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Scenario#: 202     Date: 4/6/1945     Location: Hitdorf, Germany

As the Third Reich collapsed, many American leaders became bold to the point of recklessness. Often, a daring stroke by a small group of GIs yielded a vast gaggle of demoralized German prisoners. But sometimes the Americans pushed their luck to far…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 3a Yanks (2nd Edition)
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Scenario#: 204     Date: 6/28/1950     Location: Inje-Hongch'on Road, South Korea

As the morning fog lifted on the fourth day of war, motorized elements of the KPA 7th Division, supported by armor, rolled down the Hongch'on road, intent on overrunning the defenders of the South Korean 6th Division. In the pass, a ROK company from…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 15 - Forgotten War
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Scenario#: 115     Date: 7/18/1942     Location: Uriv, Russia

The German Army had failed to take the city of Voronezh by early summer 1942. Three Russian bridgeheads remained in strength on the west bank of the Don River posing a threat to the entire front. The Hungarian Army was entrusted with clearing these…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 12 - Armies of Oblivion
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Scenario#: 175     Date: 10/8/1944     Location: Ylimaa, Finland

The Finnish Armored Division was ordered to take the important city of Rovaniemi. After a few inconclusive skirmishes, the lead battalion encountered German positions near Lake Portimo. The first attack was not successful. For the next attack, five…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 14 - Hakkaa Päälle!
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Scenario#: 201     Date: 3/24/1945     Location: Hamminkeln, Germany

“Operation Varsity”, the airborne phase of the Allies’ northern Rhine crossing, was to be the last airborne assault of the war. The 17th Airborne Division’s first regiment to drop had little problem from ground fire, arriving so close behind the…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 3a Yanks (2nd Edition)
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Scenario#: 231     Date: 5/10/1940     Location: Aessan, France

The blitzkrieg in the West had begun. German forces were pouring into France at breakneck speeds. Bridges on the Moselle had been captured undamaged and the advance elements of the 34th infantry Division started to cross as soon as the obstacles…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 10 - Croix de Guerre ( 2nd Edition)
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Scenario#: 236     Date: 5/17/1940     Location: On the Meuse, France

In the confusion following the 7th Panzer Division’s breakout, isolated French units still held crossings across the Meuse while the German infantry struggled to catch up. Now elements of XIV Panzergrenadier Korps, on the basis of Fieseler Storch…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 10 - Croix de Guerre ( 2nd Edition)
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Scenario#: 5     Date: 9/14/1942     Location: Stalingrad, Russia

Defense of Stalingrad’s central district and the all important main ferry landing lay largely in the hands of hastily mobilized militia composed of factory workers and the NKVD garrison. These troops would have to hold the Wehrmacht at bay until the…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 1 - Beyond Valor (3rd Edition)
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Scenario#: 43     Date: 9/1/1939     Location: Krojanty, Poland

By noon the first day, the German 20th Motorized Infantry Division was surging across the so-called “Polish Corridor” from the west towards the vital crossroads at Chojnice. Along the Chojnice-Naklo rail line, the German vanguard had been fought to a…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 6 - The Last Hurrah
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Scenario#: 213     Date: 2/10/1951     Location: Chipyong-Ni, South Korea

For a week, the 23rd Infantry Regiment improved its positions on the low hills surrounding the road hub of Chipyong-ni, amid reports that the Communist Chinese were moving in force both to the east and west. Lacking information on communist…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 15 - Forgotten War
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Scenario#: 137     Date: 3/10/1937     Location: Brihuega, Spain

In spite of a non-intervention policy adopted by the League of Nations, foreign nationals flocked to Spain by the thousands. As a result, both the Nationalists and the Republicans used foreign troops to fight their war. On March 8, the Nationalists…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 11 - Doomed Battalions (3rd Edition)
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Scenario#: 71     Date: 12/9/1944     Location: Bhamo, Burma

As part of the multi-pronged drive to re-open the northern end of the Burma Road, the Chinese New 1st Army had pushed south to the river port of Bhamo, the terminus of navigation on the Irrawaddy. The Japanese had spent some six months turning it…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 9 - Gung Ho!
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Scenario#: 247     Date: 1/16/1941     Location: Phum Preav, French Indochina

