20% off retail price. We don’t know when our stock will arrive but I am hoping for January. Please add another item to this order to break the $30 threshold for free shipping. Thanks and Happy New Year!!!

ASL Journal 15 is a 36-page magazine for Advanced Squad Leader and features articles, the latest errata and scenario updates in the Debriefing, 11 new scenarios printed on cardstock, and three overlay sheets (to replace the versions with no center dots that came in DOOMED BATTALIONS 4th edition). 

ASL Journal 15 articles include:

Pete Ponders Ponyri whereinPete Shelling provides some Designer Notes on the upcoming HASL SLAUGHTER AT PONYRI.

My Bags Are Packed, I’m Ready To Go  hasJim Bishop discussing what to take to an ASL tournament.

One Long Hillock Jim Bishop examines LOS and Embankment Railroads (EmRR) in HATTEN IN FLAMES.

Brian Plays In The Polder Scenario Analysis of AR2 Sheep in Wolf’s Clothing from the Arnhem 2024 Pack by Brian Youse.

De Haut En Bas (Up And Down) Jonathan Kay traces line of sight between different vertical levels. 

Die Panzerwaffe im Angriff Inspired by Panzer Gegen Panzer, Jim Bishop crunches some numbers looking at tanks on the attack.

ASL Hall Of Fame Report by MMP about first six inductees.

Warriors Needed, in Haste! Andy Hershey discusses U.S. Marines in the first months of the Korean War.

Debriefing Errata for ASL rules and scenarios and the scenario updates for DOOMED BATTALIONS 4th Edition 

ASL Journal 15 has 11 ASL scenarios:

J257 In Min’s Gang Rumble (North Korean vs American, 12 August 1950)

J247 Kicked To The Curb (Russian vs Polish, 28 September 1939)

J248 Danish Crossroads (Danish vs German, 9 April 1940)

J249 Guerra Relampágo (Ecuadorian vs Peruvian, 25 July 1941)

J250 Priests At St. Cloud (Vichy vs American, 8 November 1942)

J251 Desperate Try (Vichy vs American, 9 November 1942)

J252 Hill 424 (American vs German, 17 September 1943)

J253 Melting Pot (German vs Allied, 31 January 1944)

J254 Hoppers And Hardy (Allied vs German, 21 June 1944)

J255 Not Much Of A Soldier (German vs American, 25 July 1944)

J256 Mortal Wounding (German vs American, 26 February 1945)

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At first, I must admit that I was a little taken aback when I heard of the Korean War ASL module.  After all, ASL is and will always be a game about WWII, right?  Then I remembered that this was also my prejudice when I first heard they would be adding the Japanese to the system.  ASL was up until then a ETO game system.  But now I can’t imagine ASL without the PTO.  Will Korea be just as fun and add a new and wanted dimension to the greatest game in the world?  I think and hope so.

 

We are offering a 25% discount with free shipping on your pre-orders for Korea the Forgotten War. We have just figured out how to set up the pre-order add on so you will not be charged until the product is ready to ship.  As always, if you are already a customer of Scott or Alex, please check with them first for this and other great ASL products.

 

We have also added Yanks to the preorder list with a 25% discount and free shipping.

 

The ASL tabletop that was shown in the last post is sold.  No new ones on the horizon for a while.

 

Raffle: 3 days away and Everyone who has EVER purchased from our store is automatically entered into the monthly raffle for 12 months.  This month will be a coffee mug with the 70mm OBA info and artwork printed on it courtesy of

 

Upcoming Conventions:

Winter Offensive 2016 January 21st-24th, 2016. Bowie, MD.

Where the Iron Crosses Grow  April 1st-3rd, 2016. Kernersville, NC.

Bitter Ender – April 28th-May 1st, 2016. Raleigh, NC.

 

Misc:

I am happy to announce that we have had almost 14,000 visits in the past 2 months but am sad that we have had only a few people leave comments.  Please leave a note to let me know what you would like to see on these pages and what products you would like to see in our store.  If you have an article, photos or an AAR, please share it and I will get it posted for our community to enjoy.  Happy New Year to all my friends,

Derek and Ulrich Ritter

 

We discuss the 46 new rule suggestions by Steve Pleva and Mike McGrath as found in Journal 16. Please remember to hit the SUBSCRIBE and LIKE buttons on my Youtube channel.

Journal 16 can be ordered on my site alone and in a bundle with the 2 new Action Packs by clicking the links below…

Busy month ahead in the workshop.  I am finishing the Dinant maps for Dan Dolan and then continuing work on a custom ASL table top for Andy Hershey.  Everything must be ready by Winter Offensive.  One more table top and a dice tower and I am free to breathe again.  Mike Hershey (no relation to Andy) gave me a wonderful idea when we were talking in Albany to make mini ammo cases to store the dice towers, dice, and trays.  I am looking forward to giving this a try.  I will keep you posted with photos of how this turns out.

 

Registration has opened for MMP’s Winter Offensive.  Note the change of Date this year.

 

We just received what will probably be our final shipment of the year.  There are some old items that were out of stock and some new items as well.

New Items:

Suction cup tool from Chris at Battleschool.  Perfect gift for your sausage fingered friends (Tim Brieaddy) who continually knock over your concealed stacks (by accident?!?)

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Turret Counters are back in stock.  Tired of your Blue Tigers having white T-34 turrets?  No longer an issue with vehicle specific turret counters from Countersmith Workshop.  The last batch of 10 sets I received were sold out in a 17 hours so if you want some for your collection, jump on these soon.

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There is a German/Russian set and a British/US set.  Each set have all the counters needed for the complete OOB found in Beyond Valor, Yanks, and For King and Country respectively.

 

Many sold out titles of our Battledice are now back in stock including: USMC, Chinese, Japanese, Starshell, ROF, 9th/10thSS, Market Garden series, and the Panzerknackern Die.

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Ken Smith Historical Art is now being sold on our site.  With the 10% coupon and free shipping, this adds up to big savings on some beautiful limited edition ASL artwork.  Included is the art for the cover of the upcoming module Yanks 2.

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The second Annual ‘Where the Iron Crosses Grow’ ASL Team Tournament will be held April 2nd-3rd, 2016.  World renowned as being the best and oldest ASL Team Tournament in the entire Kernersville Area.

Spirit Of The Event:  This event is held for fun.  If you are the type of player that never looks up from the table to make eye contact with your opponent, doesn’t make small talk or tell stories, will only play scenarios that you have mastered, or get’s offended by jokes about Ken’s mom, then you might not have a good time being here and we probably won’t have a good time having you here.  Sorry to be so blunt but we take our lack of seriousness very seriously.

Format:  Team Tournament. Each team is made up of 1 Veteran, 1 intermediate, and 1 Novice player.  Each player plays round-robin games against the other players in their class gaining points for their team.

Location: My house. 918 Maxine St. Kernersville, NC. 27284.

When: Saturday April 2nd – Sunday April 3rd, 2016 (Carnage begins Friday night but the tournament begins Saturday)

Cost: Free (but bring money to pitch in for Pizza)

Accomodations: Ray Woloszyn and I may both have room for travelers to stay with us at our homes (Ray lives in the neighborhood next to mine) unless you are really creepy.

Scenario list: None.  Play something that you would like to play not what I would like you to play.  All scenarios choices are upon mutual agreement of the players.

Prizes: Too many to mention.  Plus some participation awards so everyone feels like a  winner.

Limited Space and Availability:  There are 12 spots total for this event so register early.

Players confirmed.

1. Derek Ritter
2. Ulrich Ritter
3. Tim Brieaddy
4. Dylan Ritter
5. Ray Woloszyn
6. Ken Knott
7. Jeff Jordan
8. Hayes Wauford
9. Jamie Cribbs
10. Al Griffa
11. Dave Stephens
12. Peter Ortega
13. Mika Harviala

Contact information:

Derek Ritter 336-462-4035 or E-mail

 

Flying into Gumrak airfield, JU52’s carrying precious cargo of Battle Dice and LCP scenario packs has arrived to bolster our defenses and morale until the Spring thaw.  Included are the sold out 30th Anniversary German set and the new Dust Devils, both in very limited quantities.

 

Also back in stock are 12.5mm backgammon dice in White, Black, Dark Red, Navy, and Green.

 

 

 

George from Lone Canuck Publishing has sent me the complete line of scenario packs that he carries including two very special prizes for Where the Iron Crosses Grow ASL Team Tournament.   Your Prussian money can’t buy these packs, you have to earn them on the Field of Battle! And when I say Field of Battle I mean on fold out tables in my living room.

 

The Complete Collection from Lone Canuck Publishing is 20% off for those of you that want to take the plunge into the deep end of the pool.  That’s almost 200 scenarios and 5 campaign games worth of ASL goodness for less than the price of a plate at a Jeb Bush fundraiser dinner.

