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Revenge at Kastelli 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… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL 6 - The Last Hurrah
Rude Awakening 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… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL 6 - The Last Hurrah
Bridge to Nowhere 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 Leader — ASL 7 - Hollow Legions (2nd Edition)
Half a Chance Scenario#: 56     Date: 11/19/1941     Location: Bir el Gubi, Libya The Italian 132nd “Ariete” Armored Division, positioned 37 miles south of Tobruk, received intelligence that an assault was imminent and prepared its defenses behind areas of low-lying ground turned boggy by heavy rains. Skillfully camouflaged, its… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL 7 - Hollow Legions (2nd Edition)
Ci Arrendiamo Scenario#: 58     Date: 2/7/1941     Location: Agedabia, Libya "We Surrender" - In an attempt to halt the Italian 10th Army which was retreating south from Benghazi, Combeforce – a motor infantry battalion reinforced with artillery and armored cars – was dispatched ahead of the pursuing British 7th Armored… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL 7 - Hollow Legions (2nd Edition)
Directive Number Three Scenario#: AP007     Date: 6/27/1941     Location: Dubno, Russia On June 22nd, “Barbarossa” struck the Soviet Union. Unlike the other Army Groups, Army Group South would have to fight through solid defenses held by troops skillfully led and determined to fight. By the 23rd, a breach of the front between the… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Action Pack #1
Best Think Again Scenario#: AP093     Date: 6/24/1941     Location: Saudininkai, Lithuania The first encounter with Soviet heavy tanks proved to be a shock for German panzer crews, whose rounds simply bounced off the Soviet behemoths. Even the Germans’ high-density AP rounds were of little use against the KV tanks. To break out of their… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Action Pack #10
Mechanized Sacrifice Scenario#: AP122     Date: 6/24/1941     Location: Lutsk, Ukraine At the end of the first day of the war, General Kiponos was ordered to counterattack toward Vladimir-Volynski, destroying all German forces in his path. As unrealistic as this was, Kirponos had no choice but to obey. The five mechanized corps… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Action Pack #13 Oktoberfest XXXII
Busting in Balta Scenario#: AP123     Date: 8/3/1941     Location: Balta, Ukraine Balta was to be bypassed by the main German force as the attack towards Odessa continued. However, Pioneer-Regiment 744 was ordered to capture Balta to protect the flank of the main attack. At 0840, Kompanie C attacked from the southeast. After an… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Action Pack #13 Oktoberfest XXXII
Lunch in Luga Scenario#: AP124     Date: 8/24/1941     Location: Luga, Russia In order to complete the encirclement of Leningrad, the so-called “Luga Line” had to be broken first. The Germans began their assault on 22 August with Infanterie-Division 269 fighting its way slowly to the west from Luga into the river bend to the… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Action Pack #13 Oktoberfest XXXII
Carrier Hill Scenario#: AP160     Date: 4/22/1941     Location: Tobruk, Libya SEIGE The Australian commander of the Tobruk garrison, Major General Leslie Morshead, was not content to rest on the laurels of his Easter victory against Rommel's first assault on the fortress. ln response to a newspaper headline "Tobruk Can Take It." he… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Action Pack #16 From The Land Down Under
ANZAC Boys Scenario#: AP161     Date: 5/27/1941     Location: Chania, Crete During the first part of 1941, Allied forces had been defeated in Greece and many had retreated to Crete. In their haste, the allies had been forced to leave much of their heavy equipment behind, leaving them lightly armed for the inevitable German… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Action Pack #16 From The Land Down Under
