During the most recent game, the flamethrower broke down instantly and later a light machine gun broke down and was repaired in a later turn. I played the scenario three times before writing this and each time I had quite different openings. The outcome of this game - The scenario is nicely balanced. Playing with ASLSK #1 (Multi-Man Publishing) - This plays on a half size board (9' x 11') giving a hex field of 15 wide by 9 deep, so it is a compact game, but gives enough hex locations for plenty of tactical variety. The Germans will need to cross that road and some open ground to get into close combat situations and physically wrest the objective buildings from the enemy. The Germans are the attackers, setting up in buildings on one side of the Road, whilst the Soviets set up in buildings on the other side. The firefight takes place in a city setting, where there are plenty of stone buildings, but importantly there are three multi hex buildings in the Russian lines which will be the objectives. Germans, 4 x elite, 7 x 1st line, 4 leaders, 1 x MMG, 3 x LMG, 1 x flamethrower and 2 x Demolition Charges.

On turn 3 the following reinforcements arrive, 3 x sub-machine gun squads, 1 good leader and 1 x LMG. Russians, 5 x 1st line units and 5 x conscripts, 3 leaders, 1 x MMG and 2 x LMG.

they can place a smoke counter, while moving, on a die roll of 4 or less). The only special rule is that the German 5-4-8 squads (Elites) have their Smoke Exponent increased by 2 (i.e. The Germans are the attackers and to win they must control three designated (multi-hexed) buildings by the end of the game (six turns). The initial armoured thrust into the city had failed and the campaign turned to an infantry battle. The situation is based in Stalingrad, September 1942. In some respects as we are using the ASLSK scenario as our benchmark and as this was specifically written for ASLSK as a balanced scenario, it may put the other games at a disadvantage in showing off their glory.ĪSLSK scenario S2 - War of the Rats.

The article would just be too long to do an in depth analysis, so please, no angst if your favourite system falls victim in anyway to this 'light touch' approach. This is more fun than anything else, just to see how play flows differently from game to game.

I have chosen a Starter Kit #1 scenario so that we exclude both vehicles and artillery from play and do some bare bones gaming, showing each system off at its most basic level. Please click on 'read more' to see the rest of this post. This post takes a scenario from the first ASL starter kit and uses it as a basis to play that type of action with five different tactical systems. One scenario theme and 5 quite different systems. ASLSK #1 (MMP) v Retro (Minden Games) v Band of Brothers (Worthington Games) v Conflict of Heroes (Academy Games) v Tigers at Minsk (home grown rules)

Advanced squad leader scenarios pdf