Tag: ASL in Real-Time

AAR by: Neal Ulen & Scott Rowland Advanced Squad Leader AAR: Rude Mood (AP79) Download the VASL .vlog playthrough. Here's the historical situation: Date: May 18, 1944 Location: Esperia, Italy Attacker: Free French (Groupement Linares, Chasseurs d' Afrique) Defender: German (Panzergrenadier-Division 90) The Allied efforts to breach the German fortified defenses known as the Hitler Line were moving slowly forward. General Juin, commanding the Free...

Video AAR by: Neal Ulen & Scott Rowland Advanced Squad Leader AAR - Agony At Arnautovo (AP23) Download the VASL .vsav setup file. Here's the historical situation: Date: January 24, 1943 Location: Arnautovo, Russia Attacker: Russian / Partisan (17th Tank Corps and Local Partisans) Defender: Italian (Val  Chiese Battalion, 6th Alpini Regiment, Bergamo Artillery Group, Tridentina Division/5th Alpini Regiment) Russian troops launched a surprise sortie...

AAR by: Neal Ulen & Scott Rowland Advanced Squad Leader AAR - Merzenhausen Zoo (J19) Download the VASL setup file. (not available) Download the VASL .vlog playthrough. Here's the historical situation: Date: November 22, 1944 Location: Merzenhausen, Germany Attacker: American / British (1/66 Armored, 1/119th Infantry, 30th Infantry Division and Squadron B, Fife and Forfar Yeomanry) Defender: German (Volksgrenadier Division 246, SchweweAbteilung 506, and...

AAR by: Neal Ulen & Scott RowlandAdvanced Squad Leader AAR - Thorne In Your Side (SP53) Corporal Horace M. Thorne led a patrol through the heavily wooded Ardennes (Belgium) in December of 1944 when they encountered a concealed German Mark III tank and supporting infantry. Thorne inflicted numerous casualties on the Germans with his heroic actions, and ultimately gave...

AAR by: Neal Ulen & Scott Rowland Advanced Squad Leader AAR - Prelude to Dying (J112). Here's the historical situation: Attacker: Croatian (1st Light Infantry Parachute Battalion) Defender: Partisan (Slovenian Partisans) After months of anti-partisan operation east of Zagreb, the 1st Light Infantry Parachute Battalion had finally returned to its home barracks in the Zagreb neighborhood of Maksimir. The writing had been on the...

AAR by: Neal Ulen & Scott RowlandAdvanced Squad Leader AAR - Stryker's Charge (SP51) PFC Stuart Stryker won a Medal of Honor posthumously for his actions in Wesel, German in 1945. This Schwerpunkt scenario, from their Medal of Honor series, simulates the action that day which lead to his heroism. Unfortunately small scenarios like this are susceptible to the fortunes...

AAR by: Neal Ulen & Scott Rowland Advanced Squad Leader AAR - A Real Barn Burner (J183) Here's the historical situation: Attacker: French (35ème Regiment d'Infanterie, 14ème Division d'Infanterie) Defender: German (Infanterie-Regiment 184, Infanterie-Division 86) 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...

AAR by: Neal Ulen & Scott Rowland Advanced Squad Leader AAR: Ambush! (28). Here's the historical situation: Attacker: Bulgarian (58th Infantry Regiment, 16th Infantry Division) Defender: Partisan (Siatista Guerillas) After the swift and total Axis victory over Greece, Bulgaria laid claim to Thrace and Macedonia. Throughout the winter of 1941-42, small bandit groups began to emerge as the nucleus of a fledgling resistance movement....

AAR by: Neal Ulen & Scott Rowland Advanced Squad Leader AAR - The Guards Counterattack (A). Here's the historical situation: Attacker: Russian (308th Rifle Division / 2nd Battalion, 37th Guards Division) Defender: German (Company H, 389th Infantry Regiment) After an extremely successful summer campaign, the Germans came upon the Volga fortress of Stalingrad. Here the Red Army had dug in and was determined to...

One of the responsibilities of the Airborne troops was the seizure of several key bridges following the D-Day drop. One of these bridges was at Chef-du-Pont. Gavin organized a pickup force to take care of this bridge himself. With elements of the 507th split into two groups, he marched on Chef-du-Pont by closely parallel but different routes.