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Urban Nightmare Scenario#: VOTG25 Date: 9/28/1942 Location: Stalingrad, Russia Late September found the 13th Guards Rifle Division still clinging stubbornly to a narrow section of the riverbank in downtown Stalingrad. The Germans had shifted their main effort north to the factory district, and the battle for the center of the… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #10
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
Last Minute War Scenario#: J148 Date: 3/24/1939 Location: Nižná Rybnica, Slovakia At dawn on March 23, 1939 Hungary suddenly attacked Slovakia from Carpatho-Ukraine with instructions being to "proceed as far to the west as possible". Hungary attacked Slovakia without any declaration of war, catching the Slovak army unprepared,… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #10
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
The Sangshak Redemption Scenario#: J150 Date: 3/26/1944 Location: Sangshak, India The 153rd Parachute Battalion, 50th Parachute Brigade, was the only Gurkha airborne unit formed during the war. Their initial combat experience occurred as part of a delaying action against the northern pincer of the Japanese envelopment of Imphal,… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #10
Squeeze Play Scenario#: J151 Date: 5/25/1944 Location: Marbam, Burma Following a heavy downpour, the temporary command for the battle of Imphal called WOODFORCE, decided to launch a new assault on the village of Marbam. The 10th Baluch Regiment would be sent in to clear Marbam and the ridge to the west, both of which… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #10
Messenger Boys Scenario#: J152 Date: 8/2/1944 Location: Drouet, France By the fourth day of the British offensive Operation Bluecoat, the German front line had been penetrated and the armoured units sought to exploit the gains. To obtain a clear line of advance, the British Guards Armoured division changed its… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #10
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
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
Mageret Mixer Scenario#: J156 Date: 12/19/1944 Location: Mageret, Belgium Fearing a counterattack, Lehr commander Bayerlein pulled back his tanks and let Volksgrenadier-Division 26 secure Mageret during the night of 18-19 December. Combat Command R, 9th Armored Division the next morning launched an attack to reopen the… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #10
Rage Against the Machine Scenario#: J157 Date: 12/21/1944 Location: Courland Pocket, Latvia For nearly one month, heavy rain and mud had prevented further Russian offensives against the German army trapped in the Courland pocket. When a sudden heavy frost returned the roads to passable conditions in mid-December, a forbidding atmosphere of… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #10
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
Tropic Lightning Scenario#: J159 Date: 1/24/1945 Location: San Manuel, Philippines Resolving to fight to the death, Major General Shigemi ordered his forces to dig in at San Manuel. Several tanks were converted into fortified bunkers by burying them in the ground so only their turrets were visible; the remainder were to be used as… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #10
Bienen Burnout Scenario#: J160 Date: 3/25/1945 Location: Bienen, Germany The only axis of attack available to the Canadian 3rd Infantry Division was through the villages of Speldrop and Bienen. Speldrop was taken by the end of 24 March but at a high cost in both men and material, providing a taste of things to come. The… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #10
War Brotherhood Scenario#: FB19 Date: 1/25/1945 Location: Budapest, Hungary Having been allies off and on for centuries against a variety of enemies, the defending German and Hungarian forces had developed what some soldiers referred to as a “war brotherhood” or “Waffenbruderschaft”. This bond would be sorely tested… 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
Bad Day for the Luftwaffe Scenario#: VOTG26 Date: 9/20/1942 Location: Stalingrad, Russia Early in the morning of 20 September, a submachine gun-armed Sturmgruppe from Infanterie-Division 71 broke through along Moskovskaya Street and seized the main landing mole. At that moment ill fortune would have it that a flight of Stukas mistook the… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #11
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
Riding to the Rescue Scenario#: J161 Date: 5/24/1940 Location: Picquigny, France On May 22, German tanks reached Boulogne and split the Allied armies at the Somme River. The British 1st Armoured Division, in France for less than four days, was ordered to retake three river crossings with the support of lorry-borne Territorials… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #11
African Brothers Scenario#: J162 Date: 7/10/1940 Location: Moyale, Kenya By the end of June 1940, the garrison of Fort Harrington had received reliable reports that Italian reinforcements were entering the twin town of Moyale at the Abyssinian border. These included three Eritrean colonial battalions, a brigade of pack… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #11
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
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
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
