Advanced Squad Leader Starter Kit Expansion Packs, Historical, and Magazine Scenarios
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Leave...or Elst
On the day that Operation MARKET-GARDEN officially ended, the 7th Somerset Light Infantry was ordered to capture the crossroads in the center of Elst. Supported by a troop of tanks, the Somersets jumped off at 1000 hours on either side of the main…
1944-09-25
Knaust's 'Fausts
The 43rd Wessex Division sent a message to XXX Corps HQ that was unusually realistic: “214th Brigade are going to have another crack at Elst, in which every house contains a bazooka and a few infantry. Will be a slow job but should be cleared up…
1944-09-24
The Bend in the Road
The road to Nijmegen and Arnhem became the scene of many dramatic events. While the 1st Airborne Division was being annihilated in Arnhem, XXX Corps, desperate to reach the Rhine River and rescue its comrades, was behind schedule. The Germans had…
1944-09-23
Ambush at De Hoop
The British had just completed the “Dash to Driel”, a 10-mile advance in just 30 minutes across “the Island” to bring supplies to the beleaguered troops in the Arnhem bridgehead. Having been informed that German armored vehicles had engaged British…
1944-09-22
Not A Man Afraid
The war struck northeastern India when a column of the 138th Regiment commanded by Colonel Torikai came upon the remote village of Jassami. The British hastily sent elements of the Assam Regiment to the village in an attempt to continue to slow the…
1944-03-28
Spring and Summer
The Japanese had landed on the northwest corner of Papua New Guinea on 21 July and began their trek towards Port Moresby. The Australian Army moved to prevent the Japanese intentions, and the first clash along the Kokoda Trail occurred two days later…
1942-08-27
Politics, Logistics, and Pride
The American military mission to China led by General Stillwell was formed with the intent to create a Theater of Operations in the China, Burma, India area to engage the Japanese forces and protect the Allied interests. Despite politics, logistics,…
1942-03-19
No Japanese Within 100 Miles
The Japanese invasion had been underway for several days with the Dutch intelligence telling their Commonwealth allies that there were no Japanese landings on the island. Despite this report, Dutch generals blew the bridge at the Tjianten River…
1942-03-04
Dutch Trucks
following successful landings, the Shoji Detachment quickly captured the Kalidjati airfield despite tenacious British resistance, while its headquarters unit, including Colonel Shoji, took the nearby town of Soebang at 0500 on 2 March. While the…
1942-03-02
A Less Peaceful Christmas
The Japanese had landed at Lingayen Bay with 43,000 troops composed mostly of the 48th Division which had been activated in 1940 on the island of Formosa and which had not yet seen battle. Using landing craft and powered sampans, the Japanese landed…
1941-12-25
They Always Returned
The fighting raged all across the Shanghai environs. In the district of Hongkew, the Chinese and the Japanese often exchanged attacks. The combatants would exchange positions, retaking the same ground several times before any consolidation could be…
1937-10-11
Iron Fist
The area known as "Little Tokyo" in Shanghai was a Japanese enclave that was quickly surrounded by the Chinese Army in the first week of the fighting. The area included the Japanese Naval Club and the dock district along the Hunagpu River. The…
1937-08-17
Havoc at the Hospital
Against the express orders of the Army Commander in Chief, the Naval Commander in Manila, Rear Admiral Iwabuchi (perhaps still influenced by defeats at Guadalcanal two years earlier), was determined to fight a last-ditch battle and had his men in the…
1945-02-16
The Down Payment
The battle for Hürtgen Forest had been bitter, cold, and deadly. Every tree and shrub, every fold in the terrain concealed death. The area generally know as the Hürtgen Forest was not all forest. South of the divisional boundary between the 9th and…
1944-12-10
Straight and Fast
Unaware of the details of the boat assault across the Waal River, Lt. Col. Edward H. Goulburn broke up his column of armor of the 2nd Grenadier Guards, infantry of the 1st Grenadier Guards, and American Paratroopers of Lt. .Col. Vandervoort's 2nd…
1944-09-20
Going Commando
No. 30 Commando, also known as 30 Assault Unit, was a very specifically trained Commando unit whose purpose was to obtain and recover German intelligence. One of the key figures involved in the creation of 30 Assault Unit was Ian Fleming, future…
