Recent content by Barking Monkey

Yikes - that's not a pile, that's a munitions plant! Hope all those MGs at least gave up the ghost due to extended ROF runs.

Not as far as I know. If there is it's a player produced effort somewhere. SASL (both editions I believe) was published a good bit before Starter Kit came on the scene. You might be able to make it work but you'd have to put a fair bit of effort into it - among other things the generation...

I remain unconvinced: If the bar for HIP terrain is "what a distracted AFV driver (not even the whole crew!) can see through a vision slit while buttoned up" then we've set it very low indeed. I suspect the pictures of tanks in AT ditches has more to do with the fact that it makes for a...

I'm not sure how that would be "HIP"-able. That specific T-34 notwithstanding (maybe they were driving at night when they fell in? Or hitting the vodka a bit too hard?) Most tank crews are going to see that obstacle when driving in daylight at cross country speeds, especially if CE.

I'm actually not sure. I have a board 11 I bought at a local shop decades ago that's decidedly dodgy - the features are all in the same places as my 'proper' board 11 but there are tiny differences in the shapes of woods & fields - they are a lot more 'blobby' than on a regular board, and all...

Ugh. Why can't we ever have a decent looking Stalingrad map? Ever since Avalon Hill made the bizarre and unfortunate decision to put Red Barricades on Volga Planitia on Mars we've been stuck with some version of horrible, inexplicably-salmon colored Stalingrads. I actively shunned Red...

Perhaps a dumb question but were WWII AT ditches always straight or did they commonly have kinks in them like normal trenches? The ones I've seen in photos tend to be straight, but it's not like I've seen all that many in pictures. I was going to give this one a pass since, as interesting a...

My interp of that statement is each hex with a S? in it, not roll for every single building hex, which I think is crazy. If you like it better by all means play it that way, but I just can't see that level of time investment in setting up a single mission.

You were correct initially that you roll once on A9e for the entire map. It would take forever to roll for each building hex. Ahriman is correct about only indicated building locations getting an S?. If you don't like the results from the "roll once for an entire map" output (it can get a...

Welcome to the world of SASL fellow SASLier! Note that you'll find some SASL content (including some from your's truly, among others) in the Gamesquad resources section. You might also want to check out the 'SASL resources' thread here if you haven't already - most of the links are dead but...

Thing is, retaining concealment during panic helps the player more than the enemy, since panic occurs to the FRIENDLY side more than the ENEMY and the player is usually more savvy about using/being/causing loss of concealment than the ENEMY, given the action table results.

A) Correct B) +1/-1 (At least that's my take on the rule.)

This is an interesting question, I don't think I've ever looked at it that way before. I suspect (and have always played as though) the last sentence of 6.211 "Panic does not cause loss of concealment." trumps the final fired clause wrt concealment. For what it's worth you are instructed in...

Drachinfels produces some great content.

MC is probably not the product to stick 'em in, but at some point I'd love for somebody to print up some proper rice paddy status counters (irrigated, in-season, drained) so I can stop using my home made ones. And for the love of god no more boutique turn counters. Everytime I see these, or...