As an addendum to my previous post, I had an hour or two to yesterday to do a quick at a few items and have decided to give a quick unboxing review. I hopefully will later comment on ITR2 in BFP's section.
ASLRB divider set, well what can you say, you likely have it already and decide a spare is a good idea.
Journal 12. The new style paper and cards have reached an optimum in my opinion. Matt and thus easy to read, pages thick enough to reduce the risk of tearing. I hope MMP stick to this. A fair number have commented upon the overall smaller than usual size and that is understandable. However I am happy with this. There was a long gap between J10 and J11 and having J12 come out without the same delay is nice. I suppose age has something to do with it, but having my ASL rations in bite size chunks makes it easier to digest than one big lump. Something like having food in two small meals being less likely to leave leftovers than having it served in one big choker. YMMV.
WO8/2017: As a solo player, I usually I don't comment on scenarios, but I was glad to see a couple of scenarios concerning the '41 Dubno operation which though long neglected or under appreciated (likely due to the then chaotic situation and lack of or loss of original documentation especially on the Soviet side), look like to have been the largest tank battle of WW2. However my first interest on opening was the board. OK, a big village/town board, quite a nice one, but don't we have enough as a percentage already? OK, it's got a stream which is always welcome, we're not over endowed with streams. Soooo, I'll give give it 3 of 0 to 5 stars. Hold on a minute, the stream is at the edge of the town and there is only one bridge if you are coming to or from the GG end and with the building and hill would be a very slow approach for a vehicle without a side abutting board if the stream is impassible/deep. So for possible interesting tactical conundrums I upgrade that to a 4 star. While the last half dozen boards effectively earned 4+ stars automatically due to doing things like a length wide stream or massive orchards which were scarce in ASL, this board did it through subtly.