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Red Comrades Scenario#: AP046     Date: 3/20/1943     Location: Taranovka, Russia As Manstein delivered the “back-hand blow” to Soviet forces at Kharkov, the Red Army was beginning to develop tactics on par with their German counterparts. With the huge victory at Stalingrad to build upon, propaganda switched from politics to… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Action Pack #5 East Front
Insult to Injury Scenario#: AP047     Date: 7/12/1943     Location: Storozhevoe, Russia Although the German spearhead had been blunted at Prokhorovka, the thrusts of SS-Panzerkorps II would continue to push forward for another day. However, General Rotmistov was now gaining the initiative, and the armored battles would be under… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Action Pack #5 East Front
Up Inferno Hill Scenario#: AP048     Date: 7/14/1943     Location: Werchopenje, Russia The battle of Kursk had largely climaxed, with formations neighboring the “Grossdeutschland” Division being driven into defensive modes. Following one day of rest and replenishment, in the midst of preparing to once again drive north, the neighboring… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Action Pack #5 East Front
Panzergeist Scenario#: AP050     Date: 10/30/1944     Location: Olszak, Poland While most Soviet formations were either out of supplies, victory drunk or both, the German landsers were becoming weary of constant defensive action. With new equipment in place and supply lines back to the Reich shortened by the territorial losses… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Action Pack #5 East Front
Something to Prove Scenario#: AP051     Date: 1/18/1945     Location: Sid, Yugoslavia In an attempt to re-open lines to Panzer-Armee 2, Armeekorps XXXIV conducted a major attack along the Syrmien front south of the Danube. Opposing this assault were six divisions of Tito’s “partisan” army. Dug in like the Russians who had trained them… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Action Pack #5 East Front
Into Vienna Woods Scenario#: AP052     Date: 4/17/1945     Location: St. Polten, Austria On April 12 STAVKA declared Vienna clear of German forces. The 3rd Ukrainian Front was issued new orders, one of which was to take the town of St. Polten, south-west of Vienna, in the strategically located Vienna Woods. St. Polten was taken on the… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Action Pack #5 East Front
Nishne, Nyet! Scenario#: AP060     Date: 2/10/1943     Location: Nishne-Gnilovskaya, Russia When Red Army elements crossed the Don River in early February just west of Rostov and established a bridgehead, the 503rd Heavy Tank Battalion was part of the force tasked to eliminate the threat. A force of six Tigers and then Pz IIIs, with… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Action Pack #6 A Decade of War
Shouting Into The Storm Scenario#: AP062     Date: 2/8/1945     Location: Klein-Silber, Germany In early February, following the Red Army’s breakthrough and rapid advance in Poland, the northern flank of Zhukov’s 1st Belorussian Front in Pomerania was fluid. His worn-out and thinly spread troops pushed northward in an attempt to keep the enemy… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Action Pack #6 A Decade of War
The Nutcracker Scenario#: AP063     Date: 12/7/1941     Location: Klin, Russia During the final phase of Operation TYPHOON, German Panzer-Armee 4 broke through Russian defenses northeast of Moscow. General Reinhardt's Panzer-Korps LVI was able to cross the Moskva-Volga Canal at Yakhroma on 27 November but could not hold its… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Action Pack #7
Cat's Cradle Scenario#: AP066     Date: 7/5/1943     Location: Cherkasskoye, Russia The German summer offensive know as CITADEL came as no surprise to STAVKA. Several layers of defensive networks had been prepared. Given the nature of the terrain in central Russia, any large armored thrusts would encounter chokepoints near strategic… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Action Pack #7
Sons of Slava Scenario#: AP070     Date: 7/18/1944     Location: Busk Sasov, Poland The Red Army launched the Lvov-Sandomierz offensive after OKH had stripped Army Group North Ukraine to the bare bones in order to plug the holes left by a crumbling Army Group Center. This attack was a major operation in its own right, designed to… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Action Pack #7
On The Borderline Scenario#: A1     Date: 30-Nov-39     Location: Artahuhta, Finland The Soviet 139th Rifle Division-20000 troops supported by 147 artillery pieces and 45 tanks, under the command of General LB. Belyayev-crossed the border on all available roads leading to Tolvajarvi, a key road junction defended by 4200 scattered… Squad Leader — ASL Annual 89
Silent Death Scenario#: A011     Date: 12/9/1939     Location: Aittojoki, Finland As Soviet troops pressed into the wilderness area north of Lake Ladoga, the Finns instituted a full-scale scorched earth policy. Even those Russians lucky enough to find Finnish dwellings still intact met with disaster. With the onset of the severe… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Annual 89
Savoia! Scenario#: A012     Date: 8/23/1942     Location: Ischbuchenskiy, Russia As the Italian 8th Army took up positions along the west bank of the River Don, a Russian counterattack opened a gap between it and the German 6th Army advancing on Stalingrad. As part of the effort to seal this breach, the Savoy Cavalry and Novara… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Annual 89
The Professionals Scenario#: A5     Date: 9-Apr-41     Location: Pirot, Yugoslavia On April 8th, the Wehrmacht erupted across the Yugoslavian borders. Von Kleist's armor, striking along the River Nisava out of Bulgaria, swiftly drove a wedge between the enemy "Troplica" and "Drina" divisions. The Yugoslavs repeatedly performed… Squad Leader — ASL Annual 90
Breakout Scenario#: AD06     Date: 6/29/1944     Location: Bokruisk, Russia In what was to become known as the "Destruction of Army Group Centre", the city of Bobruisk was one of the primary objectives for the Soviet summer offensive. The Soviet 65th and 3rd Armies linked up west of Bobruisk, trapping some 100,000 German… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Annual 90
Fire on the Volga Scenario#: AH01     Date: 1942-10-27     Location: Stalingrad, Russia For the Russians, this was rapidly becoming yet another critical day in the defense of their ruined city. Elements of the German 79th Infantry Division had pushed toward the Krasny Oktyabr steel mill, bringing the HQ of Guryev’s 39th Guards Division… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Annual 91
Blocking Action at Lipki Scenario#: A044     Date: 7/3/1941     Location: Borisov, Belarus During the opening stages of Barbarossa, the first great pincer movement on the Central Front occurred between the cities of Bialystok and Minsk. As a result of the encirclement of four Soviet armies in the pocket, the high command was forced to… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Annual 92
Best-Laid Plans Scenario#: A048     Date: 6/27/1943     Location: Leskovik, Albania ELAS had learned that the German 1st Mountain Division was moving from Serbia to Greece, with its route passing through the village of Leskovic high in the mountains along the Greek-Albanian frontier. The commander of ELAS decided to use the village… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Annual 92
Delaying Action Scenario#: A049     Date: 10/26/1944     Location: Libau, Lithuania After failing to halt the onslaught of Bagramyan’s 1st Baltic Front, scattered units of Grossdeutshcland Division were ordered to fall back to the northwest and regroup. One evening during the course of this retreat, some 300 of its men were… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Annual 92
Clash Along the Psel Scenario#: A051     Date: 7/12/1943     Location: Prokhorovka, Russia Hundreds of AFVs were compressed into a corridor bordered by the Psel River on one side and the Belgorod-Kursk railway embankment on the other. The ensuing struggle raged for eight hours, punctuated by four major armored clashes. One such came about… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Annual 93a
The Raate Road Scenario#: A054     Date: 12/13/1939     Location: Raate, Finland With the invasion, two reinforced Soviet divisions crossed the border in the north with orders to cut Finland in half by seizing Oulu, 150 miles to the west. But the Russian 163rd Rifle Division was soon trapped at Suomussalmi. And so, a third Soviet… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Annual 93a
Wintergewitter Scenario#: A070     Date: 12/13/1942     Location: Verkhne-Kumsky, Russia Time was running out for the Germans surrounded in Stalingrad. On December 12, the LVII Armored Corps launched Operation Wintergewitter (“Winter Tempest”), the offensive to relieve VI Army. Spearheading the drive was the veteran 6th Panzer Division,… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Annual 95 Winter
Valhalla Bound Scenario#: A074     Date: 4/1/1945     Location: Central, Hungary In late March of 1945, Sepp Dietrich launched his well-blooded 6th SS Panzer Armee against Tolbuhkin's Third Ukrainian Army. No sooner had Dietrich begun his attack than Tolbuhkin trumped him with an even greater offensive. In the ensuing melee, the… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Annual 95 Winter
Endless Struggle Scenario#: A084     Date: 2/4/1946     Location: Turia Velyka, Russia In Russia and Poland, Ukrainian partisans attacked military and police outposts, assassinated Communist and Red Army leaders, and waged a bitter but unheralded war. In March 1945, Stalin ordered Nikita Khrushchev to the region, giving him unlimited… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Annual 95 Winter
A Surprise Encounter Scenario#: A088     Date: 12/12/1939     Location: Tolvajärvi, Finland By the end of the first week of the Winter War, the Soviet 139th Rifle Division had driven the outnumbered Finnish defenders back almost 40 miles along the Tolvajarvi Road, threatening to create the first Russian breakthrough. Into the situation… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Annual 95 Winter
The Road to Gora Scenario#: A091     Date: 12/15/1941     Location: Gora, Russia The Finnish 7th Division had gained a bridgehead on the eastern side of the Svir River at the Tetoimaki village group. The four villages of Tetoimaki lay along a solitary road in the otherwise desolate wilderness, with Gora being the westernmost… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Annual 96
Crossing the Gniloi Tikitsch Scenario#: A098     Date: 2/14/1944     Location: Lissjanka, Ukraine By 28 January, the First and Second Ukrainian Fronts had succeeded in surrounding XI and XLVII Korps through a series of bold maneuvers. The encircled force, centered at Korsun, was directed to break out toward Field Marshal Manstein’s III… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Annual 96
Police Action Scenario#: A105     Date: 4/1/1940     Location: Kamienna, Poland During the occupation of Poland, SS Cavalry brigades rounded up straggler Polish soldiers, stockpiled munitions and "criminals". But soon they were engaging larger bands of partisans. Then came word of an ex-Polish army captain forming a large band… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Annual 97
The Red Wave Scenario#: A107     Date: 9/24/1941     Location: Lushno, Russia By mid-September, Army Group North had been stopped short of its goal of the capture of Leningrad. What they had been unable to achieve by force, they now hoped to accomplish by starving the city out. Leningrad was entirely cut off except for the… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Annual 97
Uncommon Valor Scenario#: A120     Date: 12/21/1939     Location: Aglajavi, Finland Late on 21 December, a reinforced battalion of the 16th Jager Regiment attacked Aglajavi from the north, in conjunction with an attack from the south. It was a night attack, and at first it went well. The Finns managed to cross the ice and close on… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Annual 97
Urban Guerillas Scenario#: J001     Date: 4/9/1945     Location: Vienna, Austria The 2nd SS-Panzer Division, “Das Reich”, formed a rear guard position in Vienna as the Fourth Ukrainian Front closed in on the beautiful city. One area of bitter fighting was around the picturesque Prater Park with St. Stephen's Cathedral. The people… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #1
Red Banner Days Scenario#: FB18     Date: 1/26/1945     Location: Budapest, Hungary With the arrival of the 297th Rifle Division to their south, the regiments of the Soviet 108th Guards Rifle Division were able to shorten the width of their front lines in order to bring additional pressure on the Axis units defending the blocks on… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #10
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Smashing the 3rd Scenario#: J024     Date: 8/3/1944     Location: Wolomin, Poland The success of Operation Bagration allowed a number of Russian units, including the Soviet 3rd Tank Corps, to make deep penetrations through the German lines. On July 31, the German 9th Army believed it was in position to cut off and destroy the… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #2
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