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Double Trouble Scenario#: AP084     Date: 12/28/1941     Location: Bokpyin, Burma Within days of gaining passage through Thailand, Japanese forces were probing southern Burma. On 12 December, 2nd Battalion, 143rd Infantry Regiment, 55th Division crossed the Kra Isthmus. The Regimental Commander, Colonel Uno, and one rifle company… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Action Pack #9 To the Bridge!
Slicing the Throat Scenario#: AP085     Date: 1/19/1942     Location: Tavoy, Burma Men of the 3rd and 6th Burma Rifles were about to experience their baptism of fire. The Japanese were coming. They were coming not from the south, but from the east. British plans for the defence of Burma and Malaya were partly predicated on the… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Action Pack #9 To the Bridge!
Milling About Scenario#: AP086     Date: 1/20/1942     Location: Miyawadi, Burma While Major Oki’s men secured Tavoy, a sister battalion of the 112th Infantry Regiment made preparations to cross the Burmese frontier in strength. Before sunrise on 20 January, a platoon of Gurkhas garrisoning the border village of Miyawadi was… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Action Pack #9 To the Bridge!
Empire's Fall Scenario#: AP087     Date: 1/31/1942     Location: Moulmein, Burma Moulmein – the third largest city in Burma with nearly 100,000 residents and long loyal to the Crown – clings to the eastern bank of the mouth of the Salween River. Its all-weather airfield, and position astride an important transportation route as… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Action Pack #9 To the Bridge!
Full Moon Madness Scenario#: AP088     Date: 2/11/1942     Location: Kuziek, Burma After the drubbing they received at Moulmein, the British made haste to cover the crossings of the Salween River in an ultimately futile attempt to forestall the Japanese advane. Meanwhile, beginning in early February, the Japanese began aggressive… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Action Pack #9 To the Bridge!
To the Pain Scenario#: AP089     Date: 2/17/1942     Location: Danyingon, Burma Japanese reconnaissance parties had reached as far as the colonial office in Danyingon, replacing the Union jack with a Nisshoki – the Imperial flag. After several attempts to push the constantly reinforcing Japanese out of Danyingon, a decision was… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Action Pack #9 To the Bridge!
Smashing the Hook Scenario#: AP090     Date: 2/18/1942     Location: Danyingon, Burma The British were desperate to cover the Salween River crossings; the Japanese were juts as anxious to secure them. Aggressive moves by both sides led to a particularly active fight for control of the Yinon crossing. Having beaten back an attack on… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Action Pack #9 To the Bridge!
Parting Shots Scenario#: AP091     Date: 2/21/1942     Location: Thebyuchang, Burma As the British made a precarious and disjointed withdrawal in front of the relentless Japanese advance, many small actions were fought between the Bilin River and the easily fordable Thebyu River. The Bilin was the last barrier before the Salween… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Action Pack #9 To the Bridge!
End of the Beginning Scenario#: AP092     Date: 2/22/1942     Location: Sittang, Burma With British defenses in disarray—the 17th Indian Division was strung out over 15 miles of roads, and jungle – the Japanese pressed even harder for their prize: the bridge at Sittang. Early on the morning of the 22nd the commander of 1st Battalion,… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Action Pack #9 To the Bridge!
