Today in ASL I ... (Day to day ASL doings)

[John Garlic]

Packed and hitting road for Austin Team Tourney in a couple hours

 

[Michael R]

Already there!

 

[Ric of The LBC]

Actually, I had thought about it.

But as the flag symbol is of less than 2cm² size on the label sticking on the RAACO Assorter, I figured that with the flag symbol you posted, the facces symbology on the corners would be too small to be discernible. And without that "hint" one might confuse the rest with the Danish flag.

This is why I decided on

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Not the "standard" fasces bundle symbology as for the rest of the regular ASL Italians, but still clearly discernible to be associated with the Italians by their tricolore.

von Marwitz

Are you using the correct US flag? I realize from this conversation I'm not.

 

[von Marwitz]

Are you using the correct US flag? I realize from this conversation I'm not.

It seems that the US flag is constantly subject to change (the current being in effect only since 4th July 1960 if I am not mistaken and now a president is fancying Greenland for maybe more stars...).

For that reason, I use the following for ASL purposes to reflect the US and US Marines:




In fact, I am not using the flags in most cases but rather the symbology you would find on a Turn counter of the respective nationality in ASL. The graphics for (almost) all of these can be found in the scenario descriptions of the ASL Scenario Archive website, where - as an example - they appear like this for a Free French vs. German scenario:



You might now smartly ask:
"What does the Scenario Archive has for the Ethiopians?"

Good question. It has the Italian facist symbol for them:



But due to space constraints of my storage system, I could not sort the Ethiopians together with the Italians, where they would belong according to the "ASL Logic".

The only free storage slot I had was with the Axis Minors. But it would have been confusing and illogical to put the "standard" Italian symbol onto the Axis Minors Assorter as well. And this created the need to come up with a special "Ethiopian" flag in the first place. And since at the time an "Ethiopian" flag did not exist, I went for an Italian flag which was used at the time - in Italy as well...

So, tons of time wasted on absolute tidbids.
Friggin game...

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[Houlie]

I completed a Hazmo playtest for their upcoming pack #6. SS attacking Americans on the 12a village board in 1945. Incredibly fun. Combined arms, Stupid AFV Tricks: falling into the cellar, blowing their transmission, breaking their MA, and generally, performing…marginally. Momentum swung back and forth all game only being decided in the very last turn (7). We made just a couple minor adjustments, but overall we felt it was very balanced and most importantly -- fun. Both sides have many decisions to make throughout the game.

 

[von Marwitz]

Today, I screwed up BIG TIME in the

"Pummel-the-Attacking-Hordes-in-the-Open-before-They-Get-Close-to-Shred-Your-Hapless-Few"-Phase...



I didn't cause a single MC in the session and only a single PTC which all four affected units passed.
My Commissar even failed to Rally an Elite-Squad in a Stone Building, which rather rolled boxcars to Casualty Reduce and to ELR the survivors.

I reckon, it can only get better.
If only for the brief moment before the enemy knocks on the door...

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[olli]

Today, I screwed up BIG TIME in the

"Pummel-the-Attacking-Hordes-in-the-Open-before-They-Get-Close-to-Shred-Your-Hapless-Few"-Phase...

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I didn't cause a single MC in the session and only a single PTC which all four affected units passed.
My Commissar even failed to Rally an Elite-Squad in a Stone Building, which rather rolled boxcars to Casualty Reduce and to ELR the survivors.

I reckon, it can only get better.
If only for the brief moment before the enemy knocks on the door...

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In a recent game my opponents commissar killed more of his own squads than I did!

 

[Vic Provost]

Today, I screwed up BIG TIME in the

"Pummel-the-Attacking-Hordes-in-the-Open-before-They-Get-Close-to-Shred-Your-Hapless-Few"-Phase...

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I didn't cause a single MC in the session and only a single PTC which all four affected units passed.
My Commissar even failed to Rally an Elite-Squad in a Stone Building, which rather rolled boxcars to Casualty Reduce and to ELR the survivors.

I reckon, it can only get better.
If only for the brief moment before the enemy knocks on the door...

von Marwitz

Wow, I thought my dice were bad yesterday, I aint got nothing on you my friend!

Me and Tom constantly gripe about VASL dice but when we use our precision dice, they can be just as bad.

Such is fate, we all get screwed by it from time to time, Vic.

 

[Michael R]

My Commissar even failed to Rally an Elite-Squad in a Stone Building, which rather rolled boxcars to Casualty Reduce and to ELR the survivors.

ELR does not apply to broken units, nor to a Rally DR. You screwed up even bigger than you thought.

 

[von Marwitz]

ELR does not apply to broken units, nor to a Rally DR. You screwed up even bigger than you thought.

I wish you were right, but if a unit fails to be rallied by a Commissar, then you can even pull off to ELR while being broken:

"A25.222 RALLY: A Commissar must attempt to rally broken units in its Location. A unit is immune to DM status while being rallied by a Commissar—in addition to the Morale Level increase (25.221). Any MMC which fails to rally under the direction of a Commissar is Replaced by the next lower quality unit of its size; if already the lowest quality, a squad is Casualty Reduced. A broken crew, SMC, or HS that cannot be Replaced is eliminated."

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[von Marwitz]

In a recent game my opponents commissar killed more of his own squads than I did!

Commissars and Conscripts don't work well together:

If in a building, a broken Conscript Squad has a Base Morale of 5, +1 for Commissar, +1 for Building, so it gets back on a Rally DR of 7, which is a 58.3% chance. Under the same circumstances a HS will come back on a Rally DR of 6, which is 41.7%

This means you've got a 3:2 chance that your Commissar will shoot your Consript halfsquads and a 2:3 chance that he will shoot your Conscript squads.

What I've seen some people play wrong:
Don't let Commissars shoot non-Conscript units. If these fail to Rally under Commissar direction, they are replaced by the next lower quality unit of the same size, i.e. they basically ELR while broken.


Commissars and Elite units with Morale 8 are another thing:

Your Elite Brokies come back on a 10 or less, which is 91.7% of the time. On an 11 they don't come back and ELR as described above, which is 5.6%. On a 12, they ELR and Casualty Reduce, which is 2.8% chance.

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[von Marwitz]

Wow, I thought my dice were bad yesterday, I aint got nothing on you my friend!

Me and Tom constantly gripe about VASL dice but when we use our precision dice, they can be just as bad.

Such is fate, we all get screwed by it from time to time, Vic.

Yes.

Two days ago it was me screwing up the same opponent, by having an AT-Gun shoot a tank (12TH needed, so no surprise there), then pivoting and Intensive Firing needing a 6TH to hit a second one. Got snakes to blaze it up. Next shot was an 11FP flat at his 9-1, 457+LMG. Got snakes again, which made me Cower, but still enough for an 1KIA to dispose of the squad and to break the 9-1. For good measure, his LMG was destroyed by Random SW Destruction.

Seems that now is my turn...

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[Michael R]

I wouldn’t have described Commissar caused replacement as ELR failure; OTOH they are essentially the same thing happening.

 

[von Marwitz]

I wouldn’t have described Commissar caused replacement as ELR failure; OTOH they are essentially the same thing happening.

Fair enough.

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