The 2 Half-Squads

Episode 345: Can't Explain (the Rout Rules)

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. 

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None today

SHOW TIMES
00:01 "Can't Explain (the Rout Rules)" Song
3:00 Bantero

16:00 Letters
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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Episode 344: In the Bitterest Stack!

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. 

 

 

 

 

 

SHOW LINKS

None today

SHOW TIMES
00:01 "In a Stack" Song

6:00 What's in the Box?
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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Episode 343: Number 9 in the News

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 LINKS

Richard Bog's Plane Found

D-Day Commemorative Coin

D-Day Changed the Sand

Clarence Bud Anderson Passes

D-Day Map Makers

SHOW TIMES
00:01  ASL Journal Number 9 Song

3:00 Chitty Chitty Chat Chat
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

I took my troubles down to Gaming Fools
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.

 

At ASL I am a flop with it
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 grabbed one and rang me up and gave me a wink
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 stayed up reading until dawn that night
I started playing every weekday night

And when I beat my friend for the thirty-second time,                    
I hugged my copy of, ASL Journal 9

 

It’s play-tested well, they’ve worked out all of the kinks

The 2 Half Squads they did a box art RE-view I think
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 go to every tournament in sight                                                       
I became GROFAZ almost over night

And when I cornered Chas at ASLOK twenty nine            
He signed my copy of A-SL Journal 9

 

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Episode 342: Cirillo and Deller Return

It is part two of our interview with Bill Cirillo and Sean Deller. The conversation about Twilight of the Reich. and a little Festung Budapest continues. Stick around after the interview to hear about the new contest we are currently running. 

Twilight of the Reich at MMP

SHOW TIMES
00:01 Yanks! (Song)

4:00  Interview

49:20 Contest
54:42 Total Running Time

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Episode 341: Cirillo and Deller: They're Stellar!

We are honored to have Bill Cirillo and Sean Deller join us in discussing all things Twilight of the Reich. As well as a little Festung Budapest in this two part interview. The sun is setting so you better get listening.

Board with Major Overlays. Mini-Campaign?

SHOW TIMES

00:01 Right into the Interview
4:45 Creation of Twilight of the Reich

41:05 Possible New Project
50:01 Total Running Time

LOS Examples

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Episode340: Rushing Berserkers with Dennis

he dashing Dennis Donovan appears once again in the Broadcast Foxhole with us and we have a
roarin' berserk time. We revisit Dennis's Russian Berserkers song that originally appeared in Episode 154.  In the Box is Winter Offensive Pack #15 and our rules segment finishes the basic nationalities in such as the Axis Minors, Ethiopians, and Swedes.

SHOW LINKS

Bitterest Day at Bounding Fire

 

SHOW TIMES

00:01 Russian Berserkers Song with Lyrics by Dennis Donovan; Sung by The 2 Half-Squad Singers 

1:45 Chitty Chitty Chat Chat

13:05 What's in the Box?

36:00 Upcoming Products

39:00 Rules

1:06:55 Total Running Time

 

SONG LYRICS (sung to "There's a Hole in the Bucket" by Dennis Donovan)

There’s some Russian berserkers! Oh Scheisse!  Oh Scheisse!

There’s some Russian berserkers! Herr Colonel! Berserk!

 

Well shoot them, dear Volksturm! Dear Volksturm! Dear Volksturm!

Well shoot them, dear Volksturm! Dear Volksturm shoot them!

 

With what shall we shoot them?  Oh Scheisse!  Oh Scheisse!

With what shall we shoot them?   Herr Colonel! With what?

 

Mit der Flakvierling, dear Volksturm! Dear Volksturm! Dear Volksturm!

Mit der Flakvierling, dear Volksturm! Dear Volksturm Flakvierling!

 

Der Flakvierling’s kaputt, Oh Scheisse!  Oh Scheisse!

Der Flakvierling’s kaputt, Herr Colonel!  Kaputt!

 

Well fix it dear Volksturm, dear Volksturm! Dear Volksturm!

Well fix it dear Volksturm! Dear Volksturm fix it!

 

With what shall we fix it?  Oh Scheisse!  Oh Scheisse!

With what shall we fix it?  Herr Colonel! With what?

 

With a crew, dear Volksturm, dear Volksturm! Dear Volksturm!

With a crew, dear Volksturm!  Dear Volksturm, a crew!

 

The crew it is broken, Scheisse!  Oh Scheisse!

The crew it is broken!  Herr Colonel, broken!

 

Well rally them, dear Volksturm! Dear Volksturm! Dear Volksturm!

Well rally them, dear Volksturm! Dear Volksturm, rally them!

 

With what shall we rally them?  Oh Scheisse!  Oh Scheisse!

With what shall we rally them?  Herr Colonel! With what?

 

With a Feldwebel, dear Volksturm, dear Volksturm! Dear Volksturm!

With a Feldwebel, dear Volksturm!  Dear Volksturm, Feldwebel!

 

Der Feldwebel is busy, Oh Scheisse!  Oh Scheisse!

Der Feldwebel is busy, Herr Colonel, busy!

 

Doing what, dear Volksturm, dear Volksturm?!?! Dear Volksturm!

Doing what, dear Volksturm?  Dear Volksturm, doing what?!?!

 

On the radio, Oh Scheisse!  Oh Scheisse! Oh Scheisse!

On the radio with HQ, Herr Colonel, HQ!

 

And what is he saying, dear Volksturm, dear Volksturm?

And what is he saying, dear Volksturm, saying?

 

There’s some Russian berserkers! Oh Scheisse!  Oh Scheisse!

There’s some Russian berserkers! O! HQ, Berserk!

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