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the ASL 89 Annual had an original cover MSRP of $10.00 USD. for this, you got the IIFT, the magazine, and the scenarios, in all 64 pages of ASL in a magazine published by then TAHGC. Converted to match the inflation rate since 1989, this equates to $21.71 USD in June of 2021. ASL Journal #12...

Seems like Uncle Sam's Misguided Children forgot to ditch the least used section of the ASLRB - and yes, they STILL teach this course at Bridgeport, CA Mountain Warfare Training Center, https://www.marines.mil/News/News-Display/Article/500002/marines-train-resupply-techniques-with-pack-animals/...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_666 These guys were, in the words of their commanders evaluations prior to this mission, the epitome of a cast of screwups. They could not stay out of trouble, had a hard time following orders, and rarely did as instructed by their superiors. Put together at...

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Just in case you didn't know, August 14th is the day set aside by the US Marine Corps to recognize the efforts of the Code Talkers of World War II. Semper Fi, ánaaí .

mine was this: how about you?

In many wargames, card-driven randomness is used to (in earlier versions) to replace the random chance of dice rolling. In later iterations, it enhances some of that randomness, as the dice rolls remain, along with their modifiers, but a narrative of sorts can emerge as the card-driven component...

"Rolls-Royce facilities at Osmaston, Derby" "Rolls-Royce started building work on a new factory at Crewe" The former factory produced all but 400 of the Rolls Royce Merlin engines used by all models of the Hurricane, Spitfire, and Defiant up to September 13th, 1940. The second factory...

"C" Turret ( #3 Aft Turret - Main Battery) - coming up and off the USS Arizona on 2/25/1942. crew is unthreading the cannon barrel so it can be lifted separately. Cannon barrel from the USS Arizona - this one was removed for relining in September 1941. Was installed along with the salvaged...

Both sides had a tough go starting this little armored assault scenario - Seems neither the Marines nor the IJA brought anyone capable of firing any kind of SW to any kind of effect :) The Marines DC teams did get into position to climb and take out the occupied caves with their DCs, and the...

Works best in neighborhoods full of millennials.

The somewhat routine practice of fitting 14 PIAT projectors to a Carrier, capable of barrage discharging all 14 HEAT warheads.... We need a counter and Cptr H notes for this peculiar creature.

Semper Fratres, Semper Fidelis.

okay I'm by no means a whiz with 110% of all recorded research material so far on the Pearl Harbor attack. I do , however, own an extensive collection of photostats and scans from primary source documents and secondary source analyses on the attack, its preliminary events, and its immediate...

The dreaded 9-0s (or worse, 10-0s) walk about the backfield, "motivating" the broken or disrupted into the fight one way, or the other...... Let's talk about Commissars. During the period where the swap out is allowed, (up to a scenario date of 10-31-42) - the majority (but not all) of the...

We want a Horses and mules in a Seaborne Assault Scenario Pack!!! "G12.12 PASSENGERS: When used in reference to a LC, the term "Passenger" (or "Passengers" -- even when mentioned in acronym form as "PRC") refers collectively to all Personnel/SW/vehicles/wrecks/Guns /horses/boats (and the PRC of...

made my first ever 42 hex range HEAT kill on a 9-2 AL led, 88LL Gunned, Nashorn today!!!! It was kill or be killed time, he only needed a 9 or less to hit me in my Priest on a hill. Got a hull hit and kept my HEAT ammo - wrecked him and CS rolls a 6.3 to kill them in their AFV. Boosted my PMC...

During our game of ASL 104 this evening, my 9-1, rallies from a broken status in the RPh, he is two hexes from a fully armed and dangerous TigerI on level 2. He waltzes into the woods on the way up for 4 MF. whee a broken DM HS holds the only PIAT left. he recovers it on the 5th MF, and moves...

A few trivia tidbits - 1. 1 in 35 US servicemen landed on Omaha Beach in 6-6-44 was KIA - a significantly higher proportion than the overall KIA rate of US forces in WW2. 2. 64 of the West Point Graduating class of 1915 were Generals by the time of D-Day, earning the class the moniker "The...