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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…

Advanced Squad Leader — ASL 13 - Rising Sun
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Scenario#: 20     Date: 5/11/1944     Location: Santa Maria, Italy

The U.S. 88th Infantry Division was to take Mount Bracchi in the opening of the offensive to take Rome. The 351st Infantry Regiment was to take the small town of Santa Maria Infante. But to reach it they had to attack over difficult terrain – in the…

Advanced Squad Leader — ASL 3 - Yanks
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Scenario#: 150     Date: 8/7/1942     Location: Tanambogo, Solomon Islands

By 1600, the Marine paratroopers had secured the summit of the hill on Gavutu and would spend the night digging some of the die-hard Japanese defenders from scattered caves on its slopes. But they had been repulsed on nearby Tanambogo. The “Red…

Advanced Squad Leader — ASL 13 - Rising Sun
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Scenario#: 26     Date: 10/11/1944     Location: Bardenberg, Germany

On the same day that the USAAF began its massive attacks on Aachen, the reserve 120th Infantry Regiment – which had taken Bardenberg without opposition the day before – suddenly found itself trapped by a battalion of the 108th Panzer Brigade, which…

Advanced Squad Leader — ASL 3 - Yanks
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Scenario#: 211     Date: 12/1/1950     Location: Chosin Reservoir, North Korea

During the nights of 27 and 28 November 1950, the separated elements of the 31st Regimental Combat Team were surrounded and nearly destroyed by elements of the 80th and 81st CVPA Divisions. On 29 November, the regimental units were consolidated on…

Advanced Squad Leader — ASL 15 - Forgotten War
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Scenario#: 93     Date: 5/20/1941     Location: Maleme, Crete

The airfield at Maleme figured prominently in the German plans for the capture of Crete. “Group West”. Commanded most of the 1st Assault Regiment under the command of General Meindl, consisted of three detachments: one to land at the Tavronitis…

Advanced Squad Leader — ASL 5a - For King and Country
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Scenario#: 107     Date: 9/18/1944     Location: Arnhem, Holland

The Germans responded quickly to the British presence at Arnhem. Walter Harzer’s 9th Panzer “Hofenstaufen” Division was ordered to mop up the paratroopers west and north of the town. A rag-tag force under Lt. Gen. Hans von Tettau was sent to overrun…

Advanced Squad Leader — ASL 5a - For King and Country
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Scenario#: 136     Date: 4/19/1945     Location: Muncheberg, Germany

With the Third Reich in its death throes, the Soviet juggernaut began to pick up speed. The German defense line on the Oder had been broken; one town after another fell to the Russian armies as they advanced on Berlin. Hitler was determined not to…

Advanced Squad Leader — ASL 1 - Beyond Valor (3rd Edition)
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Scenario#: DN11     Date: 12/22/1944     Location: Dinant, Belgium

At midnight, the calm of the town of Dinant was shattered by explosions, as a Jeep loaded with Germans is American uniforms from Otto Skorzeny's SS-Panzer-Brigade 150 tried to infiltrate through the American and British positions. They were…

Advanced Squad Leader — ASL 10 - Croix de Guerre ( 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…

Advanced Squad Leader — ASL 10 - Croix de Guerre ( 2nd Edition)
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Scenario#: 194     Date: 12/21/1944     Location: Trois Ponts, Belgium

During the German Ardennes offensive, Colonel Peiper’s kampfgruppe from the 1st SS Panzer Division had quick victories which had taken them close to the Meuse River bridges but they had completely run out of fuel. The remaining assault elements of…

Advanced Squad Leader — ASL 3a Yanks (2nd Edition)
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Scenario#: 57     Date: 9/10/1943     Location: Rome, Italy

Days after the armistice with Italy was signed, the German 2nd Parachute Division advanced toward Rome from the south. Several Italian formations, including the elite 21st “Grenadiers of Sardinia” Division, set up blocking positions and attempted to…

Advanced Squad Leader — ASL 7 - Hollow Legions (2nd Edition)
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Scenario#: 123     Date: 11/30/1939     Location: Kuhmo, Finland

Along the Karelian Front, as the Soviets crossed the borders, the Finnish forces executed a planned withdrawal to the Mannerheim Line. In the north, however, the Finns were ordered to oppose the Russian advance at every opportunity. At Kuhmo, the…

Advanced Squad Leader — ASL 1 - Beyond Valor (3rd Edition)
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Scenario#: 66     Date: 5/24/1944     Location: Sarmi, New Guinea

The 158th Regimental Combat Team landed at Arare on the north coast of New Guinea with orders to capture Sarmi and its valuable airfields. Attacking westward, the RCT made modest gains against stiffer than anticipated resistance. The plan for the…

Advanced Squad Leader — ASL 8 - Code of Bushido
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Scenario#: 10     Date: 6/25/1941     Location: Brest-Litovsk, Belarus

In the wake of the astonishing gains of the German armored spearheads, the infantry had to mop up bypassed strongpoints. Taking the ancient fortress of Brest-Litovsk fell to the 45th Infantry. Moats, river branches and canals divided the Citadel…

Advanced Squad Leader — ASL 1 - Beyond Valor (3rd Edition)
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Scenario#: 4     Date: 11/9/1942     Location: Stalingrad, Russia

The Sixth Army was being bled white amidst the ruins. The rifle strength of whole companies was often reduced to little more than a squad in an attempt to take a single house. The battle lines were now drawn through the hallways of individual…

Advanced Squad Leader — ASL 1 - Beyond Valor (3rd Edition)
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Scenario#: 33     Date: 8/17/1944     Location: Palesnik, Croatia

The 1st Cossack Cavalry Division fighting under German colors, had been in Yugoslavia for nearly a year doing “search and destroy” missions against Tito’s Partisans. One column of the division was returning to base when it received word that 500…

Advanced Squad Leader — ASL 4 - Partisan!
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Scenario#: 96     Date: 5/25/1940     Location: Calais, France

Calais, and all the troops in it, was doomed to fall – it was only a question of time. The 2nd KRR was given the task of holding the three bridges over the Marck Canal. It had a handful of light tanks and scout cars for support. …

Advanced Squad Leader — ASL 5a - For King and Country
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Scenario#: 3     Date: 9/22/1944     Location: Warsaw, Poland UPRISING

Fired by the enthusiasm of their field commanders, STAVKA approved crossing of the Vistula by troops of the 1st Polish Army into the devastated city. For five days, the shallow bridgehead was bombarded and sporadically attacked by Kaminski’s White…

Advanced Squad Leader — ASL 1 - Beyond Valor (3rd Edition)
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Scenario#: 128     Date: 7/19/1941     Location: Leningrad, Russia SEIGE

As German panzers drove toward Leningrad, they bypassed potentially dangerous Russian armored groups. When these attempted to break out, handling them fell to infantry and anti-tank units. One such instance occurred at Luga, where elements of the…

Advanced Squad Leader — ASL 1 - Beyond Valor (3rd 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…

Advanced Squad Leader — ASL 13 - Rising Sun
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Scenario#: 63     Date: 2/7/1944     Location: Maungdaw, Burma

In a series of concentric flanking movements, the Japanese 55th Infantry Division enveloped the forward divisions of the XV Indian Corp, cutting off their supplies and communications. A defensive “box” was formed around the 7th Indian Division’s…

Advanced Squad Leader — ASL 8 - Code of Bushido
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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 Leader — ASL 10 - Croix de Guerre ( 2nd Edition)
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Scenario#: 243     Date: 6/2/1940     Location: Spyckar, France

As the last days and hours of the Dunkirk defense passed and the perimeter shrank to within four miles of the city, the British turned their remaining positions over to the French forces. On the western side of the perimeter the Grossdeutschland…

Advanced Squad Leader — ASL 10 - Croix de Guerre ( 2nd Edition)
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Scenario#: 8     Date: 5/3/1945     Location: Berlin, Germany

High quality Russians hold the canal bridges against rag-tag remnants of the Muencheberg Panzer Division, fleeing Berlin in the last days of the war.

Advanced Squad Leader — ASL 1 - Beyond Valor (3rd Edition)
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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…

Advanced Squad Leader — ASL 6 - The Last Hurrah
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Scenario#: 29     Date: 6/6/1944     Location: Copenhagen, Denmark

Danish partisans attacked an important Globus radio factory outside Copenhagen when they learned that parts for the new V-2 rocket were being manufactured there. On the appointed day, all the BOPA partisans that could be gathered together assembled…

Advanced Squad Leader — ASL 4 - Partisan!
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Scenario#: 208     Date: 8/6/1950     Location: Soesil, South Korea

During the night of 5 August, the KPA 4th Guards Seoul Division made its initial assault into the “Naktong Bulge”. The North Koreans pressed forward nearly two miles before the 34th’s commander, Colonel Charles Beauchamp, realized what was happening…

Advanced Squad Leader — ASL 15 - Forgotten War
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Scenario#: 172     Date: 6/27/1944     Location: Marjamäki, Finland

Having lost the important crossroads at Marjamäki, the Finns committed more and more units in a desperate attempt to blunt the Soviet juggernaut. One of the final attacks was towards Tali and, despite reports of company-sized Soviet units in the area…

Advanced Squad Leader — ASL 14 - Hakkaa Päälle!
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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…

Advanced Squad Leader — ASL 10 - Croix de Guerre ( 2nd Edition)
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Scenario#: 27     Date: 6/7/1944     Location: Tulle, France

With the arrival of the Allies in Normandy, many in France believed their liberation would follow within weeks if not days. The Communist FTP partisans believed that they would now have to take matters into their own hands or see their power in the…

Advanced Squad Leader — ASL 4 - Partisan!
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Scenario#: 24     Date: 1/3/1945     Location: Longchamps, Belgium

Dug into the snow along the edge of the village of Longchamps, weary Americans watched as an armored force deployed from Compogne in the fields to the north. Orders went out to the gun crews to engage the armor as soon as it was in range. Within…

Advanced Squad Leader — ASL 3 - Yanks
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Scenario#: 178     Date: 7/10/1943     Location: Niscemi, Sicily

During the initial invasion of Sicily, many American parachute units were given the task of blocking German movement towards the landing beaches. One such, the 3rd Battalion of the 504th Parachute Regiment, landed two miles northwest of Biscari.…

Advanced Squad Leader — ASL 3a Yanks (2nd Edition)
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Scenario#: 31     Date: 8/12/1944     Location: Warsaw, Poland UPRISING

Believing the Russians would soon be in Warsaw, Polish forces went on the offensive. But the Russians stopped and the Germans went after the Poles with a vengeance. Heavy fighting occurred during the German drive to retake the buildings and narrow,…

Advanced Squad Leader — ASL 4 - Partisan!
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Scenario#: 176     Date: 10/15/1944     Location: Rovaniemi, Finland

Rovaniemi, the capital city of Finnish Lapland and formerly the site of German headquarters, was burning to the ground when the first Finnish unit, Infantry Regiment 11, arrived on the scene as the delaying Gebirgs-Infanterie-Division 7 was just…

Advanced Squad Leader — ASL 14 - Hakkaa Päälle!
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Scenario#: 131     Date: 7/24/1942     Location: Rostov, Russia

With the German summer offensive of 1942, “Operation Blue”, Hitler hoped to force a decision on the southern front. In an attempt to complete a large-scale encirclement of the Lower Don, the city of Rostov became the natural center of operations. The…

Advanced Squad Leader — ASL 1 - Beyond Valor (3rd Edition)
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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…

Advanced Squad Leader — ASL 3a Yanks (2nd Edition)
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Scenario#: 144     Date: 4/7/1941     Location: Pirot, Yugoslavia

On April 6th, the Wehrmacht erupted across the Yugoslavian borders. The Yugoslavs repeatedly performed individual acts of heroism -- attacking the panzers with grenades and Molotov cocktails -- but collectively the Yugoslavian army was outclassed and…

Advanced Squad Leader — ASL 11 - Doomed Battalions (3rd Edition)
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Scenario#: DN09     Date: 5/14/1940     Location: Dinant, Belgium

After securing the crossing area, Rommel ordered his reconnaissance units to begin moving along N936 toward Onhaye. As the light armor and cycles moved out in the darkness, they ran into a series of French positions along the road.

Advanced Squad Leader — ASL 10 - Croix de Guerre ( 2nd Edition)
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Scenario#: 18     Date: 6/6/1944     Location: Neuville-au-Plain, France

In the confusion of the scattered air drop of the 101st Airborne, Lt. Colonel Vandervoort was ordered to turn his 2nd Battalion towards the already-taken village of Ste. Mere-Eglise and abandon his initial objective – a blocking position astride…

Advanced Squad Leader — ASL 2 - Paratrooper
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Scenario#: 68     Date: 5/6/1942     Location: Corregidor, Philippines

After the fall of Bataan, the Japanese turned the full weight of their artillery and air force onto the island fortress of Corregidor. For nearly a month, massive guns up to 14 inches in caliber salvoed back and forth across the North Channel of…

Advanced Squad Leader — ASL 9 - Gung Ho!
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Scenario#: 116     Date: 7/12/1944     Location: Skopce, Poland

In the Carpathian Mountains, the STAVKA operational plan for 1944 called for successive assaults to retake all the territory lost to the Nazis. While the “fifth blow” of the plan against Army Group Center was winding down, Marshall Konev's First…

Advanced Squad Leader — ASL 12 - Armies of Oblivion
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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…

Advanced Squad Leader — ASL 3a Yanks (2nd Edition)
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Scenario#: 51     Date: 4/20/1943     Location: Takrouna, Tunisia

As part of 8th Army’s first attempt to crack the Enfidaville Line, the 5th New Zealand Brigade was ordered to capture the key observation point of Takrouna – a small village crowned by a group of tightly clustered buildings surrounded by cliffs, all…

Advanced Squad Leader — ASL 7 - Hollow Legions (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 Leader — ASL 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…

Advanced Squad Leader — ASL 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 Leader — ASL 12 - Armies of Oblivion (2nd Edition)
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Scenario#: 210     Date: 11/27/1950     Location: Yudam-Ni, North Korea

The 1st Marine Division had been cut off by tens of thousands of Communist Chinese regulars who had infiltrated into North Korea and closed the main supply road to the south. Now the Communist Chinese command moved swiftly to overwhelm the high…

Advanced Squad Leader — ASL 15 - Forgotten War
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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 Leader — ASL 5a - For King and Country
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Scenario#: 9     Date: 1/17/1945     Location: Warsaw, Poland 1945

Informed that only a scant rearguard remained in Warsaw, Stalin at last authorized the liberation of the city. In the pre-dawn darkness, Soviet formations seized the undestroyed bridges and cleared the west bank of the Vistula River. Near noon, they…

Advanced Squad Leader — ASL 1 - Beyond Valor (3rd Edition)
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