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Scenario#: 170     Date: 6/23/1944     Location: Vyborg, Finland

After losing the important city of Viipuri to the Soviets, the Finns withdrew to the next natural defense barrier, the Kivisilta Strait. A small Soviet force crossed at the narrowest part of the strait and formed a bridgehead, and Finnish GHQ ordered…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 14 - Hakkaa Päälle!
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Scenario#: 198     Date: 1/2/1945     Location: Gros Rederching, France

Operation Nordwind was launched to take advantage of the thin front offered by the American Seventh Army. The Seventh was covering the positions that had been occupied by Patton’s Third Army, now deployed in the Ardennes. Initial thrusts by the…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 3a Yanks (2nd Edition)
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Scenario#: 41     Date: 3/22/1943     Location: Wadi Zigzaou, Tunisia

Montgomery chose to make a frontal assault in an area defended by elements of Panzergrenadier Regiment Afrika and the weak Giovani Fascisti (Young Fascists). The 151st Infantry Brigade of the 50th Division reinforced by forty–odd Valentine tanks were…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 5 - West of Alamein
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Scenario#: 103     Date: 6/7/1944     Location: Franceville-Plage, France

The heavily defended gun battery at Merville had been attacked by paratroops, but one gun was still firing and, in the confusion, two groups of Number 3 Commando were sent to finish the job. 45 (RM) Commando was reassigned to secure the coastal town…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 5a - For King and Country
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Scenario#: 97     Date: 5/20/1941     Location: Heraklion, Crete

The mission of the German paratroopers approaching Heraklion was to take the town and its airfield in order to land troops of the 5th Mountain Division. As the paratroopers jumped from the Junker Ju52s, each armed with only a few grenades and a…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 5a - For King and Country
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Scenario#: 53     Date: 7/10/1943     Location: Syracuse, Sicily

Under the codename Operation Ladbroke, the British 1st Airlanding Brigade was to capture the Ponte Grande bridge spanning the Anapo River in eastern Sicily to allow for a quick march on Syracuse by the 5th Infantry Division. 144 gliders set off from…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 7 - Hollow Legions (2nd Edition)
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Scenario#: 209     Date: 8/31/1950     Location: Agok, South Korea

On the night of 31 August, the North Koreans launched a multi-division attack aimed at Taegu. The bulk of the KPA 9th Infantry Division attacked the line of the 9th Infantry Regiment that roughly followed the Naktong River, with an immediate…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 15 - Forgotten War
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Scenario#: 34     Date: 6/24/1941     Location: Seirijai, Lithuania

By nightfall of June 22nd, the German V Infantry Corps had broken through the Soviet border defenses and established a bridgehead across the Nieman River some 40 miles away. Later that night a bridging column of the 5th Infantry Division was ambushed…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 4 - Partisan!
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Scenario#: 147     Date: 12/12/1941     Location: Asun, Malaya

At the start of the Malayan Campaign, British forces thrust into Thailand with the intent of capturing strategic points to deny them to the Japanese. Once the Japanese landed at Kota Bharu, however, the British realized they would soon be flanked and…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 13 - Rising Sun
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Scenario#: 193     Date: 12/19/1944     Location: Wardin, Belgium

In an effort to determine the strength and location of the Germans before Bastogne, Company I of the 501st Parachute Infantry was ordered into the town of Wardin. Upon reaching the village a roadblock was found, astride the Wardin-Bastogne road. A…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 3a Yanks (2nd Edition)
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Scenario#: 199     Date: 2/27/1945     Location: Elsdorf, Germany

When the 9th Panzer Division arrived in the Roer Plain sector on February 24th, it was but a shadow of its former self. Only twenty-nine tanks and sixteen assault guns remained in what three months before was one of the most feared formations on the…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 3a Yanks (2nd Edition)
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Scenario#: 141     Date: 4/22/1940     Location: Trondheim, Norway

After the initial landings at Oslo, the Germans began to move northward, through the valley of the Gudbrandsdalen, towards Trondheim. The Norwegians and British forces there attempted numerous blocking actions which were largely unsuccessful. One…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 11 - Doomed Battalions (3rd Edition)
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Scenario#: 135     Date: 2/27/1945     Location: Breslau, Germany

By 16 February, the encirclement of Breslau was complete. Acting on Marshal Konev’s orders to secure the Silesian city, General Gluzdovsky ordered an attack against the crucial Gandau airfield, one of the city’s last links with the west. Facing grim…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 1 - Beyond Valor (3rd Edition)
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Scenario#: 91     Date: 5/21/1940     Location: Beaurains, France

Quite unexpectedly, the British launched a major counterattack from Arras against the extended spearheads of Rommel’s breakthrough. The Germans were able to stop the foot soldiers but the British armor pushed on unsupported – deep into the German…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 5a - For King and Country
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Scenario#: 50     Date: 9/27/1939     Location: Przemysl, Poland

With the Soviet Union now in the war against them, those Polish units still in the field had only two alternatives: surrender to the Germans or Russians, or flight into the neighboring neutrals of Rumania or Hungary. Just miles north of the Hungarian…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 6 - The Last Hurrah
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Scenario#: 28     Date: 3/29/1942     Location: Thrace, Greece

After the swift and total Axis victory over Greece, Bulgaria laid claim to Thrace and Macedonia. Throughout the winter of 1941-42, small bandit groups began to emerge as the nucleus of a fledgling resistance movement. On March 29th, two such bands…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 4 - Partisan!
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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#: 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#: 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#: 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#: 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#: 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#: 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#: 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#: 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#: 46     Date: 5/11/1940     Location: Briedgen, Belgium

In a furious assault in the villages of Veldwezelt and Briedgen, 114 German fallschirmjagers capture two bridges across the Albert Canal and destroyed the detonator wiring. Still under desultory fire, engineers removed the explosives. Lt. Altman,…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 6 - The Last Hurrah
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Scenario#: 35     Date: 11/19/1941     Location: Gabr Saleh, Libya

The 4th Armoured Brigade, probing northeast of Gabr Saleh, was driving a German recon unit before it. The Afrika Korps at last reacted, quickly forming several units of the 21st Panzer Division into Kampfgruppe Stephan which set out to investigate…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 5 - West of Alamein
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Scenario#: 133     Date: 6/29/1944     Location: Bokruisk, Russia

During the destruction of Army Group Center, many of Hitler’s “Fortified Localities” were cut off and surrounded by the Russian advance. Bokruisk was just such a city. The city had become a fortress with pillboxes and old tank turrets being used…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 1 - Beyond Valor (3rd Edition)
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Scenario#: 219     Date: 4/13/1941     Location: Mostar, Yugoslavia

The conglomerate nation of Yugoslavia was formulated in the post-WWI power struggle to carve up the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Croatians, hoping to become an independent nation, were dissatisfied with being part of a government largely controlled by…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 12 - Armies of Oblivion (2nd Edition)
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Scenario#: 222     Date: 12/16/1942     Location: Kransnokutskaya, Russia

With overcast skies hampering bombing missions and poorly coordinated artillery preparations, the Russian 3rd Guards Army made only lackluster gains on the first morning of the “Little Saturn” Offensive. Combat in the 203rd Rifle Division’s 592nd…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 12 - Armies of Oblivion (2nd Edition)
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Scenario#: 74     Date: 7/21/1944     Location: Asan, Guam

As part of Operation Stevedore, the veteran 3rd Marine Division was to land on four beaches between Asan and Adelup Points on the west coast of Guam. However, Lt.-Gen. Takashina had correctly guessed the landing spots and had shifted infantry and…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 9 - Gung Ho!
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Scenario#: 94     Date: 5/20/1941     Location: Maleme Airfield, Crete

For thirty minutes the Luftwaffe hammered the airfield at Maleme, concentrating on the AA positions near the mouth of the dry Tavronitis. Certainly the Bofors gunners at Maleme had an unenviable task. They had, of necessity, to be sited well forward…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 5a - For King and Country
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Scenario#: 228     Date: 11/9/1943     Location: Koprivnica, Croatia

After a month of partisan attacks, Major General Draguin Dolanski, commander of the 1st Croatian Light Parachute Company, determined they could not hold their positions at the Danica Air Base much longer and decided to withdraw through the village of…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 12 - Armies of Oblivion (2nd Edition)
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Scenario#: 167     Date: 8/8/1941     Location: Karelia, Russia

The Finnish attack to capture the vital crossroads at the village of Prääzä had stalled in front of the objective. To get the attack rolling Jalkavakirykmentti (Infantry Regiment) 50 was dispatched to outflank the defenders. After a march through the…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 14 - Hakkaa Päälle!
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Scenario#: 79     Date: 6/3/1940     Location: Les Sept-Planètes, France

The defense of the bridges along the stretch of the Bergues canal south of Dunkirk was entrusted to the heavy weapons company of the French 1st Battalion, 224th Infantry Regiment, supported by miscellaneous troops including several mobile 155mm…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 10 - Croix de Guerre
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Scenario#: 54     Date: 8/12/1941     Location: Yasnaya Polyana, Ukraine

In July 1941 Mussolini sent the 62,000-strong CSIR (Italian Expeditionary Corps) to the Eastern Front. Its three divisions and attached troops linked up with the Wehrmacht in Romania, where the corps vehicular transport was pooled in order to…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 7 - Hollow Legions (2nd Edition)
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Scenario#: 200     Date: 3/2/1945     Location: Broich, Germany

Following the conclusion of the Ardennes offensive, the VII Corps was returned to the location in Germany which it had occupied prior to the battle. The Corp’s next mission was to attack across the Ruhr and advance northeast, covering the Ninth…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 3a Yanks (2nd Edition)
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Scenario#: 156     Date: 3/29/1944     Location: Maelu, Burma

After Brigadier J. M. Calvert’s 77th Indian Infantry Brigade had successfully blockaded the railway leading out of Mawlu, combat between the Chindit and Japanese forces intensified. In order to expand the Allied area of control, Calvert launched an…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 13 - Rising Sun
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Scenario#: 191     Date: 12/16/1944     Location: Buchholz, Belgium

The original German opening for the Battle of the Bulge was somewhat subdued. German infantry, with little armor support, was to seize key road junctions early so the armored formations could quickly pass through and exploit a breakthrough. One such…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 3a Yanks (2nd Edition)
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Scenario#: 207     Date: 8/3/1950     Location: Chindong-Ni, South Korea

As July drew to a close, the elite KPA 6th Division moved rapidly to the southern coast in order to slip around the UN left flank, punch a hole through the anticipated weak American defenses, and occupy Pusan in a lightning stroke that would end the…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 15 - Forgotten War
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Scenario#: 62     Date: 3/6/1942     Location: Payagyi, Burma

Following the disaster at the Sittang River in February, the troops defending Burma against the Japanese invasion fell back toward Rangoon. And from there the 7th Armoured Brigade was rushed to the rapidly collapsing front. The experienced "Desert…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 8 - Code of Bushido
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Scenario#: 114     Date: 7/23/1941     Location: Lipovic, Ukraine

Joining in Germany's “Crusade against Bolshevism”, a newly formed Slovakian “Mobile Group” crossed the border into the Ukraine. Leading the attack were the bicyclists and tanks of the Motorized Reconnaissance Group. Near the village of Lipovic, a…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 12 - Armies of Oblivion
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Scenario#: 216     Date: 4/25/1951     Location: Imjin River, South Korea

in the face of the largest attack of the war, with five Communist Chinese armies heading toward Seoul, the UN forces under American I Corps were forced to withdraw from their positions on "Line Kansas" south of the Imjin and Hantan Rivers. Only two…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 15 - Forgotten War
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Scenario#: 232     Date: 5/14/1940     Location: Chéhéry, France

On the morning of the 14th, a French counterattack was ordered against the breach at Sedan in an effort to contain General Guderian's bridgehead on the river Meuse. The attack was to be comprised of two tank battalions, each supported by an infantry…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 10 - Croix de Guerre ( 2nd Edition)
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Scenario#: DN02     Date: 5/12/1940     Location: Yvoir, Belgium

As the German blitzkrieg moved through the Ardennes, the Belgian Chasseurs d'Arrdgennais fought a series of delaying actions. They were pressured from every side, until they finally reached the Meuse. There they were forced to move northward to…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 10 - Croix de Guerre ( 2nd Edition)
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Scenario#: DN04     Date: 5/13/1940     Location: Chateau de Meez, Belgium

After the initial crossings of the Meuse, Panzer-Division 7 began to expand the bridgehead west of the river. Darkness approached, and Rommel ordered a company to begin scaling the cliffs and move through the woods surrounding the Chateau de Meez.…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 10 - Croix de Guerre ( 2nd Edition)
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Scenario#: 244     Date: 6/5/1940     Location: Condé-Folie, France

Northern France had fallen and General Weygand was desperately attempting to form a long along the Somme. Lacking sufficient forces for a continuous front, he decided on a series of combined-arms hedgehogs which he hoped could thwart the German…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 10 - Croix de Guerre ( 2nd Edition)
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