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Scenario#: 151     Date: 8/8/1942     Location: Tanambogo, Solomon Islands

Following the costly repulse of Company B of the 2nd Marine Regiment on Tanambogo, the 3rd Battalion of the 2nd Marines was ordered to land on Gavutu at dawn, relieve the exhausted paratroopers, and capture Tanambogo by the end of the day. Ashore at…

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Scenario#: 126     Date: 6/28/1941     Location: Liepaja, Latvia

The evening of June 24, Infantry-Regiment 505 was established within 12 km of Liepaja in Latvia. The following day, jointly with Kriegsmarine commandos led by Lieutenant-Commander Schenke, the 505th attempted to take the maritime fortress by surprise…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 1 - Beyond Valor (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#: 251     Date: 5/12/1944     Location: Castelforte, Italy

It was apparent that only a bold stroke would get the costly Allied offensive in Italy rolling again. General Alphonso Juin, commander of the French Expeditionary Corps, convinced Mark Clark to accept his plan for a new spring offensive, to be…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 10 - Croix de Guerre ( 2nd Edition)
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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#: 220     Date: 9/22/1941     Location: Grigorievka, Russia

Since the end of July, the Germans had reached the Crimea and the outskirts of Odessa. The Russians fought tooth and nail but, day after day, the perimeter defense narrowed. Using their fleet on the Black Sea, the Soviet command decided to launch a…

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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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#: 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…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 10 - Croix de Guerre ( 2nd Edition)
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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#: 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#: 130     Date: 8/30/1941     Location: Kiev, Russia

As the Russian front spread with each German success, vast gaps were left in the main line. These gaps proved to be perfect avenues of approach for the far-ranging Russian cavalry. One such daring group, the 1st Regiment, 2nd Cavalry Division, rode…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 1 - Beyond Valor (3rd Edition)
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Scenario#: 237     Date: 5/27/1940     Location: Orneset, Norway

Allies re-took Narvik only to find it largely abandoned by the Germans. The beachhead was still covered by crews from destroyed German naval destroyers. After an intense naval bombardment, these Germans saw French Foreign Legion troops bearing down…

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Scenario#: 249     Date: 6/20/1941     Location: Mezze, Syria

By nightfall on 19 June, the Allied position at Mezzeh was desperate. Ammunition was running low, no food had been eaten for 24 hours, casualties were severe, and medical supplies were exhausted. During the night (when Vichy attacks were suspended),…

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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#: 190     Date: 11/19/1944     Location: Freistroff, France

As part of the assault on Metz, the 10th Armored Division was ordered to execute a flank attack around the north side of the fortified area. Racing east past Thionville, the division turned south to complete the encirclement of Metz. The next…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 3a Yanks (2nd Edition)
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Scenario#: 101     Date: 6/6/1944     Location: Varaville, France

On D-Day at 0100 hours, an advance party from the 3rd Parachute Brigade descended over the Normandy countryside between the Orne and Dives rivers – the Allied invasion of Europe had begun. One of the tasks for the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion was…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 5a - For King and Country
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Scenario#: 179     Date: 9/14/1943     Location: Lattari Mountains, Italy

The First and Fourth Rangers, under the command of Bill Darby, landed at Maiori, west of Salerno on 9 September 1943. They then moved 10km inland to block the road to Naples. Once established in the hills, they became the major obstacle to German…

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Scenario#: 181     Date: 6/6/1944     Location: Chef Du Pont, France

One of the responsibilities of the Airborne troops was the seizure of several key bridges following the D-Day drop. One of these bridges was at Chef-du-Pont. Gavin organized a pickup force to take care of this bridge himself. With elements of the…

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Scenario#: 183     Date: 6/6/1944     Location: Pouppeville, France

With the invasion at Normandy underway, the first Allied troops to see fighting were the men of the airborne divisions. Most of these early encounters for the 101st Airborne Division occurred at the many German strongpoints and scattered villages…

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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#: 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…

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Scenario#: 45     Date: 5/20/1941     Location: Kastelli, Crete

A number of Greek regiments, understrength and poorly armed but with grim determination after the defeats of the past month, were on Crete. On the day of the German paratroop assault, one such – the 1st, numbering a bit over 1000 men – was stationed…

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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#: 47     Date: 4/9/1941     Location: Alibunara, Yugoslavia

At the time of the invasion on 6 April, the Yugoslavian Army was in the midst of mobilization; only eleven divisions were ready to face the thirty German, fourteen Italian and five Hungarian divisions that plunged into their country. Confusion and…

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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…

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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#: 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…

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Scenario#: 250     Date: 11/10/1942     Location: Port-Lyautey, Morocco

The first phase of Operation Torch include amphibious landings along the Atlantic coast of Morocco. Many of the primary objectives included the securing of French airdromes in the area. One such field was nestled on three sides by the Sebou River. A…

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

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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…

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Scenario#: 180     Date: 12/18/1943     Location: San Pietro, Italy

Since the 7th of December, the American 36th (Texas) Division had been attempting to remove the German strongpoint of San Pietro. The “T-Patchers” and their supporting elements had made two previous attempts against San Pietro, but they had no…

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Scenario#: 248     Date: 1/16/1941     Location: Yang Dang Khum, Cambodia

On 5 January 1941, following the report of a French attack on the Thai border town of Aranyaprathet, the Thai Burapha and Isan Armies launched an offensive on Laos and Cambodia. French response was instantaneous, but many units were simply swept…

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

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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#: 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…

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Scenario#: 240     Date: 5/28/1940     Location: Orneset, Norway

On 24 May, faced with the deteriorating situation in France, the Allies decided to evacuate Norway. However, before the evacuation, the Anglo-French commanders wanted to retake Narvik. For that operation, the main attack would come from the north and…

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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#: 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#: 246     Date: 9/25/1940     Location: Na Cham Border Post, French Indochina

In order to interdict the Chinese supply lines, the Japanese Canton Army wished to take control of French Indochina, which had been left isolated and without direction by the defeat of France in June of 1940. Japanese troops attacked border posts…

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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…

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Scenario#: 252     Date: 3/10/1945     Location: Hanoi Citadel, French Indochina

Since November 1944, tension had been on the rise between the Japanese occupation troops and the Indochina government. French and Japanese troops were spread all over the country and their positions intertwined. As early as the end of February, the…

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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#: 245     Date: 9/24/1940     Location: Mai Pha, French Indochina

The Japanese had invaded Tonkin and using available dense terrain undertook a vast maneuver of encirclement on either side of the fortified city of Lansgson, threatening to isolate it by cutting Colonial Road 1. The 11th Company, 3rd Battalion of the…

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