Kevin Kenneally
Elder Member
All,
I just found some interesting historical news about the Squad Leader Game from the AH General Volume 14, Number 6.
This info is from the yesr 1977:
40. CROSS OF IRON-First of the SQUADLEADER expansion gamettes. Each gamette will come packaged in a specially made modified bookcase box, one inch in depth and will include additional geomorphic boards, counters, updated charts and tables, and P.I. rules which add on to the existing index system of SQUAD LEADER and which are demonstrated by an additional six scenarios. Players must have SL and all of the earlier published gamettes in the series as a prerequisite. Each gamette will probably sell for approximately $8.00. CROSS OF IRON will concentrate exclusively on the Eastern Front with special emphasis on improving the armor treatment of the basic game. New features will include: cavalry, Stukas, snipers, scouts, SS units, and virtually every major AFV which saw action on the Eastern Front. New terrain features will be present in the form of woods road hexes and gullies on a heavily forested board.
41. A RISING CRESCENDO-The second in the SL series will deal with Germany's success in the early years of the war. British, French, Dutch. Belgian and Polish forces are introduced as well as the early AFVs of both sides. New terrain feature is the orchard or lightly wooded hex on a map board featuring a large French chateau. New movement rules will increase realism and complexity greatly and give armor greater mobility.
42. CASSINO-The 3rd in the SL series will serve to complete the treatment of American and British AFVs while introducing Commonwealth troops and mountainous terrain.
43. AIRBORNE-The 4th SL gamette will introduce special paratroop and airborne rules in a game featuring air drops and river crossings. Two river map bards will introduce swamps to the SL terrain repertoire.
44. OMAHA BEACH-The 5th SL gamette will obviously concentrate on amphibious landing rules and include several beach map boards as well as American rangers, landing craft, and air support.
45. OKINAWA-The last gamette in the SL series will introduce the Japanese who will suffer from poor firepower but whose morale levels will make them extremely difficult to stop. Jungle map boards, American marines, and a few Japanese AFVs will complete the attractions of the last kit in the series.
Hope you enjoyed the trip into history.
I just found some interesting historical news about the Squad Leader Game from the AH General Volume 14, Number 6.
This info is from the yesr 1977:
40. CROSS OF IRON-First of the SQUADLEADER expansion gamettes. Each gamette will come packaged in a specially made modified bookcase box, one inch in depth and will include additional geomorphic boards, counters, updated charts and tables, and P.I. rules which add on to the existing index system of SQUAD LEADER and which are demonstrated by an additional six scenarios. Players must have SL and all of the earlier published gamettes in the series as a prerequisite. Each gamette will probably sell for approximately $8.00. CROSS OF IRON will concentrate exclusively on the Eastern Front with special emphasis on improving the armor treatment of the basic game. New features will include: cavalry, Stukas, snipers, scouts, SS units, and virtually every major AFV which saw action on the Eastern Front. New terrain features will be present in the form of woods road hexes and gullies on a heavily forested board.
41. A RISING CRESCENDO-The second in the SL series will deal with Germany's success in the early years of the war. British, French, Dutch. Belgian and Polish forces are introduced as well as the early AFVs of both sides. New terrain feature is the orchard or lightly wooded hex on a map board featuring a large French chateau. New movement rules will increase realism and complexity greatly and give armor greater mobility.
42. CASSINO-The 3rd in the SL series will serve to complete the treatment of American and British AFVs while introducing Commonwealth troops and mountainous terrain.
43. AIRBORNE-The 4th SL gamette will introduce special paratroop and airborne rules in a game featuring air drops and river crossings. Two river map bards will introduce swamps to the SL terrain repertoire.
44. OMAHA BEACH-The 5th SL gamette will obviously concentrate on amphibious landing rules and include several beach map boards as well as American rangers, landing craft, and air support.
45. OKINAWA-The last gamette in the SL series will introduce the Japanese who will suffer from poor firepower but whose morale levels will make them extremely difficult to stop. Jungle map boards, American marines, and a few Japanese AFVs will complete the attractions of the last kit in the series.
Hope you enjoyed the trip into history.