Cold Crocodiles Scenario#: A025     Date: 1/20/1945     Location: Saint Joost, Holland Operation Blackcock's plan was for 12th Corps to clear the German 176th and 183rd Infantry Divisions, well dug in with anti-tank guns, from a triangle formed by the rivers Roer, Wurm and Maas. The Division was on the left bank with 131st Brigade… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Annual 90
Showdown at Tug Argan Pass Scenario#: A039     Date: 8/11/1940     Location: Tug Argan Pass, Somaliland On 3 August 1940, Italian forces crossed the open border into British Somaliland from Ethiopia. Splitting into two columns, the Italians struck for French Somaliland and for the crucial British port of Berbera. The British moved to block the route to… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Annual 92
...and Here We Damned Well Stay Scenario#: A050     Date: 10/27/1942     Location: El Alamein, Egypt In an ill-organized night attack during Operation Lightfoot, a battalion of the British 7th Motor Brigade had thrust forward to seize a German-held position. However, unaware that their maps were faulty, the men and carriers advanced along an… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Annual 92
A Good Party Scenario#: A056     Date: 3/16/1943     Location: Mareth, Tunisia Before the 8th Army could launch its assault on the Mareth Line, it had to clear the Axis outposts between the Wadi Zeuss and the Wadi Zigzaou. One of these, held by veterans of the 90th Light Division, encompassed a group of small hills… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Annual 93a
Across the Wire Scenario#: A061     Date: 6/16/1940     Location: Nezvet Ghirba, Libya On the afternoon of June 10th, Italy declared war upon France and England. At a single stroke, the fight had leapt beyond the confines of Europe to become a "world" conflict. On the 16th, two troops of B Squadron, 11th Hussars, were patrolling the… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Annual 93b
Faugh A Ballagh! Scenario#: A093     Date: 5/16/1944     Location: Sinagoga, Italy The Allied approach to Monte Cassino was agonizingly slow. The commanding heights gave the Germans superb observation and fire positions. In the valleys, small rearguard groups ensured that each hamlet had its price in blood. The Irish Brigade’s… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Annual 96
The Long Road Scenario#: A095     Date: 9/16/1942     Location: Anjiajia, Madagascar The Nyasalanders of the King’s African Rifles, with a detachment of South African armored cars, had worked their way from the port of Majunga halfway to the Madagascan capital, Tananarive. The Vichy defenders were handicapped both by the limited… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Annual 96
Dorset Wood in the Rain Scenario#: A100     Date: 11/19/1944     Location: Tripsrath, Germany Despite days of intermittent rain, by evening of the 18th the Allies XXX Corps had completed the encirclement of Geilenkirchen with the British 43rd Wessex Division to the north and the U.S. 84th Division to the south. As the GIs attempted to… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Annual 96
Armored Fist 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 Leader — ASL Journal #1
Squeeze Play Scenario#: J151     Date: 5/25/1944     Location: Marbam, Burma Following a heavy downpour, the temporary command for the battle of Imphal called WOODFORCE, decided to launch a new assault on the village of Marbam. The 10th Baluch Regiment would be sent in to clear Marbam and the ridge to the west, both of which… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #10
Messenger Boys Scenario#: J152     Date: 8/2/1944     Location: Drouet, France By the fourth day of the British offensive Operation Bluecoat, the German front line had been penetrated and the armoured units sought to exploit the gains. To obtain a clear line of advance, the British Guards Armoured division changed its… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #10
Riding to the Rescue Scenario#: J161     Date: 5/24/1940     Location: Picquigny, France On May 22, German tanks reached Boulogne and split the Allied armies at the Somme River. The British 1st Armoured Division, in France for less than four days, was ordered to retake three river crossings with the support of lorry-borne Territorials… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #11
African Brothers Scenario#: J162     Date: 7/10/1940     Location: Moyale, Kenya By the end of June 1940, the garrison of Fort Harrington had received reliable reports that Italian reinforcements were entering the twin town of Moyale at the Abyssinian border. These included three Eritrean colonial battalions, a brigade of pack… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #11
Maximum Aggression Scenario#: J166     Date: 12/19/1941     Location: Sumpitan Village, Malaya On 19 December the Scottish 2nd Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders received its next task, the defense of Kuala Kangsar. Success here would both deny the main north-south road junction to the Japanese and allow the 11th Indian Division to… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #11
