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.
And all without changing how this great game is played. The fruits of 15 years of "playtesting" can be seen here in the ASL RULES 2nd Edition which incorporates all previous errata and questions & answers. Great care has been taken to clear up ambiguities in the rules while keeping the game the same.
Although the ASL RULES 2nd Edition is not a complete game by itself, when combined with its add-on modules it allows the armchair warrior to simulate practically any small-unit action from 1935-1945, opening the gateway to hundreds of unique battles spanning the globe. Combined with the Beyond Valor game module, for instance, the Rules allow you to simulate battles between Finns, Germans, Russians, and partisans from 1939 to the capture of Berlin. Furthermore, ASL's "Design Your Own" system helps you create "what-if" battles with forces and terrain of your own choosing. The Chapter H notes on vehicles and ordnance (German and Russian notes are included) are one of the best single sources of information on the armor, vehicles, and guns actually used in battle in World War II. Other game modules separately available bring you the complete orders of battle for U.S. Army and Marines, British, Italian, Japanese, Chinese, and French forces, as well as the Minor nations that fought with the Allies or the Axis.
Included in ASL RULES 2nd Edition are separate full-color chapters for Infantry, Terrain, Ordnance and Offboard Artillery, Vehicles, a miscellaneous chapter with advanced rules (night, weather, boats, planes, skis, convoys, etc.), rules for playing on deluxe-sized boards, “Design Your Own” rules and German and Russian Vehicle and Ordnance Notes, an expanded Training Manual, an expanded Index, and numerous, full-color, hard-stock dividers with useful charts and player aids.
ASL Starter Kit #1 is a self-contained module that will let players start playing Advanced Squad Leader almost immediately. A liberally illustrated rules tutorial teaches gamers ASL using a conversational style making this a highly accessible product for all levels of ability.
How Starter Kit #1 differs from full ASL: Concentrates on German, Russian, and American infantry. / The only terrain types on ASLSK#1 boards y and z are: Open ground, Roads, Woods, Woods-roads, Grain (no ploughed fields), Orchards and Single level buildings. / There is no rubble, no entrenching, no fortifications, no flames or blazes, no wind, and no weather. / Cut down rules ignoring non-pertinent infantry info.
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!
This answers the inevitable question we get with the Starter Kit concept. Do I need ASLSK#2 if I have ASLSK#1? The Starter Kits are self contained. Each has everything you need to play what's in the box, with the higher numbers adding to the ASL knowledge you'll have from playing previous Starter Kits. We do not anticipate changing what you've learned from prior Starter Kits (for example, ASLSK#2 adds about 4 pages of rules to the base built by ASLSK#1). A better question would be "Do I need ASLSK#1 if I buy ASLSK#2?". The short answer is a resounding no! You can dive right in with ASLSK#2. But if you do, and you like the game, ASLSK#1 adds more boards and scenarios (infantry only) for you to enjoy. We know it's a little confusing, we hope this clears it up a bit.
Contents:
* 2 8x22 Geomorphic Maps (w and x) for the ASL System
* 1 full Countersheet of 1/2" counters
* 1 half Countersheet of 5/8" counters
* 8 scenarios printed on 4 individual cardstock sheets
* 2 quick reference charts printed on cardstock sheet
* 1 20-page rules booklet (about 17 pages are rules) with plentiful color illustrations
* 2 dice
Time Scale: 2 minutes per Game Turn
Unit Scale: 5 to 10 men, plus individual leaders, vehicles, guns
Map Scale 40 meters per hex
Players: 2 (also suitable for solitaire or team play)
Complexity: Medium
Solitaire Suitability: Medium
Advanced Squad Leader Rules Set by MMP
Adds vehicles (tanks and armoured cars) to the Starter Kit series. ASL Starter Kit #1 and/or ASL Starter Kit #2 ARE NOT REQUIRED to play ASL Starter Kit #3.
This is a stand-alone game, everything you need to play ASL is in this game. All rules/concepts introduced in ASLSK#1 and ASLSK#2 are included in ASLSK#3's rulebook.
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:
12 scenarios specifically designed for Advanced Squad Leader
3 8"x22" "starter kit style" geomorphic mapboards (24,42, and 43)
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:
12 ASL scenarios
3 ASL 'starter kit-style' geomorphic mapboards (53,54,55)
Revised rules pages B9 & B10
The Advanced Squad Leader (ASL) rulebook and at least Beyond Valor - ASL Module 1 and Yanks - ASL Module 3 are required for play.
ASL Supplement by MMP
Armies of Oblivion is the long-awaited module adding the Axis Minors order of battle to the Advanced Squad Leader tactical game system.
* 4 8"x22" geomorphic mapboards 48,49,50,51
* CURRENTLY MOUNTED MAP VERSIONS FOR SALE
* 3 sheets of overlays (2 8"x11"; 1 river)
* 6 Counter sheets
* 11 ASL Scenarios 111-121
* Axis Minor Chapter H pages (H143-H172)
* Errata pages A51-A62; D21-D26; S27-S34
* 2 SASL Axis Minor cards
Scenario List
# 111 Balkan Sideshow, Szenttanas, Yugoslavia, 1941
# 112 Out of Cowardice, Senta, Yugoslavia, 1941
# 113 Liberating Bessarabia, Branzeni, Bessarabia, 1941
# 114 Cautious Crusaders, Lipovic, Ukraine 1941
# 115 Huns of Steel, Uriv, Russia, 1942
# 116 The Sixth Blow, Skopce, Poland, 1944
# 117 With Tigers On Their Tail, Saturnia, Galicia, 1944
# 118 Downsizing the Uprising, Vrutky, Slovakia, 1944
# 119 Ancient Feud, Cluj, Transylvania, 1944
# 120 Return to Sender, Nish, Serbia, 1944
# 121 End Station Budapest, Budapest, Hungary, 1945
ASL Module by MMP
The first, and most important, core module for Advanced Squad Leader is back in print and better than ever! Beyond Valour now contains 10 maps and 14 countersheets - everything you need to play the 24 scenarios in the box plus a lifetime of Design Your Own play plus many other scenarios which use the components of BV. The new printing of Beyond Valour does not contain Red Barricades. It does contain "Starter Kit"-style maps.
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 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!
FOR KING AND COUNTRY is not a complete game. Ownership of the ASL rulebook is required. To play all 20 scenarios, ownership of Beyond Valor and (for the mapboards) Yanks!, and mapboards 2-6, 9-11, 13, 14, and 33 are required.
The unstoppable Italian juggernaut rolls on in this new edition, which features a completely revised Italian Chapter H.
Based on the first American offensive in the Pacific, these 16 scenarios help illustrate the major turning points and decisions of the campaign.
The first introductory module produced for ASL, which contains all the counters, boards and markers necessary to get going (except the rules of course). This updated edition now also includes the original boards 2 and 4.
Advanced Squad Leader Module by MMP
Please Note: Valor of the Guards is not a complete game, the ASL Rulebook and Beyond Valor are required for play.
Valor of the Guards is the seventh historical module for Advanced Squad Leader which simulates the September battles for the Central Railway Station in Stalingrad.
Game Contents:
* Two 22"x32" full-color mapsheets
* 3 countersheets
* One ASL Rules Chapter with all the rules required for both scenario and campaign games
* Up to four Campaign Games
* 10 Scenario Cards with 17 scenarios
* Three 8" x 11" Player Aid/Roster cards
The sixth MMP magazine dedicated to the greatest tactical board wargame, the ASL Journal #6 is 48-pages with 12 scenarios, a new mini-HASL map (Primosole Bridge), and the rules chapter to play the campaign games concerning the bridge.
Journal #6 contains articles on:
* Series Replay: Tired and Unsupported (featuring Bocage)
* Residual Firepower and Firelanes
* Comprehensive Example on Residual Firepower and Firelanes
* The British in WWII (part 1 of 2)
