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Scenario#: J165     Date: 5/26/1941     Location: Galatas, Crete

The German invasion of Crete began on 20 May 1941, and was the first large-scale airborne operation in history. Fallshirmjager jumped into battle or landed by gliders near their targets. However, the Allied defenders of Crete made the German…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL Journal #11
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Scenario#: 21     Date: 10/17/1944     Location: Aachen, Germany

Aachen was isolated, but prying the first German city away from the Reich would prove no easy task. Hoping to avoid the nightmare of house-to-house fighting, two battalions were ordered to drive through the heart of Aachen towards the three hills…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 3 - Yanks
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Scenario#: 83     Date: 9/5/1939     Location: Piotrkow, Poland

Despite the spirited opposition of Poland’s Army Lodz and the still-mobilizing Army Prusy, the German 1st and 4th Panzer Divisions drove deep into the heart of Poland. As the panzer divisions continued their assault, bending straight for the town of…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 11 - Doomed Battalions
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Scenario#: 177     Date: 10/29/1944     Location: Särkiniemi, Finland

The Germans were not only fighting the Soviet offensive in the north of Finland, but their units in the south now had to fight their way past Finnish units attempting to cut off their routes to the north. The last German unit to make its way north…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 14 - Hakkaa Päälle!
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Scenario#: RB14     Date: 12/31/1942     Location: Stalingrad, Russia

Since the 19th of November the tide in Stalingrad had begun its fateful turn. For on that day to the north and south of the city, the Soviet Army launched a massive two-pronged counterattack, on a 200-kilometer front, with 10 infantry divisions,…

Advanced Squad LeaderHASL10a - Red Factories
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Scenario#: 119     Date: 10/11/1944     Location: Aphadia, Transylvania

For centuries Transylvania had been fought over by Hungarians and Romanians. The “Vienna Award” of 1940 had placed a large portion of the region under Hungarian rule at the expense of the Romanians. Having switched sides to join the Allies, the…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 12 - Armies of Oblivion
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Scenario#: SF18     Date: 1945-02-23     Location: Intramuros, Manila, Philippines

Their virtually unopposed river crossing came as a welcome relief to the men of 3rd Battalion, 129th Regiment. Taking full advantage of the limited Japanese response, the Americans advanced deeper into the ruins of the ancient walled city, placing…

Advanced Squad LeaderSword and Fire: Manila
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Scenario#: BOF23     Date: 4/26/1945     Location: Berlin, Germany

The Red Army had finally reached Berlin. In the suburb of Neukölln, SS troopers and the Russians struggled for control of the courthouse. Not until both flanks had crumbled under Russian pressure and two streets were the only open withdrawal route…

Advanced Squad LeaderBest of Friends 2
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Scenario#: J096     Date: 7/15/1943     Location: Primosole Bridge, Sicily

Despite a spirited defense of the Simeto Bridgehead, the Germans had retaken the bridge and established a bridgehead of their own south of the Simeto River. After a night of preparation, a counterstroke was launched the morning of the 15tth by the…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL Journal #6
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Scenario#: S022     Date: 7/10/1943     Location: Niscemi, Sicily

To form a defensive zone ahead of the vulnerable beachheads, parts of the 82nd Airborne Division wasdropped during the night before the main landings. But poor coordination, friendly AA fire and bad weather all made the operation a very difficult…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL Starter Kit #3
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Scenario#: AP161     Date: 5/27/1941     Location: Chania, Crete

During the first part of 1941, Allied forces had been defeated in Greece and many had retreated to Crete. In their haste, the allies had been forced to leave much of their heavy equipment behind, leaving them lightly armed for the inevitable German…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL Action Pack #16 From The Land Down Under
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Scenario#: AP037     Date: 8/4/1944     Location: St. Sever-Calvados, France

At about 0930 on 4 August, Col. Paul Disney’s 67th Armored Regiment passed through St. Sever Calvados onto a major road leading to Vire. Running parallel to the road was the forest of St. Sever with groves of fruit trees along the fringes. After…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL Action Pack #4 Normandy 1944
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Scenario#: 161     Date: 12/3/1939     Location: Yläluostari, Finland

When the Winter War commenced on 30 November, the Finns did not expect any significant activity in the northernmost sector of Petsamo. The Soviets, however, had committed their entire 104th Division to secure both the Finnish arctic coast and the…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 14 - Hakkaa Päälle!
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Scenario#: 162     Date: 12/5/1939     Location: Perkjärvi, Finland

To delay the Soviet onslaught from reaching the main Finnish defense line, the finns engaged in a series of fighting withdrawals. Orders for one such delaying action was directed to 1st Company, Hämmen ratsurykmeniti (Häme cavalry regiment) at the…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 14 - Hakkaa Päälle!
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Scenario#: J010     Date: 1/6/1942     Location: Trolak, Malaya

The Japanese continued boldly down the trunk road, assaulting and flanking any British position which tried to block the road. At Milestone 62, the British nearly stopped the Japanese cold. This time, a small Japanese detachment of four tanks and a…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL Journal #1
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Scenario#: 88     Date: 5/10/1940     Location: Mont-Le-Ban, Belgium

Rommel’s 7th Panzer Division on a bypass bumped into units protecting the Belgian southern flank. This lightly-held part of the Belgian defense was occupied by units of the 10th Motorcycle Company, which had been scattered into three different…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 11 - Doomed Battalions
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Scenario#: WO30     Date: 6/6/1944     Location: La Bas de Ranville, France

After a mediocre drop, the 12th Battalion of the 6th Airborne Division assembled barely half its fighting strength and headed for their first day’s objective, the town of Ranville, where they were to help protect the southern flank of Pegasus Bridge.…

Advanced Squad LeaderWinter Offensive Bonus Pack 2019
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Scenario#: SF17     Date: 1945-02-23     Location: Intramuros, Manila, Philippines

The battle to take the ancient Spanish city of Intramuros was ready to begin. The 1st Cavalry Division was in position west and south of the walled city. The 37th Infantry Division held key buildings east of Intramuros. Now, an amphibious assault…

Advanced Squad LeaderSword and Fire: Manila
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Scenario#: U18     Date: 5/11/1940     Location: The Hague, Holland

Following the spectacular success of the parachute drop on the fortress of Eben Emael, it was feared the Germans would attempt a similar raid to seize Queen Wilhelmina, infant crown Princess Beatrix, and other members of the Dutch Royal Family.…

Advanced Squad LeaderTurning the Tide
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Scenario#: J173     Date: 11/24/1944     Location: Baerendorf, France

Soon after crossing the Sarre River, 4th Armored Division vanguards ran into the flank of Panzer Lehr Division. Approaching the village of Baerendorf, Combat Command B sent its 53rd Armor Infantry Battalion forward to conduct a hazardous stream…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL Journal #11
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Scenario#: WO05     Date: 9/25/1944     Location: Koevering, Holland

Operation Market-Garden’s timetable was horribly off. Feldmarschall Model recognized that disrupting the supply train was the easiest way to defeat the offensive, so he assigned various units the task of assaulting the road’s defending forces. The…

Advanced Squad LeaderWinter Offensive Bonus Pack 2011
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Scenario#: FB14     Date: 2/7/1945     Location: Budapest, Hungary

FB14 is the first “official” three-player scenarios. One player plays the Germans, and the second player plays the Soviets. However, the third player plays the Hungarians that are fighting along BOTH sides. The scenario thus has four player turns…

Advanced Squad LeaderHASL 8 - Festung Budapest
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Scenario#: 238     Date: 5/28/1940     Location: Ankenes, Norway

By the end of May 1940, the catastrophic unfolding of the battle for France caused the Allies to evacuate Norway. Nevertheless, it was decided to take Narvik in order to close the campaign on a victory and lessen the earlier humiliations. On the…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 10 - Croix de Guerre ( 2nd Edition)
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Scenario#: V     Date: 1/1/1945     Location: Gerimont, France

In the Ardennes sector, the U.S. 87th Division was given the assignment of taking Gerimont. The opening of the assault went well but while pausing to regroup in the outskirts of the town, the Americans were hit by a strong local counterattack. The…

Advanced Squad LeaderThe General #31.3
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Scenario#: AP166     Date: 1/28/1943     Location: Wandumi, New Guinea

In early January, the bitterly fought Buna-Gona campaign on the eastern coast of New Guinea was concluding. Further up the coastline, 4,000 Japanese troops of the veteran Slst Division landed in Salamaua, near Lac, and proceeded into the hinterland…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL Action Pack #16 From The Land Down Under
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Scenario#: G12     Date: 2/6/1943     Location: Nalchik, Russia

