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Sunday Sep 01, 2024
Sunday Sep 01, 2024
Sleeze Freezer! An Advanced Squad Leader parody song replay from episode 180. It relates well to the Heretical rules Sleeze Freeze rule rewrite from last episode. From part one of the Pleva interview. This show presents part one of said interview. Enjoy!
SHOW LINKS
None today
SHOW TIMES
00:01 "Sleeze Freezer" Song
4:00 Steven Pleva Part Two
"I'm a Sleeze-Freezer" by Jim Bera and Dennis Donovan (not The 2 Half Squads Singers).
Victory is only true in fairy tales,
Earned by other guys, but not by me
Luck was out to get me. That's the way it seemed.
When I play Squad Leader I get creamed
Then I saw that page About our pet peever
It's D2.3, and it's quite the find
VBMmmmmmm, it's called sleeze-freezing But its not cheating, lighten up guys
I thought "maybe I should try a different game."
Seems the more I played, the more I lost.
What's the use in tryin'? I'll get crushed a-game.
When I need a victory, I get slain.
Then I read that page, now I'm a sleeze-freezer
Not a trace of shame in my mind
VBMmmmmmmm, I'm a sleeze-freezer I'm not a cheater, lighten up guys
Aaaarg. Luck was out to get me.
Well that's the way it seemed.
Disappointment haunted all my games
But then I used that rule, now I'm a sleeze-freezer
Not a trace of shame in my mind.
Bet your boots, I'm a sleeze-freezer . . . But not a cheater, lighten up guys...
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Wednesday Aug 14, 2024
Wednesday Aug 14, 2024
The marvelous Steven Pleva is our guest today. Steve is one of the better players of the game and has won many tournaments during his storied career. In part one of this interview he discusses the Pleva Heretical Rules and several other topics.
We are unworthy!
SHOW TIMES
00:01 Right into the interview.
8:00 Pleva Bidding System
48:14 Total Running Time
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Thursday Aug 01, 2024
Thursday Aug 01, 2024
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| Picture of Vincent Maresca's Dice Tower |
SHOW LINKS
None today
SHOW TIMES
00:01 "ASL After Midnight" Song
7:00 Rules VC
46:28 Total Running Time
ASL After Midnight
Lyrics by Dennis Donovan
Performed by The 2 Half Squad Singers
ASL after midnight, rolling dice till the dawn
AFVs all burning wreckage, they're gone, they're gone
I took the building 'bout 1 A.M. Rolling, rolling.
Close Combat phase skills showing again, rolling, rolling.
My squads lit up in his IR light
Its time to assault move to the right.
ASL after midnight, rolling dice till the dawn
AFVs all burning wreckage, they're gone, they're gone
Got T-34's, 1.8 inch thick steel, rolling, rolling
Ready to target a German Stug, rolling, rolling
The dice are heavy, the games at stake
Can't roll boxcars and see the MA break
ASL after midnight, rolling dice till the dawn
AFV's all burning wreckage, they're gone, they're gone
The air's electric, with Armored power, rolling, rolling
My dice are hotter, by the hour, rolling, rolling
The VC Buildings, are mine for the win
The buildings rockin' as my squads advance in
ASL after midnight, rolling dice till the dawn
AFV's all burning wreckage, they're gone, they're gone
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Wednesday Jul 17, 2024
Wednesday Jul 17, 2024
It's those scary rout rules! Yes, we finally tackle them in the rules section. They read fairly easy but require that 2 page example in the rule book. Must be a bit challenging.
SHOW LINKS
None today
00:01 "Can't Explain (the Rout Rules)" Song
3:00 Bantero
25:00 Rules
58:28 Total Running Time
Can't Explain
Lyrics by Dennis Donovan
Performed by The 2 Half Squad Singers
These rules here guys
A10.5 (can't explain)
Smartest guys in the world
Yeah, any Rout Rules, yeah
Grofaz (can’t explain)
Almost grokked them once
but they (hurt my brain)
Dizzy in the head when
reading Rout rules
They’re really complex,
you know that it’s true
They give me headaches
again and again
A Gordian Knot, dude
Can’t explain
Just what they mean
Tried to decipher them dude
But haven't a clue
And they hurt my brain
(can’t explain)
Yeah, they're giving me a headache, man
(can’t retain)
A bit of help would
make me real glad
From the Rosetta Stone?
That wouldn’t be bad
I get little glimpses every
now and again
About what they mean, but
Can't explain
A single word
I’ve studied those rules
Since ‘eighty two
And still can’t explain
(wracked my brain)
Even Oppenheimer,
(can’t explain)
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Tuesday Jul 09, 2024
Tuesday Jul 09, 2024
Jump with us into the box and land on a brand new Bounding Fire Production called Bitterest Day. It includes a wonderful map of the Sugar Loaf Hill area on Okinawa, a sheet of counters, scenarios and more.
00:01 "In a Stack" Song
44:30 Contest Draw and New Announced
50:28 Total Running Time
In a Stack
Lyrics by Dennis Donovan
Performed by The 2 Half Squad Singers
I have three elite squads,
I'll move them in a stack.
With the 10-3 leader,
now no turning back
I need two more MF's
to get across the road.
I'll chance the minus two
and hope I don't get hosed.
I'm moving all my guys
I'll move them in a stack.
If my mentor saw this,
he'd have a heart attack!
My opponent shakes his head
and chokes on his coffee.
No I'm not a newbie
but it sure seems like it, eh?
I'm sure I'll kick myself
and catch a lot of flack.
I'll probably cry poor
if my guys all get kacked.
We might get blown away
by ignoring all the facts.
It's not easy moving out,
when facing a kill stack
My guys will hopefully
survive 20 down 2.
I need to get into
the woods in hex G2.
If I look hard enough
into the rule book.
Maybe I will find an out
before my goose gets cooked!
Maybe the Dice Gods
will cut me a little slack.
No cover anymore
it's too late to turn back!
I see the turns go by
the end is getting close.
Desperate times they call
for desperate measures dude.
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Wednesday Jun 19, 2024
Wednesday Jun 19, 2024
We hope that you enjoy the reprise of Dennis Donovan's ASL Journal Number 9 parody song that we open with. We take a look at the Mobelwagon and Ostwind in our Armored Fighting Vehicles segment and then touch on What's in the News. What we are playing lately is scenario FB8: For Want of Crust or Crumb. If you watch on Youtube you can be among the first to see the newly framed art from Hedgerow Hell. Or just look to the right.
SHOW TIMES
00:01 ASL Journal Number 9 Song
10:30 What Have You Been Playing Lately?
17:00 Armoured Fighting Vehicles
30:40 What's in the News
44:24 Total Running Time
ASL JOURNAL 9
Dennis Donovan - lyrics and 'singing'
Jim "MixMasterJames" Bera - audio
You know that game store that grog nard dude
I went in Sunday when he opened up at nine
‘Cuz he plays A.S.L. and, he plays it all the time.
I haven’t won a game since 2006
He did a face palm and he sighed a mighty sigh
Said what you need my boy is, ASL Journal 9
He said it will improve my game in under a week
It’s got a cool CG that’s called Suicide Creek
Scenarios, and articles, still in the shrink
I started playing every weekday night
I hugged my copy of, ASL Journal 9
You'll soon be a 10-3 just like ol’ Colonel Klink
Paid one-oh-five, it’s so worth it! That's what I think!
I became GROFAZ almost over night
He signed my copy of A-SL Journal 9
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