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Traverse Right ... Fire!Scenario#: U24 Date: 6/23/1941 Location: Bialystok, PolandThe elite German 18th Panzer Regiment, fresh from amphibious training, was among the lead elements of Army Group Center as they pressed deep into Russia on the day after ‘Barbarossa’. The Soviets, still confused as to the extent of the attack,… Advanced Squad Leader — Turning the Tide |
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Rehearsal for CreteScenario#: U23 Date: 4/26/1941 Location: Argos, PeloponnesusThe issue in Greece was no longer in doubt; the last units of the Greek Army had surrendered the day before. W Force was attempting to withdraw to evacuation points along the south coast of Greece. This greatly increased the importance of the narrow… Advanced Squad Leader — Turning the Tide |
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Road to Kozani PassScenario#: U22 Date: 4/13/1941 Location: Komanos, Western GreeceThe Balkan Campiagn offered little hope in the way of a clear-cut victory for the Allies. Nevertheless the British often proved themselves equal in fighting skills against a numerically superior enemy. As the British fought hard to hold back the… Advanced Squad Leader — Turning the Tide |
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Hasty PuddingScenario#: U19 Date: 5/27/1940 Location: Dunkirk perimeter, FranceThroughout May 27th, the Allies stubbornly held off the advancing Germans as they simultaneously prepared for a general withdrawal to a defense perimeter around Dunkirk. In an attempt to buy time a raid was ordered behind German lines. Elements of… Advanced Squad Leader — Turning the Tide |
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Assault on a QueenScenario#: U18 Date: 5/11/1940 Location: The Hague, HollandFollowing the spectacular success of the parachute drop on the fortress of Eben Emael, it was feared the Germans would attempt a similar raid to seize Queen Wilhelmina, infant crown Princess Beatrix, and other members of the Dutch Royal Family.… Advanced Squad Leader — Turning the Tide |
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Resistance at ChabrehezScenario#: U17 Date: 5/10/1940 Location: The Ardennes, BelgiumThe Chasseurs Ardennais were involved in notable actions on the Tenth of May, 1940. The first, at Chabrehez, by a company of the 3rd Regiment, against the advanced guard of Rommel’s 7th Panzer Division. The Chasseurs, under Lieutenant Lejeune and his… Advanced Squad Leader — Turning the Tide |
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Under Cover of DarknessScenario#: U16 Date: 9/12/1939 Location: Gdynia, PolandAs the German attack in the northern Corridor made steady progress to capture the Polish ports, resistance finally began to stiffen as Polish naval units were committed to a ground combat role. One by one the surrounding ports of Gdynia began to draw… Advanced Squad Leader — Turning the Tide |
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Battle for the Warta LineScenario#: U15 Date: 9/6/1939 Location: Central, PolandFor two days the Poles desperately tried to hold a line in the vicinity of the Warta and Widawka Rivers but were gradually pushed back. However, the stubborn resistance of the crack Polish 10th Infantry Division was threatening to throw the German… Advanced Squad Leader — Turning the Tide |
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Sacrifice of Polish ArmorScenario#: U14 Date: 9/1/1939 Location: Novy Targ, PolandDespite the known German troop concentrations at the border, the Polish Army was taken by complete tactical surprise. Many Polish units were in the process of moving to their defensive positions or areas of concentration when the attack commenced.… Advanced Squad Leader — Turning the Tide |
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Halha River BridgeScenario#: G45 Date: 7/8/1939 Location: Nomonhan, ManchukuoThe summer of 1939 saw a major border clash between Russian and Japanese forces over the line between the Mongolian People’s Republic and Manchukuo. Since the Japanese considered the Halha River the border, they felt a strong response was necessary… Advanced Squad Leader — The General #32.2 |
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The Youth's First BloodScenario#: G42 Date: 6/7/1944 Location: Authie, FranceThe spearhead of the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division moved with the airfield at Carpiquet as its objective. The Stuart tanks of the recon unit advanced at the point, followed by Company C of the Highlanders. The main body followed behind mounted on… Advanced Squad Leader — The General #31.6 |
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Jabo!Scenario#: G41 Date: 12/18/1944 Location: Cheneux, BelgiumThe long file of Kampfgruppe Peiper vehicles, many heavily camouflaged with pine boughs, filled the road north from Trois Ponts, through La Gleize, and on towards Cheneux where advance elements had discovered an intact, undefended bridge over the… Advanced Squad Leader — The General #31.5 |
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Will To Fight...EradicatedScenario#: G40 Date: 9/7/1939 Location: Pabiance, PolandAs the 23rd Panzer Regiment failed to take Pabiance, the Leibstandarte Adolph Hitler entered into the firestorm and made great gains. Other units, however, couldn’t keep up with the Leibstandarte, with the result being a salient. The Waffen SS attack… Advanced Squad Leader — The General #31.5 |
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Castello FatatoScenario#: G38 Date: 12/20/1942 Location: Meshkov, RussiaThe Italian 8th Army had been retreating since the prior morning in the face of the Russian winter offensive aimed at encircling and destroying Paulus’s 6th Army in Stalingrad. Charged with defending the flanks of the 6th Army, Germany’s brittle… Advanced Squad Leader — The General #31.4 |
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Auld Lang SyneScenario#: V Date: 1/1/1945 Location: Gerimont, FranceIn the Ardennes sector, the U.S. 87th Division was given the assignment of taking Gerimont. The opening of the assault went well but while pausing to regroup in the outskirts of the town, the Americans were hit by a strong local counterattack. The… Advanced Squad Leader — The General #31.3 |
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Forth BridgeScenario#: G37 Date: 4/11/1945 Location: Fuhrberg, GermanyAfter three days of rest and refit, the Churchills of the Scots Guards arrived from Munster and linked up with the troops of the 227th Infantry Brigade's Gordon Highlanders, with orders to advance on Celle. The Germans had taken advantage of the… Advanced Squad Leader — The General #31.3 |
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The LiberatorsScenario#: G34 Date: 4/2/1945 Location: Wiener Neustadt, AustriaFollowing the collapse of Hitler's Awakening of Spring, on March 16th, Marshall Tolbuhkin's 3rd Ukrainian Front went over to the attack. The 6th Guards Tank Army was placed at his disposal to deal with the stiff resistance. On April 2nd, having… Advanced Squad Leader — The General #31.1 |
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The Awakening of SpringScenario#: G33 Date: 3/14/1945 Location: Lake Balaton, Hungary SPRINGWith the Soviet Army firmly established on the Oder River and threatening Berlin, Hitler was still obsessed with taking the offensive elsewhere. Hitler decided to launch an attack to create a buffer zone between the Soviet forces near the Danube… Advanced Squad Leader — The General #31.1 |
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A Helping HandScenario#: G32 Date: 6/13/1944 Location: St. George-d'Elle, FranceAfter landing on D-Day, the 2nd Infantry Division was immediately pressed into the attack despite their support weapons and equipment not having arrived. Almost a week later, the division was still fighting with rifles alone. On June 13th, the 1st… Advanced Squad Leader — The General #30.6 |
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Vaagso VentureScenario#: G27 Date: 12/27/1941 Location: Vaagso Island, NorwayIn October of 1941, Lord Louis Mountbatten took command of the Special Service Brigade. In accordance with a directive from Churchill, Mountbatten was to begin a “programme of raids in ever increasing intensity”. The first, a raid on the Lofoten… Advanced Squad Leader — The General #30.2 |
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Mountain Comes to MohammedScenario#: G24 Date: 8/25/1941 Location: Qasr Shaikh, IranDuring the Anglo-Soviet invasion of neutral Iran, British forces attempt to take a strongpoint in the desert held by a battalion of the elite Pahlavi Guards Regiment, devout Muslims pledged to defend the Shah, and armed with modern Czech weapons. Advanced Squad Leader — The General #29.5 |
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Habbaniya HeightsScenario#: G23 Date: 5/5/1941 Location: Habbaniya, IraqAfter a German-backed coup d'état against the pro-British Emir, the Allies had worries. An Iraqi alliance with the Axis would threaten Middle-East oilfields, the tenuous Soviet supply line across restless Persia and British shipping to Egypt -- as… Advanced Squad Leader — The General #29.5 |
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Cat's KillScenario#: G21 Date: 6/8/1944 Location: Bretteville L'Orgueilleuse, FranceOn June 8th, SS-Obersturmfuhrer Rudolf von Ribbentrop arrived in Normandy with his Panzer Abteilung as part of the ttempt to bolster the German defenses. Ribbentrop's troops were immediately ordered into a night assault to relieve the 1st Battalion… Advanced Squad Leader — The General #29.4 |
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Camp NibeiwaScenario#: G20 Date: 12/9/1940 Location: Bir Ebna, EgyptOperation Compass, the codename for Wavell’s offensive against Italian-held Libya, was kicked off with several assaults on Italian frontier camps. These fortified camps were built to cover the approaches to the coastal road which the British advance… Advanced Squad Leader — The General #29.3 |
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A Tough Nut to CrackScenario#: G19 Date: 1/1/1943 Location: Giropa Point, Papua New GuineaGeneral MacArthur, furious at the perceived inability of his commanders to crack the Japanese fortified positions surrounding Buna, relieved his top field commanders and placed General Eichelberger in command. MacArthur’s last words to Eichelberger… Advanced Squad Leader — The General #29.3 |
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GOYAScenario#: G18 Date: 1/7/1945 Location: Rochelinval, BelgiumThe 551st Parachute Infantry Battalion was a veteran airborne unit, whose distinctive patch was emblazoned with the acronym “GOYA” (for “Get Off Your Ass”). From the 21st of December through the 6th of January, the men of the battalion weathered “no… Advanced Squad Leader — The General #29.2 |
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Hakkaa PaalleScenario#: G17 Date: 1/12/1940 Location: Vetko, FinlandWith their victories in the north, Finnish reinforcements were dispatched to the Kuhmo sector to seal the fate of the Soviet’s 54th Rifle Division, whose own advance had stalled in the frozen marshland. To counter, Russia’s only trained ski troops,… Advanced Squad Leader — The General #29.2 |
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The Akrotiri PeninsulaScenario#: T15 Date: 5/20/1941 Location: Profitilias, CreteThe German assault on the mountainous island of Crete called for airborne landings in four separate areas. One objective of the first wave was the quick capture of Canea, the capital city. To clear the way for the landing of the main regiment, a… Advanced Squad Leader — The General #29.1 |
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GambitScenario#: T14 Date: 5/21/1941 Location: Maleme, CreteThe New Zealanders had spent most of the daylight hours of 20th May pinned down by German fighter aircraft. Communications were a shambles, casualties were heavy, and their local counterattacks had failed. Colonel Andrew of the 5th New Zealand… Advanced Squad Leader — The General #28.6 |
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Commando Raid at DieppeScenario#: T13 Date: 8/18/1942 Location: Varengeville, FranceIn a move to destroy German coastal batteries, the British No. 4 Commando unit, accompanied by a handful of American Rangers went against the Varengeville Battery. The attack was split into two groups. The first was to land directly below the battery… Advanced Squad Leader — The General #28.6 |
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Alligator CreekScenario#: G16 Date: 8/21/1942 Location: River Ilu, GuadalcanalThe landings on Guadalcanal on 7 August met with no opposition, and the 5th Marine Regiment quickly established a secure beachhead at Lunga Point. Based on erroneous reports, the Imperial Headquarters, still concentrating upon their own operations… Advanced Squad Leader — The General #28.5 |
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The WhirlwindScenario#: S Date: 4/18/1945 Location: Aschaffenburg, GermanyOn the night of 17th of April, elements of a recon troop of the American 26th Infantry Division occupied a tiny village on the outskirts of Aschaffenburg without opposition. Based on civilian reports of the presence by the enemy, the staff of the… Advanced Squad Leader — The General #28.4 |
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Bone of ContentionScenario#: G15 Date: 8/31/1944 Location: Rouen, FranceAfter their epic 20-day stand at Hill 112 and the breakout from the Falaise pocket, the men of SS-Panzer Detachment 102 were afoot when they reached Rouen. The surviving crewmen and mechanics had abandoned their last Tigers on the banks of the Seine… Advanced Squad Leader — The General #28.4 |
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BurzevoScenario#: R Date: 12/2/1941 Location: Burzevo, RussiaAlong the Minsk-Moscow highway, von Kluge’s Fourth Army made a last, desperate effort to dislodge the defending Russians b y an encircling attack from the south. The only real progress was made by the 258th Infantry Division which managed to capture… Advanced Squad Leader — The General #28.3 |
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Tiger, TigerScenario#: G14 Date: 2/11/1943 Location: Chernichevo, RussiaThe Soviets had taken Krasny Bor. The 4th SS-Polizei Division, to the right of the hapless Spanish 250th Azul Division, managed to withstand the attack and blocked the highway for the time being. Nevertheless, a large number of Russian tanks bypassed… Advanced Squad Leader — The General #28.3 |
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A View from the TopScenario#: G13 Date: 2/23/1945 Location: Bologna, ItalyIt was vital that “Riva Ridge”, a series of four peaks dominating Route 64 between Vergati and the city of Bologna, be cleared. Following successes on Mount Belvedere and Mount Gorgolesco, taken by coup-de-main on the 18th and 19th, the U.S. 10th… Advanced Squad Leader — The General #27.5 |
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Aachen's PallScenario#: T08 Date: 10/15/1944 Location: Aachen, GermanyThe American hand had closed about Aachen. But the city fell slowly. Street by street, then house by house, the GIs squeezed out the Germans. Finally, the Wehrmacht headquarters in the Hotel Quellenhof was in sight. The massive hotel structure proved… Advanced Squad Leader — The General #27.3 |
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Ghosts in the RubbleScenario#: HA Date: 1942-10-31 Location: Stalingrad, RussiaThe last ferry-landing across the Volga was under German machinegun fire and the Russians were barely holding their positions in the rubble around Krasny Oktyabr and the Barrikady. Rather than waiting passively for the final blow, the Soviet “Army… Advanced Squad Leader — The General #27.1 |
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Avalanche!Scenario#: G12 Date: 2/6/1943 Location: Nalchik, RussiaFor almost three months the German 1st Mountain and the Russian 318th Mountain Rifle divisions were locked together in combat on the slopes of Mount Elbrus. February 6th was a typical day, as simultaneous attacks on two ridges separated by a shallow… Advanced Squad Leader — The General #27.1 |
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Pegasus BridgeScenario#: G11 Date: 6/6/1944 Location: Benouville, FranceIn the opening hours of Operation Overlord, of critical importance were two bridges that crossed the Orne and the canal between Benouville and Ranvlle. To take these, a special group drawn from the 6th Air-Landing Brigade was organized. At 0015… Advanced Squad Leader — The General #26.5 |
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Grab at GribovoScenario#: G10 Date: 1/3/1942 Location: Gribovo, RussiaIn late December, while the battles for Moscow were still boiling cauldrons, STAVKA ordered four Soviet armies to attack and destroy the German 4th Army. To assist in the action, a tactical airdrop by Soviet Paratroopers was planned to disrupt German… Advanced Squad Leader — The General #26.2 |
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The Road to WiltzScenario#: P Date: 12/18/1944 Location: Wiltz, LuxembourgThe German Bulge Offensive had surprised the Americans both in its size and intensity. The Germans had to be delayed or stopped as they drove along the roads to Bastogne. In the early hours, elements of the 44th Combat Engineers, supported by… Advanced Squad Leader — The General #26.1 |
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The St. Goar AssaultScenario#: O Date: 3/24/1945 Location: Saint Goar, GermanyGermany’s army was beaten. The Rhine River had been crossed at Remagen and elsewhere. As more and more of the Allied forces closed in on the Rhine, there was a growing tendency to simply take it “on the run” rather than shift to an existing… Advanced Squad Leader — The General #26.1 |
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Soldiers of DestructionScenario#: N Date: 10/10/1944 Location: Radzymin, PolandThe men of the SS Totenkopf Division had stalled the advance of the Fifth Guards Tank Army in late September. Then, silence. No fighting had occurred for the past three weeks. It was too good, too unreal. A feeling of unease pervaded the encampment.… Advanced Squad Leader — The General #25.6 |
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Sunday of the DeadScenario#: G09 Date: 11/23/1941 Location: Sidi Rezegh, LibyaThe 5th South African Infantry Brigade was preparing to assault Point 178 just to its north, when the 15th Panzer Division, moving southwesterly, unexpectedly (from both sides’ point of view) smashed into its southern end, scattering most of its… Advanced Squad Leader — The General #25.6 |
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Recon in ForceScenario#: G08 Date: 7/16/1943 Location: Porto Empedolce, SicilyAs the Allied beachhead in Sicily expanded, the impatient General George Patton demanded better facilities for supplying his troops. Under orders not to launch an offensive, Patton hit upon the subterfuge of calling his advance a “reconnaissance in… Advanced Squad Leader — The General #25.5 |
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Bring up the GunsScenario#: G07 Date: 5/10/1940 Location: Coevorden, HollandThe German 1st Cavalry Division had taken up positions along the frontier of eastern Holland. The regimental commander, Lt.-Col. Wachsen, was determined to crack through the 20-kilometer deep Dutch defensive belt at Coevorden, an important frontier… Advanced Squad Leader — The General #25.3 |
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The Cannes StrongpointScenario#: K Date: 8/23/1944 Location: Cannes, FranceGenerally, the American advance through Southern France was so swift that it was rare when the Germans stayed and fought. However, the swiftness of the advance often caused German elements to be cut off and faced with the decision to either fight on… Advanced Squad Leader — The General #25.2 |
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Six Came BackScenario#: G05 Date: 1/30/1944 Location: Cisterna di Littoria, ItalyThe big push to break out of the Anzio beachhead was on, and Darby’s Rangers were to lead the way for the Americans. At 0100, the 1st and 3rd Ranger Battalions, with the 4th following, infiltrated the mobile defensive positions of the Hermann Goering… Advanced Squad Leader — The General #24.3 |
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First ActionScenario#: G04 Date: 11/8/1944 Location: Vic-sur-Seille, FranceIn the early morning hours of a gray day, the 761st Tank Battalion faced the enemy in combat for the first time. The whole Third Army was going over to the attack and the initial objective assigned to the untested Black Panthers was the capture of a… Advanced Squad Leader — The General #24.3 |