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One thing to remember is that you are allowed to override an Enemy movement result if it is plainly stupid. Either by replacing it with a similar, less stupid, move¹ or by rerolling. 1: e.g. By having the unit move into the hex with cover rather than stepping out into the open ala Montcalm.

The potential harm to ASL of the other games is that people play them rather than play ASL. Either by absorbing players who would otherwise start playing ASL or drawing away people who already play ASL. Now, these other games also have the potential benefit to ASL of drawing people into the...

That sort of thing isn't the cause this time: Toys R Us was the victim of a vulture capitalist who borrowed money to buy it, looted it for what he could get, then dumped the debt on TrU. It's actually been quite profitable lately, just not enough to cover the massive debt.

It looks like the only problem with these overlays is that they lack the positioning numbers. This isn't too much of an issue if being used in the original locations but the alignment numbers would make them more flexible.

Well, they're still fully functional overlays for boards that are used in ASL. Plus, not only have at least some of the scenarios been converted, there is nothing stopping people from converting the rest, (be that for potential publication or just because they want to try it).

One thought I just had is to give some cards two tiers of effect: You can take the limited. basic, effect or you can have a bigger effect in exchange for your opponent getting to draw a card. To give an example: Basic - A friendly 337 partisan squad is placed in a woods/building location...

Remember that when you compare today to the past you will tend to be comparing all of today to the memorable bits of the past. This means that your impression is actually more along the lines of "today's average scenario isn't as good as the best from 'back in the day'." Everyone remembers the...

Actually that's a standard polling trick to favour the single choice. You take what might be considered an either/or question and split one side into several choices so that no one choice will get as much as the single choice for the other side. I don't know if this is being intentionally done...

That only works if the username is unique and long. Some spammers will try to brute force things by trying all short usernames and any username that someone has used anywhere they can find. They will take an address like "someoddname@example.edu" and try sending mail not only there but also to...

Not only is the "asl" at the start of the address probably nothing more than a fluke, the address in the From: header is meaningless anyway. It's trivial to set it to anything one might want, (in fact, the only headers you know you can trust are the Received: headers as far back as they give...

I think it would be better to stay with the hedges and simply have the downgrading as a standard SSR along the lines of: All hedges are treated as a +1 LOS hindrance which cost 1MF (inf/cav), 1MP (tracked/halftrack) or 2MP (other vehicles) to cross. All walls are treated as hedges.

The main one on point is Gordon Corrigan's "Mud, Blood and Poppycock". Although it's about WWI myths, barbed wire didn't undergo massive changes in the interwar period.

I certainly didn't mean to imply that a single shell could be expected to do much, even a perfectly placed HE shell is only going to knock out a little bit and an imperfectly placed one isn't going to do anything of use. When "well placed" means "within a smaller circle than physics lets you...

Remember that shrapnel shells traded "boom" for "ouch" because they had less explosives than an HE shell of the same size[1]. It turned out that it was well placed "boom" that could cut or collapse wire and the bits of flying metal would just bounce off as the wire flexed. [1] Shrapnel is...

That's what people thought in 1914. They were wrong, shrapnel shells did almost nothing to properly placed wire.

Actually, the main problem countries are signatory, they just make it hard for foreign copyright holders to bring action. The non-signatories are generally minor, (e.g. Vatican City), or isolated from trade, (e.g. Iran). With a couple that can't sign for other reasons, (e.g. Taiwan)...

That covers just about every nation on the planet. There are only 22 nations who do not have that simply as a requirement of Berne. It's not accepted for the simple reason that it's too easy to send yourself an empty, unsealed, envelope. Game mechanics, (which was what was copied), are...

The obvious starting point for the special rules is those for bridgelayers, assuming the deployment time is short enough to matter[1]. Although it looks like the crew should have to be dismounted during deployment, (possibly as a free result of deployment). Have the crew be an infantry crew...

My guess would be that it is prone to getting hung up on things and those extensions are there to claw it free.