ASLSARGE
Elder Member
Just a brief comment - not really sure why so many believe that the battle of Manila took place in 1944 but that does seem to be a fairly common error. It occurred Feb 3 1945 - March 3 1945. Also, the Filipino partisans were encouraged by the Americans to not take an active part in the fighting within the city itself, but to only provide intel in the central city. The main reason? The American command was afraid that in the smoke and heat of battle some US troops might fire upon the Filipinos in a case of mistaken identity since many of the Filipinos were armed with captured Japanese weapons....hear a Nambu, fire at the Nambu......ask questions later.As David Roth provided us with a status report on Manila today, it seems like a good time for an overall update.
Not sure if you would consider the designer as "official", but if you have any questions you may ask Chas Argent at MMP.
I gave final approval for the digital map about a month ago which will be used to make the final print run map. About two weeks ago I gave the thumbs up on the VASL map. Perry and I still have a LOT of work to due to work out all the little issues with rules wording etc. Fine tuning and making sure everything is in ASL-speak. That process has not begun, and most likely won't until sometime 2018. Scenarios have been though extensive PTing, but Chas will coordinate some VASL PTing to verify our previous results. All five CG's have been done and I was pleased with the results. CG rules are set. The only thing that MMP has committed to is to have this ready for pre-sell by December 31 2020 at the latest....Perry said they would try for 2018 (but that won't happen), 2019 is very possible and what I am hoping for, but most likely sometime mid 2020 for pre-sell. Hope that helps.
Flames In Hatten
U.S. 14th Armored vs German Panzer-Division 21 and Panzer-Grenadier Division 25 in Alsace during Operation NORDWIND, January '45 (single map, 3-date and 5-date Campaign Games (with no Night dates) and several stand-alone scenarios)
- Andy Rogers
- MMP Playtest
- Stand-alone product (format TBD)
82nd Airborne experience during D-Day (6 maps in 3 sets - 3 for St Mere Eglise/Neuville/Hill 20, 2 for La Fiere/Amfreville, and 1 for Hill 30/Chef-du-Pont plus strategic map to connect them all together; about 20 standalone scenarios, 1 CG for each of the map sets, and one strategic CG)
- Ken Dunn
- MMP Playtest
- HASL module
Battles around Meuse River crossings in both '40 & '44.
- CG maps (not in crayon)
- Dan Dolan, Nadir El-Farra and Carl Nogueira
- Submission
- Published in Croix de Guerre, Second Edition
Canadian city fight in '44 Italy
- (CG map)
- Michael Rodgers & Darren Kovacs, successors to the late Jim McLeod
- Early playtest
- [unknown]
Stalingrad factory adjacent to Red Barricades
- CG map connects to RB, updated RB map
- Charlie Kibler & Gary Fortenberry
- Pre-order
- HASL module, published as "Red Factories" with Red Barricades reprint included
'44 Japanese stand in city against US/Filipino effort to liberate
- Large CG map with scaled-down buildings, now in redraft in digital form; 5 CGs
- Brian Blad & David Roth
- Final playtest
- HASL module
German investment of Rotterdam in May '40.
- (detailed CG map of city center, 16 potential scenarios as well as three CGs, more Dutch infantry and vehicles, gunboats and seaplanes)
- David Meyler
- Final playtest
- HASL module
Action on the north flank of the Kursk salient, July '43.
- (CG map, 15 scenarios in development)
- Jim Aikens, Jeff Coyle, Pete Shelling, Chas Smith & Matt Zajac
- Early Playtest
- HASL module