New to ASL and, of course, I have some questions...

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So, I have been acquiring ASL bits here and there and have a small group that is learning it together. Eventually we'll branch out and meet some of ya'll.
I have a couple of questions that I suspect I know the answer to.
I have the rulebook, Beyond Valor, King and Country, the French model (that I don't want to attempt to spell without it in front of me), the three starter kits ( I wanted some American counters and scenarios), Valor of the Guards, First Wave at Omaha and the 101st Airborne module from Critical Hit.
If I want to play Western Front Americans my only choice is the starter kits I have or Yanks off ebay? The same is true of PTO? (Gung Ho and Bushido from ebay?) If I get White Beach One from Critical Hit, I can't play PTO because I need the rule sections, not just the counters (since CH supplies the counters) from the original modules? Same is true of Blood and Jungle?
Is there a list somewhere of all the shorthand you guys use when referring to products? BV, KC, ToT, etc? Those I have figured out, but you all use dozens more!
I find all the 3rd party stuff exciting. Is there anything that can't be missed, that is playable without spending hundreds on ebay to get a rules chapter?
Probably more later, but thanks!

JQ
 

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The British module is usually abbreviated FKaC. folks here will ask if they don't understand an abbreviation so don't worry about it.
Yes, you need Chapter G to play PTO; no TPP would contain all of the rules you'd need. I know I've seen Yanks!, used, in a gaming store in Seattle. check where you live.
 

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Here is a partial list of prefixes I have discovered. Every time I came across a new Prefix used (not necessarily on scenario name) I added it to the list

Official Products

ASL Core Modules ASL Scenario 1, 2, etc.
SL Reprints/ASL Classic Letters instead of number, i.e. ASL Scenario A
ASL Annual A
A Bridge Too Far ABTF
ASL Annual - Deluxe AS
ASL Annual - Historical AH
Action Pack AP
Blood Reef: Tarawa BRT
Deluxe ASL Modules DASL
The General Magazine G
Historical Studies HS
ASL Journal J
Kampfgruppe Peiper KGP
Solitaire ASL Mission
Out of the Attic OA
Pegasus Bridge PB
Red Barricades RB
ASL Starter Kit S
Tournament Scenarios T
G.I.’s Dozen U
Valor of the Guards VOTG

Third Party

AA All American
AaC Action at Carentan
AAGG All American Gamer’s Guidr
ABS Airborne Stand
AGS Paddington Bears - Rate of File #9
AK Afrika Korps
ALAMEIN Ruweissat Ridge
AM ASL Digest
ASLML ASL Mailing List
ASL News Scroungin’ ASL News
ASLUG ASL Union Of Gamers
ATL Atlanticon
ATP At the Point
Austin Bounding Fir Productions
B Battleplan
BB Backblast Magazine
BdH Baracque de Fraiture
BBH Battle for the Bracchi Hills
Beda Fomm Critical Hit Magazine
BM Brian Milligan
BMW Single Man Productions
BO Breakout
Bocage Busting the Bocage
BP Brent Pollock
BR Blood Reef Tarawa
BRV Berlin Ref Vengeance
BTB Beyond the Beachhead
Buck Buckeyes
CAC Carnage at Cassino
CAW Canadians at War
CB Casus Belli
CDN The Canadians in Italy
CEP Playtesters’s Journal
CF Carl Fargo
CGE Ludopress
CH Critical Hit Magazine
CN CanCon
CWJ Canadian Wargames Journal
DB David C Bradbury
DB Dispatches from the Bunker
DBP Dien Bien Phu
DD Dan Doyle
DR Desert Rats
EP Euro Pack
FAW Finland at War
FC Fortress Cassino
FE Fanatic Pack
FF Firefights
FFE Fire for Effect
FO Forward Observer
FT Franc-Tireur
GC Guerra Civil: The Spanish Civil War
GD Grossdeutschland Packs
GD Gun Duel
Genesis Genesis
GONA Those Ragged Bloody Heroes
GSTK God Save The King
GTF Gembloux: The Feint
HB The Battle of Kursk: Hell’s Bridgehead
HG! High Ground
How Hell on Wheels Battle Pack
HP Hero Pack
IC In Contact
IDRAC Journal de Stratege
IP Blood and Iron
JA Jeffrey T Allen
JATK Jatkosota
JF Jitter Fire
JS Jeffrey Shields
JS Journal de Stratege
JW Assurbanipal
KE Kinetic Energy
KH King of the Hill
LM Long March
LN Leatherneck
LSSAH Leibstandarte Pack
M Rout Report
MLR Maple Leaf Route
MM March Madness
MMP MMP News
Mortain Fischer Design Shop
MP Melee Pack
MW Midway, 1942
NEV Nor’easter V
NEWS ASL News
NFNH Neither Fear Nor Hope
NQNG No Quarter No Glory
O On All Fronts (100.1, 100.2, etc.)
OAF OAF Pack
OB Onslaught to Orsha
OBS Ordeal Before Shuri
ON On Top Scenarios
OTO Onslaughtt to Orsha
PA Panzer Aces
PBP Paddington Bears Pack
PdH Pointe u Hoc
PHD Purple Heart Draw
PJ Playtester’s Journal
PK Coastal Fortress
PL Platoon Leader
PP Provence Pack
PTO Total Pacific Theatre Pack
RbF Recon by Fire
RBMC Ludopress
RGC DYO
RP Rout Pack
SC ASL Digest
Shin Shingle’s List
SHS Iowa City ASL Club
SoN Soldiers of the Negus
SP Schwerpunkt
SPB The Boardgamer
StB Scotland the Brave
Stonne Stonne 1940
Tac Tactiques
TB Arnhem: The Third Bridge
TEF Total Eastern Front Pack
TOT Time on Target
TT Tropic Thunder
TTF Tigers to the Front
TW Dzerhezinsky Tractor Works
UV Uncommon Valor
V View From the Trenches
VOTG Stalingrad: Valor of the Guards
VV Vae Victis
WAR Wacht am Rhein
WCW Windy City Wargamers
WG Wargamer
WI Wake Island Scenarios
WP Winpak
X Rout Report
Z Rout Report
 
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