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Kempf at Melikhovo Scenario#: J094     Date: 7/10/1943     Location: Melikhovo, Russia Operation Citadel had been underway for five days and things were not going well for the German attack. The original plan to seize the town of Korocha was scrapped and 6th Panzer Division was tasked with breaking through the Soviet defenses and… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #6
Katyusha's Embrace Scenario#: J168     Date: 8/8/1943     Location: Kuban, Crimea Amid the brutal Crimea battles of 1943-44, Ekaterina Mikhailova managed to enlist at the tender age of 15. Affectionately called Katyusha by the troops, she was admired even by the enemy. She safely took water for her injured friends from a contested… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #11
Kampfgruppe at Karachev Scenario#: J023     Date: 7/28/1943     Location: Kusmenkovo, Russia In response to the increasing pressure of the Soviet offensive to take Karachev and sever the rail link between Briansk and Orel, Panzer Division Grossdeutschland was shifted to the region northwest of Orel. To foil the Soviet plans, the division was… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #2
Kakazu's Tombs Scenario#: J016     Date: 4/13/1945     Location: Kakazu Ridge, Okinawa As night fell on April 12, Sgt. Beaufort Anderson and the members of his mortar platoon occupied several of the tombs dotting the area between Kakazu Ridge and Kakazu West. Good things seldom happen when one is forced to sleep with the dead. This… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #2
Jungle Infiltration Scenario#: J132     Date: 1/2/1944     Location: Cape Gloucester, New Britian After hitting severe Japanese resistance along the stream that became known as Suicide Creek, the 7th Marine Regiment’s slog through the dense jungle of Cape Gloucester came to a halt as the Marines tired and failed to take the stream “on the fly”.… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #9
Jungle Fighters Scenario#: J012     Date: 1/31/1942     Location: Jahore Bahru, Malaya The Malayan Campaign was nearly complete with the goal of Singapore just a few short miles away from the Japanese lines. Knowing that further resistance on the mainland could result in troops being cut off, the commander of the British force in… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #1
It's Hardly Fair Scenario#: J155     Date: 9/20/1944     Location: Wyler, Germany At approximately 1330 hours on 17 September 1944, the Red Devils jumped into Holland as part of Operation Market Garden. Although initial resistance was light, heavy fighting ensued for days.The 508th established and maintained a defensive position… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #10
It's About Time - Historical Variant Scenario#: PB06A     Date: 6/6/1944     Location: Benouville, France The final relief of the British paratroopers at dusk. The British get a massive force, including ponderous but impenetrable Churchill tanks, but have to clear the Germans out of every building. Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #2
It Don't Come Easy Scenario#: J158     Date: 1/15/1945     Location: Noville, Belgium By the middle of January, “Easy” was on the attack again. Although many replacements had come into the ranks, some of whom were not even paratroop-qualified, Major Dick Winters entrusted them with one more assault to retake ground east of Bastogne… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #10
Ishun Tank Traps Scenario#: J120     Date: 4/11/1944     Location: Ishun, Crimea Because of a severe shortage of self-propelled guns, a decision was made to equip the 1452nd Separate Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment (SAP) with KV tanks, which had the most destructive armament of all the heavy tanks presented in the Crimea at… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #8
Into the Grinding Mill Scenario#: J147     Date: 9/12/1937     Location: Luodian, China In August 1937 hostilities broke out between Chinese troops and Japanese Marines posted in Shanghai. The Japanese escalated the conflict by large-scale troop landings outside the city and took the coastal town of Baoshan after a brutal siege.… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #10
Inhumaine Scenario#: J028     Date: 12/27/1944     Location: Humaine, Belgium American artillery pounded Humaine. CCR was assigned the task of capturing the town. They successfully surrounded the town, forcing most of the defenders to surrender. But a group of Germans manned a chateau on the northeastern end of the village and… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #2
Indeed! Scenario#: J039     Date: 5/10/1940     Location: Hemnesberget, Norway On 10 May, south of Mosjoen, two platoons from the 5th Independent Company along with Norwegian soldiers laid a deadly ambush for a German motorcycle vanguard. The Allies then retreated to the Hemnesberget area with the aim of delaying the Germans… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #3
In the Bag Scenario#: J061     Date: 12/25/1944     Location: Celles, Belgium The 2nd Panzer Division had made the most progress during the Ardennes offensive, and was positioned a mere 6 kilometers from the Meuse River. General Harmon, the 2nd Armored Division commander, contacted headquarters for permission to attack and,… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #3
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
High Tide at Heiligenbeil Scenario#: J027     Date: 3/24/1945     Location: Heiligenbeil, East Prussia In February, seven Soviet Armies eneirclcd the German 4th Army, which included the Hermann Góring Parachute Panzer Corps, in the Heiligenbeil Pocket. The pocket contained 120,000 combat and 30,000 support troops, which could now only be supplied by… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #2
Heroes of the Soviet Union Scenario#: VOTG23     Date: 9/26/1942     Location: Stalingrad, Russia On 26 September, Lt. Anton Dragan and five other wounded survivors dug their way out of the rubbled strongpoint which German assault guns had collapsed. Emerging into darkness, Dragan sent his orderly Hozhushko out to scout the area. He returned… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #9
Heart of Athena Scenario#: J174     Date: 12/7/1944     Location: Athens, Greece By 1944, the two major resistance movements in occupied Greece, EDES and EAM-ELAS, each saw the other to be their great enemy. They both saw the Germans were going to be defeated and were a temporary threat. For the communists, the British… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #11
Hart Attack Scenario#: J167     Date: 11/28/1942     Location: Djedeida, Tunisia A German-held airfield just east of Djedeida – a mere dozen miles from Tunis – had suffered the ignominious distinction of being overrun by a reconnoitering company of American light tanks. The Americans, however, lacking orders and infantry to hold… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #11
Guards Artillery Scenario#: J057     Date: 8/3/1944     Location: Maisoncelles, France Following a night advance to Point 176, the self-propelled artillery regiment of the Guards Armoured Division formed its gun lines in the small fields west of Maisoncelles. At approximately 0845 hours, guns began to engage targets and the battery… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #3
Grab and Go Scenario#: J188     Date: 8/20/1943     Location: Kalupnovka, Ukraine In the aftermath of Operation CITADEL, Soviet attacks in the Ukraine followed the usual pattern: masses of med and machines thrown at the lines of Panzerkorps III, only to be thrown back by German counterattacks. However each time the new front line… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #12
Golden Pheasants Scenario#: J145     Date: 4/19/1945     Location: Nüremberg, Germany Only the truly fanatic remained in the old town by 19 April. General Simon now commanded only isolated bands of SS men or Luftwaffe troops here and there. Nazi political officers – known jokingly as “golden pheasants” for their love of fancy but… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #9
Frontal Assault Scenario#: J086     Date: 8/3/1944     Location: Presles, France On the evening of 2 August, fearful for his open left flank, Major Robinson pushed Ned Thornburn's D Company a half-mile to the east. Digging-in around the farm of les Grands Bonfaits, the company was later reinforced by two platoons of A Company, a… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #5
Friday the 13th Scenario#: J059     Date: 10/13/1944     Location: East Prussia In October 1944, 1st Company, Hermann Göring's Fallschirmpanzerkorps Panzerjager Battalion received 16 new JagdPanzer IV vehicles. Their mission was to act as a mobile fire brigade for the panzerkorps. Their first objective was to thwart the Soviet… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #3
For A Few Rounds More Scenario#: J100     Date: 3/30/1945     Location: Menden, Germany As March 30th dawned, the U.S. 5th Infantry Division and the 3rd Armored Division advanced on the village of Menden in an effort to seal the encirclement of the Ruhr pocket. In front of the village, the 737th Tank Battalion found itself engaged by… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #6
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
Flames of Unrest Scenario#: J087     Date: 8/19/1944     Location: Warsaw, Poland UPRISING The Polish Home Army uprising had commenced with the sounds of Soviet artillery heard in the distance. The first days of the uprising were wildly successful against the surprised Germans. Soon, however, the Germans ruthlessly struck back against the… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #5
First Love Scenario#: J131     Date: 1/2/1944     Location: Cape Gloucester, New Britian Company L of the 7th Marine Regiment was the left anchor of the Marines’ swing to the southeast to flank the Japanese defenders of Hill 600 and Borgen Bay. “Love” Company was the first to stumble upon a small stream that was unmarked on the maps… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #9
Few and Far Between Scenario#: J169     Date: 8/30/1943     Location: Chistyakovo, Ukraine The wastefulness of Operation Citadel was beginning to hit home for Heeresgruppe Sud. Stripped of many Panzer Divisions, these were replaced with worn–out infantry divisions such as the 258th, which formed a shallow crust around the transport hubs… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #11
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
Everything Is Lost Scenario#: J125     Date: 4/30/1945     Location: Berlin, Germany As the frontage of the various Russian corps's shortened because they were getting nearer to the center of Berlin, field artillery was incorporated into direct assault formations. The typical tactic (after a few days of figuring things out) was to… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #8
Escape to Wiltz Scenario#: J088     Date: 12/18/1944     Location: Kautenbach, Belgium As the German offensive crashed upon and beyond Consthum, what was left of the defending 3rd Battalion, 110th Infantry Regiment received orders to save itself and retreat to Wiltz before it was hopelessly cut off. After crossing the Clerve River at… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #5
Elephants Unleashed Scenario#: J118     Date: 7/5/1943     Location: Ponyri, Russia The battle for Kursk had begun. After breaching the first line of defense, the 86. Infanterie-Division supported by the gigantic Ferdinand tank destroyers of schwere Panzer-Abteilung 654 continued toward the Russians' second defensive belt. But the… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #8
