FUNdamentals of ASL

[Actionjick]

Is there some aspect, maneuver, tactic, unit, sleaze, terrain or whatever that you do or use in ASL just for the pure fun of it?

Ours was DYO. It was a welcome break from the " serious " parts of our ASL endeavors. Non-historically accurate as you could possibly get. Outlandish from a gaming aspect also. Great stuff!! We loved it.

 

[Vinnie]

If I've ski troops, I try to see just how far I can get in one movement phase, even if it's a bad idea!

 

[Gamer72]

Not so much, but my opponent Massacred the other day, just because

 

[trailrunner]

One time, my opponent wanted to see how far he could manhandle a gun, so he rolled for it every turn. It was out of the battle so it didn’t really matter. We joked about giving him a negative DRM for rolling it down a hill.

 

[fenyan]

Trundle!

 

[Martin Mayers]

Not so much, but my opponent Massacred the other day, just because

Tactics...

Means I could discard the prisoners and not have to enforce No Quarter. Take the prisoners then "zigaretten kameraden?"...

Under-estimated and under-utilised.

 

[Actionjick]

One time, my opponent wanted to see how far he could manhandle a gun, so he rolled for it every turn. It was out of the battle so it didn’t really matter. We joked about giving him a negative DRM for rolling it down a hill.

Sounds like a great House Rule!

 

[Chris_Riches]

I remember back in the SL days we were playing a scenario where I had captured the bridge to win, but my opponent had died trying to rush onto it with a DC, hence leaving an unpossessed DC in the middle of the bridge. He had a -3 or -4 sniper (when they existed as counters) so we agreed if he rolled a “2” then he had hit the fuse and detonated it. Yep, that’s what he did.

 

[Actionjick]

I remember back in the SL days we were playing a scenario where I had captured the bridge to win, but my opponent had died trying to rush onto it with a DC, hence leaving an unpossessed DC in the middle of the bridge. He had a -3 or -4 sniper (when they existed as counters) so we agreed if he rolled a “2” then he had hit the fuse and detonated it. Yep, that’s what he did.

Lol that is great! I surely loved the SL Snipers.

 

[ecz]

I hope to live enough to read an AAR where G 1.641 not only is used but it's also necessary to win a scenario.

 

[Gamer72]

Tactics...

Means I could discard the prisoners and not have to enforce No Quarter. Take the prisoners then "zigaretten kameraden?"...

Under-estimated and under-utilised.

pure filth.

 

[Actionjick]

pure filth.

For sure but I would wallow in that Mud.

 

[Actionjick]

Is there some aspect, maneuver, tactic, unit, sleaze, terrain or whatever that you do or use in ASL just for the pure fun of it?

Ours was DYO. It was a welcome break from the " serious " parts of our ASL endeavors. Non-historically accurate as you could possibly get. Outlandish from a gaming aspect also. Great stuff!! We loved it.

Finns vs Russians
Both sides enter
5 boards
Night
Fog
Deep Snow
Ski equipped Finnish Cavalry
Can't Recall what the Russkies had but was equally sick.

" Played for ten turns and never saw each other. " Fish.

Actually pretty historically accurate in the outcome if not the OB. Probably a significant percentage of Recon Patrols never were In Contact with the enemy.

The DYO that we both Recalled. Great fun!!

 

[Actionjick]

Finns vs Russians
Both sides enter
5 boards
Night
Fog
Deep Snow
Ski equipped Finnish Cavalry
Can't Recall what the Russkies had but was equally sick.

" Played for ten turns and never saw each other. " Fish.

Actually pretty accurate historically accurate in the outcome if not the OB. Probbly a significant percentage of Recon Patrols never were In Contact with the enemy.

The DYO that we both Recalled. Great fun!!

The buying was the fun part. We would spend as much time doing that as actually playing the silly thing.

 

[von Marwitz]

Driving vehicles onto a Wooden Bridge to collapse it.

Unexpectedly crossing Ice with vehicles to avoid the one Bridge with every Gun in creation trained on it - and getting away with it, because the Ice holds. Oh boy, that was fun!

von Marwitz

 

[Actionjick]

Driving vehicles onto a Wooden Bridge to collapse it.

Unexpectedly crossing Ice with vehicles to avoid the one Bridge with every Gun in creation trained on it - and getting away with it, because the Ice holds. Oh boy, that was fun!

von Marwitz

Reminds me of the Calvin and Hobbes cartoon where Calvin asks his Dad how they figure out the weight limit for a bridge. His Dad said they keep driving heavier vehicles over it till it collapses then rebuild it!

Calvin's Dad is great!!

 

[Actionjick]

Driving vehicles onto a Wooden Bridge to collapse it.

Unexpectedly crossing Ice with vehicles to avoid the one Bridge with every Gun in creation trained on it - and getting away with it, because the Ice holds. Oh boy, that was fun!

von Marwitz

Bridges?!!? We don't need no stinking bridges!

From " The Treadheads of the Sierra Madre. "

Starring Humphrey " Bogie Wheel " Boghard