St Louis JULY 2024

[Doug Kirk]

Here is the link for St Louis 2024.

https://www.jaburrissite.com/ASLtournament.html

Same as last year, game room will open at 9AM Friday morning. You are free to match up and play whoever you want in round 1 anytime after 9AM. All first round games must be started by noon on Friday. In all other rounds, the tournament director will match up players with similar records. Round 2 will start on Friday night appropriately 6PM. There will be two rounds on Saturday and the final round on Sunday morning. The scenario list will be published on or about June 1st.

 

[Maurizizio]

I am preparing the form and the payment.... hope it is not too late.

 

[Maurizizio]

Done. I will book the hotel in the next days, if anyone is willing to share, just send me a note.

 

[Danno]

Glad to see we are still at the usual location!

 

[Doug Kirk]

Here is the St. Louis scenario list for 2024:

Round 1 Friday
DB181 Hot Tigers
J240 Hurricane Biak
J227 Another Frustrating Day
HazMo40 A Bit of Colored Ribbon
BoF13 Totensonntag (FrF45)

Round 2 Friday Night
FF10 Blackjack is Back!
J239 Shoot or Shovel
304 The Rat House
INOR10 Villy Muss Fallen! West
RPT200 Red Hot Hannibal

Round 3 Saturday
FT81 Dubrovka
J245 Factory Fodder
J246 Loser Takes All
154 Orange at Walawbum (A82)
300 Nor Will Deep Hell Receive Them

Round 4 Saturday Night
HazMo31 The Cloak of Disorder
295 Death Box
PBP25 First and Inches
WCW1 Will to Fight…Eradicted (G40)
DB185 Pipkorn's Attempt

Round 5 Sunday
J223 Latecomers
J237 Commandos at Kaiapit
J242 Courage of Cowan
CH44 Operation Nordwind
SP51 Stryker's Charge

Any Round Substitutes
291 Bridge Over the River Queen
J236 Deadly Dexter
A34 Lash Out
BOF5 Adolf's Amateurs (FrF20)
J20 The Guns of Naro (HOW01)

As usual ABS will be provided at the tourney for those that wish to bid for sides. I hope to see you all in St louis in July.

 

[commissar1969]

Done. I will book the hotel in the next days, if anyone is willing to share, just send me a note.

Hey Maurizio - just sent you a note on Skype chat!

 

[FourDeuceMF]

I've been able to find all those scenarios on the list in my collection but these...

FF10 Blackjack is Back!
RPT200 Red Hot Hannibal
FT81 Dubrovka
CH44 Operation Nordwind
SP51 Stryker's Charge

Probably an indication as to my tastes in TPP, or just that I've scaled way back in the past decade or so...the FT is from the Blue Division issue of LFT way back, long out of print. FF is from an old HoB offering, CH is actually from a decent era of CH (yes, they were respectable once), and the SP/RPT are Schwerpunkt, of which all I have are the KW-themed issues. Fortunately, there's at least 3 other offerings in each round that I can choose from, but completeness makes me want to find these as well...

Been playing around with some of the list, there's a lot to choose from in there. Prefer the G40 version of 'Will to Fight...Eradicated', despite Louie's protestations (it gives the Poles Assault Fire, an extra squad, and takes away the LMGs). For the loss of 'Fire Lanes', the extra squad AND Assault Fire are very useful, especially since the Poles are on the overall offense, and it will be used much more than fire lanes. That's the only scenario of the list that has two 'versions' called out that is any different, the other ones are just artwork/clarity of wording.

The TotR scenarios in the mix are crackers. Meaty, like the urban fights, and the rubble placement makes it that no two matches are exactly the same (as do the WFP rules).

Travis and I are going to make it down, first time in 6 years...booked the hotel a while back (Thu night-Sun), still need to register though. Been trying to knock off the cobwebs/speed up pace of play, it somewhat atrophied in the interim...brisk 'training regimen' underway!

 

[Doug Kirk]

I just wanted to give everyone a heads up concerning the St Louis tourney. Jim Burris, our long running tourney director had a heart attack over the weekend. He is out of the hospital, at home, doing fine, on his way to a full recovery. The tourney is STILL a GO. Needless to say Jim will be resting and taking it easy. He still plans to be at the tourney. But there may be some shared TD duties, some sharing of the work load among a few of us. So bear with us if things don't go smoothly or as quickly as in the past. We will do our best. Hope to see you all in St Louis on July 26.

 

[Mister T]

Best wishes for his prompt recovery.

 

[Maurizizio]

Forza Jim, see you in a week.

 

[Jim Burris]

Thank you George!
Thank you Maurizio!

 

[dlazov]

Diet, rest and exercise will help his recovery, trust me, had a widow maker last year and an the healthiest I have been after loosing 70 pounds and exercising 3 times a week and the Mediterranean diet, is awesomely awesome.

 

[cifdale]

I just wanted to give everyone a heads up concerning the St Louis tourney. Jim Burris, our long running tourney director had a heart attack over the weekend. He is out of the hospital, at home, doing fine, on his way to a full recovery. The tourney is STILL a GO. Needless to say Jim will be resting and taking it easy. He still plans to be at the tourney. But there may be some shared TD duties, some sharing of the work load among a few of us. So bear with us if things don't go smoothly or as quickly as in the past. We will do our best. Hope to see you all in St Louis on July 26.

Oh my! I wish Jim a speedy recovery.

 

[commissar1969]

Looking at "Blackjack is Back!" (FF10). The depiction of the German 4-4-7 squad shows the range NOT underlined. How is that possible? I tried to check their errata page, but it looks like HoB's entire site is down.

Can anyone confirm one way or the other? Thanks.

 

[Turuk]

Looking at "Blackjack is Back!" (FF10). The depiction of the German 4-4-7 squad shows the range NOT underlined. How is that possible? I tried to check their errata page, but it looks like HoB's entire site is down.

Can anyone confirm one way or the other? Thanks.

I do not see an errata for it on their normal errata page here or the errata for the first edition of that pack (here).

Their site seems to be suspended by their hosting provider, but the wayback machine helped.

 

[commissar1969]

I do not see an errata for it on their normal errata page here or the errata for the first edition of that pack (here).

Their site seems to be suspended by their hosting provider, but the wayback machine helped.

Thanks so much - it's just weird that a conscript regular army squad would have Spray Fire and an SS 4-4-7 would not.

 

[FourDeuceMF]

Egads! Best wishes to Jim on the recovery! Hoping to be down there with Travis by Thursday night next week!

 

[FourDeuceMF]

Thanks so much - it's just weird that a conscript regular army squad would have Spray Fire and an SS 4-4-7 would not.

Likely an artwork oversight...the counters themselves are underlined range, so if you're not seeing an SSR to the contrary, I'd say that they've got it.

Basically, all German squads (both SS and non-SS flavor) have spraying fire, to account for their inherent MG34/42 in the squad.

 

[FourDeuceMF]

Just a quick heads-up...when going over one of the Scenarios in the Round 3 list - J245 Factory Fodder, I noticed that there's some outstanding errata that should be noted. In SSR 2, it requires the US to set up some units HIP within 4 of the stream...and if in suitable terrain, they can be entrenched. As this isn't PTO/Night, that would mean that any Entrenchment would immediately be revealed (even if its HIPsters aren't) once in LOS (i.e., likely after set-up), making the HIP somewhat less effective. Thought that this was a bit odd, and I checked here on GS to see if anyone else asked that Q. Note this response from a Perry Sez...which rectifies that 'problem' - treat said Entrenchment(s) as being revealed as if it were night...

J245 Factory Fodder SSR2

In scenario J245 Factory Fodder SSR 2. Is there / should there be any errata for the way Entrenchments are revealed? As it stands if an HIP unit sets up in a Foxhole, LOS to the Foxhole will immediately disclose the presence of an HIP unit. Yes, add to this to the end of SSR 2: “Foxholes are...

www.gamesquad.com

 

[David Goldman]

Jim,

Hoping you have a speedy and complete recovery.