Egypt's Last Hope Scenario#: J080     Date: 8/31/1942     Location: Alam el Halfa, Egypt The foundation of Eighth Army's defense was the Alam Halfa Ridge, and the cornerstone of that fuondation was the western spur. By midday the 15th Panzer Division had fought its way to the ridge despite the loss of their division commander. The attack… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #5
Dress Rehearsal Scenario#: J052     Date: 7/10/1943     Location: Komsomolets State Farm, Russia Scenario 1/3 of Broadway to Prokhorovka campaign (page 60 of Journal 3).Both sides chooses their OBs from available groups. The unit list below lists everything available, but the players only get to use about half of them. Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #3
Drama, The Park, and Deadly Things Scenario#: VOTG27     Date: 9/23/1942     Location: Stalingrad, Russia Infanterie-Division 71 and 94 were pressing towards the Volga north and south of the Tsaritsa River, creating a salient of Soviet units just south of the city center. tasked with reducing the salient was Aufklarungs-Abteilung 171, commanded by… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #11
Down on the Farm Scenario#: HS33     Date: 2/19/1945     Location: Goch, Germany In front of A and C Companies of the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry, B Company, under the command of Major Duncan Kennedy, was attacking the Schwanenhof farmstead, located a few hundred yards past the Goch-Kalkar road. The Kangaoos dropped the men… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #11
Diversion Scenario#: J135     Date: 1/3/1944     Location: Cape Gloucester, New Britian As Marine pioneers attempted to build a ford across Suicide creek, the entire line was tasked with providing suppressive fore and diversionary attacks to keep the Japanese busy. Lt. Col. Williams, CO of the 3/7 Marines, ordered yet another crossing… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #9
Desperate Dash Scenario#: J049     Date: 11/28/1942     Location: Zherebetso, Russia Attacking across a broad front, the Soviet winter offensive known as Operation Mars had some early penetrations far behind the lines of the German 9th Army. Unfortunately many of these breakthroughs could not be supported in the face of tough German… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #3
Defending The Voentorg Scenario#: VOTG21     Date: 9/22/1942     Location: Stalingrad, Russia With “Pavlov’s House” and “Zabolotnov’s House” both still in no-man’s land, the Voentorg building on 9th January Square became a key position, dominating all movement through the square. The 42nd Guards company was soon reinforced by three anti-tank… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #8
Deadly Assumption Scenario#: J176     Date: 3/4/1945     Location: Rheinberg, Germany The most appealing objectives in the Wesel bridgehead were two still-intact bridges, which offered the promise of a dry crossing of the Rhine by Allied forces. Because the Americans had encountered so little resistance in the days after Operation… 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
Dawn's Early Light Scenario#: J153     Date: 8/7/1944     Location: Mortain, France The first elements of the American 30th Infantry Division to enter Mortain were met by civilians going about their daily lives. Some of the departing members of the 1st Infantry Division congratulated the new arrivals of their soft assignment. Not… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #10
Cradle to Grave Scenario#: J154     Date: 9/1/1944     Location: Meximieux, France The area around Lyon was known as the “cradle of the resistance” due to activity of the FFI. Consequently, after landing in southern France on 15 August and heading quickly northward, the American Seventh Army encountered more friendly maquisards… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #10
Coup de Main at Hamminkeln Scenario#: J177     Date: 3/24/1945     Location: Hamminkeln Station, Germany Though neither wide nor deep, the Issel stream had steep banks which formed a natural tank barrier, a fact which caused major concern among the Allied command. The seizure of every intact bridge over the Issel was considered vital to the success of… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #11
Clearing Kakazu Scenario#: J017     Date: 4/24/1945     Location: Kakazu Ridge, Okinawa During the night of April 23 and early morning of April 24, a heavy Japanese bombardment masked the withdrawal of most of the remaining defenders of the Kakazu pocket. Several small units were left behind to delay the American pursuit. At the same… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #2
Circle of Doom Scenario#: J143     Date: 4/16/1945     Location: Nüremberg, Germany Nuremberg – “the most German of German cities” – would be defended by the 13th SS Corps of the First Army, and the 15,000 fanatic Nazis under General Max Simon were prepared to defend the old city “to the last bullet”. By April 15, they would get… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #9
Cellar Dwellers Scenario#: VOTG19     Date: 9/17/1942     Location: Stalingrad, Russia The remnants of Captain Gerhard Munch’s 3rd Battalion had occupied the U-shaped State Bank building since September 14. The Russians counterattacked on the night of September 15th with a company of submachinegunners and managed to break into the… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #8
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
Canicatti Scenario#: J051     Date: 7/12/1943     Location: Canicatti, Sicily CCA was ordered to secure Canicatti. A small Italian contingent remained in Canicatti and the 15th Panzergrenadier Division was digging in on the high ground to the north. Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #3