The 2 Half-Squads

Episode 209: Garret and the Return of Box Art Review

Hear the dulcet tones of Dave's nose flute, as well as Jeff's new flute provided to The 2 Half-Squads courtesy of Bill Forg and his amazing 3-D printer.

Many of you have been waiting a long time for the return of Box Art Review. The fine art chosen this episode is from Winter Offensive Pack #9.  Pull up an image from your google search and have a gander.  Beware, it is quite frightening......and just in time for Halloween!

Dave covers a playing of scenario WO11 Across The Issel and scenario ASL172  The Last Attack. We also have a wonderful interview with Chris Garret from the ASL Open.

 The contest for the free copy of YANKS ends November 22nd. We already have tons of entries. Good luck to all you Yankee Devils.

 

Chris Garret at the ASL Open 2018

 

SHOWTIMES

1:00 Too Much Boring Banter

10:00 What Have You Been Playin' Lately?

25:00 Box Art Review

41:00 Interview With Chris Garret

58:40 Total Running Time

 

 

Episode 208: Hand Me a Sniper

Disco, rap, space travel and cultural preferences are just a few of the topics discussed before we dive into our coverage of the greatest game in the world - Advanced Squad Leader. 

Join Fred Canzolino and Mark DeVries as they discuss their favorite aspects of ASL.

We announce the winner of our contest for Hot Stove 3, you'll have to listen to find out if you are the lucky winner. There is also a new contest announced. Yes, you can win YANKS.  Just send us an email with the word Yanks in the subject line and you will be entered into our contest to win a brand new game of YANKS, kindly donated by Mark Woods. Enter by the Thanksgiving deadline.   Thank you Mark! Broken Ground Designs' new partisan counters are reviewed in What's in the Box.  We are big fans of these counters.

 

SHOW TIMES

:30 Banter

15:00 Winner Announced

24:30 What's in the Box?

31:40 Letters 

45:30 Interviews

59:35 Total Running Time

 

SHOW LINKS

Charts of Space Missions

Episode 207: Battlin' Banozic

Banozic, Emberton and Forg

What a treasure trove of an interview! We've got it right here for ya brothers and sisters.  It is the legendary and lyrical Robert Banozic.  He is joined by Will Forg, and Zach Emberton,  Together they reminisce and pontificate on all things ASL.  Robert was one of the first names that early Advanced Squad Leader players recognize from his days in the early Chicago scene and his writings in many prominent publications, Backblast, The General and the Annual among others.

We forgot our ads in this one so thanks to our sponsors, Bounding Fire Productions, Ritterkrieg and Broken Ground Designs.

SHOW TIMES

1:00:15 Total Running Time

Episode 206: Vaughn, Kirk, Kraatz and More

Helllooooo Listeners!

Dave, Jeff and guess who? Listener Mark Kraatz at Gen Con

Did you know at Gen Con we were just walking down the street and someone yelled "Is that Dave and Jeff?"  Would you believe it was listener Mark Kratz? We also discuss the longest ASL scenario ever played. MMP's Messenger Boys. It took well over a year and a half. Lets see you take that long to play a scenario.  In the box is Winter Offensive Pack #9 .  We snagged a nice interview at the ASL Open with Wes Vaughn and Doug Kirk. Cople of real great guys.  Two finer gentlemen you could not meet.

Wes Vaughn and Doug Kirk watch a game at the ASL Open

SHOW TIMES

1:00 Banter

12:25 What Have You Been Playin' Lately

27:00 What's in the Box?

39:30 ASL Open Interviews

1:23:10 Total Running Time

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Episode 205: That's the Way it Goes Folks

Fall is fast approaching and so is the next episode. 

We just can't believe how fast time flies. Or how long this episode is.  It seems like only yesterday we were celebrating #200 together. In this show Dave confesses his big mistake in tracking what we have covered and have not covered in the rules so far, he apologizes for covering the infantry fire rules again.    Therefore, we cover the rules from opportunity fire to rule 7.32.  Our goal is to cover the entire Advanced Squad Leader rule book before we conclude this show. After that Dave presents the first eight or so of the scenarios from the Forgotten War module. Boy, they look neat! To steal a pun from Donovon.  They ROK!

 

How about that opening song? The lyrics were provided by Rob Banozic and the song was performed by The 2 Half Squad Singers. 

 

 

 

 

 

SHOWTIMES

00:01 Song: He's Got Really Hot Snake Eyes

04:00 Banter

16:10 The Rules

51:25 Half of The Forgotten War Scenarios 

1:27:25 Total Running Time

 

REALLY HOT SNAKE-EYES

(to the tune of "Bette Davis Eyes"

Lyrics by Rob Banozic)

 

His rolls are always low

I've never seen 'em high

His dice are never cold

He's got really hot snake-eyes

He'll turn the MGs on you

You won't pass a check twice

It's cold as East Front snow

He's got really hot snake-eyes

 

And they'll break you, they'll crit-hit you

They're the bones that will defeat you

They're atrocious, 'cause he always gets the

Rolls that make the stacks crush

God! why do I always roll so high, he's got really hot snake-eyes

 

You like your +3 stone

The place to stand and fight

But all you do is moan

He's got really hot snake-eyes

He'll take a '1' shot on you

And roll those wicked dice

Until you give up, too

He's got really hot snake-eyes

 

They'll DM you, when he plays you

Trash your plan with the dice he loans you

They're ferocious 'cause he always gets the

Rolls that make the stacks crush

All the boys think it's just fine, to get really hot snake-eyes

 

And they'll break you, they'll crit-hit you

They're the bones that will defeat you

They're atrocious, 'cause he always gets the

Rolls that make the stacks crush

 

All the boys think it's just fine, to get really hot snake-eyes

Episode 204: Cot Not Cat

What a great opening song! Check out the lyrics below and enjoy the brilliance of the Donovan Studios as they continue to produce marvelous ASL songs.  Lay out your boards and follow along as Rick Hollander and Dave Kleinschmidt present their After Action Report of Bounding Fire Productions scenario ITR 12 Sosabowski Slapdown that appeared in Into the Rubble 2. We delve into the Critical Hit product Hot Stove 1 in the What's in the Box segment to wrap things up until next time.

 

CONTEST: If you would like to win the copy of Hot Stove #1 by Critical Hit simply send us an email with the subject line "Hot Stove" by September 15th, and we will enter you into a drawing for the fine product.

Sosabowski Slapdown: end game.

SHOWTIMES

0:1 Song DC HERO

4:00  Interesting Chat

18:00  After Action Report

45:00 What's in the Box?

57:10 Total Running Time