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The Army at the Edge of the WorldScenario#: 246 Date: 9/25/1940 Location: Na Cham Border Post, French IndochinaIn 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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Eight Million BayonetsScenario#: ROMA1 Date: 11/2/1940 Location: Kalpaki, GreeceItaly's invasion of the Kingdom of Greece on 28 October initially resulted in an advance of several miles and the general withdrawal of light Greek forces at the border. Bad weather, poor roads, and general lack of infrastructure such as bridges held… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Roma 2020 |
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Paper ArmyScenario#: S010 Date: 11/3/1940 Location: Sarandoporo, GreeceDetermined to present Hitler with a fait accompli in the Balkans, Mussolini launched another ill-advised, ill-planned and ill-informed campaign, this time from Albania into the mountains of Epirus, Pindus, and Macedonia, just in time for winter. The… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Starter Kit #2 |
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Messervy's MenScenario#: J127 Date: 11/6/1940 Location: Tamanau Gap, EritreaAs part of the British invasion of Eritrea, Colonel F.W. Messervy’s “Gazelle Force”, a motorized commando unit comprised of three machine gun companies, a filed gun battery and a mechanized cavalry unit, was established with the mission of creating… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #9 |
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Pride and JoyScenario#: 90 Date: 11/17/1940 Location: Koritsa, GreeceThe Italian Army erupted across the Greek border in an attempt to add Greece to the New Roman Empire and show Hitler that Italy, too, could launch a blitzkrieg attack. Mussolini’s tactically-bankrupt command had not anticipated the tenacity of the… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL 11 - Doomed Battalions |
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Pynda AvengedScenario#: WO29 Date: 11/19/1940 Location: Agios Kosmas, GreeceGreek High Command planned a large scale offensive operation to expel the Italians from the Pindus mountain region and push the Italians back across the Albanian border. Reserve forces were moved up to the front in preparation for the attack, which… Advanced Squad Leader — Winter Offensive Bonus Pack 2019 |
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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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Siam SambalScenario#: 248 Date: 1/16/1941 Location: Yang Dang Khum, CambodiaOn 5 January 1941, following the report of a French attack on the Thai border town of Aranyaprathet, the Thai Burapha and Isan Armies launched an offensive on Laos and Cambodia. French response was instantaneous, but many units were simply swept… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL 10 - Croix de Guerre ( 2nd Edition) |
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Just an IllusionScenario#: 247 Date: 1/16/1941 Location: Phum Preav, French IndochinaThe reverse suffered by the French army at the hands of the Japanese aggression led the new Thai government to strongly reaffirm its intention to reintegrate Laos and Cambodia into the motherland. The state of latent war came to a sudden end on 10… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL 10 - Croix de Guerre ( 2nd Edition) |
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Ci ArrendiamoScenario#: 58 Date: 2/7/1941 Location: Agedabia, Libya"We Surrender" - In an attempt to halt the Italian 10th Army which was retreating south from Benghazi, Combeforce – a motor infantry battalion reinforced with artillery and armored cars – was dispatched ahead of the pursuing British 7th Armored… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL 7 - Hollow Legions (2nd Edition) |
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"They're Here! Reverse!"Scenario#: J047 Date: 2/8/1941 Location: Beda Fomm, LibyaThe famed Desert Rats were on the move. Heading for the African coast through the Saleh/Beda Fomm area, they planned to set up ambush positions against the large Italian motorized columns retreating from Benghazi towards Tripoli. The 2nd Royal Tank… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #3 |
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Monastery HillScenario#: A014 Date: 3/9/1941 Location: Scialesi, AlbaniaMussolini's bid to dominate Greece had been a fiasco of the first magnitude; by mid-February 1941, the war which had begun in November amid much posturing had taken the lives of 500 Italian officers and over 5000 other ranks. The Greeks had gone on… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Annual 90 |
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Aiding the Local Constabulary (2 player)Scenario#: J163 Date: 3/29/1941 Location: Dire Dawa, EthiopiaThe 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 |
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Aiding the Local Constabulary (3 player)Scenario#: J164 Date: 3/29/1941 Location: Dire Dawa, EthiopiaThe 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 |
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Turning the TablesScenario#: 39 Date: 3/31/1941 Location: Mersa el Brega, LibyaThe main line of defense in Libya was a natural bottleneck along the coast at Mersa el Brega, with the sea on one flank and an extensive salt marsh on the other. The British mined and wired this line extensively. Rommel launched a full scale assault… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL 5 - West of Alamein |
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The ProfessionalsScenario#: 144 Date: 4/7/1941 Location: Pirot, YugoslaviaOn 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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Escape from DernaScenario#: 38 Date: 4/7/1941 Location: Derna, LibyaAs Rommel’s first offensive pushed across Cyrenaica, the British fighting withdrawal became a rout. Those forces falling back along the northern and southern edges of the Djebel Akhdar gravitated to the seaside town of Derna, where the coast road… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL 5 - West of Alamein |
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Rude AwakeningScenario#: 47 Date: 4/9/1941 Location: Alibunara, YugoslaviaAt the time of the invasion on 6 April, the Yugoslavian Army was in the midst of mobilization; only eleven divisions were ready to face the thirty German, fourteen Italian and five Hungarian divisions that plunged into their country. Confusion and… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL 6 - The Last Hurrah |
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Blood EnemiesScenario#: 219 Date: 4/13/1941 Location: Mostar, YugoslaviaThe conglomerate nation of Yugoslavia was formulated in the post-WWI power struggle to carve up the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Croatians, hoping to become an independent nation, were dissatisfied with being part of a government largely controlled by… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL 12 - Armies of Oblivion (2nd Edition) |
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Balkan SideshowScenario#: 111 Date: 4/13/1941 Location: Szenttanas, YugoslaviaNow it was Yugoslavia's turn to be in the center of the German blitzkrieg. Operation "Merita" had begun and the country was attacked on all sides. As Hungarian "Group Sandor" advanced through abandoned Yugoslavian positions, it was ordered to push… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL 12 - Armies of Oblivion |
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Out of CowardiceScenario#: 112 Date: 4/13/1941 Location: Senta, YugoslaviaImmediately after Yugoslavian regent Prince Paul signed the Tripartite Pact to join with Germany and Italy, military leaders overthrew the regime, rescinding the agreement. Hitler then launched Operation Punishment as a lesson on the costs of defying… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL 12 - Armies of Oblivion |
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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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The Sooner The BetterScenario#: J091 Date: 4/14/1941 Location: Tobruk, Libya SEIGERommel launched his first attempt to take Tobruk by storm on the night of Easter Sunday. After Afrika Korps engineers succeeded in breeching the formidable anti-tank ditch, wire and mine fortifications of the outer perimeter, infantry riding on tanks… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #6 |
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Carrier HillScenario#: AP160 Date: 4/22/1941 Location: Tobruk, Libya SEIGEThe Australian commander of the Tobruk garrison, Major General Leslie Morshead, was not content to rest on the laurels of his Easter victory against Rommel's first assault on the fortress. ln response to a newspaper headline "Tobruk Can Take It." he… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Action Pack #16 From The Land Down Under |
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Priority TargetScenario#: S013 Date: 4/26/1941 Location: Korinthos, GreeceThe British, Australian, New Zealand, and Greek troops of “W Force” were retreating down the Balkans, slowing the Germans at every pass and strongpoint, heading toward a “mini-Dunkirk” evacuation on southern Greece. But an important bridge ahead was… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Starter Kit #2 |
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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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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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Tavronitis BridgeScenario#: 93 Date: 5/20/1941 Location: Maleme, CreteThe 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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Bofors BashingScenario#: 94 Date: 5/20/1941 Location: Maleme Airfield, CreteFor thirty minutes the Luftwaffe hammered the airfield at Maleme, concentrating on the AA positions near the mouth of the dry Tavronitis. Certainly the Bofors gunners at Maleme had an unenviable task. They had, of necessity, to be sited well forward… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL 5a - For King and Country |
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Descent into HellScenario#: 95 Date: 5/20/1941 Location: Maleme, CreteThe glider detachments of Braun and von Plessen were ordered to capture the western approaches to the vitally important Maleme airfield and secure the right flank of the Assault Regiment before joining Major Koch and the main body at the field… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL 5a - For King and Country |
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On Silent WingsScenario#: 98 Date: 5/20/1941 Location: Canea, CreteLieutenant Alfred Genz’s 1st Company had two objectives in the airborne assault on Crete. First, to neutralize the anti-aircraft battery located south of Canea and, second, to capture a nearby wireless station. Most of his gliders touched down near… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL 5a - For King and Country |
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Revenge at KastelliScenario#: 45 Date: 5/20/1941 Location: Kastelli, CreteA number of Greek regiments, understrength and poorly armed but with grim determination after the defeats of the past month, were on Crete. On the day of the German paratroop assault, one such – the 1st, numbering a bit over 1000 men – was stationed… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL 6 - The Last Hurrah |
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Headhunting For Bloody HunsScenario#: DASL21 Date: 5/20/1941 Location: Modhion, CreteThe village of Modhion lay about a mile south of the coast road, midway between Maleme and Platanias. It was the home of a divisional field punishment unit,as well as an engineer unit which was dug-in on the hills around the village. The morning had… Advanced Squad Leader — Deluxe Advanced Squad Leader |
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A Desperate AffairScenario#: 97 Date: 5/20/1941 Location: Heraklion, CreteThe mission of the German paratroopers approaching Heraklion was to take the town and its airfield in order to land troops of the 5th Mountain Division. As the paratroopers jumped from the Junker Ju52s, each armed with only a few grenades and a… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL 5a - For King and Country |
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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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Stand For New ZealandScenario#: S027 Date: 5/25/1941 Location: Galatas, CreteSecuring Maleme airfield gave the Germans the initiative. Heavily reinforced, they began advancing eastwards towards Canea, while a sizeable force threatened the New Zealanders’ flank from Prison Valley. In an effort to stem the German advance in… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Starter Kit #3 |
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Among the DeadScenario#: J165 Date: 5/26/1941 Location: Galatas, CreteThe 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 |
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ANZAC BoysScenario#: AP161 Date: 5/27/1941 Location: Chania, CreteDuring the first part of 1941, Allied forces had been defeated in Greece and many had retreated to Crete. In their haste, the allies had been forced to leave much of their heavy equipment behind, leaving them lightly armed for the inevitable German… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Action Pack #16 From The Land Down Under |
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Probing LayforceScenario#: 99 Date: 5/28/1941 Location: Babali Hani, CreteOn Crete, once again the British forces had suffered defeat and were in retreat, streaming towards the beaches at Sfakia and evacuation by the Royal Navy. The pursuing German mountain troops were pressing hard, and had to be checked. The commandos of… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL 5a - For King and Country |
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Dayan to Meet YouScenario#: J184 Date: 6/8/1941 Location: Iskenderun, SyriaMoshe 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 |
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The GovernorScenario#: AP162 Date: 6/19/1941 Location: Medjayoun, SyriaThe initial phase of the Commonwealth campaign against the Vichy forces in Syria was proving tougher than expected. These French, former allies of the Commonwealth. were resilient opponents. Merdjayoun was symbolic of this as the town, located only a… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Action Pack #16 From The Land Down Under |
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Showdown in SyriaScenario#: 249 Date: 6/20/1941 Location: Mezze, SyriaBy nightfall on 19 June, the Allied position at Mezzeh was desperate. Ammunition was running low, no food had been eaten for 24 hours, casualties were severe, and medical supplies were exhausted. During the night (when Vichy attacks were suspended),… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL 10 - Croix de Guerre ( 2nd Edition) |
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Fratricidal FightingScenario#: 81 Date: 6/20/1941 Location: Damascus, SyriaThe Allied invasion of Syria and Lebanon was conducted primarily by the 7th Australian Division, the 5th Indian Infantry Brigade and the brigade-strength Free French Division. A week later they were about ten miles south of Damascus but facing strong… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL 10 - Croix de Guerre |
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Red PacketsScenario#: 6 Date: 6/22/1941 Location: Zhabinki, RussiaThe German invasion was crushing Russian initial defenses everywhere. After considerable delay, Timoshenko gave the orders to open the “red packets”. The instructions in these cover plans were to be obeyed. The 42nd Rifle Division’s independent… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL 1 - Beyond Valor (3rd Edition) |
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The Haunted CastleScenario#: J185 Date: 6/22/1941 Location: Oleszyce, PolandFor 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 |
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Cream of the CropScenario#: AP012 Date: 6/23/1941 Location: the Bug River, RussiaAssault gun crews were highly trained, elite artillery units assigned to provide close fire support to the infantry. All assault gun crews were volunteers up until 1944 and had proven in pre-war trials to be more accurate gunners than tank crews. In… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Action Pack #2 |
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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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Bolder Than BeforeScenario#: WO21 Date: 6/23/1941 Location: Lvov, UkraineVIII Mechanized Corps had been ordered back and forth inside a triangle formed by the towns of Stiy-Peremyshl-Lvov as Soviet high command attempted to bring order from the chaos of the early border battles of Operation BARBAROSSA. Corps Commander Lt.… Advanced Squad Leader — Winter Offensive Bonus Pack 2017 |
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A New Kind of FoeScenario#: 34 Date: 6/24/1941 Location: Seirijai, LithuaniaBy nightfall of June 22nd, the German V Infantry Corps had broken through the Soviet border defenses and established a bridgehead across the Nieman River some 40 miles away. Later that night a bridging column of the 5th Infantry Division was ambushed… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL 4 - Partisan! |