How important is it to you that the scenarios are based on actual events? The scenarios of ASL are mostly based on real battles of the 2nd World War. I unwrapped the ASLRB from its shrink slid the book out of its casing and randomly opened it to fall on the section about machine guns and rate of fire, fire lanes…and so ended the boycott and Squad Leader sailed into the past…and my ASL journey was underway and I have never looked back. for a conference, and I asked her to bring back the ASL Rule Book (ASLRB) and Beyond Valor (BV), which she did.
My then-wife was traveling back to the U.S. In London, I found myself needing something to take my mind off my graduate studies. This hiatus from SL and ASL lasted until the fall of 1988, when now working on my Ph.D.
and I did not have the time to play in any case. When Avalon Hill announced that “Advanced” Squad Leader would come out, I was pissed, having spent all my hard-gained money on SL, Cross of Iron (COI), Crescendo of Doom (COD) and GI: Anvil of Victory, so pissed that I boycotted ASL altogether.Ī boycott that was made easier by the fact that by 1986 I was in graduate school getting my M.A. I then proceeded through all the SL expansion modules from there. I started with the “orange” box Squad Leader in 1978. Did you start with ASL or were you a Squad Leader (SL) Player before that? It was preceded by the Squad Leader series. HASL about a little known battleĪSL came out in 1985. Before doing a blog post about learning history through gaming, I reached out to him and interviewed him. Based in France, this HASL was designed by Andrew Hershey of Virginia. I discovered this epic battle through the purchase of a Historical ASL ( HASL) product from a 3rd party producer, le franc tireur. I intend to do a blog post on how ASL is part history teacher.įor example, it is through ASL that I learned of a battle in early 1942 to the west of Moscow, The Battle of the Kholm Pocket. The history of the Second World War is not only fascinating but is rich and has even to this day many surprises awaiting anyone who wants to dig deep enough. One of the many reasons I play Advanced Squad Leader ( ASL) is because I am a self-professed amateur historian.
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