The Governor Scenario#: AP162     Date: 6/19/1941     Location: Medjayoun, Syria The initial phase of the Commonwealth campaign against the Vichy forces in Syria was proving tougher than expected. These French, former allies of the Commonwealth. were resilient opponents. Merdjayoun was symbolic of this as the town, located only a… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Action Pack #16 From The Land Down Under
Dingoes At Damour Scenario#: AP163     Date: 7/9/1941     Location: Damour, Syria After a month the British and Commonwealth campaign against Vichy forces in Syria was coming to a close. The coastal town of Damour was the last major Vichy outpost before the key city of Beirut. The Vichy commander in the Damour region, allocated a… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Action Pack #16 From The Land Down Under
Cream of the Crop Scenario#: AP012     Date: 6/23/1941     Location: the Bug River, Russia Assault gun crews were highly trained, elite artillery units assigned to provide close fire support to the infantry. All assault gun crews were volunteers up until 1944 and had proven in pre-war trials to be more accurate gunners than tank crews. In… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Action Pack #2
Shielding Moscow Scenario#: AP013     Date: 12/3/1941     Location: Khimki, Russia The men of the 35th Infantry Division were exhausted after their long trek across Russia. First mud, the severe winter weather, then stiffening defenses had blunted the spearhead of Operation Typhoon’s drive to Moscow. Now, with the spires of the… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Action Pack #2
The Meat Grinder Scenario#: AP041     Date: 6/25/1941     Location: Lutsk, Russia In the opening days of Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union, the triangular area bounded by the cities of Lutsk, Rovno, and Brody was the scene of a bitter struggle. Army High Command plans called for a rapid thrust to the Ukrainian capital of… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Action Pack #5 East Front
Frontiers and Pioneers Scenario#: AP042     Date: 6/26/1941     Location: Skaudvila, Russia As German penetrations into the Russian frontier intensified, Soviet commanders were forced to rely heavily upon counterattacks to stem the tide. Northwest Front commander Col-Gen Kusnetsov planned to use his 3rd and 12th Mechanized Corps to attack… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Action Pack #5 East Front
Escape from Encirclement Scenario#: AP043     Date: 8/3/1941     Location: Podvyssokoya-Peregonorka, Russia Large numbers of Russian men and material had been cut off and surrounded in a pocket centered on Uman, near Kiev. The encircled Russians, searching for a means to escape, had already attempted to break out to the east with disastrous results. To the… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Action Pack #5 East Front
The Nutcracker Scenario#: AP063     Date: 12/7/1941     Location: Klin, Russia During the final phase of Operation TYPHOON, German Panzer-Armee 4 broke through Russian defenses northeast of Moscow. General Reinhardt's Panzer-Korps LVI was able to cross the Moskva-Volga Canal at Yakhroma on 27 November but could not hold its… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Action Pack #7
Thai Hot Scenario#: AP083     Date: 12/8/1941     Location: Pattani Province, Thailand Pattani, a town in the province of the same name, is located on the Kra Isthmus, more than 500 kilometres south of Burma. The town’s proximity to the Malayan border made it a top Japanese priority. As day broke on 8 December, Japanese transports were… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Action Pack #9 To the Bridge!
Double Trouble Scenario#: AP084     Date: 12/28/1941     Location: Bokpyin, Burma Within days of gaining passage through Thailand, Japanese forces were probing southern Burma. On 12 December, 2nd Battalion, 143rd Infantry Regiment, 55th Division crossed the Kra Isthmus. The Regimental Commander, Colonel Uno, and one rifle company… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Action Pack #9 To the Bridge!
