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Wednesday, April 16, 2014
Happy Birthday Chad Jensen!
Chad Jensen, designer of:
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Tuesday, April 15, 2014
Mail Call 4-15-14
This just in!
Out of the Bunker is a package of 14 ASL scenarios from the ASL Fanzine "Dispatches from the Bunker". The scenarios include some of MMP's favorites:
TO THE BRIDGE!, the ninth “action pack” for Advanced Squad Leader, focuses on the 1942 Japanese invasion of Burma and the crushing Allied defeat and retreat to India. Beginning with the December 1941 invasion of Thailand and ending with the disaster at the Sittang bridge in February 1942, TO THE BRIDGE! is the first of three planned Action Packs covering the campaign from the Japanese invasion to the Allied liberation. TO THE BRIDGE! features Japanese infantry forces against Commonwealth infantry supported by light armored cars and carriers: Burma Rifles, Gurkha Rifles, Indian Brigade, and various frontier forces. Plus a Japanese seaborne assault opposed by the Thai army supported by the Pattani Provinicial Police Force and units from the military academy.
TO THE BRIDGE! also includes optional “Australian Balancing (Bidding) System” (ABS) provisions for each scenario. ABS is intended to allow for scenario side selection via a series of escalating handicap bids. Among other advantages, this can help balance scenarios between players of varying ability.
Three double-sided 11˝ × 16˝ maps round out the package. Each board is completely geomorphic and compatible with previous ASL mapboards. Offering novel map configurations, these are sure to spark the interest of designers and players alike. Featuring a number of tournament length scenarios, TO THE BRIDGE! is the perfect companion to the recently released RISING SUN.
Action Pack #9: To The Bridge! contains:
• three 11˝ × 16˝ double-sided geomorphic mapboards (7a/b, 8a/b, 9a/b)
• ten ASL scenarios featuring the new maps:
• AP83 Thai Hot – 7 turns, 8 December 1941, Pattani Province, Thailand
• AP84 Double Trouble – 5 1⁄2 turns, 28 December 1941, Bokpyin, Burma
• AP85 Slicing The Throat – 6 1⁄2 turns, 19 January 1942, Tavoy, Burma
• AP86 Milling About – 5 1⁄2 turns, 20 January 1942, Miyawadi, Burma
• AP87 Empire’s Fall – 9 1⁄2 turns, 31 January 1942, Moulmein, Burma
• AP88 Full Moon Madness – 5 1⁄2 turns, 11 February 1942, near Kuziek, Burma
• AP89 To The Pain – 6 1⁄2 turns, 17 February 1942, Danyingon, Burma
• AP90 Smashing The Hook – 5 1⁄2 turns, 18 February 1942, near Danyingon, Burma,
• AP91 Parting Shots – 6 1⁄2 turns, 21 February 1942, Thebyuchuang, Burma
• AP92 End Of The Beginning – 8 1⁄2 turns, 22 February 1942, Sittang, Burma
Designed for the aficionado, Action Pack #9 is not a complete product and assumes the buyer owns the core Advanced Squad Leader game system.
Out of the Bunker is a package of 14 ASL scenarios from the ASL Fanzine "Dispatches from the Bunker". The scenarios include some of MMP's favorites:
- Riding the Coattails, Poland 1939
- Point 247, France 1940
- Brasche Encounter, France 1940
- Headhunting for Bloody Huns, Crete 1941
- Clearing Kamienka, Russia 1941
- First Clash in Tunisia, Tunisia 1942
- Crisis at Kasserine, Tunisia 1943
- Unhappy Trails, Bougainville 1943
- First Crack at Hellzapoppin' Ridge, Bougainville 1943
- The Men From Zadig, France 1944
- Avril Action, France 1944
- Block at Ville-Sur-Illon, France 1944
- A Hotly Contested Crossroads, Germany 1945
- Pursuing Kobayashi, The Philippines 1945
TO THE BRIDGE!, the ninth “action pack” for Advanced Squad Leader, focuses on the 1942 Japanese invasion of Burma and the crushing Allied defeat and retreat to India. Beginning with the December 1941 invasion of Thailand and ending with the disaster at the Sittang bridge in February 1942, TO THE BRIDGE! is the first of three planned Action Packs covering the campaign from the Japanese invasion to the Allied liberation. TO THE BRIDGE! features Japanese infantry forces against Commonwealth infantry supported by light armored cars and carriers: Burma Rifles, Gurkha Rifles, Indian Brigade, and various frontier forces. Plus a Japanese seaborne assault opposed by the Thai army supported by the Pattani Provinicial Police Force and units from the military academy.
TO THE BRIDGE! also includes optional “Australian Balancing (Bidding) System” (ABS) provisions for each scenario. ABS is intended to allow for scenario side selection via a series of escalating handicap bids. Among other advantages, this can help balance scenarios between players of varying ability.
Three double-sided 11˝ × 16˝ maps round out the package. Each board is completely geomorphic and compatible with previous ASL mapboards. Offering novel map configurations, these are sure to spark the interest of designers and players alike. Featuring a number of tournament length scenarios, TO THE BRIDGE! is the perfect companion to the recently released RISING SUN.
Action Pack #9: To The Bridge! contains:
• three 11˝ × 16˝ double-sided geomorphic mapboards (7a/b, 8a/b, 9a/b)
• ten ASL scenarios featuring the new maps:
• AP83 Thai Hot – 7 turns, 8 December 1941, Pattani Province, Thailand
• AP84 Double Trouble – 5 1⁄2 turns, 28 December 1941, Bokpyin, Burma
• AP85 Slicing The Throat – 6 1⁄2 turns, 19 January 1942, Tavoy, Burma
• AP86 Milling About – 5 1⁄2 turns, 20 January 1942, Miyawadi, Burma
• AP87 Empire’s Fall – 9 1⁄2 turns, 31 January 1942, Moulmein, Burma
• AP88 Full Moon Madness – 5 1⁄2 turns, 11 February 1942, near Kuziek, Burma
• AP89 To The Pain – 6 1⁄2 turns, 17 February 1942, Danyingon, Burma
• AP90 Smashing The Hook – 5 1⁄2 turns, 18 February 1942, near Danyingon, Burma,
• AP91 Parting Shots – 6 1⁄2 turns, 21 February 1942, Thebyuchuang, Burma
• AP92 End Of The Beginning – 8 1⁄2 turns, 22 February 1942, Sittang, Burma
Designed for the aficionado, Action Pack #9 is not a complete product and assumes the buyer owns the core Advanced Squad Leader game system.
Monday, April 14, 2014
Episode 21.0 Companion Guide
The Battle of Narva was a military campaign between the German Army Detachment "Narwa" and the Soviet Leningrad Front fought for possession of the strategically important Narva Isthums on 2 February – 10 August 1944 during World War II.
The campaign took place in the northern section of the Eastern Front and consisted of two major phases: the Battle for the Narva Bridgehead (The game Army Group Narwa focuses on the first three months of this campaign) February to July 1944 and the Battle of Tannenberg Line (July–August 1944). The Soviet Kingisepp-Gdov Offensive and Narva Offensives (15-28 February, 1-4 March, and 18-24 March) were part of the Red Army Winter Spring Campaign of 1944. Following Stalin's "Broad Front" strategy, these battles coincided with the Dnieper-Carpathian Offensive. (December 1943 – April 1944) and the Lvov-Sandomierz Offensive (July–August 1944). A number of foreign volunteers and local Estonian Conscripts participated in the battle as part of the German forces. By giving its support to the illegal German conscription call, the Estonian Resistance Movement had hoped to recreate a national army and restore the independence of the country.
As a continuation of the Leningrad-Novgorod Offensive of January 1944, the Soviet Estonian operation pushed the front westward to the Narva river, aiming to destroy "Narwa" and to thrust deep into Estonia. The Soviet units established a number of bridgeheads on the opposite bank of the river in February. Subsequent attempts failed to expand their toehold. German counterattacks annihilated the bridgeheads to the north of Narva and reduced the bridgehead south of the town, stabilizing the front until July 1944. The Soviet Narva Offensive (July 1944) led to the capture of the city forcing the German troops to retreat to their prepared Tannenberg Defence Line in the Sinimaed hills 16 kilometres from Narva. In the ensuing fierce Battle of Tannenberg Line, the German army group held its ground. Stalin's main strategic goal—a quick recovery of Estonia as a base for air and seaborne attacks against Finland and an invasion of East Prussia—was not achieved. As a result of the tough defence of the German forces the Soviet war effort in the Baltic Sea region was hampered for seven and a half months.
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The campaign took place in the northern section of the Eastern Front and consisted of two major phases: the Battle for the Narva Bridgehead (The game Army Group Narwa focuses on the first three months of this campaign) February to July 1944 and the Battle of Tannenberg Line (July–August 1944). The Soviet Kingisepp-Gdov Offensive and Narva Offensives (15-28 February, 1-4 March, and 18-24 March) were part of the Red Army Winter Spring Campaign of 1944. Following Stalin's "Broad Front" strategy, these battles coincided with the Dnieper-Carpathian Offensive. (December 1943 – April 1944) and the Lvov-Sandomierz Offensive (July–August 1944). A number of foreign volunteers and local Estonian Conscripts participated in the battle as part of the German forces. By giving its support to the illegal German conscription call, the Estonian Resistance Movement had hoped to recreate a national army and restore the independence of the country.
As a continuation of the Leningrad-Novgorod Offensive of January 1944, the Soviet Estonian operation pushed the front westward to the Narva river, aiming to destroy "Narwa" and to thrust deep into Estonia. The Soviet units established a number of bridgeheads on the opposite bank of the river in February. Subsequent attempts failed to expand their toehold. German counterattacks annihilated the bridgeheads to the north of Narva and reduced the bridgehead south of the town, stabilizing the front until July 1944. The Soviet Narva Offensive (July 1944) led to the capture of the city forcing the German troops to retreat to their prepared Tannenberg Defence Line in the Sinimaed hills 16 kilometres from Narva. In the ensuing fierce Battle of Tannenberg Line, the German army group held its ground. Stalin's main strategic goal—a quick recovery of Estonia as a base for air and seaborne attacks against Finland and an invasion of East Prussia—was not achieved. As a result of the tough defence of the German forces the Soviet war effort in the Baltic Sea region was hampered for seven and a half months.
What to Play:
Sunday, April 13, 2014
Monday, April 7, 2014
Companion Guide to Epsidoe 20.0
The Battle of Agincourt was a major English victory in the Hundred years war. The battle occurred on Friday, 25 October 1415 near modern-day Azincourt in northern France. Henry V's
victory at Agincourt, against a numerically superior French army,
crippled France and started a new period in the war during which Henry
married the French king's daughter and then Henry's son, was made heir to the throne of France.
Henry V led his troops into battle and participated in hand-to-hand fighting. The French king of the time, Charles VI did not command the French army himself as he suffered from severe, repeating illnesses and moderate mental incapacitation. Instead, the French were commanded by Constable Charles d'Albert. and various prominent French noblemen of the Armagnac party.
The battle is notable for the use of the English longbow, which Henry used in very large numbers, with English and Welsh archers forming most of his army. The battle is also the centrepiece of the play by Shakespeare and later movie Henry V by Kenneth Branagh.
What to play:
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What to read:
What to watch:
Henry V led his troops into battle and participated in hand-to-hand fighting. The French king of the time, Charles VI did not command the French army himself as he suffered from severe, repeating illnesses and moderate mental incapacitation. Instead, the French were commanded by Constable Charles d'Albert. and various prominent French noblemen of the Armagnac party.
The battle is notable for the use of the English longbow, which Henry used in very large numbers, with English and Welsh archers forming most of his army. The battle is also the centrepiece of the play by Shakespeare and later movie Henry V by Kenneth Branagh.
What to play:
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What to read:
What to watch:
Thursday, April 3, 2014
The Guards Counterattack in 3-d!
How much do I like this scenario? Enough to do this! A two story building measures roughly 3/4" high.
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