1944-06-26
Tiger's Roar
The Soviets, desperate to relieve the siege of Leningrad, launched Operation SPARK along a narrow corridor south of Lake Lagoda. The German commander, Generaloberst Georg Lindemann, knowing the Soviets would be attacking, had his troops deployed and…
1943-01-13
Insufficient Resolve
In an effort to replicate the spectacular successes at Belostok and Minsk during the first weeks of BARBAROSSA and to prevent Soviet forces from escaping towards Moscow, Generalfeldmarschall Fedor von Bock’s Army Group Center initiated an…
1941-08-02
Off to Oslo
Operation WESERÜBUNG called for a prompt seizure of political institutions and assets in both Demark and Norway. Seizure of two Norwegian airports-Fornebu and Sosa-by paratroops was the key to this goal and a prompt buildup of German forces. Although…
1940-04-09
Four Hours More
By March of 1938 Japanese forces controlled most of the Chinese Shandong Province. Despite the official non-expansionist policy that the Japanese High Command had enacted, the China Garrison Army continued to advance. To counter the Japanese…
1938-03-16
Enter the Young
By the end of November, Major General Clarence Huebner's "Big Red One" had fought all the way through the Huertgen Forest and into the towns along the edge of the Roer river plane. Hopeful for the end of fighting in the Huertgen "Death Factory", the…
1944-11-29
N-463
On November 20th, the German XIX Army launched a counterattack intended to push the Free French back from the city of Belfort and cut off the Free French forces in the Belfort gap and at the Rhine River. For the counterattack, the German commanders…
1944-11-21
Cooks, Clerks, and Bazookas
As the German 19th Army retreated up the Rhone River Valley towards Lyon, the leading elements of the American 45th Infantry Division bypassed the Germans on the east and came abreast of Lyon on August 29th. Units of the 45th captured two bridges…
1944-09-01
Converging Assaults
The Rangers had taken Gela from the surprisingly resistant Italian Coastal troops. After assessing the situation, Col. Darby organized the remaining Rangers to defend the town from counterattack. And in fact the Italian high command had ordered a…
1943-07-11
Not So Disposed
The small city and port of Gela was at the center of the American landing beaches and therefore was an important target. Colonel William Darby and his famous Rangers were to take the town during the landings. It was a difficult task, but one that the…
1943-07-10
Where the Winter Lingers
The war in Lapland had taken on a start and stop manner. The distances that men and machines had to travel were far too difficult to maintain for long and so the enemies would prepare for and then execute attacks with limited objectives. As the…
1942-04-27
Contested Settlement
The recently formed Slovakian state contested not only the treaty settlement between Poland and Slovakia, but also the political authority over the settlements in the High Tatra in which many Slovakians lived. Following the German invasion of Poland,…
1939-09-05
Across the Border
The Germans invaded Poland on the morning of September 1. The newly independent state of Slovakia aided the Germans by offering free transit, the use of airfields, and three infantry divisions. The Slovakian Infantry divisions attacked in the…
1939-09-03
Clearing Carentan
The key to the initial assaults on the Cotentin Peninsula was the town of Carentan. Control of this vital town of approximately 4000 people would allow Utah and Omaha beach to be securely joined. At approximately 0530 on 12 June, elements of the…
1944-06-12
One More Hedgerow
The 1st Battalion, 116th Infantry Regiment, 29th Infantry Division struggled across the Elle River and having to fight through many fields surrounded by the boucage. Orders have come down to take the village of Covains which is defended by elements…
1944-06-13
Sink's Encouragement
Colonel Robert Sink and his unit, the five-oh-sinks, were trying to break the German hold on the town of St. Côme du Mont bewteen Carentan and St. Mere Eglise. To do this he manuevered several units into a line east of the town including the 1st…
1944-06-08
Mopping Up
For the 115th Infantry Regiment, their D-Day plan was to land in a subsequent wave, move inland several miles, and defend against the expected German counterattack. All plans change at the first shot, however, and the 115th was now to “mop up” the…
1944-06-06