January 19, 2009
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ASL — the2halfsquads @ 3:27 pm
Join us for a great game of scenario A103 MAYHEM IN MANILA. Two excellent and well respected players give us a glimpse of their thought and strategies as Bob Holmstrom’s Japanese try to defend a stone building or two from Bob Miller’s attacking Americans. You need deluxe boards a-d to follow along (or just a good imagination, or go on VASL and look at the boards there). Addendum: Click on the link on Will’s name in the comments section. It is a link to the board set up.
January 16, 2009
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ASL — the2halfsquads @ 3:00 pm
Happy New Year to all from The 2 Half-Squads!
It’s going to be a great year for ASL, thanks in part to the efforts of our guest today, Rich Spilky. Rich is a long-time ASLer with a passion for finding better ways to play the game. And to him that means simplifying the decoding of complicated rules and complex circumstances. Available for download at the link below, Rich has created a variety of tables and charts that clearly present results for common situations that might otherwise cause lengthy and abstruse delving into The Rule Book. So download Rich’s Player Aid Pack and read along as Rich discusses the utility of these great player aids. It’s ASL smarter, faster, better. It’s ASL The Spilky Way. (Rich Spilky’s email address is richspilky@comcast.net)
We also have a great book report from Dave, who just finished reading not one, but TWO ASL scenario builders handbooks (generously donated to us by a listener from Anchorage, Alaska). There’s also listener feedback AND we announce the soon-to-be-available T2HS t-shirts.
Oh yeah. It’s going to be a GREAT year for ASL!
Links for this episode
You can now get to this web site with the simple URL http://www.the2halfsquads.com
Rich Spilky’s Player Aid pack
The Official War Journal of the Philippines Historical Boardgamers Club
Scenario Designer’s Handbook by Michael Dorosh
Scenario Designer’s Guide by Mark Pitcavage
Mark Pitcavage’s Desperation Morale web site
Dave King’s C4 Corner Cutter
Jay Richardson’s excellent ASL Starter Kit tutorials, parts 1 through 5 on BoardGameGeek.com
Triple Point Blank Fire
