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Scenario#: AP044     Date: 9/16/1942     Location: Stalingrad, Russia

The Wehrmacht had advanced to within one hundred meters of the Volga, squeezing the Russians onto the river’s bank. One of the most dominant terrain features was a large grassy hill known as Mamayev Kurgan, 335 feet high, which commanded a fine view…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL Action Pack #5 East Front
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Scenario#: AP165     Date: 7/26/1942     Location: Oivi, New Guinea

In late July, the Japanese South Seas Detachment landed on the east coast of New Guinea attempting to secure an overland route to the capital of Port Moresby. A mixture of Australian militia and local militia were sent to delay this landing force.…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL Action Pack #16 From The Land Down Under
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Scenario#: AP142     Date: 8/20/1944     Location: St. Lambert-sur-Dives, France

Having secured most of the small village of St Lambert-sur-Dives with a quick strike the day before, Major David Vivian Currie of the South Alberta Regiment consolidated his mixed force of tanks and infantry around the main bridge across the Dives…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL Action Pack #14 Oktoberfest XXXIV
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Scenario#: AP188     Date: 2/15/1951     Location: Chipyong-Ni, S. Korea

In early February 1951, General Gay was reassigned to Eighth Army staff and replaced with former First Team executive officer General Charles D. Palmer. 5th Cavalry received a boost with the addition of a 3rd Battalion, transferred from the stateside…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL Action Pack #17 - Oktoberfest XXXV
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Scenario#: AP127     Date: 6/17/1944     Location: Elba, Italy

On 12 June, the German commander in Italy was informed that “Elba must be defended to the last man and the last cartridge”. On 14 June, German reinforcements began to arrive on Elba from Pianosa. The decision to reinforce Elba was not known to the…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL Action Pack #13 Oktoberfest XXXII
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Scenario#: AP055     Date: 5/26/1938     Location: Lanfeng, China

The Japanese 14th Infantry Division was ordered south from Manchuria to force a crossing of the Yellow River near Lanfeng and then advance towards Wuhan, to flank and cut off the retreating Chinese. The 14th Division’s move encountered unexpected…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL Action Pack #6 A Decade of War
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Scenario#: AP162     Date: 6/19/1941     Location: Medjayoun, Syria

The initial phase of the Commonwealth campaign against the Vichy forces in Syria was proving tougher than expected. These French, former allies of the Commonwealth. were resilient opponents. Merdjayoun was symbolic of this as the town, located only a…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL Action Pack #16 From The Land Down Under
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Scenario#: AP040     Date: 8/20/1944     Location: Mont Ormel, France

Elements of the 1st Polish Armoured Division had accidentally arrived in the gap through which the remnants of the German armies in Normandy were struggling to escape the “Falaise Pocket”. Atop the twin 262-meter peaks of Mont Ormel, which they…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL Action Pack #4 Normandy 1944
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Scenario#: AP186     Date: 11/6/1950     Location: Yongbyon, N. Korea

The 1st and 2nd Battalions of the 8th Cavalry Regiment barely escaped from Unsan on 2 November, with the 3rd Battalion under Major Robert Ormond acting as rear guard, not yet aware that the area was under attack by the entire Chinese 39th Army. After…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL Action Pack #17 - Oktoberfest XXXV
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Scenario#: AP028     Date: 9/9/1943     Location: Monterotondo, Italy

After the Italians announced an armistice with the Allies, the Germans put into place plans to capture Rome and disarm the Italians. As part of these operations, a battalion of German paratroops, led by Major Walter Gericke, was tasked with dropping…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL Action Pack #3 Few Returned
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Scenario#: AP111     Date: 7/31/1938     Location: Changkufeng Hill, Russia

The Soviet, Chinese and Japanese governments had a long running disagreement over the KoreanSoviet/Chinese border. The dispute was pushed to the brink when the Soviets occupied the heights of Changkufeng Hill which overlooked the Korean port of Rajin…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL Action Pack #12 Oktoberfest XXX
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Scenario#: AP025     Date: 1/27/1943     Location: Valuiki, Russia

