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Wednesday Jan 22, 2020
Wednesday Jan 22, 2020
Buon Giormo, O e la sera dove sei?
We are happy to bring you the tale of Jeff's Italian Trip. Sadly he could not meet up with the gentlemen from the new Italian game company Advancing Fire. Get over there and pre-order Brevity Assault and Biazza Ridge. Our "Letters" segment provides a delizioso distraction and Advanced Squad Leader talk.
In case you are wondering after you listen, those are not actually the sounds from the Victory at Sea album. Did you know that there are a ton of ezines published by the Texas ASL guys? The mag is called Banzai!!; and we review volume 24 issue 2 in this show. It has a great article for making a Banzai charge in ASL Starter Kit.
Caio!
SHOW TIMES
1:00 Jeff's Italian Adventures
18:15 Drawing for French Counters
39:0 What Have You Been Playing Lately
49:00 What's in the Box?
1:02:45 Total Running Time
SHOW LINKS
The 2 Half-Squads is brought to you by Ritterkrieg, Bounding Fire Productions, Broken Ground Design and kind donations from listeners like you!
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| Some real art for Box Art Review |
Wednesday Jan 01, 2020
Wednesday Jan 01, 2020
Greetings Listeners,
Best wishes for the New Year from our broadcast to yours!
We want to thank you for all of your amazing support over the years. We owe so much to you all.
Listen and see if you have won the French Counters.The drawing happens now.
Dave Kand Dave T played Trap by Mishap SV12 from the Swedish Volunteers. There is an after action report in this show. Photos can be found on our Twitter feed. We also recount a Desperado miniatures game that we played as well as a game of Space Empires that Jeff played. We also tear into the latest box of ASL goodness called The Fight for Seoul.
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Desperado Zombie Game |
Get over to the new Italian ASL company and pre-order Brevity Assault and Biazza Ridge.
SHOW TIMES
1:00 Auld Lang Syne and Chat
12:35 Drawing for French Counters
16:30 What Have You Been Playing Lately
28:00 What's in the Box?
52:10 Total Running Time
SHOW LINKS
The 2 Half-Squads is brought to you by Ritterkrieg, Bounding Fire Productions, Broken Ground Design and kind donations from listeners like you!
Tuesday Dec 17, 2019
Tuesday Dec 17, 2019
Greetings Cheery Holiday Listeners,
We believe you will forgive our slightly longer than usual banter, when you hear the heartfelt sharing that is included therein. Please remember to see your doctor. In our Rules segment we cover First Fire rules and marvel that it took us nearly eleven years to get to them. Learn all about First Fire in our usual kind of quiz show format. You get to see what you know as you try to guess the answers along with us. Review those FFMO and FFNAM modifiers while you listen.
Get over to the new Italian ASL company and pre-order Brevity Assault and Biazza Ridge.
SHOW TIMES
1:00 Banter
15:00 The Rules Rule
47:00 Letters
1:13:40 Total Running Time
SHOW LINKS
The 2 Half-Squads is brought to you by Ritterkrieg, Bounding Fire Productions, Broken Ground Design and kind donations from listeners like you!
Monday Dec 02, 2019
Monday Dec 02, 2019
Dave Ramsey operates the fantastic Advanced Squad Leader website The ASL Archive. You kind find a trove of interesting ASL material here, publications, scenarios reviews, opponents wanted and even a source that tells you the average length of a scenario. The audio quality is a bit uneven and we apologize but you will learn of all the angles that you can get on a scenario in this interview with Dave.
SHOW TIMES
55:10 Total Running Time
SHOW LINKS
Illuminating Rounds on Youtube
Barkmann's Corner Early Animation
The 2 Half-Squads is brought to you by Ritterkrieg, Bounding Fire Productions, Broken Ground Design and kind donations from listeners like you!
Sunday Nov 24, 2019
Sunday Nov 24, 2019
What a great opening song, thanks to Dennis and Steve again! Speaking of the Swedish Volunteer pack Dave discusses his latest game from said pack, SV9 Mexico and Morocco. A new segment about books premieres in this episode. You may be saying to yourself...."self, haven't the Half-Squads always talked about WWII books?" And you would be correct, however Dave's review of Brackman's book about the Tokyo War Trails, titled The Other Nuremberg, goes into more detail than the normal banter.
We finally get to taking a gander at Advanced Squad Leader Starter Kit #4 thanks to Ritterkrieg.com.
SHOWTIMES
0:01 Hooked on the Swedish Song
3:20 Banter With Special Offers So Listen Closely
16:50 What Have You Been Playing Lately?
29:30 Book Review
39:35 What's in the Box?
1:11:05 Total Running Time
Hooked on the Swedish
Concept: The2HalfSquads
Lyrics: Dennis Donovan
I just played the Swedish
Versus the Ruskis
Somewhere in North Finland
1943
Yeah, I saw those
Counters blue on white
For the first time
Earlier tonight, now..
I…, I’m hooked on the Swedish
And I don’t mean IKEA
I mean the Volunteers
The Swede pack’s sweet as candy
But it’s hard to find
It runs about one thirty
From an auction house on-line
It’s quite the smorgasbord:
14 scenarios
One hundred plus counters
Historical notes
Chapter H and
Chapter A updates
Give it a whirl
It will turn you on
I..., I’m hooked on the Swedish
And I don’t mean IKEA
I mean the Volunteers
Go and get one
Before they’re all gone
Give it a whirl
Get your ASL game on!
I, I’m hooked on the Swedish
And I don’t mean IKEA
I mean the Volunteers
I’m hooked on the Swedish
And I don’t mean IKEA
mean the Volunteers
Said I’m hooked on the Swedish
And I don’t mean IKEA
I mean that ABBA band...
Sunday Nov 10, 2019
Sunday Nov 10, 2019
Hello Fans, Friends, and Family,
Sorry for the slight delay in publishing, we won't name names but....Dave forgot to keep our scheduled time. A time that was already delayed due to scheduling issues. But, anyway.
We hope you enjoy the wonderful opening song by Dennis and Stephen Stewart.
The contest for the French Broken Ground Design Counters ends December 15th. Simply send us a gmail with French Counters in the subject line and you will be entered into our drawing.
For Box Art Review we run a special compare and contrast of bonus pack #7 and #10 viewed side by side. Dave adds an in depth look at the scenarios of Hatten in Flames.
The beautiful shot glasses with Clink and Drink printed on them along with our logo are available now in limited quantities (only 14 to be exact). Send us a gmail asking if there are any available and we will let you know what you need to do to get one....if you are one of the lucky 14 that is.
SHOWTIMES
0:01 Counterstruck Song
5:10 Banter With Special Offers So Listen Closely
19:13 Box Art Review and Shot Glass Fundraiser Details and Unicum Taste Testing.
27:00 Actual Box Art Review
35:00 What's in the Box?
45:00 Hatten Scenarios in Depth
1:09:30 Total Running Time