The reverse suffered by the French army at the hands of the Japanese aggression led the new Thai government to strongly reaffirm its intention to reintegrate Laos and Cambodia into the motherland. The state of latent war came to a sudden end on 10…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 10 - Croix de Guerre ( 2nd Edition)
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Scenario#: 106     Date: 9/17/1944     Location: Mont Lambert, France

Mount Lambert offered a vantage point over the key French port of Boulogne and was critical to its defense. After an aerial and artillery bombardment, the Canadian 3rd Infantry Division's 9th Brigade, following tanks of the 10th Armoured Regiment,…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 5a - For King and Country
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Scenario#: 37     Date: 6/13/1942     Location: Tobruk, Libya

The Gazala battles had been raging for days with Panzerarmee Afrika driving for the great prize of Tobruk. Several British strongpoints still lay in its path, one of which was the Knightsbridge box held by the 201st Guards Motor Brigade Group. On 13…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 5 - West of Alamein
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Scenario#: 70     Date: 1/22/1942     Location: Mauban, Bataan

On the 18th of January 1942, a battalion of the Japanese 16th Division began infiltrating across the slopes of Mt. Silanganan, where the terrain so rugged and densely forested that I Corps had been unable to form a continuous defensive line. On the…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 9 - Gung Ho!
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Scenario#: 22     Date: 10/18/1944     Location: Aachen, Germany

Americans were close to assaulting the Quellenhof, headquarters of the Aachen commandant. By midday they had captured Farwick Park’s outbuildings, the shattered greenhouses. and the famous Kurhaus beerhall. But suddenly the teenage veterans of the…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 3 - Yanks
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Scenario#: 186     Date: 8/7/1944     Location: L'Abbaye Blanche, France

As part of Operation Luttich, the German drive through Mortain towards Avranches, the 2nd SS-Panzer Division’s Der Führer Regiment moved out of its assembly area at 0430 hours. Once it reached the outskirts of Mortain, Der Führer’s spearhead turned…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 3a Yanks (2nd Edition)
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Scenario#: 174     Date: 7/12/1944     Location: Vuosalmi, Finland

On 9 July, the Soviets managed to create a bridgehead in the VKT Line at Vuosalmi. This was reinforced the following night with several divisions supported by armor. Finnish HQ realized the seriousness of the situation and ordered Maj. Gen. Lagus'…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 14 - Hakkaa Päälle!
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Scenario#: 127     Date: 7/3/1941     Location: Lipki, Russia

Under pressure from Stalin to hold Smolensk, Yeremenko was desperate to halt the German offensive. On 1 July, he committed his sole armored reserve: the 1st Moscow Motorized Rifle Division. It was a crack unit, the pride of the STAVKA. Equipped with…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 1 - Beyond Valor (3rd Edition)
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Scenario#: 235     Date: 5/15/1940     Location: Bouvellemont, France

By dusk on the 14th, the Germans had established three bridgeheads across the Meuse River. The 15th brought the next stage: the breaking of the last major elements which stood between them and the great plains of France. One point of the last line of…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 10 - Croix de Guerre ( 2nd Edition)
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Scenario#: 158     Date: 5/21/1944     Location: Charpate, Burma

On 17 May 1944, after a grueling 100-kilometre (62 mi) march over the 2,000-metre (6,600 ft) Kumon Mountain range (using mules for carrying supplies) to Myitkyina, approximately 1,300 remaining Marauders, along with elements of the 42nd and 150th…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 13 - Rising Sun
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Scenario#: 77     Date: 6/5/1940     Location: Hangest, France

Rommel’s 7th Panzer Division had established a small bridgehead across the Somme, but the construction of a pontoon bridge was prevented by interdicting fire from the nearby town of Hangest. Self-propelled howitzers were brought forward to bombard…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 10 - Croix de Guerre
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Scenario#: 13     Date: 6/6/1944     Location: La Fiere, France

The bridge at La Fiere carried the road from Ste. Mere-Eglise across the Merderet River and was the main objective of the 101st Airborne’s 1st Battalion, 505th Regiment. After a successful drop, they set off for their objective a mere 1,000 yards…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 2 - Paratrooper
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Scenario#: 113     Date: 7/5/1941     Location: Branzeni, Romania

At the onset of Barbarossa, Romania's primary goal was recapturing from the Russians its lost lands in Bessarabia and northern Bukovina. Although the Russians successfully resisted the initial assaults in the area, by the end of June the Axis had…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 12 - Armies of Oblivion
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Scenario#: 17     Date: 6/6/1944     Location: Sainte-Mère-Eglise, France

Ste. Mere-Eglise was a junction for five roads and was recognized by Germans and Americans alike as the key to defeating the airborne invasion. Shortly after midnight the village’s garrison had massacred in mid-air two sticks of paratroopers who had…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 2 - Paratrooper
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Scenario#: 2     Date: 1/18/1943     Location: Warsaw Ghetto, Poland

The day started as had so many others in the Ghetto with the SS marching in to exact their daily toll in the final “resettlement” of the Warsaw Jews. The roundups started as usual: with sirens, shots, screams and sorrow. But this day, fewer than…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 1 - Beyond Valor (3rd Edition)
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Scenario#: 187     Date: 9/11/1944     Location: Bar-le-Duc, France

Lt. Allen Morgan's 2nd Platoon had orders to hold an important crossroads west of the Moselle River. On September 10th the Germans counterattacked the junction, but were repulsed in a furious fight, falling back to the village of Bar-de-Duc with Lt.…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 3a Yanks (2nd Edition)
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Scenario#: 221     Date: 6/29/1942     Location: Novo Shuli, Crimea

As spring arrived in the Crimea, the fortress of Sevastopol still stood defiant after resisting two offensives and a six month siege. A June offensive had XXX Corps attacking to break through Sevastopol’s eastern defenses. XXX Corp included a large…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 12 - Armies of Oblivion (2nd Edition)
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Scenario#: 152     Date: 7/16/1943     Location: Laiana, New Georgia

The swift capture of Munda Point and its airfield was imperative. American forces reached the defenders' main line on the peninsula. The Japanese were there in force, cleverly concealed in pillboxes and "spider holes". It was decided to put the…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 13 - Rising Sun
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Scenario#: 169     Date: 1/28/1943     Location: Lake Segozero, Russia

The small island of Metchishori, in the frozen Lake Segozero, was guarded by a Finnish company that was rotated on a monthly basis. On the morning of 21 January, the 9th Company and a machine gun platoon was transferred to the island. On 28 January a…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 14 - Hakkaa Päälle!
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Scenario#: 16     Date: 6/7/1944     Location: La Fière, France

Ste. Mere-Eglise was under strong attack from the north so the 507th Parachute Regiment was shifted into a supporting position SW of the town, leaving only the 1st Battalion of the 505th Parachute Regiment facing the Germans at La Fiere. The obsolete…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 2 - Paratrooper
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Scenario#: 85     Date: 9/9/1939     Location: Pilatka, Poland

As Kunip_lgruppe Dittfurth was cutting their only path of retreat towards the Vistula. the trapped Poles of Army Prussy became more and more desperate in their attempts to break through the encirclemcnt. As darkness approached. the Poles launched yet…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 11 - Doomed Battalions
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Scenario#: 110     Date: 9/24/1944     Location: Oosterbeek, Holland

By Sunday, D-plus7, the beleaguered British 1st Airborne had contracted into a tight knot around the village, anchored by positions on the north bank of the Lower Rhine. Just across the water were friendly forces, but their every attempt to reach the…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 5a - For King and Country
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Scenario#: 185     Date: 7/10/1944     Location: Foret de Mont Castre, France

The US 90th Infantry Division had had a rough time so far in Normandy. Since 8 July, its 358th Regiment had been trying to crack the Mahlman Line, the main line of defense across the base of the Cotentin peninsula. Hill 122, the key position in the…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 3a Yanks (2nd Edition)
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Scenario#: 165     Date: 2/26/1940     Location: Honkaniemi, Finland

When the weary Finnish troops took up positions in the Mannerheim Line, with the Soviets right on their heels, the defense ran into trouble right away. After a week of battle, the Soviets managed to breach the line in several places, including at the…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 14 - Hakkaa Päälle!
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Scenario#: 98     Date: 5/20/1941     Location: Canea, Crete

Lieutenant Alfred Genz’s 1st Company had two objectives in the airborne assault on Crete. First, to neutralize the anti-aircraft battery located south of Canea and, second, to capture a nearby wireless station. Most of his gliders touched down near…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 5a - For King and Country
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Scenario#: 124     Date: 11/30/1939     Location: Artahuhta, Finland

The Soviet 139th Rifle Division – 20,000 troops supported by 147 artillery pieces and 45 tanks – crossed the border on all available roads leading to Tolvajarvi, a key road junction defended by 4,200 scattered Finnish reservists. Cavalry Reserve Lt.…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 1 - Beyond Valor (3rd Edition)
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Scenario#: 60     Date: 8/9/1942     Location: Deniki, Papua New Guinea

On New Guinea, the Japanese had been slowly advancing on the Kokoda Trail. The Allies’ Maroubra Force had been forced back to prepared positions at Deniki. The Australian militiamen preformed a three-company counterattack which recaptured Kokoda and…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 8 - Code of Bushido
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Scenario#: 142     Date: 4/24/1940     Location: Dombaas, Norway

With the sudden Allied landings at Namsos and Andalsnes, the strategic and political importance of Trondheim was brought into sharp focus. Quickly implementing alternative plans, von Falkenhorst ordered the 196th Infantry Division to clear several…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 11 - Doomed Battalions (3rd Edition)
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Scenario#: 157     Date: 4/17/1944     Location: Mawlu, Burma

The second Chindit expedition established a number of “bamboo fortresses” to cut the Japanese supply routes in northern Burma. The most important of these, codenamed “White City”, was installed just north of Mawlu to block the vital Rangoon-Myitkyina…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 13 - Rising Sun
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Scenario#: 226     Date: 5/15/1943     Location: Cajnice, Croatia

Operation Schwarz was the largest Axis anti-partisan operation. The operation attempted to encircle and crush the NOVJ partisan stronghold in the mountainous area between the Ceotina and Piva Rivers in southern Bosnia.

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 12 - Armies of Oblivion (2nd Edition)
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Scenario#: 154     Date: 3/6/1944     Location: Walawbum, Burma

For their first mission in the Burmese jungle, Merrill’s Marauders had to outflank the 18th Japanese Division to prevent it from escaping the attack of Stilwell’s two Chinese divisions in the Hukawng Valley. After a 10 day march in the hills, the…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 13 - Rising Sun
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Scenario#: 112     Date: 4/13/1941     Location: Senta, Yugoslavia

Immediately after Yugoslavian regent Prince Paul signed the Tripartite Pact to join with Germany and Italy, military leaders overthrew the regime, rescinding the agreement. Hitler then launched Operation Punishment as a lesson on the costs of defying…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 12 - Armies of Oblivion
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Scenario#: 225     Date: 2/20/1943     Location: Warsaw Ghetto, Poland

Walter Toebbens, a leading German industrialist and major “employer” of the “productive Jews” of Warsaw, was brought from Berlin to solve the Nazis’ difficulties by “peaceful means”. He was to convince the Jewish civic and religious leaders to…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 12 - Armies of Oblivion (2nd Edition)
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Scenario#: 197     Date: 12/23/1944     Location: Baraque de Fraiture, Belgium

Major Arthur C. Parker, withdrawing with remnants of his 598th Artillery Battalion, including only three guns, realized the strategic value of the crossroads he was approaching. The center of the US XVIII Airborne Corps sector would be at risk. With…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 3a Yanks (2nd Edition)
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Scenario#: 196     Date: 12/23/1944     Location: Warnach, Belgium

To open the attack on the morning of the 23rd, Patton ordered his chaplain, Father O’Neill, to pray for good weather. The good Father responded with a prayer, and the day dawned crisp and clear. The men of the 4th Armored Division knew that…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 3a Yanks (2nd Edition)
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Scenario#: 49     Date: 5/10/1940     Location: Gennap, Holland

It was vital for the German 6th and 18th Armies to get across the River Maas and the Dutch defensive line just beyond it swiftly. The Dutch defensive line – the so-called “Peel Line” – was composed of MG bunkers and artillery casemates fronted by an…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 6 - The Last Hurrah
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Scenario#: 80     Date: 11/8/1942     Location: Mehdia, Morocco

On D-Day of Operation Torch, the 2nd Battalion Landing Team (BLT) had in part the critical mission of capturing the coastal defenses of Mehdia before daylight. The Vichy French resisted the landings. In the fight the GIs were unable to halt their own…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 10 - Croix de Guerre
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Scenario#: 42     Date: 11/23/1941     Location: Sidi Rezegh, Libya

As part of the drive to open a corridor to Tobruk, the 2nd New Zealand Division was ordered to seize the heights dominating the eastern approaches to Ed Duda. Resistance was surprisingly feeble, as most Germans surrendered rather quickly. In their…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 5 - West of Alamein
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