For almost three months the German 1st Mountain and the Russian 318th Mountain Rifle divisions were locked together in combat on the slopes of Mount Elbrus. February 6th was a typical day, as simultaneous attacks on two ridges separated by a shallow…

Advanced Squad LeaderThe General #27.1
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Scenario#: OB11     Date: 9/8/1944     Location: Avril, France

The 90th Division was the northernmost unit of Walton Walker's XX Corps as it made its way to the Moselle. The German 1st Army commander, General Knobolsdorf, decided to try to turn the flank of XX Corps by launching a spoiling attack from the west…

Advanced Squad LeaderOut of the Bunker
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Scenario#: DASL24     Date: 2/4/1943     Location: Stanichka, Russia

With the German occupation of Sevastopol and Novorossiysk in 1942, the Soviet Black Sea Fleet had lost its primary naval bases. Its operations were shifted farther down the southeast coast to the city of Poti, whose port facilities were small and…

Advanced Squad LeaderDeluxe Advanced Squad Leader
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Scenario#: 19     Date: 6/6/1944     Location: Pointe-du-Hoc, France

American Rangers had scaled the cliffs at Pointe-du-Hoc only to find the coastal battery guns there gone from their casemates. But once atop the cliff, there was no returning to the sea. The Rangers set up a perimeter to await their relief at the…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 3 - Yanks
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Scenario#: VOTG26     Date: 9/20/1942     Location: Stalingrad, Russia

Early in the morning of 20 September, a submachine gun-armed Sturmgruppe from Infanterie-Division 71 broke through along Moskovskaya Street and seized the main landing mole. At that moment ill fortune would have it that a flight of Stukas mistook the…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL Journal #11
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Scenario#: J060     Date: 11/21/1944     Location: Merzig, Germany

As part of the Third Army’s encirclement of Metz, Combat Command B of the 10th Armored Division was ordered to strike east towards the Saar River to secure the Army’s flank. Fearing that this was the main attack to roll up the Saar region, the…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL Journal #3
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Scenario#: S066     Date: 9/26/1942     Location: Matanikau River, Guadalcanal

The Marines planned a three-pronged attack against the Japanese forces on the western bank of the Matanikau River. The 1st Raider Battalion would cross the river at a small footbridge upstream and attack from the south while elements of the 5th…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL Starter Kit #4
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Scenario#: HS08     Date: 9/26/1942     Location: The One-Log Bridge, Guadalcanal

The Marine Raiders were looking to cross the Matanikau River to the west bank to complete an encirclement. Unbeknownst to the Marines, the IJA had crossed the river and was on the east bank when the engagement occurred.

Advanced Squad LeaderHSASL 1 - Operation Watchtower
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Scenario#: HC2     Date: 1942-09-26     Location: The One-Log Bridge, Guadalcanal

The Marine Raiders were looking to cross the Matanikau River to the west bank to complete an encirclement. Unbeknownst to the Marines, the IJA had crossed the river and was …

Advanced Squad LeaderOperations Special Issue #3
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Scenario#: S018     Date: 10/25/1942     Location: Stalingrad, Russia

Throughout the grueling month of October, determined and costly German assaults had steadily shrunk the Soviet defensive perimeter. By October 24, Panzer Division 14 had reached “Bread Factory #2” just to the south of the Barikady and commenced its…

Advanced Squad LeaderOperations #49
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Scenario#: U26     Date: 9/11/1941     Location: Leningrad, Russia SEIGE

With the 1st Panzer in the line, the attack moved forward again on the 11th. Eckinger’s I/113th Rifle Regiment, reinforced by a company of the 1st Panzer Regiment and a platoon of engineers, was in the lead. Von Richtofen’s Stukas arrived right on…

Advanced Squad LeaderTurning the Tide
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Scenario#: 111     Date: 4/13/1941     Location: Szenttanas, Yugoslavia

Now it was Yugoslavia's turn to be in the center of the German blitzkrieg. Operation "Merita" had begun and the country was attacked on all sides. As Hungarian "Group Sandor" advanced through abandoned Yugoslavian positions, it was ordered to push…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 12 - Armies of Oblivion
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Scenario#: SF22     Date: 1945-02-24     Location: South Port Area, Manila, Philippines

After the 2nd Squadron, 12th Cavalry Regiment had cleared the Customs building, it was a matter of mopping up the remainder of the South Port facilities near the shore of Manila Bay. In performing their mission, the 1st Squadron generally encountered…

Advanced Squad LeaderSword and Fire: Manila
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Scenario#: AP099     Date: 11/10/1944     Location: Momauk, Burma

The Chinese 38th Division, tasked with capturing Bhamo, advanced its three regiments south towards the Taping River. The 113th Regiment brushed aside Japanese patrols along its north bank, but found the south to be more heavily defended. 38th…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL Action Pack #10
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Scenario#: VOTG22     Date: 9/26/1942     Location: Stalingrad, Russia

On 21 September, Lt. Anton Dragan and the remnants of his company from the 1st Battalion, 42nd Guards Regiment fell back to a three-story building on the corner of Komsomolskaya and Krasnopeterskaya, which they fortified. For the next five days,…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL Journal #9
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Scenario#: DASL15     Date: 7/27/1944     Location: Le Lorey, France

The 2nd SS-Panzer Regiment, after a harrowing cross-country march through the heartland of the Maquis, assembled with the rest of the division south of Saint Lo to meet the American threat. Having lost two tanks in the sharp fighting of the past two…

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Scenario#: AP115     Date: 9/15/1944     Location: Peleliu, Palau Islands

The Palau operation called for the invasion of Peleliu on 15 September. The 1st Battalion of the 5th Marine Regiment landed on Orange Beach 1 at 0832 hours, where it met only scattered resistance upon landnig and as it moved inland. Instead of the…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL Action Pack #12 Oktoberfest XXX
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Scenario#: HS28     Date: 2/21/1945     Location: Louisendorf, Germany

As the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry battled for the Goch-Kalkar road, they were worried about their right flank, with good reason. Elements of the Essex Scottish Regiment were hanging on their by the skin of their teeth. Although they had…

Advanced Squad LeaderHSASL 2 - Operation Veritable
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Scenario#: U15     Date: 9/6/1939     Location: Central, Poland

For two days the Poles desperately tried to hold a line in the vicinity of the Warta and Widawka Rivers but were gradually pushed back. However, the stubborn resistance of the crack Polish 10th Infantry Division was threatening to throw the German…

Advanced Squad LeaderTurning the Tide
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Scenario#: 160     Date: 1/29/1945     Location: Tacondo Barrio, Luzon

Many of the Japanese troops defending Clark Field were less than front-line quality. Lieutenant Colonel Seikuke Eguchi, however, scrounged for them every available machine gun from the destroyed aircraft littering the runways. As the remains of Kembu…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 13 - Rising Sun
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Scenario#: AP074     Date: 9/10/1943     Location: Battipaglia, Italy

Landing at 0330 a mile from the mouth of the Tusciano River, the 9th Royal Fusiliers were under fire from the moment they disembarked onto Roger Beach. Their objective was a small village at the base of a tall hill that was six miles distant. This…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL Action Pack #8 Roads Through Rome
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Scenario#: AP065     Date: 3/13/1943     Location: Baw Village, Burma

For weeks the “Chindits” of the 77th Indian Infantry Brigade had been marching, living off the jungle, and harassing the Japanese wherever they were found. Major Mike Calvert's 3 Column had tried unsuccessfully to find a suitable site for an air…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL Action Pack #7
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Scenario#: 224     Date: 2/4/1943     Location: Glebovka, Russia

In an effort to cut off the Seventh Army's retreat to the Iaman Peninsula, Stalin devised a plan to use a combined land and seaborne operation. The Black Sea Fleet would land a force composed of army and naval troops in the German's rear. The landing…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 12 - Armies of Oblivion (2nd Edition)
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Scenario#: AP148     Date: 4/30/1940     Location: Selbu, Norway

As the defenses of southern Norway crumbled before the German onslaught, a group of young Swedish men decided to try their luck and help their neighbors. Led by Conny Andersson, a veteran of the Spanish Civil War, the group crossed the border in late…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL Action Pack #15 Swedish Volunteers
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Scenario#: KGP11     Date: 12/23/1944     Location: La Gleize, Belgium

Mangled guns and the burned-out wreckage of vehicles littered the area in and around the ruined village of La Gleize. From their defensive strongpoints the remnants of Peiper's command scanned the approaches for signs of a renewed attack. The…

Advanced Squad LeaderHASL 3 - Kampfgruppe Peiper II
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