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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#: 145     Date: 10/27/1937     Location: Shanghai, China

After two months of heavy fighting in and around Shanghai, the Chinese Army was forced to retreat to the south bank of Suzhou Creek. Covering the retreat was the 524th Regiment of the Chinese 88th Division led by Lt.-Col. Hsieh Chin-yuan. The…

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Scenario#: 146     Date: 3/23/1938     Location: Taierzhuang, China

The Japanese offensive in early 1938 was designed to link their northern force from Beijing with their central force from Nanjing. The two forces were to meet west of Xuzhou, this severing the Lunghai corridor and the railroad which ran from the…

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Scenario#: 65     Date: 7/5/1939     Location: Nomonhan, Mongolia

In May 1939, a dispute broke out over the boundary between Soviet-controlled Outer Mongolia and Japanese-held Manchuria. After a Soviet and Mongolian combined-arms force virtually annihilated a Japanese recon party, the heavily reinforced 23rd…

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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…

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Scenario#: 138     Date: 9/2/1939     Location: Mlawa, Poland

At Mlawa, the Polish 20th Infantry Division, ensconced behind extensive fortifications and minefields, was able to repulse the first frontal assault of the “Wodrig” Corps – a battlegroup of infantry and cavalry formations. General von Kuechler…

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Scenario#: 139     Date: 9/5/1939     Location: Piotrkow, Poland

With Armies Modlin and Pomorze in full retreat, the Polish High Command focused on the tactical situation in the Piortrkow sector and ordered a local counterattack to slow the German blitzkrieg. The 1st Panzer Division approached Piotrkow believing…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 11 - Doomed Battalions (3rd Edition)
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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…

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Scenario#: 84     Date: 9/8/1939     Location: Ochota, Poland

A little more than a week after the invasion of Poland, German units of the 10th Army were at the gates of Warsaw. Despite some panic and confusion, the citizens were urged to help with anti-tank ditches and defenses. The 4th Panzer Division was…

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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…

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Scenario#: 86     Date: 9/9/1939     Location: Leczyka, Poland

Polish General Tadeusz Kutrzeba was given permission for an attack to the south by Amry Poznan. The aim was to cover the retreat of Army Pomorze. The attack used the 25th, 17th and 14th Infantry Divisions...

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Scenario#: 140     Date: 9/14/1939     Location: Sochaczew, Poland

As the drive on Warsaw continued, the 4th Panzer Division, with SS Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler Regiment attached, was given new orders to attack through the Warsaw suburbs of the Bzura sector, at the bend of the Vistula River, to seal off the western…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 11 - Doomed Battalions (3rd Edition)
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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#: 123     Date: 11/30/1939     Location: Kuhmo, Finland

Along the Karelian Front, as the Soviets crossed the borders, the Finnish forces executed a planned withdrawal to the Mannerheim Line. In the north, however, the Finns were ordered to oppose the Russian advance at every opportunity. At Kuhmo, the…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 1 - Beyond Valor (3rd Edition)
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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.…

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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…

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Scenario#: 163     Date: 12/15/1939     Location: Kirvesmäki, Finland

After two weeks of delaying actions and counterattacks, Finnish forces had now reached the prepared main defense works known as the Mannerheim Line. However, the defenses at Kirvesmäki, consisted of little more than barbed wire and a few old concrete…

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Scenario#: 164     Date: 1/11/1940     Location: Tormua, Finland

Finnish Group Wolf was directed to attack those remnants of the 163rd Ukrainian Division that had managed to escape from the Soumussalmi pocket. The Soviets were dug in at Juntusanta, 5 kilometers south of Tormua. All three battalions of Wolf would…

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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#: 166     Date: 2/26/1940     Location: Kuhmo, Finland

During the first three weeks of the war the Russian 14th Army drove Detachment Pennanen before it all the way to Hoyhenjarvi where the advance halted and the contenders dug in. The front would be quiet until February 24, when a Russian ski detachment…

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Scenario#: 44     Date: 4/9/1940     Location: Hamar-Elverum Road, Norway

During the early stages of the German invasion of Norway, two companies of paratroopers that had landed at Fornebu Airport three hours earlier than planned, loaded on buses with hopes of raiding the Norwegian army headquarters at Hamar and capture…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 6 - The Last Hurrah
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Scenario#: 87     Date: 4/9/1940     Location: Haderslev, Denmark

Strong German motorized forces crossed the Danish border early in the morning of April 9th. Several German armored cars were damaged or destroyed, and the Germans learned to fear the 20mm guns mounted on the Nimbus motorcycles poised for ambush at…

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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#: 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…

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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#: 48     Date: 5/10/1940     Location: Witry, Belgium

400 men of Infantry Regiment “Deutschland” landed by light plane to seize crossroads near the villages of Nives and Witry deep in the Ardennes. Lt.-Col. Garski’s command, landing in fields east of his target, was informed of the presence of Belgian…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 6 - The Last Hurrah
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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…

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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…

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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,…

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Scenario#: DN01     Date: 5/11/1940     Location: Chabrehez, Belgium

As the leading elements of Panzer-Division 7 moved through the valley east of Chabrehea at 1800 on 10 May, they encountered two platoons of Belgian Chasseurs d'Ardennais dug in on the slopes in front of the town. The Germans hastily deployed the…

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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…

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Scenario#: 143     Date: 5/13/1940     Location: Grebbe Hill, Holland

The Grebbe Line was the principal defensive position into Fortress Holland from the east. Following a preparatory bombardment, the outpost line was attacked at sunrise on 11 May and the defenders slowly fell back to the trenches on the hill. The…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 11 - Doomed Battalions (3rd Edition)
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Scenario#: 75     Date: 5/13/1940     Location: Elvegardsmoen, Norway

In the arctic twilight, the 13th Demi-Brigade of the French Foreign Legion and five Hotchkiss tanks were successfully put ashore by British landing craft northeast of Narvik. One legion battalion and two tanks were sent to retake the supply center of…

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Scenario#: DN03     Date: 5/13/1940     Location: Dinant, Belgium

After fighting its way through the Ardennes, Panzer-Division 7 found itself on the banks of the Meuse. The towering cliffs provided a majestic and frightening back drop for the job of crossing the river. The questions on every trooper's mind were:…

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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.…

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Scenario#: DN05     Date: 5/13/1940     Location: Ferme de Meez, Belgium

As more and more Germans crossed the river near Bouvignes, they pushed hard against the scattered French troops who were falling back into the northern reentrant -- the gap between the cliffs. Fighting escalated as the gap narrowed, and soon the…

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Scenario#: DN06     Date: 5/13/1940     Location: Dinant, Belgium

As evening fell, the German crossing began to accelerate. Rommel's direction was the added impetus needed to ensure success. The immediate task was to clear the French from atop the cliffs overlooking the river, where they had artillery spotters…

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Scenario#: DN07     Date: 5/13/1940     Location: Saint-Medard, Belgium

As night fell at Dinant, Panzer-Division 7 had crossed the river against stiff French resistance. But their bridgehead was not yet secure. The French defenders had fallen back from the cliffs and were reorganizing in the farms and villages behind the…

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Scenario#: DN08     Date: 5/13/1940     Location: Dinant, Belgium

Having lost contact with the forces in and around Dinant, the French Command ordered 1ère DLC to ascertain where and in what strength the Germans were across the Meuse. A scratch force was hastily thrown together to assess the situation, and a…

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Scenario#: 89     Date: 5/13/1940     Location: Wulmerson, Belgium

On May 12th, the 7th Squadron of the 4th Lanciers and the 5th of the 3rd were hurriedly placed along the railway Tirlemont-Liege to fill the gap between the Belgian 2nd Cavalry and the French 12th Cuirassiers, west of Goosoncourt airfield. On the…

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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…

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Scenario#: 233     Date: 5/14/1940     Location: Onhaye, Belgium

In the early hours of May 13, Rommel pushed units of his Panzer-Division 7 across the Meuse River in the vicinity of Dinant, where they clung to a shaky foothold. While infantry were able to cross on boats, Rommel's tanks would have to cross on a…

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Scenario#: DN09     Date: 5/14/1940     Location: Dinant, Belgium

After securing the crossing area, Rommel ordered his reconnaissance units to begin moving along N936 toward Onhaye. As the light armor and cycles moved out in the darkness, they ran into a series of French positions along the road.

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Scenario#: DN10     Date: 5/14/1940     Location: Onhaye, Belgium

While overseeing the construction of a pontoon bridge, as well as the continued ferrying of troops across the Meuse, Rommel learned of a message received at 4.Armee headquarters reading "Bismarck encircled at Onhaye." All further communication was…

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Scenario#: 234     Date: 5/15/1940     Location: Stonne, France

The Grossdeutschland Regiment, after some hard fighting and a harder march north, had finally taken the village of Stonne, the pivot of the German flank movement from Sedan. Exhausted, the German infantry were now the target for one of the few…

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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…

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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…

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Scenario#: 76     Date: 5/18/1940     Location: Le Catelet, France

The French command reacted slowly to Rommel’s breakthrough at Avesnes. Taking advantage of the sluggish French reaction, the Germans refueled and rearmed their Panzers and on May 18th they advanced toward Le Catelet. Colonel Veron, given the task of…

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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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