howdy!
" us guys" are a group of now numbering 5 dedicated to the cause Berlin aficionados who formed a working group to clean up and erratacize the mess Ray made of 1st and 2nd edition rules in the Berlin HASL modules. We have had others in the recent past who have helped and assisted along the way, as the group grew. Finally, with Ray Tapio doing what he did to poison our relationship with CH - we moved on into our own. The group is known as OSDG. We have expanded the original concept into a "super-sized" greater Berlin monster HASL, which now has 4 additional mapsheets under development to add in the Alexanderplatz / Zoo Flak Tower, the Templehof Airfield and Tiergarten,the Kurfurstendamm area and the rest of Sector A above the Humboldt turning basin. There is a new monster CG spanning the entire fighting from 4-25-45 to final surrender on 5-3-45. RGs have been developed and established for the 9th FJ ; the Munbcheburg PzDiv; the 6th SS Nord; the SS Charlemagne Brigade; the 11th Pz Div; and the 34th Neiderlander SS PzGr Div units which fought in these areas, along with expansions for all 5 Soviet armies attacking in the final push to end fighting in Berlin. There are also 5 geo map scenarios and 3 HASL map scenarios of varying sizes to introduce the new rules. There are new rules sections prepared, including new structures and terrain types.
Finally, there is a SASL CG set of missions set within a choice of the units here to depict the last week of fighting in Greater Berlin.
The project has varying parts under design/development, under play testing, under proofing, and is still planned to be submitted to a publisher in 2020 if we get it all done by then. We will not be submitting it to CH, however. It will be an expansion to the CH Berlin maps, but nothing in CH Berlin stuff will be necessary to own prior to this item beyond the maps for Berlin I and II.
I have no idea if MMP will be interested, we are not going to pitch this as a full submission until it is ready for such and all the prelim work is complete. ( ie +/- 90% ready for final proofing). We will pitch it at that time to the publishers we feel will best be of service to the ASL community as a whole in producing such a monster item.
KRL, Jon H