Red Churchills Scenario#: J170 Date: 6/20/1944 Location: Vyborg, Finland After the siege of Leningrad was lifted in January 1944, STAVKA began planning a summer offensive to knock Finland out of the war. The Soviet attack on the Karelian Isthmus started on 9 June, timed to coincide with the Normandy landings. Fifteen… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #11
Whom Gods Destroy Scenario#: J171 Date: 8/14/1944 Location: Central, Greece THREE PLAYER SCENARIO - informal alliances are not forbidden but there will be only 1 winner! Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #11
Ramcke's Redoubt Scenario#: J172 Date: 9/16/1944 Location: Brest, France Following the Allied D-Day landings on 6 June, 2nd Fallschirmjäger-Division was sent to the Brittany region of France, and took up defensive positions at Brest. Following Operation Cobra, the allied breakout from Normandy, Major-General Troy H.… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #11
Assault on Baerendorf Scenario#: J173 Date: 11/24/1944 Location: Baerendorf, France Soon after crossing the Sarre River, 4th Armored Division vanguards ran into the flank of Panzer Lehr Division. Approaching the village of Baerendorf, Combat Command B sent its 53rd Armor Infantry Battalion forward to conduct a hazardous stream… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #11
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
Bedburg Bite Scenario#: J175 Date: 2/16/1945 Location: Louisendorf, Germany To kick of the attack known as Operation VERITABLE, the Royal Winnipeg Rifles, supported by the 3rd Armoured Battalion of the Scots Guards, was ordered to take the hilly ground around Louisendorf, south of Moyland. This would protect the right flank… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #11
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
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
Old Friends Scenario#: J178 Date: 3/26/1945 Location: Gahlen, Germany For the American 30th Infantry Division, Operation PLUNDER commenced on 24 March with a relatively quiet crossing of the Rhine. The division’s first main objective, the village of Spellen, was quickly taken by two of its regiments which attacked the… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #11
Resignation Supermen Scenario#: J179 Date: 4/10/1945 Location: Heilbronn, Germany The final weeks of the war in Europe saw deep penetrations by the forces of General Alexander Patch’s Seventh Army, which rolled over most resistance in its path. Crossing the Neckar River proved to be one of the first true obstacles encountered by… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #11
The Hour Zero Scenario#: J180 Date: 5/8/1945 Location: Forst Segeberg, Germany Men of the 8th Parachute Division were called upon to neutralize a group of die hard SS and German Partisan's (Werewolf units) in the first days of May 1945. They dug themselves in within a forest called Forst Segeberg in Northern Germany. They were… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #11
The Deadly Line Scenario#: J181 Date: 8/11/1945 Location: Mo Dao Shi, China The Soviet Union declared war on the Japanese Empire on 10 August. Depleted by the dispatch of its units to the Pacific theater, the Japanese Kwantung Army was seemingly helpless to resist the Soviet steamroller. Nevertheless, the Japanese commenced… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #11
Belgian Blitzkrieg Scenario#: J182 Date: 5/27/1940 Location: Knesselare, Belgium On 27 May, the Germans renewed their offensive on the Lys River line. The Belgian 11ème division d’infanterie was unable to withstand the German attack, and a gap appeared in the Belgian lines. The only reserves available were the Groupement Morel de… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #12
A Real Barn Burner Scenario#: J183 Date: 5/31/1940 Location: Amagne, France In contrast to their comrades to the west, the French Aisne River front held firm against the German attacks in May. The 14éme division d’infanterie, one of the best French units, manned the front bear Rethel. On 30 May, a reconnaissance in force was… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #12
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
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
Buckley's Block Scenario#: J189 Date: 1/13/1944 Location: Cape Gloucester, New Britian The Marines had solidly established their presence on Cape Glouchester, secured their initial objectives, and continued to push south and east. A major campaign objective was Hill 660. Confident that Hill 660 would be taken a detachment from the… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #12
Trial Run Scenario#: J190 Date: 1/17/1944 Location: Ricco River, Italy British planners desired to keep German units in the Ortona region “occupied” so they would be unavailable to reinforce the Cassino area. V Corps Maj. Gen. Allfrey decided to carry out this mission with green troops who would be provided with combat… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #12
Rebels Without A Pause Scenario#: J191 Date: 9/5/1944 Location: Telgart, Slovakia Nestled in the picturesque Hron Valley, the communication center of Telgart was a key objective for the uprising in central Slovakia. As the insurgency gained successes in the center, both the Slovak regular forces and partisan groups gained… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #12
Taking Some Flak Scenario#: J192 Date: 10/28/1944 Location: Muonio, Finland During the final withdrawal of German units from Finland, SS-Gebirgsjager-Regiments 11 and 12 were tasked with holding the Finns at bay. On the road from Tornio and Kemi, the Germans were withdrawing their troops interspersed with equipment-laden… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #12