Jack Dionne
Member
Last night my 13-year-old son played his first game of ASL. I am helping a friend learn using the starter kit so I thought I would ask my son. I don’t have the starter kit so I made my own kit. We used board 20-city board. I asked him what side he wanted to be he chooses the German and I choose the Brits. I only used squads and half squads with a few leaders, no SW where used.
I explained to him the game in the simplest way I could. Make a long story short he was able to form fire groups, tell me what table he was using and what the drm where. We played two hours. I won’t introduce SW until he gets the basic which he is just beginning to grasp. He also started skullking, I never even showed him that, I think he may have potential.
Your probably wonder how I got my 13-year-old son interested. Well it goes back a ways; I used to let him play with my old squad leader counter which he liked because they had pictures on them. I also on occasion would let him drop the dice in my dice tower when I was playing ASL with friends at home in my basement. I always praised him when he rolled low (my lawyer told me not to mention what I did when he rolled high you understand). Anyway by the time he was six he understood that low is good.
This is a win, win situation for me. Once he knows how to play, we can play at least once or twice a week and the wife calls it quality time so it doesn’t count as one of my regular nights. I also made sure I told the wife his math should improve as well and she smiled and said that’s great sweetheart (because I am you know).
That how it’s done gentlemen.
I explained to him the game in the simplest way I could. Make a long story short he was able to form fire groups, tell me what table he was using and what the drm where. We played two hours. I won’t introduce SW until he gets the basic which he is just beginning to grasp. He also started skullking, I never even showed him that, I think he may have potential.
Your probably wonder how I got my 13-year-old son interested. Well it goes back a ways; I used to let him play with my old squad leader counter which he liked because they had pictures on them. I also on occasion would let him drop the dice in my dice tower when I was playing ASL with friends at home in my basement. I always praised him when he rolled low (my lawyer told me not to mention what I did when he rolled high you understand). Anyway by the time he was six he understood that low is good.
This is a win, win situation for me. Once he knows how to play, we can play at least once or twice a week and the wife calls it quality time so it doesn’t count as one of my regular nights. I also made sure I told the wife his math should improve as well and she smiled and said that’s great sweetheart (because I am you know).
That how it’s done gentlemen.
