long as you locals can supply the kit.  If you're looking for an
easy mark should contact me off line.

Cheers!

 - G

"That bitch took my money and she went to Chicago..."

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Vic Provost | 21 May 2013 02:30
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Dispatches Memorial Day Sale

Hello to all 
my ASL Comrades. To celebrate Memorial Day and all this 
Holiday 
means I'm putting all our pdf. and Paper Issue Bundles on sale 
and here is 
how it works. 
  
All 
Dispatches Issues have been converted to pdf. file format with a Huge 
effort by my 
Printing MVP Ralph McDonald. I do have a limited number  
of Paper 
Issues available as well, more on those a little farther down. 
  
The usual 
cost for a Digital The WORKs Order (All 36 Issues plus a 4 Issue  
Subscription 
starting with current Issue #36) is $60.00. Now through  
Memorial Day 
they will be $50.00. That is 39 Issues in total and over 
100 
Scenarios! That is less than $.50 cents a scenario, which is a pretty 
good deal, 
whether it is 2013 or 1993. 
  
I do still 
have a limited number of Paper Issues #34, 35 & 36, a 4 Issue  
Subscription 
including those 2 Back Issues is normally +$20.00, through 
Memorial Day
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EK I | 11 May 2013 07:18
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Reaction Fire vs non-OVR

hello List - can you please help clarify?

T-34 expends extra MP to enter wooden bldg containing 2 enemy squads, one w/DC - OVR is not declared.  can the
squad with DC attack the T-34 with the DC as non-CC Reaction Fire if no OVR declared?  can the enemy squads
attack T-34 as CC reaction fire, even though no OVR declared?  can the DC be used in it's own hex vs OVR if
defending unit with DC is not Japanese, or vehicle that would be attacked is not in VBM?

thanks,
gt

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Robert Feinstein | 3 May 2013 22:27

Re: Aslml Digest, Vol 1875, Issue 1

What a pleasant surprise!
I emailed that AAR over 2 months ago and figured it went out then. Did it?
I'm wondering why it got sent out to the ASLML now?...
Maybe it was routed through Congress.

Looking forward to the next WCM!!!

- Robert

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Robert Feinstein | 26 Feb 2013 20:09

WCM AAR

Hi Guys -

I had a great time at West Coast Melee (as always).
Thank you to everyone who makes it happen, and to all my opponents.
My top 5 WCM XVI moments (see attached pic):

5. Driving to WCM, when that feeling finally hits that, yes, I really
am off to 4 days of playing ASL. YeeHaw!

4. Receiving the personalized plaque for doing well at last year's WCM
XV just as I was being beaten and thus eliminated from WCM XVI.
Definitely mitigated my anguish.

3. Seeing Paul's ASL T-shirt quilt, composed of 8 past WCM shirt
designs and accoutrements. Finally, something to do with my 30+ ASL
shirts! I sense a business opportunity here...

2. Presenting Jim Aikens with the present we all signed expressing our
tremendous gratitude for him being such a great and long-serving club
president.

1. Getting to hang out and play ASL with so many long time ASL buddies
(most of whom have eyesight in decline, can't stay up past 11 pm, and
wouldn't want to be anywhere else - just like me!).

Thanks again guys - see you next year if not sooner -

- Robert

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ER/FB CG via VASL PBEM


Howdy all,

Not getting any immediate takers on my recent 
posting on Game-Squad for a VASL PBEM 
opponent for a playing of the Operation 
Watchtower (Edson’s Ridge) CG, I am 
going old-fashioned and posting on 
the ASLML!

I am also interested in doing the Festung
Budapest CG via VASL PBEM.

I prefer a reasonably experienced ASLer
and VASL PBEMer.

TIA,

Christopher Fleury
Mountain View Cottage
Lewis, NY
USS Iowa; BB-61
Camp Dudley #12557
ASL 6+1
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M Rodgers
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2013 CASLO update


*Paid pre-registrant*

Jonathan Kay
Joshua Kalman
Daniel Kalman
David Kalman
Brian Wiersma
Reg Plummer
Mark Watson
Doug Rimmer
Paul Chamberland
Mark Evans
Blair Bellamy
Will Willow
Gary Trezza
Brad Knoll
Jim Suderman
Erik Lindblad
Chris Doary
Helen Doary (SK)
Andy Beaton
Jonathan Kenny
Paul Asselin

*Intends to be there*

Keith Hill
Steffen Knippel
Bruno L'Archeveque
Jean-Pierre Raymond

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