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Protesting the Speculative Scenario#: HS31 Date: 2/27/1945 Location: Hockwald Gap, Germany General Simonds, commander of the 2nd Canadian Corps, had insisted that he have a supply road with which to maintain the momentum of his attack and planned to use the Goch-Xanten railroad bed for this purpose. The raised track was flanked on both… Advanced Squad Leader — HSASL 2 - Operation Veritable
Race to the River Scenario#: SF01 Date: 1945-02-05 Location: Manila, Philippines Flames from a huge fire in the Tondo District forced the Americans to alter their path of advance towards the Pasig River east into the Binondo District in Manila. To slow the American advance, the Japanese set up roadblocks at key intersections… Advanced Squad Leader — Sword and Fire: Manila
Restoration Scenario#: HS05 Date: 9/13/1942 Location: Lunga Ridge, Guadalcanal On the night of September 12th, leading elements of Major General Kiyotaki Kawaguchi's 35th Infantry Brigade attacked the positions of the Raiders to the west of Lunga Ridge, overrunning C Company's positions. By the morning the Raiders were forced… Advanced Squad Leader — HSASL 1 - Operation Watchtower
Return of the Black Company Scenario#: FB10 Date: 2/3/1945 Location: Budapest, Hungary The men of SS-Kavallerie-Division 8 “Florian Geyer” were scrambling for their lives as two and a half months of near continuous fighting had reduced the unit to a shadow of its former self. By 3 February, the troops which had been holding out for the… Advanced Squad Leader — HASL 8 - Festung Budapest
Rikusentai Scenario#: BRT04 Date: 11/23/1943 Location: Betio Island, Tarawa One objective the Marines should have captured by D+2 was the junction between Red Beach One and Red Beach Two. But Commander Sugai, second in command on Betio and commander of the Sasebo 7th Rikusentai, had made the area - dubbed the "Pocket" by the… Advanced Squad Leader — HASL 5 - Blood Reef: Tarawa
Russe! Drown in the Wolga! Scenario#: VOTG02 Date: 9/14/1942 Location: Stalingrad, Russia The defense of downtown Stalingrad rested mainly with two lightly-armed regiments of thes 10th NKVD Divisions. The Germans had broken through and seized several key buildings near the riverbank. From the upper floors of the Brewery, the State Bank,… Advanced Squad Leader — HASL 7 - Valor of the Guards
Ryan's Orphans Scenario#: BRT03 Date: 11/22/1943 Location: Betio Island, Tarawa D-Day for the 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marines called for K and I Companies to land in the initial assault wave, followed by L Company under Major Michael Ryan. K and I Companies were pinned down by enfilading fire from the re-entrant beach. Like everyone… Advanced Squad Leader — HASL 5 - Blood Reef: Tarawa
Sandbanks of the Volga Scenario#: RB13 Date: 11/11/1942 Location: Stalingrad, Russia The objective for Major Braun and his men was to capture the fuel tank complex and penetrate to the shoreline of the Volga itself. Though Major Braun and his men had briefly reached the fuel tanks on 2nd November, they had been ousted by a… Advanced Squad Leader — HASL10a - Red Factories
Second Step Scenario#: RO2 Date: 10/23/1942 Location: Stalingrad, Russia By 0930 the Germans’ first objective, the north-south railroad embankment west of the factory, had been reached. The attack plan then called for a brief interlude to allow fresh troops of the second wave to come up and for continued bombardment of… Advanced Squad Leader — HASL10a - Red Factories
Shadows of Death Scenario#: KGP01 Date: 12/20/1944 Location: Stoumont, Belgium The initial objective of Task Force Harrison was the recapture of the St. Edouard Sanatorium, a large brick building dominating the heights on the northwestern outskirts of Stoumont. At twilight, partially concealed by a dense mist, the GIs attacked… Advanced Squad Leader — HASL 2 - Kampfgruppe Peiper I
Siberian Shockwave Scenario#: VOTG12 Date: 9/23/1942 Location: Stalingrad, Russia General Chuikov desperately wanted to gain complete control of the main ferry landings, which had fallen into German hands, and were prefect locations for the Germans to interdict reinforcements crossing the Volga. Help was on the way in the form of… Advanced Squad Leader — HASL 7 - Valor of the Guards
Siesta Time Scenario#: FB05 Date: 1/29/1945 Location: Budapest, Hungary By 26 January, the Soviet 297th Tank Rifle Division had finally pushed the Hungarian Vannay Battalion out of the Városmajor. One building that still remained firmly in Hungarian hands was the Siesta Sanatorium located on Városmajor utca just to the… Advanced Squad Leader — HASL 8 - Festung Budapest
Sims Ridge Scenario#: HS16 Date: 1/13/1943 Location: Galloping Horse, Guadalcanal The 27th Infantry Regiment had been attacking the 900-foot-high hill called Galloping Horse for three days. Only Hill 523, the head of the horse-shaped mass, was left. F Company would advance through the jungle on the right flank. E Company would… Advanced Squad Leader — HSASL 1 - Operation Watchtower
Stalingrad Redux Scenario#: FB17 Date: 2/9/1945 Location: Budapest, Hungary By 9 February, Soviet forces had succeeded inc capturing their primary objective wets of Castle Hill, the Budapest Railway Terminal. The next day, the Soviets continued their march toward the case of Castle Hill by crossing over the marshalling… Advanced Squad Leader — HASL 8 - Festung Budapest
Stone Age Caves Scenario#: RO7 Date: 12/26/1942 Location: Stalingrad, Russia One month had passed since the German 6th Army had been surrounded by the Soviet counteroffensive of 19 November, but periodic spurts of fighting still erupted in the cold ruins of the Red October factory. A Russian war correspondent wrote that the… Advanced Squad Leader — HASL10a - Red Factories
Storming the Station Scenario#: VOTG07 Date: 9/16/1942 Location: Stalingrad, Russia The past couple of days had seen horrific fighting at the Stalingrad-1 Rail Station. On the morning of 16 September, the 1st Battalion of the 42nd Guards Regiment turned away an attack by twelve self-propelled guns with supporting infantry. Not long… Advanced Squad Leader — HASL 7 - Valor of the Guards
Struggle Without End Scenario#: SF16 Date: 1945-02-23 Location: Manila, Philippines Even with most off the major buildings in the Hospital/University complex now under their control, the troopers of 5th Cavalry were having an extremely difficult time in eliminating the remaining isolated pockets of Japanese from the area. It seemed… Advanced Squad Leader — Sword and Fire: Manila
Tasimboko Raid Scenario#: HS03 Date: 9/8/1942 Location: Tasimboko, Guadalcanal With the U.S. Marines now firmly established on Guadalcanal, the Japanese landed more troops at Taivu Point, 18 miles east of the Marine-held Henderson Field. The Japanese commander planned to attack the Marine positions after having his engineers… Advanced Squad Leader — HSASL 1 - Operation Watchtower
Taylor Made Defense Scenario#: PB05 Date: 6/6/1944 Location: Benouville, France Continuous counterattacks were steadily pushing the paratroopers of Major Taylor’s company back inBenouville. Most of the paratroopers were wounded, including Taylor himself, but continued to fight as they had no place to retreat. The 7th Battalion’s… Advanced Squad Leader — HASL 4 - Pegasus Bridge
The 138 of the 138th Scenario#: RB12 Date: 11/17/1942 Location: Stalingrad, Russia On the 11th of November the Germans launched an offensive in the Barrikady district with elements of two infantry divisions, backed up by five especially formed pioneer battalions, armed with satchel charges and flamethrowers. In addition two assault… Advanced Squad Leader — HASL10a - Red Factories
The Black Ravens are Flying Scenario#: FB12 Date: 2/5/1945 Location: Budapest, Hungary By February 5, the Soviets had reached the area around Királyhágo tét. Strongly opposed by a mix of German and Hungarian forces, the Soviets would be forced to fight for every building. In addition to their military strengths, the Soviets had… Advanced Squad Leader — HASL 8 - Festung Budapest
The Bridge at Cheneux Scenario#: KGP07 Date: 12/21/1944 Location: Cheneux, Belgium By the afternoon of the 21st, Col. Tucker had ordered the 3rd Battalion of the 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment to assist the 1st Battalion in its attempt to capture Cheneux and the bridge over the Ambleve. Company G entered the western end of the… Advanced Squad Leader — HASL 3 - Kampfgruppe Peiper II
The Christmas Gifu Scenario#: HS14 Date: 12/25/1942 Location: Gifu, Guadalcanal Army troops, having taken over for most of the Marine formations, were eager to prove their mettle on the assault. Their first task on the long list of objectives required to clear the island was a strongpoint called the Gifu. This particularly nasty… Advanced Squad Leader — HSASL 1 - Operation Watchtower
The Commissar's House Scenario#: RB10 Date: 9/11/1942 Location: Stalingrad, Russia The Sixth Army was being bled white amidst the ruins. The rifle strength of whole companies was often reduced to little more than a squad in an attempt to take a single house. The battle lines were now drawn through the hallways of individual… Advanced Squad Leader — HASL10a - Red Factories
The Darkest Day Scenario#: VOTG10 Date: 9/21/1942 Location: Stalingrad, Russia On 20 September, a civilian informed Lt. Dragan that a massive German buildup was taking place. Fortifications and street barricades were prepared as well as detachments of men armed with anti-tank rifles and molotov cocktails to combat tanks. The… Advanced Squad Leader — HASL 7 - Valor of the Guards
The Devil's Free to Have a Try Scenario#: FB02 Date: 1/19/1945 Location: Budapest, Hungary After the initial assault by the Soviet 108th Guards Rifle Division failed to capture the Városmajor on January 1, the 320th Rifle Division, supported by a half dozen armored vehicles, was ordered to try to seize the City Park. The main defenders of… Advanced Squad Leader — HASL 8 - Festung Budapest
The First Bid Scenario#: VOTG01 Date: 9/14/1942 Location: Stalingrad, Russia Since early morning the German 71st Infantry Division had been attacking towards the downtown district with the capture of the main ferry landing as its goal. Led by Lt. Col. Roske’s 194th Regiment, good progress was made through the residential… Advanced Squad Leader — HASL 7 - Valor of the Guards
The Good Shepherd Scenario#: HS30 Date: 2/26/1945 Location: Kepplen, Germany The North Shore Regiment had been ordered to advance toward the Rhine. Its Commander, Lt. Col. John Rowley, was known as the Good Shepherd for the long walking staff he usually carried. The regiment closed on Kepplen with the two lead companies… Advanced Squad Leader — HSASL 2 - Operation Veritable
The Grim Reaper's Lair Scenario#: SF03 Date: 1945-02-11 Location: Paco Cemetery, Manila, Philippines Situated a few blocks southeast of the new Manila Police Station was the Paco Cemetery. It was built in 1820 of two concentric adobe walls ten feet high and ten feet thick. Entry to the central courtyard was through four gates in the walls.… Advanced Squad Leader — Sword and Fire: Manila
The Hawk Scenario#: BRT01 Date: 11/21/1943 Location: Betio Island, Tarawa Lt. Dean Hawkins and his Scout Sniper platoon had the distinction of being the first American force on Betio. Hawkins led a detachment of engineers and Scout Snipers along the pier on D-Day, taking out bunkers and buildings likely to be in the way of… Advanced Squad Leader — HASL 5 - Blood Reef: Tarawa
The Last Bid Scenario#: RB05 Date: 11/11/1942 Location: Stalingrad, Russia Hoping that one last great push might be enough to finally shatter all organized resistance in the city, German assault troops prepared for a final onslaught. In the meantime, fresh Pioniere battalions specially trained in urban warfare were flown… Advanced Squad Leader — HASL 1 - Red Barricades
The Last Fifteen Scenario#: VOTG04 Date: 9/15/1942 Location: Stalingrad, Russia The German 3rd Battalion, Infanterie Regiment 194 fought through Stalingrad’s suburbs, the Main Railway Station, Red Square, and finally to within sight of the Volga. Their rapid advance across the cratered landscape and the fierce resistance the… Advanced Squad Leader — HASL 7 - Valor of the Guards
The Martinofen Scenario#: RO4 Date: 11/11/1942 Location: Stalingrad, Russia Dominating the Krasny Oktyabr factory complex, the mammoth Hall 4 was the lynchpin of the Soviet defense. The enterprising Soviets had turned the factory’s 14 recessed “Martin Ovens” into a series of impregnable fortresses, interconnected with… Advanced Squad Leader — HASL10a - Red Factories
The Playing Field Scenario#: RO6 Date: 12/15/1942 Location: Stalingrad, Russia By the end of the second week in December the former defenders of Stalingrad were finally ready to take the initiative and begin their bid to recapture the ruined city. In the southern end of the Red October factory complex, two of those structures… Advanced Squad Leader — HASL10a - Red Factories
The Price of Postage Scenario#: SF14 Date: 1945-02-22 Location: Manila, Philippines While the 3rd Battalion was trying to secure the City Hall, the 1st Battalion of the 145th Infantry Regiment was preparing to attack the General Post Office. Situated along the south shore of the Pasig River, the five-story tall Post Office building… Advanced Squad Leader — Sword and Fire: Manila
The Prize Scenario#: ABTF01 Date: 9/17/1944 Location: Arnhem, Holland The primary objective of the British 1st Airborne Division was the main road bridge in Arnhem. The three battalions of the 1st Parachute Brigade were to drive for the bridge along three separate routes. 2nd Parachute Battalion’s route – “Lion” – took… Advanced Squad Leader — HASL 6 - A Bridge Too Far
The Ravine Scenario#: HS13 Date: 11/24/1942 Location: Hill 81, Guadalcanal The Japanese began to fortify their positions, particularly in the hills west of the Matanikau. The westward U.S. advance threatened supply routes leading to inland positions. Using reverse slope positions that could not be hit by artillery, the… Advanced Squad Leader — HSASL 1 - Operation Watchtower
