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A Small Town in Germany Scenario#: U47     Date: 4/8/1945     Location: Friesoythe, Germany The occupation of the Groningen bulge made it possible for the British Second Army to drive into northern Germany. The Allied advance did not go smoothly. Small "stay-behind" forces resisted bitterly. One example occurred when the Canadian 4th… Advanced Squad Leader — Rivers to the Reich
Bridgehead on the Rhine Scenario#: U45     Date: 3/24/1945     Location: Speldrop, Germany During the night of 23 March, the Allied 21st Army Group began the long-awaited Rhine crossing. The first division to cross was the British 51st Highland Division mounted in Buffaloes of the 4th Royal Tank and Northamptonshire Yeomanry of the special… Advanced Squad Leader — Rivers to the Reich
Clearing the Breskens Pocket Scenario#: U38     Date: 10/6/1944     Location: Scheldt Estuary, Holland This is a two-part scenario that combines the previous two scenarios: U36 "Operation Switchback" and U37 "Scheldt Fortress South". Advanced Squad Leader — Rivers to the Reich
Encircling The Ruhr Scenario#: U46     Date: 3/30/1945     Location: Ruhr, Germany As the 12th Army wheeled its way north under overcast skies to join the 9th Army in encircling the Ruhr, they drew upon the 3rd Armored Division to lead the way. A task force built around a medium tank battalion which included a few of the new… Advanced Squad Leader — Rivers to the Reich
Infatuate II Scenario#: U41     Date: 11/1/1944     Location: Westkapelle, Holland The last German stronghold on the Schledt Estuary was the island of Walcgeren. Linked by a narrow causeway to South Beveland, its batteries were still a threat to Allied transports. Agile minesweepers were already plying their trade in the estuary,… Advanced Squad Leader — Rivers to the Reich
Operation Switchback Scenario#: U36     Date: 10/6/1944     Location: Leopold Canal, Holland Antwerp had fallen unharmed into Allied hands All that prevented the use of the port was the German flak and artillery that lined the narrow waterway linking the North Sea to Antwerp: the Scheldt Estuary. Hitler assigned General Eberding as Fortress… Advanced Squad Leader — Rivers to the Reich
Operation Varsity Scenario#: U44     Date: 3/24/1945     Location: Hamminkeln, Germany The airborne phase of the Allies' Northern Rhine crossing was to be the last airborne assault of the war. Artillery units and fighter-bombers pounded the German gun positions in the vicinity of the drop zones so severely that the first wave of… Advanced Squad Leader — Rivers to the Reich
Scheldt Fortress South Scenario#: U37     Date: 10/25/1944     Location: Albert Canal, Holland Backed against the Scheldt Estuary, the weakened German 64th Infantry Division faced the entire Canadian Fisrt Army. It was the guns of the 64th which barred shipping from Antwerp. Every day that the 64th held out meant another day of short supplies… Advanced Squad Leader — Rivers to the Reich
Semper Paratus Scenario#: U35     Date: 9/27/1944     Location: Oorderen, Holland "Semper Paratus" (Latin for "Always Ready") was the motto of the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry Regiment. Lieutenant C.P. J. Des Groseillers urged his straining men to push again. D Company had found a German 75mm antitank gun in the ruins of… Advanced Squad Leader — Rivers to the Reich
Stand Fast Scenario#: U42     Date: 12/10/1944     Location: Hamlet outside Obergeich, Germany As the Americans advanced across the plains of Germany, the badly outnumbered Germans could not hope to hold a continuous line. Rather than expose themselves, the Wehrmacht troops turned each town or clump of buildings into a small strongpoint. Early… Advanced Squad Leader — Rivers to the Reich
The Clearing Scenario#: U39     Date: 10/10/1944     Location: Hürtgen Forest, Germany Day after day of seemingly endless forest. Constant shelling had turned most of the trees to shattered hulks. Advances were truly measured in yards as each step forward increased the threat of yet another sniper or hidden Spandau. Then, near the road… Advanced Squad Leader — Rivers to the Reich
The Dornot Watermark Scenario#: U34     Date: 9/10/1944     Location: Dornot, Germany With its series of forts and prepared positions, the area around the historic Lorraine city of Metz was to become known as “Fortress Metz” to the U.S. forces fighting in Europe. The first test in the long campaign which was to earn the city its name… Advanced Squad Leader — Rivers to the Reich
The Rag Tag Circus Scenario#: U48     Date: 4/12/1945     Location: Barby on the Elbe, Germany GIs of the 83rd Infantry Division took particular pride in their use of captured German vehicles. So extensive was their “used car lot” appearance that the news correspondents nicknamed this unit the “Rag Tag Circus”. The Americans had a chance to… Advanced Squad Leader — Rivers to the Reich
The Roer Bridgehead Scenario#: U43     Date: 2/23/1945     Location: Koerrenzig, Germany The GIs had been poised before the Roer for days. German engineers had skillfully blown the upriver dam floodgates so that the Roer had run fierce and wide. Now, with the river still in flood but navigable, the concentrated might of the US Army would… Advanced Squad Leader — Rivers to the Reich
Vitality I Scenario#: U40     Date: 10/24/1944     Location: South Beveland, Holland The south shore of the Schledt was nearly cleared. Unfortunately, guns on the north bank, though much less commanding, could threaten the Allied shipping lanes to the port of Antwerp. The eastern portion of the north shore was a fingerlike strip of… Advanced Squad Leader — Rivers to the Reich