While the Tridentina led the vanguard of the Alpini Corps’ attempts to break out of the Russian encirclement, the Cuneense Division served as the rear guard, repeatedly fighting off Soviet pursuers so that the main body could press on to the west and…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL Action Pack #3 Few Returned
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Scenario#: AP041     Date: 6/25/1941     Location: Lutsk, Russia

In the opening days of Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union, the triangular area bounded by the cities of Lutsk, Rovno, and Brody was the scene of a bitter struggle. Army High Command plans called for a rapid thrust to the Ukrainian capital of…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL Action Pack #5 East Front
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Scenario#: AP063     Date: 12/7/1941     Location: Klin, Russia

During the final phase of Operation TYPHOON, German Panzer-Armee 4 broke through Russian defenses northeast of Moscow. General Reinhardt's Panzer-Korps LVI was able to cross the Moskva-Volga Canal at Yakhroma on 27 November but could not hold its…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL Action Pack #7
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Scenario#: AP184     Date: 10/12/1950     Location: Korangp’o-Ri, S. Korea

In August, General Gay replaced the 5th Cavalry Regiment's aging and near-deaf commander Colonel Carl Rohsenberger with the more dynamic Marcel Crombez. Colonel Crombez had missed most of WWII in stateside training assignments but served in the…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL Action Pack #17 - Oktoberfest XXXV
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Scenario#: AP001     Date: 4/20/1945     Location: Niesky, Germany

With the final Soviet offensive pushing into the German capital, the war in the east was drawing to its conclusion. Soviet attacks in other sectors along the front were designed to keep German units pinned down, preventing them from reinforcing the…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL Action Pack #1
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Scenario#: AP145     Date: 3/2/1940     Location: Märkäjärvi, Finland

In November 1939, the Soviet Union attacked Finland. Sweden dared not engage in full scale war with its age-old enemy, but allowed volunteer bureaus to be set up. Among the first in the Swedish Voluntary Corps to see action was the 4:e…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL Action Pack #15 Swedish Volunteers
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Scenario#: AP017     Date: 12/24/1942     Location: Arbuzov, Russia

Gruppo Nord was in trouble. The retreating Italian and German troops had reached the town of Arbuzov on December 22nd, but Soviet troops soon ringed the hills on the town's outskirts. These troops protected the mortars, artillery pieces and rockets…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL Action Pack #3 Few Returned
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Scenario#: AP152     Date: 4/18/1942     Location: Shemenski, Russia

The Soviet offensive at Jandeba had left a dangerous bulge in the Finnish lines at Shemenski. It threatened to cut the Finnish forces in two, thus a counterattack was ordered with the two hills the primary objective. The ad-hoc unit given this…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL Action Pack #15 Swedish Volunteers
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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 LeaderASL Action Pack #9 To the Bridge!
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Scenario#: AP157     Date: 6/26/1944     Location: Tali, Finland

The night before, 13th Infantry Regiment had been reinforced by troops trained in the new anti-tech weaponry. Panzerfausts and Panzerschrecks had breathed new hope into troops who for some time had to contend with a heavily armored foe. Early in the…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL Action Pack #15 Swedish Volunteers
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Scenario#: AP024     Date: 1/26/1943     Location: Nikolajewka, Russia

The Tridentina Division led the survivors of the Italian 8th Army westwards toward safety, but one obstale remained – the town of Nikolajewka. Astride the Rostov-Moscow railroad, the town was in Russian hands and strongly held. General Luigi…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL Action Pack #3 Few Returned
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Scenario#: AP133     Date: 6/9/1944     Location: Azeville, France

Despite significant bombing and shelling, the batteries at Azeville and Crisbecq still posed a serious threat to the Allied landings. Supported by Sherman tanks, the 22nd Infantry Regiment began attacks on both batteries on 7 June, only to be…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL Action Pack #14 Oktoberfest XXXIV
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Scenario#: AP069     Date: 5/7/1944     Location: Potsangbam, Burma

By early May, the village of Potsangbam – known to the British as “Pots and Pans” – had already been the scene of furious fighting, with attack and counterattack pushing first one side and then the other out of their positions, only for the enemy to…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL Action Pack #7
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Scenario#: AP185     Date: 11/2/1950     Location: Unsan, S. Korea

As the First Team blasted its way to the Yalu River and the Chinese border in late October, many of the GIs and Officers believed they might be home in time for Christmas. At the same time, however, units of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL Action Pack #17 - Oktoberfest XXXV
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Scenario#: AP048     Date: 7/14/1943     Location: Werchopenje, Russia

The battle of Kursk had largely climaxed, with formations neighboring the “Grossdeutschland” Division being driven into defensive modes. Following one day of rest and replenishment, in the midst of preparing to once again drive north, the neighboring…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL Action Pack #5 East Front
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Scenario#: AP020     Date: 1/15/1943     Location: Rossosch, Russia

Trying to escape its encirclement, the Alpini Corps constantly had to fight off blocking forces of Russian indantry and raiding partisans, as well as raiding armored forces. On January 15th, the most dangerous raid of all occurred, when tanks and…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL Action Pack #3 Few Returned
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Scenario#: AP018     Date: 12/25/1942     Location: Arbuzov, Russia

Many Axis soldiers in Arbuzov arose on a bitterly cold Christmas Day to discover that they had been abandoned. The main force had apparently continued on their retreat without rounding up all the soldiers in the column from their scattered nighttime…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL Action Pack #3 Few Returned
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Scenario#: AP178     Date: 7/22/1950     Location: Yongdong, S. Korea

After the mauling it received during the fall of Taejon, the 24th Infantry Division was relieved on 22 July by the 1st Cavalry Division, which became responsible for blocking the Korean People's Army's drive down the main Taejon-Taegu corridor to…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL Action Pack #17 - Oktoberfest XXXV
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Scenario#: AP190     Date: 10/4/1951     Location: Sangnyong, N. Korea

With their own civil war against communism over, the Greek government was enthusiastic about sending forces to contribute to UN efforts in Korea. After arriving in December 1950, the Greek Expeditionary Force (GEF)-nicknamed the Sparta Battalion-was…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL Action Pack #17 - Oktoberfest XXXV
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Scenario#: AP101     Date: 6/6/1944     Location: Vierville-Sur-Mer, France

The “Great Crusade” was underway, but even the lowliest private on Omaha Beach at H-Hour could tell all had not gone according to plan. The Germans manning the Atlantic Wall were not the espected second rate troops, and there were many more of them…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL Action Pack #11 29 Lets Go!
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Scenario#: AP019     Date: 1/4/1943     Location: Chertkovo, Russia

After Christmas, the retreating Gruppo Nord finally made it to the town of Chertkovo, where an Italo-German garrison took them in and provided them much needed fuel and supplies. However, Gruppe Nord was in no condition to continue. They waited for…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL Action Pack #3 Few Returned
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Scenario#: AP118     Date: 10/13/1944     Location: Aachen, Germany

The main assault on Aachen began with a pounding barrage by aircraft and artillery. Early on 13 October, Lt. Col. John Corley's 3rd Battalion of the 26th Infantry Regiment was ordered to push northwest, while Lt. Col. Derrill Daniel's 2nd Battalion…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL Action Pack #12 Oktoberfest XXX
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Scenario#: AP108     Date: 9/8/1944     Location: Brest, France

The 29th Infantry Division was fighting on the Brittany peninsula with orders to crack the German fortress of Brest, home to U-boat pens that housed returning German submarines and – potentially – a massive supply point for the Allies if captured…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL Action Pack #11 29 Lets Go!
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