 

Rising Sun Crazy Sale ends at midnight:

The price for the Pacific module will go back to it’s regular sale price of $147.60 at midnight tonight from the current monthly special price of $128.00.

We are down to our last 24 sets of OBA cards.  If you are on the fence, this may be the last chance to get a set.  There are no plans for a reprint.

 

 

ASL Tabletops:

I have come out with a new idea for producing and naming ASL tabletops.  When someone custom orders an ASL tabletop I usually make at least one duplicate for sale.  I will be naming the first one after the buyer as they are the one designing it to their specs.  So as an example, if John Smith orders a customer tabletop, that design will be forever known as the ‘Smith Class’.  You may be seeing and ‘Argent Class’ soon.

Hershey Class

 

 

Dupont Class

 

 

 

Ritter Class

 

 

 

 

Ulrich Class

 

 

 

International Orders: Although the quickest and cheapest method to get your ASL fix is probably still through Xavier in Europe and Chris in Canada, I am now offering service outside of the USA.  Please check with them first for all of your ASL needs but we will be glad to fill in the gaps.  I have added a flat $25.00 shipping fee to international orders but I may contact you if actual shipping is way beyond this amount (I will absorb small differences), at which time you will have the option to cancel the order for a full refund.

 

Order of Arrival (approximate):

Turn 1: Battle Dice – arrived

Turn 2: Complete Lone Canuck line –  arrived

Turn 3: Winter Offensive Pack 2016 – this week

Turn 4: Poland In flames – middle of next week

Turn 5: Tanks 101 Video – end of next week

Turn 6: Journal 11 – about 2 weeks

Turn 7: Yanks – end of the month

Turn 8: Sniper/ELR Cards – late Summer/early Fall

Turn 6: Korea – in time for the 100th anniversary of Kim Jong Un’s discovery of the Polio vaccine.

Beyond Valor has returned to our shelves and we are giving $20 off and free shipping for a limited time.

Beyond Valor

MMP has just announced that Beyond Valor is back in stock and ready to ship.  We should have ours here by Friday and can ship that same day to you with free shipping and 10% off (coupon code ‘10%off).   This is going to be a great year for ASL. Order Here

Our thoughts and prayers are with our brothers and sisters in France.

Sorry for the short notice but this hit really quickly. Xavier just informed me that my copies were already crossing the pond. This is a project that we have all been asking for as these scenarios have been out of print for over a decade and now are available in English and reformatted. At a little over $1 a scenario, this is a great bargain. Unfortunately the print run is unusually small so please order as soon as possible.

From The Cellar 13

Editors Note: Hello to all the loyal readers of Le Franc Tireur! At a time when all ASL products are drastically increasing in price, we have decided to release From the Cellar issue Number 13 (FTC#13). There are several reasons for this. Given that we will soon be celebrating more than 20 years of existence, most of our early publications have been out of stock for a very long time; for instance, only a few hundred copies of our first magazine, Le Franc-Tireur issue Number 5 (LFT#5), were ever published back in 1999. Same goes for FTC #1 and 2, a few years later. When our buddy Jean “5+2” Devaux passed away, we were working on LFT#9, on the topic of Yugoslavia; that was also the year we decided to give up on the use of the French language and publish LFT in English. Likewise, only a few hundred copies of LFT#9 were released. As a matter of fact, all these scenarios are little known to the vast majority of ASL players that were not living in France. No cheese, no wine, no LFT scenarios to play? Some French people like Sgt. Baguette or Cpl. Camembert would say “What a miserable life!”

These four LFT publications contained 35 scenarios. Thus, we have now updated them, applied some changes in order to improve the balance as well as incorporating the few existing errata and changing all the counter forms to incorporate our LFT counter artwork. We have also added to the scenario cards, thanks to a wise suggestion from Philippe Duchon (a.k.a Phil_D on the French ASL Forum), the Chapter H Note Number of each Gun and Vehicle in use below the counter itself. Our old eyes are starting to require some help, and this is one way to ease the sorting out of the necessary counters for playing a scenario. At a price of roughly 1€ per scenario (more or less USD 1 $ as well), we think it is a very good opportunity for new comers or people who do not know LFT to get quite a solid bunch of scenarios at a very attractive price. Nothing more to say but… enjoy this issue of From the Cellar, and roll low!