Continuing our tour through Beyond Valor scenarios, Patch and I picked up “Red Packets” in February 2012. It’s effectively the original introduction to vehicles in ASL, and has a good reputation as a fun, fast-moving scenario. Better yet, it’s a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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In February 2012, Patch and I picked up our next ASL scenario. Neither of us had actually played “Mila 18”, from Beyond Valor before, so we decided to go for that. Dealing with a 1943 uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
While we were gearing up for “Six Came Back”, Patch got a copy of Storm Over Arnhem, and we tried that out next. I have to say it didn’t do a lot for me, despite finding the idea of the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
About the time we were playing “Merzenhausen Zoo”, I got Barbarossa: Crimea, and Patch and I tried it out in a FtF day. The Odessa scenario is quite long, and we continued it via Vassal for the next few months.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After the last Deluxe fight, Patch and I decided to try out the ‘instant classic’ scenario from Journal 2, J19 “Merzenhausen Zoo”, which I had just gotten the reprint of, and we got going in November 2010. I only have[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Patch was in town doing shopping this weekend, so he came over to my place and we played some ASL yesterday. We have both gotten Action Pack 6 recently, and wanted to give the new ‘sideways’ boards a spin, but[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After the wrap-up of the last scenario (which coincided with a bad week for me), I asked Patch to put forward a scenario suggestion. He came up with the interesting J123 “Charging Chaumont”, which we had to cancel be the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Valor of the Guards came with an impressive number of scenarios. However, still more were under development, and have since appeared in the ASL Journal. Patch and I have tried a couple out, starting in July 2010…: With the appearance[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Patch and I had planned to play our previous game on Vassal, but after our FtF session, we had a backup plan—the other scenario we had been considering. We got started in May 2010…: After our little FtF Italian DASL[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As usual, I’ve taken the week after Thanksgiving off, and have been visiting my parents. It’s a nice relax-a-week. (And apparently, there’s been a bunch of rain back home, good timing!) Also, as usual, I’ve taken a bunch of games[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…