The Professionals Scenario#: A5     Date: 9-Apr-41     Location: Pirot, Yugoslavia On April 8th, the Wehrmacht erupted across the Yugoslavian borders. Von Kleist's armor, striking along the River Nisava out of Bulgaria, swiftly drove a wedge between the enemy "Troplica" and "Drina" divisions. The Yugoslavs repeatedly performed… Squad Leader — ASL Annual 90
Monastery Hill Scenario#: A014     Date: 3/9/1941     Location: Scialesi, Albania Mussolini's bid to dominate Greece had been a fiasco of the first magnitude; by mid-February 1941, the war which had begun in November amid much posturing had taken the lives of 500 Italian officers and over 5000 other ranks. The Greeks had gone on… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Annual 90
Blocking Action at Lipki Scenario#: A044     Date: 7/3/1941     Location: Borisov, Belarus During the opening stages of Barbarossa, the first great pincer movement on the Central Front occurred between the cities of Bialystok and Minsk. As a result of the encirclement of four Soviet armies in the pocket, the high command was forced to… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Annual 92
The Cat Has Jumped Scenario#: A055     Date: 12/22/1941     Location: Bauang, Luzon Upon hearing of the Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor, General Jonathan Wainwright is said to have exclaimed, "The cat has jumped!" In the two weeks that followed, positioning the under-strength Philippine Army and scattered American units for the… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Annual 93a
Cutting Out a Strongpoint Scenario#: A090     Date: 12/19/1941     Location: Halfaya Pass, Egypt During the tedious days of confining the Axis to their ring of frontier fortresses around Halfaya, HQ 4th South African Infantry Brigade authorized a small operation to eliminate an enemy forward position. This strongpoint, manned by mostly Italian… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Annual 95 Winter
The Road to Gora Scenario#: A091     Date: 12/15/1941     Location: Gora, Russia The Finnish 7th Division had gained a bridgehead on the eastern side of the Svir River at the Tetoimaki village group. The four villages of Tetoimaki lay along a solitary road in the otherwise desolate wilderness, with Gora being the westernmost… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Annual 96
Highway 5 Scenario#: A092     Date: 12/31/1941     Location: Baliuag, Luzon By late December it was obvious to MacArthur that the time had come for the retreat to Bataan. For the Philippine Army’s 71st and 91st Divisions, assigned to hold the Baliuag-Plaridel-Calumpit area, the order to withdraw came not a moment too soon.… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Annual 96
The Red Wave Scenario#: A107     Date: 9/24/1941     Location: Lushno, Russia By mid-September, Army Group North had been stopped short of its goal of the capture of Leningrad. What they had been unable to achieve by force, they now hoped to accomplish by starving the city out. Leningrad was entirely cut off except for the… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Annual 97
Taking a Stand at Rosario Scenario#: J149     Date: 12/22/1941     Location: Rosario, Luzon On 22 December, the main Japanese landing on the island of Luzon came ashore at Lingayen Gulf. The objective was Manila, but getting there required a breakthrough of blocking positions on the main roads along the way. First up after the beach was… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #10
Aiding the Local Constabulary (2 player) Scenario#: J163     Date: 3/29/1941     Location: Dire Dawa, Ethiopia The days of Africa Orientale Italiana were finally coming to a close in Abyssinia, as South African and Nigerian forces continued a now largely-unopposed advance to Addis Ababa. Italian colonial forces were deserting and surrendering en masse, in… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #11
Aiding the Local Constabulary (3 player) Scenario#: J164     Date: 3/29/1941     Location: Dire Dawa, Ethiopia The days of Africa Orientale Italiana were finally coming to a close in Abyssinia, as South African and Nigerian forces continued a now largely-unopposed advance to Addis Ababa. Italian colonial forces were deserting and surrendering en masse, in… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #11
Among the Dead Scenario#: J165     Date: 5/26/1941     Location: Galatas, Crete The German invasion of Crete began on 20 May 1941, and was the first large-scale airborne operation in history. Fallshirmjager jumped into battle or landed by gliders near their targets. However, the Allied defenders of Crete made the German… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #11
Maximum Aggression Scenario#: J166     Date: 12/19/1941     Location: Sumpitan Village, Malaya On 19 December the Scottish 2nd Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders received its next task, the defense of Kuala Kangsar. Success here would both deny the main north-south road junction to the Japanese and allow the 11th Indian Division to… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #11
Dayan to Meet You Scenario#: J184     Date: 6/8/1941     Location: Iskenderun, Syria Moshe Dayan was assigned to a small Australian-Palmach-Arab reconnaissance task force, formed in preparation for the Allied invasion of Syria and Lebanon and attached to the Australian 7th Division. Using his home kibbutz of Hanita as a forward base,… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #12
The Haunted Castle Scenario#: J185     Date: 6/22/1941     Location: Oleszyce, Poland For the veterans of Gebirgs-Division 1, who had fought in Poland, France, and the Balkans, Operation BARBAROSSA was to be a totally new experience. Under the roaring salvos of divisional artillery, the Jäger of Gebirgsjäger-Regiment 99 crossed the… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #12
Castles on the Horizon Scenario#: J186     Date: 11/20/1941     Location: Bir Bu Meliha, Libya Panzer-Division 15 was moving in the direction of Gabr Saleh. Late in the day they came upon the 4th Armoured Brigade’s Honeys which were this time “…in good defensive terrain with the sun behind them and their ammunition racks full”. 22nd Armoured… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #12
In Deadly Combat Scenario#: J187     Date: 12/30/1941     Location: Mekensievy-Gory, Crimea After heavy fighting, Infanterie-Division 132 took the strategic town of Mekensievy-Gory, north of Sevastopol. Gefreiter Bidermann’s PaK platoon, reduced to only two guns, set up near the railway station. On the morning of 30 December, red flares… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #12
The Capture of Balta Scenario#: J029     Date: 8/3/1941     Location: Balta, Ukraine The 11th Army, advancing on the right side of Army Group South, skirted the Rumanian border with the Black Sea port of Odessa as its primary objective. The small town of Balta, located 120 miles northwest of Odessa, had changed hands several times… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #2
Nocturnal Attrition Scenario#: J030     Date: 11/26/1941     Location: Sidi Rezegh, Libya Operation Crusader was boiling around the Sidi Rezeg area, and General Freyberg's New Zealand 6th Brigade was dangerously exposed. The Kiwis were perched on the Sidi Rezeg ridge and airfield, sandwiched between the German 155th Infantry Regiment on… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #2
Men of the Mountains Scenario#: J034     Date: 7/13/1941     Location: Ceyinje, Montenegro On 13 July 1941, in Italian-occupied Montenegro, Montenegrin separatist Sekula Drljević proclaimed an Independent State of Montenegro under Italian protectorate, upon which a nationwide rebellion escalated raised by Partisans, Yugoslav Royal officers… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #2
"They're Here! Reverse!" Scenario#: J047     Date: 2/8/1941     Location: Beda Fomm, Libya The famed Desert Rats were on the move. Heading for the African coast through the Saleh/Beda Fomm area, they planned to set up ambush positions against the large Italian motorized columns retreating from Benghazi towards Tripoli. The 2nd Royal Tank… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #3
Fast Heinz Scenario#: J078     Date: 8/7/1941     Location: Roslavl, Russia Another day of pouring rain. The mud clung like black tar to the men's boots. The 292nd Infantry Division slowed its push to close the bag on the Russian Fourth Army. Each overrun town required its own garrison. Each possible exit needed a guard. As… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #5
The Sooner The Better Scenario#: J091     Date: 4/14/1941     Location: Tobruk, Libya SEIGE Rommel launched his first attempt to take Tobruk by storm on the night of Easter Sunday. After Afrika Korps engineers succeeded in breeching the formidable anti-tank ditch, wire and mine fortifications of the outer perimeter, infantry riding on tanks… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #6
The Porechye Bridgehead Scenario#: J093     Date: 8/5/1941     Location: Porechye, Russia A strong combat element of the 6th Panzer Division succeeded in effecting a surprise capture of the two Luga bridges at Porechye, 60 miles southwest of Leningrad, and in forming a bridgehead. The strong armored forces which were to follow remained… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #6
The Yelnya Bridge Scenario#: J102     Date: 10/13/1941     Location: Yelnya, Russia After the collapse of Soviet forces facing Army Group Center, a handful of Russian units were sent to defend the main communications routes to Moscow -- the most critical of which was the Minsk highway which ran south of Borodino. Meanwhile, the 10th… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #7
Lenin's Sons Scenario#: J103     Date: 10/14/1941     Location: Yudinki, Russia To the south of Borodino, the SS Das Reich was committed to several actions aimed at breaking the Soviet lines in order to rush towards the east. The Der Fuhrer Regiment, fighting on the southern flank of the Division, had regrouped and was to seize… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #7
Flanking Flamethrowers Scenario#: J104     Date: 10/15/1941     Location: Semenovskaya, Russia The landscape south and west of Borodino was covered with snow by first light on 15 October, but the skies were clear. The 32rd Rifle Division was holding its ground against the German onslaught, when some fresh elements of the 86th Schützen Regiment… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #7
Borodino Train Station Scenario#: J105     Date: 10/16/1941     Location: Borodino, Russia The armored spearheads of the 10th Panzer Division had reached an important railway junction on the road to Moscow. Kampfgruppe Hauenschildt was tasked to hold the Borodino Train Station while armored elements of the division were to push forward… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #7