Inside GMT Flash of Steel Playing at the World Dyson’s Dodecahedron Quest for Fun! Bruce Heard and New Stories CRRPG Addict Fantasy Cafe Sitrep Hex and Violence Banzai!! Dungeon Fantastic Gaming Ballistic Ravens N’ Pennies Let’s GURPS The Collaborative Gamer Don’t Forget Your BootsThanks to having gotten into ASL later than Patch… well, being active in ASL later than Patch, one of the things I had that he didn’t was Croix de Guerre. I like the early war period, and this particular module[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Patch came over yesterday for one of our all too infrequent FtF days with just us. It’s only the fifth time we’ve played ASL FtF, and the first three were long ago, and I can barely recall them (we have[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For a long time, I posted session reports of my Vassal ASL games (mostly with Patch) over on the GameSquad forums. These were written while the games were still ongoing, instead of trying to remember just what happened months later[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well… it’s been a rough month for gaming. Mark is always busy during April, but this month has been worse than normal, with work putting a lot of extra stress on his schedule. Jason was busy, and Zjonni had some[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Mostly news from MMP catching my interest at the moment. Brian Youse posted on ConSim World on the 8th: “It is with great, well, shock, that we have to announce that Yanks, the American expansion for ASL, is out of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The long-anticipated Valor of the Guards just arrived today. Contents: Two very nice poster-maps covering central Stalingrad. Five countersheets. Damn, but punch registration has gotten good. One new vehicle type: the German SdKfz 10/5. Which seems to be a late[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Barrikady, Stalingrad, November 9, 1942: the Sixth Army was being bled white admist the ruins. The rifle strength of whole companies was often reduced to little more than a squad in an attempt to take a single house. The[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This was originally posted to my LiveJournal blog while the game was ongoing; I then posted the rest of it in replies to that post. I’ve reconstructed it here. Pointe-du-Hoc, France, 6 June 1944: Confusion had brought only nine of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…