Heart of Athena Scenario#: J174     Date: 12/7/1944     Location: Athens, Greece By 1944, the two major resistance movements in occupied Greece, EDES and EAM-ELAS, each saw the other to be their great enemy. They both saw the Germans were going to be defeated and were a temporary threat. For the communists, the British… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #11
Coup de Main at Hamminkeln Scenario#: J177     Date: 3/24/1945     Location: Hamminkeln Station, Germany Though neither wide nor deep, the Issel stream had steep banks which formed a natural tank barrier, a fact which caused major concern among the Allied command. The seizure of every intact bridge over the Issel was considered vital to the success of… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #11
Castles on the Horizon Scenario#: J186     Date: 11/20/1941     Location: Bir Bu Meliha, Libya Panzer-Division 15 was moving in the direction of Gabr Saleh. Late in the day they came upon the 4th Armoured Brigade’s Honeys which were this time “…in good defensive terrain with the sun behind them and their ammunition racks full”. 22nd Armoured… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #12
Scobie Preserves Scenario#: J021     Date: 12/6/1944     Location: Piraeus, Greece LATE SUMMER 1944: German forces withdraw from most of Greece, which is taken over by local partisans. Most of them are members of ELAS, the armed wing of the National Liberation Front, EAM, which included the Communist KKE party … Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #2
Lovat First Sight Scenario#: J031     Date: 6/6/1944     Location: Benouville, France Fighting continued in Benouville and LePort as the British 7th Battalion continued to hold the towns against repeated German assaults. The Ox and Bucks, on the other hand, had been placed near the Caen Canal Bridge as a reserve to the British… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #2
Panzer Graveyard Scenario#: J032     Date: 1/21/1944     Location: Minturno, Italy On 13 Nov 1943, 1st Company Hermann Góring Parachute-Panzer Regiment had been sent to support the 94th lnfantry Division, and worked with the 267th Grenadier Regiment guarding the coast. 7th Company HG Parachute-Panzer Regiment was supporting the… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #2
It's About Time - Historical Variant Scenario#: PB06A     Date: 6/6/1944     Location: Benouville, France The final relief of the British paratroopers at dusk. The British get a massive force, including ponderous but impenetrable Churchill tanks, but have to clear the Germans out of every building. Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #2
Tretten in Flames Scenario#: J037     Date: 4/23/1940     Location: Tretten, Norway The first Allied land operations conducted in April 1940 to stop the German invasion of Norway had been a complete failure. The Allies suffered defeat after defeat. Nonetheless, at Tretten, they made one last attempt to stem the German advance. Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #3
Bitter Defense at Otta Scenario#: J038     Date: 4/28/1940     Location: Gudbrandsdal Valley, Norway In southern Norway, any Axis line of advance had to parallel the existing road system due to terrain and weather. Taking advantage of these restrictions, the Allies based their defense on a series of roadblocks supported by flanking fire from… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #3
3rd RTR in the Rain Scenario#: J043     Date: 5/23/1940     Location: Guines, France In their attempts to stem the German advance to Calais and other port cities, the British dispatched the 3rd Royal Tank Brigade, composed of the 2nd king's Royal Rifles and the 1st Queen's Victoria Rifles. On 23 May, these units sallied aggressively… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #3
"They're Here! Reverse!" Scenario#: J047     Date: 2/8/1941     Location: Beda Fomm, Libya The famed Desert Rats were on the move. Heading for the African coast through the Saleh/Beda Fomm area, they planned to set up ambush positions against the large Italian motorized columns retreating from Benghazi towards Tripoli. The 2nd Royal Tank… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #3
The Cactus Farm Scenario#: J050     Date: 4/29/1943     Location: Hill 107, Tunisia The Germans were defending Hill 107, a key piece of terrain that denied the Allies a direct route to Tunis. The 2nd Royal Fusiliers were assigned to the task to take the hill. At 0600 on the morning of April 29, 1943, the Fusiliers attacked,… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #3
Guards Artillery Scenario#: J057     Date: 8/3/1944     Location: Maisoncelles, France Following a night advance to Point 176, the self-propelled artillery regiment of the Guards Armoured Division formed its gun lines in the small fields west of Maisoncelles. At approximately 0845 hours, guns began to engage targets and the battery… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #3
No. 8 Platoon Overrun Scenario#: J058     Date: 9/18/1944     Location: Arnhem, Holland One of the few units near the bridge not attached to the 2nd Parachute Battalion was Platoon No. 8 of the 3rd Parachute Battalion. Accompanied by men from the Headquarters Defense Platoon, Platoon No. 8 probed outward into the factories of the… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #3
Sound Retreat Scenario#: J066     Date: 5/19/1940     Location: Ninove, Belgium On the day that General Martel received orders to prepare for a counter-offensive around Arras, his 25th Brigade had already begun to fall back from its forward positions on the high ground overlooking the River Dendre. As the infantry regiments… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #4
The Lawless Roads Scenario#: J067     Date: 5/24/1940     Location: le Beau Marais, France As the British troops in Calais were preparing to defend the town, the Rifle Brigade received orders to escort a column of ten-ton lorries loaded with rations for the British at Dunkirk. A composite force of infantry and tanks was made up to handle… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #4
Tomforce Scenario#: J071     Date: 2/10/1942     Location: Bukit Timah Village, Singapore Island Following a successful crossing of the Johore Causeway on 9 February, Japanese forced advanced toward Bukit Timah heights, literally translated as Tin Mountain. The surrounding villages held a number of vital supply dumps and the main road ran… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #4
Cahier Carriers Scenario#: J072     Date: 7/16/1944     Location: Gavrus, France At the beginning of Operation Greenline, the 1st Ox and Bucks held the extreme right wing of 53rd Welsh Division. Starting at 0300 hours, their attack began disastrously. Both D and C Companies had heavy officer losses. B Company took the battalion… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #4
Moses' Blazes Scenario#: J077     Date: 4/10/1945     Location: Rethem, Germany The defense of the Wesser-Aller line was allocated to the Second Marine Infantry of the Kriegsmarine. Approaching Rethem from the west, 1/5 Welch had orders to secure a crossing of the River Aller. But progress was slow. With his rifle companies… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #4
Egypt's Last Hope Scenario#: J080     Date: 8/31/1942     Location: Alam el Halfa, Egypt The foundation of Eighth Army's defense was the Alam Halfa Ridge, and the cornerstone of that fuondation was the western spur. By midday the 15th Panzer Division had fought its way to the ridge despite the loss of their division commander. The attack… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #5
Twisted Knickers Scenario#: J081     Date: 9/1/1942     Location: Point 102, Egypt Panzer-Regiment 5 and Panzer-Grenadier Regiment 104 swung further east to Point 102 in an attempt to find the weak spots that DAK intelligence told them existed. They hoped to break through to the British supply lines and force the 22nd Armored… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #5
Frontal Assault Scenario#: J086     Date: 8/3/1944     Location: Presles, France On the evening of 2 August, fearful for his open left flank, Major Robinson pushed Ned Thornburn's D Company a half-mile to the east. Digging-in around the farm of les Grands Bonfaits, the company was later reinforced by two platoons of A Company, a… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #5
Typical German Response Scenario#: J095     Date: 7/14/1943     Location: Primosole Bridge, Sicily After a disasterous landing, Alastair Pearson's 1st Airborne Battalion of the 1st Airborne Division had seized the Primosole Bridge early on July 14th. The Italian garrison manning te bridge was driven off after a brief fight, and the morning passed… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #6
Another Bloody Attack 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 Leader — ASL Journal #6
A Nice Morning For A Ride Scenario#: J097     Date: 7/16/1943     Location: Primosole Bridge, Sicily After the night assault seized the bridge and a thin lodgement north of the Simeto, problems were experienced communicating to follow on units that the bridge had been captured. As the companies holding the lodgement began to come under increasing… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #6
The Marketplace at Wormhoudt Scenario#: J114     Date: 5/28/1940     Location: Wormhoudt, France As the brief reprieve the Allies received when Hitler ordered the Panzers to halt at the Channel coast ended, the Leibstandarte was ordered to support the 20th Infanterie (Mot.) Division in the general offensive to crack the Dunkirk perimeter. The… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #8
Messervy's Men Scenario#: J127     Date: 11/6/1940     Location: Tamanau Gap, Eritrea As part of the British invasion of Eritrea, Colonel F.W. Messervy’s “Gazelle Force”, a motorized commando unit comprised of three machine gun companies, a filed gun battery and a mechanized cavalry unit, was established with the mission of creating… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #9