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A Parting Blow Scenario#: OA08     Date: 7/12/1943     Location: Casa Del Priolo, Sicily Once the beachhead in Sicily was secure from Avis counterattack, the Allies began pushing inland. As the 16th Infantry Regiment advanced the Germans took an opportunity to strike a parting blow before continuing to withdraw. Six Tiger I tanks… Advanced Squad Leader — Out of the Attic
Tyranny's End Scenario#: OA09     Date: 8/1/1944     Location: Southern, France On the outskirts of Marseilles, a German HQ organizes a local attack on leading elements of the American drive off the beaches in southern France. Advanced Squad Leader — Out of the Attic
Brief Breakfast Scenario#: OA13     Date: 12/23/1944     Location: Fraiture Village, Belgium While the 3rd Battalion, 4th SS Panzergrenadier Regiment attacked elements of the 643rd Tank Destroyer Battalion from the west, elements of the 2nd Battalion attacked the village of Fraiture from the east. The paratroopers of the 325th Glider… Advanced Squad Leader — Out of the Attic
Across the Aisne and into Freineux Scenario#: OA14     Date: 12/24/1944     Location: Freineux, Belgium A German attack from Odeigne toward Grandmenil required the clearing of the village of Freineux. Believing the approach to the bridge over the Aisne River was mined, the Germans split into two groups and forded the river. Three Panther tanks were… Advanced Squad Leader — Out of the Attic
A Midnight Clear Scenario#: OA23     Date: 12/24/1944     Location: Trois Ponts, Belgium Leaving their heavy equipment and vehicles behind, members of Kampfgruppe Peiper knew it was time to get back to their own lines in the waning hours of Christmas Eve. Peiper's 800 men timed their movement with the expected withdrawal of the 505th… Advanced Squad Leader — Out of the Attic #2
Buying Time Scenario#: OA24     Date: 11/8/1942     Location: Port-Lyautey, Morocco As part of the Operation Torch landings in French North Africa, the 60th Regimental Combat Team landed on the beaches in the Mehdia area. Detachments from Company A, 1st Battalion were sent several miles southward to forestall any French… Advanced Squad Leader — Out of the Attic #2
Raider Ridge Scenario#: OA30     Date: 6/29/1943     Location: Choi River, New Georgia The Marine 4th Raider Battalion was assigned the mission of clearing Viru Harbor. P and O Companies landed in the night at Regi, and fought a pair of rearguard actions as it marched towards Viru Harbor. On the 29th, Lt Devillo Brown was sent down a… Advanced Squad Leader — Out of the Attic #2
With Friends Like These Scenario#: OA31     Date: 11/8/1942     Location: Fedala, Morocco Among those landed in the initial stages of Operation Torch, the 7th RLT was assigned to capture the Batterie de Fedala. After a shaky landing at beach Red 2, the 1st Battalion moved easily through Fedala. A member of Patton’s staff, Colonel Wilbur,… Advanced Squad Leader — Out of the Attic #2
The Riley Shuffle Scenario#: OA32     Date: 2/24/1945     Location: Irsch, Germany The 5th Ranger Battalion was tasked with penetrating the front and operating behind enemy lines. They were to soften up the defenses in anticipation of a later breakthrough attempt. During the raid, one of the platoons under Lt. Gambosi became… Advanced Squad Leader — Out of the Attic #2
Unhappy Trails Scenario#: OB08     Date: 11/5/1943     Location: Numa-Numa, Bougainville Following the main landings at Empress Augusta Bay on November 1, the Marines of the 3rd Marine Division & 3rd Raider Battalion were ordered to push inland to expand the perimeter and establish a jumping off point for the eventual assault on the… Advanced Squad Leader — Out of the Bunker
First Crack at Hellzapoppin' Ridge Scenario#: OB09     Date: 12/9/1943     Location: Hellzapoppin' Ridge, Bougainville During November and December, the Japanese under Major General Iwasa made extraordinary efforts to emplace artillery on the high ground overlooking the Marine beachhead at Empress Augusta Bay. Guns of calibers ranging from 70mm up to 150mm were… Advanced Squad Leader — Out of the Bunker
Avril Action Scenario#: OB11     Date: 9/8/1944     Location: Avril, France The 90th Division was the northernmost unit of Walton Walker's XX Corps as it made its way to the Moselle. The German 1st Army commander, General Knobolsdorf, decided to try to turn the flank of XX Corps by launching a spoiling attack from the west… Advanced Squad Leader — Out of the Bunker
Pursuing Kobayashi Scenario#: OB14     Date: 5/27/1945     Location: Wawa Dam, Luzon The next priority for General Krueger's XIV Corp after the retaking of Manila was to secure the dams and reservoirs notheast of the city that provided the metropolitan area with water for all puposes. The high ground surrounding the Ipo and Wawa dams… Advanced Squad Leader — Out of the Bunker
The Dornot Watermark Scenario#: U34     Date: 9/10/1944     Location: Dornot, Germany With its series of forts and prepared positions, the area around the historic Lorraine city of Metz was to become known as “Fortress Metz” to the U.S. forces fighting in Europe. The first test in the long campaign which was to earn the city its name… Advanced Squad Leader — Rivers to the Reich
The Clearing Scenario#: U39     Date: 10/10/1944     Location: Hürtgen Forest, Germany Day after day of seemingly endless forest. Constant shelling had turned most of the trees to shattered hulks. Advances were truly measured in yards as each step forward increased the threat of yet another sniper or hidden Spandau. Then, near the road… Advanced Squad Leader — Rivers to the Reich
Stand Fast Scenario#: U42     Date: 12/10/1944     Location: Hamlet outside Obergeich, Germany As the Americans advanced across the plains of Germany, the badly outnumbered Germans could not hope to hold a continuous line. Rather than expose themselves, the Wehrmacht troops turned each town or clump of buildings into a small strongpoint. Early… Advanced Squad Leader — Rivers to the Reich
The Roer Bridgehead Scenario#: U43     Date: 2/23/1945     Location: Koerrenzig, Germany The GIs had been poised before the Roer for days. German engineers had skillfully blown the upriver dam floodgates so that the Roer had run fierce and wide. Now, with the river still in flood but navigable, the concentrated might of the US Army would… Advanced Squad Leader — Rivers to the Reich
Operation Varsity Scenario#: U44     Date: 3/24/1945     Location: Hamminkeln, Germany The airborne phase of the Allies' Northern Rhine crossing was to be the last airborne assault of the war. Artillery units and fighter-bombers pounded the German gun positions in the vicinity of the drop zones so severely that the first wave of… Advanced Squad Leader — Rivers to the Reich
Encircling The Ruhr Scenario#: U46     Date: 3/30/1945     Location: Ruhr, Germany As the 12th Army wheeled its way north under overcast skies to join the 9th Army in encircling the Ruhr, they drew upon the 3rd Armored Division to lead the way. A task force built around a medium tank battalion which included a few of the new… Advanced Squad Leader — Rivers to the Reich
The Rag Tag Circus Scenario#: U48     Date: 4/12/1945     Location: Barby on the Elbe, Germany GIs of the 83rd Infantry Division took particular pride in their use of captured German vehicles. So extensive was their “used car lot” appearance that the news correspondents nicknamed this unit the “Rag Tag Circus”. The Americans had a chance to… Advanced Squad Leader — Rivers to the Reich
Raiders Along the Wall Scenario#: S038     Date: 9/22/1944     Location: Schevenhütte, Germany The 8th Infantry Division's ultimate objective was Roer River crossings at Düren. On September 14, 1944, an attack by the 47th Infantry Regiment captured Schevenhütte, on the northern fringes of the forest, with few casualties. The division had… Advanced Squad Leader — Special Ops 1
Ain't Running Away Scenario#: O04     Date: 8/7/1944     Location: St. Barthélemy, France At dawn on 7 August, the Americans in St. Barthelemy were aware of German armor, masked by a heavy mist that had descended overnight, maneuvering in front of their positions. They were also aware the Germans had assaulted the village of le… Advanced Squad Leader — Special Ops 2
Use Your Tanks and Shove Scenario#: S039     Date: 2/3/1943     Location: Maknassy, Tunisia In the region of Tunisia known as the Eastern Dorsal, the hamlet of Station de Sened had already been attacked, lost, and attacked again by American forces. On 1 February, it fell to the Americans for a second time as part of a drive toward Maknassy,… Advanced Squad Leader — Special Ops 2
Island Retreat Scenario#: S040     Date: 1/30/1944     Location: Isola Bella, Italy Two American Ranger Battalions were to infiltrate through enemy lines along the narrow Pantano ditch in an effort to reach Cisterna, where careful reconnaissance had determined that the enemy had not had time to consolidate their defenses. Behind… Advanced Squad Leader — Special Ops 2
Crucifix Hill Scenario#: O08     Date: 10/8/1944     Location: Haaren, Germany In the 1st Infantry Division’s drive to capture Aachen, the 1st Battalion of Col. George Smith’s 18th Infantry Regiment was ordered to capture a fortified hill near Haaren known as Crucifix Hill. Employing special pillbox assault teams equipped with… Advanced Squad Leader — Special Ops 4
Behind in the Count Scenario#: O09     Date: 10/4/1944     Location: Ubach, Germany In Übach, GIs worked in concert with tanks of the 743rd Tank Battalion, which blew open the doors of boarded-up houses, allowing infantry to enter and clear out anyone remaining. House-to-house fighting went on all night, with lines never more than a… Advanced Squad Leader — Special Ops 5
City on the Edge Scenario#: O10     Date: 10/8/1944     Location: Alsdorf, Germany The encirclement of Aachen – the first significant German city reached by the Western Allies – began in earnest on 2 October when the city’s suburbs were attacked from both north and west. After five days of combat, the 30th, attended by tanks of the… Advanced Squad Leader — Special Ops 5
Exit No.1 Scenario#: S058     Date: 6/6/1944     Location: Pouppeville, France Exit No. 1 at Pouppeville was foremost on the mind of the Division Commander, Maj. General Maxwell Taylor, who had just confirmed his whereabouts near Hiesville upon sighting the distinctive, onion-shaped steeple of Ste. Marie-du-Mont. Not having… Advanced Squad Leader — Special Ops 6
Wiking Horde Scenario#: O14     Date: 4/8/1945     Location: Ricklingen, Germany None. Advanced Squad Leader — Special Ops 7
Help Our Troops Out Scenario#: S061     Date: 1/13/1945     Location: Hatten, France The NORDWIND offensive had breached the lines of the U.S. 7th Army at the Alsatian towns of Hatten and Rittershoffen. The 14th Armored Division was ordered to restore the main line of resistance; the first time in its operational history, it would be… Advanced Squad Leader — Special Ops 7
White Russians Scenario#: O17     Date: 6/6/1944     Location: Les Droueries, France None. Advanced Squad Leader — Special Ops 9
Purple Heart Hill Scenario#: O18     Date: 6/18/1944     Location: Villiers-Fossard, France None. Advanced Squad Leader — Special Ops 9
Stretched Thin at Altaville Scenario#: S072     Date: 9/13/1943     Location: Altavilla, Italy After the conquest of Sicily and the ouster of Mussolini, the Allies invaded Italy proper at Salerno to begin their long slog up "the boot". Needing to expand the beachhead and deny the Germans good artillery observation points, the Americans secured… Advanced Squad Leader — Special Ops 9
West of the Vire Scenario#: S073     Date: 6/12/1944     Location: Montmartin-en-Graignes, France Expecting a German counterattack before long to drive a wedge between the American beachheads at Omaha and Utah, high command tasked the 29th Infantry Division with conducting a reconnaissance-in-force west of its lines to capture two important… Advanced Squad Leader — Special Ops 9
The Forgotten Front Scenario#: G03     Date: 2/9/1945     Location: Hennebont, France The 66th Infantry Division was typical of many raised from draftees in preparation for the invasion of Europe. Yet when the “Panthermen” arrived, they found themselves relegated to a relative backwater – containing the isolated German pockets around… Advanced Squad Leader — The General #23.6
First Action Scenario#: G04     Date: 11/8/1944     Location: Vic-sur-Seille, France In 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
Six Came Back Scenario#: G05     Date: 1/30/1944     Location: Cisterna di Littoria, Italy The 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
The Cannes Strongpoint Scenario#: K     Date: 8/23/1944     Location: Cannes, France Generally, 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
Recon in Force Scenario#: G08     Date: 7/16/1943     Location: Porto Empedolce, Sicily As 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
The St. Goar Assault Scenario#: O     Date: 3/24/1945     Location: Saint Goar, Germany Germany’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
The Road to Wiltz Scenario#: P     Date: 12/18/1944     Location: Wiltz, Luxembourg The 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
Aachen's Pall Scenario#: T08     Date: 10/15/1944     Location: Aachen, Germany The 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
A View from the Top Scenario#: G13     Date: 2/23/1945     Location: Bologna, Italy It 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
The Whirlwind Scenario#: S     Date: 4/18/1945     Location: Aschaffenburg, Germany On 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
Alligator Creek Scenario#: G16     Date: 8/21/1942     Location: River Ilu, Guadalcanal The 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
GOYA Scenario#: G18     Date: 1/7/1945     Location: Rochelinval, Belgium The 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
A Helping Hand Scenario#: G32     Date: 6/13/1944     Location: St. George-d'Elle, France After 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
Auld Lang Syne Scenario#: V     Date: 1/1/1945     Location: Gerimont, France In 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
Jabo! Scenario#: G41     Date: 12/18/1944     Location: Cheneux, Belgium The 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
Swatting at Tigers Scenario#: U30     Date: 7/11/1943     Location: Biazzo Ridge, Sicily In the early morning hours of July 10th, Colonel James Gavin and the 505th Parachute Regiment were scattered over much of southern Sicily. Gavin landed 20 miles east of the selected drop zone, while most of his regiment came down as far as 60 miles… Advanced Squad Leader — Turning the Tide