Twin Cities ASL 5/9/20-- CASE YELLOW (COVID-19 Edition)

[Uncle_Duke]

Hello all,

The fact that this is going out on a Thursday instead of a Monday should be evidence of just how disruptive and discombobulating the last two months have been. I'm told that a good remedy for discombobulation is to play ASL, which at the very minimum ought to focus that discombobulation onto various arcane interactions between Chapters A, D, E, and DN in the ASL rulebook.

Given that Minnesota is still under a stay at home order, in person play is of course out of the question. VASL, on the other hand is good to go.

In related news, HongKongWargamer has provided us with an invitation to the ASL Central Discord server:

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I've been hanging out there for a couple of weeks now, and it's a good bunch of folks. I highly recommend joining. It's a simple enough process and you don't even need to provide your real name or e-mail address if you don't want to.

Details:
Day: 5/9/20
Time: Whenever you please
Location: VASL, BGG, GS, Discord-- wherever we happen to congregate online

The theme this month is "CASE YELLOW." Here is a selection of scenarios, all of which take place during the German blitzkrieg of the West:

Number  Title                  Side1                Side2     #Hrs  S1Win%  S2Win%  Publication                  Notes
ASL48   Toujours L'Audace      Belgian              German    5.7   43.75%  56.25%  Doomed Battalions (3rd Ed)   Originally Published in The Last Hurrah
ASL77   Le Herisson            French               German    4.9   51.04%  48.96%  Croix de Guerre
ASL231  In Front of the Storm  French               German    3.9   48.42%  51.58%  Croix de Guerre (2nd Ed)     Originally published as A104 in Annual '96
ASL235  Last Defense Line      German               French    4.9   53.85%  46.15%  Croix de Guerre (2nd Ed)     Originally published as A94 in Annual '96
G7      Bring up the Guns      German               Dutch     3.9   49.02%  50.98%  The General 25.3
J43     3rd RTR in the Rain    German               British   4     50.96%  49.04%  Journal 3
J68     Unlucky Thirteenth     British              German    4.1   50.00%  50.00%  Journal 4
OB2     Point 247              German               French    5     50.00%  50.00%  Out of the Bunker            Originally published as DB043 in Dispatches from the Bunker #19.

Or you can play anything from Dinant.

This month is a little funky where anniversaries are concerned. May 9 is a day late for the 75th anniversary of the end of operations in Europe in 1945, and a day early for the 80th anniversary of the kickoff of CASE YELLOW. If you want to match theme and anniversary (and don't mind being off by a day), check out "Bring up the Guns," "In Front of the Storm," and "Toujours L'Audace," all of which set on 5/10/1940. If you'd rather catch the tail end of hostilities, try:

J180    The Hour Zero          British / Wehrmacht  SS        5.4   38.46%  61.54%  Journal 11                   5/8/1945
ASL230  Prelude to Dying       Croatian             Partisan  5.3   64.71%  35.29%  Armies of Oblivion (2nd Ed)  5/8/1945.  Originally published as J112 in Journal 7.  Win rates are for the J112 version.