The Red House Scenario#: RB07 Date: 12/5/1942 Location: Stalingrad, Russia The German 6th Army had been surrounded for almost two weeks. Still, it in turn had trapped the Soviet 138th Rifle Division in a pie-shaped piece of land behind the Barrikady. The 138th launched nightly forays against the eastern edge of der Kessel,… Advanced Squad Leader — HASL 1 - Red Barricades
The Sand Spit Scenario#: HS11 Date: 10/23/1942 Location: Matanikau River, Guadalcanal The leading elements of the elite 2nd "Sendai" Division had arrived on Guadalcanal with same orders as their predecessors -- eliminate the Marine beachhead. With ample manpower, Japanese commanders planned to attack the perimeter from the west and… Advanced Squad Leader — HSASL 1 - Operation Watchtower
The Shooting Gallery Scenario#: FB09 Date: 2/2/1945 Location: Budapest, Hungary By the end of January, remaining Axis force had retreated across the Danube from the Pest side of the city where they formed a bridgehead centered on Castle Hill. One of the Wehrmacht’s finest units, Panzer-Division 13, was with the defenders of… Advanced Squad Leader — HASL 8 - Festung Budapest
The Specialists' House Scenario#: VOTG05 Date: 9/14/1942 Location: Stalingrad, Russia The German 71st Infantry Division had broken through the weak Russian defenses in downtown Stalingrad and seized several tall buildings along the bank of the Volga. A group of Germans wielding submachine-guns and supported by tanks had captured the… Advanced Squad Leader — HASL 7 - Valor of the Guards
The Taking of Object 59 Scenario#: FB15 Date: 2/7/1945 Location: Budapest, Hungary By 6 February, the loss of Sas-hegy placed the German troops holding the Austrian built Citadelia atop the Gellert-hegy in imminent danger of being overrun from the south by the Soviet 83rd Marine Brigade. Further to the north the Soviet 297th Rifle… Advanced Squad Leader — HASL 8 - Festung Budapest
The Terror of the Castle Scenario#: FB07 Date: 1/31/1945 Location: Budapest, Hungary One partial success in penetrating the Axis main line of resistance was achieved by the Soviets on 30 January when an assault group swiftly stormed across the Vermezo from the intersection of Bors utca and Krisztina Korut and seized the primary… Advanced Squad Leader — HASL 8 - Festung Budapest
The Walled City Scenario#: SFCG4 Date: 1945-02-23 Location: Intramuros, Manila, Philippines The Intramuros is an ancient Spanish fortress-town built in the late 16th century. The outer walls were designed to withstand the greatest sieges possible, being 40 feet thick at the base and 15 feet thick at the top. Only 155mm, 8-inch, and 240mm… Advanced Squad Leader — Sword and Fire: Manila
Through the Breach, Into the Fire Scenario#: SF20 Date: 1945-02-23 Location: Intramuros, Manila, Philippines The entire area within the walls of Intramuros had been subjected to a massive artillery barrage the previous day and another artillery attack that lasted for ninety minutes on the morning of the main attack. When the last shells bad roared overhead~… Advanced Squad Leader — Sword and Fire: Manila
Tickling the Ivories Scenario#: HS24 Date: 2/19/1945 Location: Goch, Germany The Canadians dug in immediately upon capturing the Schwanenhof farm. German fallschirmjager counterattacked soon after but were repulsed. Major Kennedy, the wounded commander of B Company, barked out orders from his cellar command post, directing… Advanced Squad Leader — HSASL 2 - Operation Veritable
Tigers to the Bridge! Scenario#: ABTF05 Date: 9/19/1944 Location: Arnhem, Holland Field Marshal Model had continually demanded that the Arnhem Road Bridge be opened to allow reinforcements to move south to Nijmegen. Throughout the morning, the Germans had probed the British defenses searching for weak points. Convinced that… Advanced Squad Leader — HASL 6 - A Bridge Too Far
To the Matter Born Scenario#: HS18 Date: 2/9/1945 Location: Cleve, Germany By D+1 of the Operation Veritable campaign, the King’s Own Scottish Borderers had been ordered to cross the Westwall defenses in force near the Reichswald Forest as part of the 15th Scottish Division’s assault. They found a location to cross the… Advanced Squad Leader — HSASL 2 - Operation Veritable
To the Rescue Scenario#: RB04 Date: 10/26/1942 Location: Stalingrad, Russia A patrol of Jaeger Division 100 managed to reach the west bank of the Volga following a saturation bombardment of Russian positions. The Germans soon found themselves cut off as Red Army soldiers re-emerged from their rubble hideouts after allowing… Advanced Squad Leader — HASL 1 - Red Barricades
Turned Away Scenario#: RB06 Date: 11/15/1942 Location: Stalingrad, Russia Despite failing to achieve its main objective, Operation Hubertus had severely mauled the remaining Soviet formations. One of these, the redoubtable 138th Rifle Division, now found itself isolated along the Volga on a 400m x 700m strip of land. Of… Advanced Squad Leader — HASL 1 - Red Barricades