I just love what's said in this Newsweek article:


http://denisdutton.com/newsweek_coolingworld.pdf


However, the solution was the same; more government intervention. Intervention to the point of melting the Arctic icecap!

I just wonder how many of the 1975 Global Cooling guys are now Global Warming guys.

Just making sure that I understand this correctly. Onboard Mortars (Guns and SW style) are Direct Fire weapons that use Indirect Fire principles for resolution of their fire. So, a non-moving Unconcealed squad in a Level 4 Open Ground hill hex receives fire from a SW Mortar at Level 0...it does not receive the Height Advantage (+1) drm to the IFT resolution of a Hit by a Mortar in this circumstance.

Correct? Thanks for any/all replies!

Hey Y'all:

Is the village on the Singling map in a valley or on a hill? I am leaning toward a valley due to the brown surrounding territory.

Thanks in advance,


Mark

Anyone having problems with VASL tonight?

Yep - It's been a good while in waiting.

Not only has Rising Sun hit it's pre-order mark, but it's cleared 1,000 sets and still climbing; and then they can figure out how many more they want to purchase to keep it in stock for a bit too. Yet still, no word on when they expect it to print; let alone SHIP?!

So let's have some fun - and not just talk about printing; but when will it ship?!

Have fun and vote in the poll or/and add your 3 cents.

John

Hi

It is a dark and cold night in Festung Budapest CG. Russian offensive starts anew. Itis Turn 1 russian Mph. No russian counters taht are not cloak is in NVR of the enemy.

As I understand it the following cases for initial SS is in effect:
Starshell Initial Use only (during PFPh, MPh, DFPh) if:
A) LOS to enemy unit;
B) Moving enemy vehicle within 16 hexes if no friendly vehicles on board;
C) Friendly Gunflash; 4) Enemy FFE.
In a night scen in Festung Budapest a enemy Dummy cloak moves into NVR of enemy units. This is the very first move of the scen.

Q1: If a Russian cloak (containing nothing i.e. a dummy cloak) moves into NVR of enemy units - is this enough for case A?
Q2: If a Russian AFV (the German does have AFV as well on bd but let us assume he don't)) moves fully out of LOS but within 16 hexes. Is this enough for case B?

/S

Hello All:

Hoping you can help.

1) Is there a mod manager for the Squad Battles series. (I have AotR.)

2) Any recommendations for mods for the counters in AotR (that would look something like ASL symbols, e.g. 3 men on a counter for a squad, but it does not have to be an exact ASL replica - I just want something other than the facial portrait on counters).

3) Any recommendations for terrain mods?

Thanks in advance,

Gerry

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment...ntcmp=features

Pretty interesting. I've never heard any of this before.

Today is the 200th Anniversary of the Second Day of the Battle of Bautzen. Bautzen was the largest land battle in European history at that time. Leipzig would go on to eclipse it and it would not be until World War One that a battle would take their place.

This battle is little written about. Why? Well it doesn't sound like Waterloo! :laugh:

A large army (the French) with mainly infantry faced the Allies who had plenty of cavalry but could not coordinate it properly. The fighting was savage on several sectors of the battlefield. Rather than the narrow frontage of the Lutzen battlefield, Bautzen spanned several miles and included a memorable flank attack by Ney (which could have crushed the Allies had he not turned inward too soon).

This battle did not bring the laurels of campaign victory that Napoleon so desired and the proximity to Austria reminded him that his line of supply could be cut if they chose to enter the campaign arena.

Simply put - Napoleon's cavalry lay dead on the steppes of Russia. Had he not invaded in 1812 Europe today may be a much different place.

Lets remember the brave men that fought on this day. This battle deserves a better place in history than what the Book Publishers have allowed. Put Waterloo in the title and they buy it. It is a shame that the book publisher controls so much of what we see today. I know of several authors that have great books ready to go but publishers are not putting out their works.

When you get a chance - put in a good word for books on the 1813 campaign. Compared to Waterloo, 1813 is terribly neglected.

Hi ya-

With only VotG's and Red Barricades available, I think it would be awesome to see more cool actions on Stalingrad including the Grain Silo, The Tractor Works and the Tennis Racket/ Chemical Works and perhaps Mamyev Kurgan. This battle never gets old to me and with excellent HASL's such as VotG's and RB, you just cant go wrong with great stuff like that.

Edit: Yes I purposely Left out ch.

Scott

Hello
i have a question about "falling snow".

When i rolled a WCDR of 5,6 (11 >=10) falling snow change to heavy snow.
When does it change back,
a) after i roll a DR <=3? (change back to falling snow)
b) when there is a new turn and new WCDR


thx Chris

This is a question which has been puzzling me because in ASL the attacker uses SMOKE a lot, but in all the history books I cannot find hardly any references to SMOKE use at all. How do we know how much SMOKE was used in WWII if the books don't mention it? Was SMOKE used a lot by the attackers in WWII?

Can't find answer in RB. Nothing in A25 about leaders. Not on green data card.

Interesting stuff here

http://ijpor.oxfordjournals.org/cont...2/141.abstract

Howdy,
I have been reading one of the BIG VOTG AAR, and have noted that you seem to be able to
enter hexes containing only broken enemy units at night time. I have had a quick re-read of night
rules & cant find reference to this (is it elsewhere in rules?). Also, can broken units only low crawl(during night scenarios)
or are they allowed to rout normally (within the confines of MP costs)?

Thanks Teags

In the FB Night rules it states that the attacker "may" use cloaking for his onboard and offboard forces.

1. Does that mean that he doesn't HAVE to use cloaking?

2. If so, could he use cloaking for only part of his OB?

3. If so, how many cloaking counters does he get? E.g. if he has 20 squad equivalents for on map setup, and chooses to cloak 1 of these, does he still get 20 Cloaking counters?

Thanks

Hi-

Alot of people have PM'ed me and asked why I was banned, well I was banned for calling MMP supporters "Boot Lickers" and for this I am very sorry. Special people deserve special treatment and I overstepped that line. So once more I do Apologizes to MMP and their supporters for my immature actions.


Scott

Actually, I haven't seen it at all. I'm just trying to determine whether it's worth seeing or not as I hated the 2009 reboot and don't want to waste my time if it's more of the same. To me, that movie typified everything that's wrong with movie making in Hollywood these days.

So who has seen it and what did you think? And if you liked it, did you also like the 2009 reboot?

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Hello folks,

in tonight's game a situation arose on which the outcome of the scenario depends:

A certain number of building hexes has to be controlled by one side. Now a US squad from S6 Assault Moves to R5 which contains a single hex building which only has a ground level. It is attacked by the German HS in S4 by Snap Shot (A8.15) which manages to break it. According to the rule, if affected by the Snap Shot the moving unit is considered to be in the Location entered thereafter.

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But what happens regarding control of the building in R5?

a) The unit is broken before it actually enters the R5 building and thus cannot gain control of it.
b) The unit is considered to have reached the building in Good Order and thus gains control of it but is broken thereafter.

My best guess is a) which would suit me well as it would give me the win. :D But I cannot come up with any rules reference for either interpretation.

Thanks for your help,
von Marwitz

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I am looking to buy Deluxe ASL Hedgerow Hell. I am primarily interested in the map boards.

This was the first game I bought from Critical Hit over 20 years ago and enjoyed playing with all those maps. I'd like to play it on VASL, but has anyone ever made an overlay of Hill 112 for it? I have no idea how to make my own overlays, so I'm hoping someone already has.
Thanks,
Dave

This was the first game I bought from Critical Hit over 20 years ago and enjoyed playing with all those maps. I'd like to play it on VASL, but has anyone ever made an overlay of Hill 112 for it? I have no idea how to make my own overlays, so I'm hoping someone already has.
Thanks,
Dave

All is in the title Olli.... just wanted to reply to your mails but I got this message::

The following errors occurred with your submission

olli has exceeded their stored private messages quota and cannot accept further messages until they clear some space.

I just hate this 50 messages limit......

Cheers,

X

During BRT: CG III my opponent wants to Place a DC on a Tet/Wire with Wading Infantry. It was kind of late...and we both thought it was permissible...and really couldn't find anything to say otherwise. Just wanted to see if anybody knew of anything that prevented it.

The thing we saw that caused the "Rules Pause" was from G13.4211, "No SW/non-vehicular-Gun may be fired...by Infantry in a shallow-OCEAN Location"

Thoughts?

I have some problem accessing the CH website, and have had for a couple of days. Does anybody else experience this problem?

Really?

It is THAT good huh?

Greetings,


I am trying to get some tastes about the electronic warfare.

So, you keep your radars silent, and only turn them on when you search for enemy vessels.
And you turn on your radars to shoot, b/o you need your radars to lock your missiles on enemy targets?

Am I right?

You use the ESM to jam enemy radars when they try to locate you?

And comm link? Keep it on? Off?

So, it seems some of you, try to keep the whole electronic stuff as silent as possible, in order not to give <<free intel>>.

Pretty complicated for a newbie.

This was the second scenario in my recent homecoming back to ASL, and it didn't go nearly as well as the first. We played the original, unrevised version, so in other words a completely unbalanced dog of a scenario, but we played it anyway knowing the Americans were doomed. After weighing my options on the defense and skimming some AARs, I decided to almost completely forfeit the open ground and focus my defense in and around the village itself. I came to the conclusion, rightly I believe, that trying to contest the open ground would have only ended in a lot of broken/dead squads and TDs in the opening prep fire. I set up my mortars on the left and right sides of the board, out of normal range of the SS, but where they could fire on them as they advanced. I hid two AT guns in the forest on the left, one facing the left-hand attack corridor, one facing the center, then set up the third AT gun waaaaay over in the woods hex by the orchard on the right, which ended up being a great location for it to watch the right flank. The first two AT guns, however, were not in good positions. (More on that later) I set up the roadblock on the left road entry into the village (a meh place to put it), and HIPped the 9-1 with two squads, the HMG, and a BAZ in the building immediately north of it. I set up the rest of my 747s in a reverse slope defense around the village, with a few fields of fire out to the open ground at points where the SS couldn't prep on me, but I could engage them as they advanced on the village. Both MMGs were on the right side of the map in/around the graveyard with okay fields of fire out to the right and north. I did set up one squad with a BAZ on the south side of the lefthand forest with the AT guns, with the intent of making him think twice before swinging anything around those woods hexes to cut rout paths (an okay place to put it). I set one TD on the south side of graveyard to watch the right (hull facing down the graveyard road, turret facing right), then set the other one behind the aforementioned lefthand forest beside the BAZ squad. Altogether an okay defense.

I assumed the Germans would push heavy on the left and right, and maybe send some squads up the center through the building with the stone walls all around it. In reality, Dash pushed heavy left and center, with almost nothing on the right. All three Panthers were set in the left corridor with armored assaulting squads, all the HTs were on the central road loaded with squads to push on the center with a bunch of dismounted squads to push up on foot, a couple squads on the right to probe the righthand forest, and all six Mark IV's were spread evenly across his entire front to fire smoke to cover the advance. On the opening prep, five of the MkIV's successfully fired smoke, one directly on top of one of my HIPped AT guns in the forest, and the rest effectively covering his movement of the rest of his force. Long story short, he cautiously moved up through the cover of smoke, my mortars were all but useless in hitting anything, the first shot from the non-smoked AT gun in the left woods at a HT broke the gun. In fact, I didn't have a single weapon get rate until the second American turn. By turn two, he had blown through my meager leftmost defenses without suffering a single casualty. The mortar team was unceremoniously killed before they had ever connected on a shot, both AT guns were overrun by infantry by the end of turn 3 (with no kills), and it was obvious the Panthers were going to come around and murder by TD, so it pulled back toward the village. The first German casualty was a Panther that came around the left forest and absentmindedly exposed its side to the bazooka team in the woods at 2 hexes. The crew survived, the SS steamroller rolled on. As the rest of the left SS joined the party, the M10 TD, trapped by the rapidly advancing Panthers, fired APCR and managed to immobilize a Panther and force the crew to bail. The remaining Panther turned him into a burning wreck. The lone remaining AT gun on the right managed to kill two MarkIVs after repeatedly missing and bouncing hits off the hulls, and the right mortar eventually went on a rate tear and held back the two squads coming up that way. (Pretty much the only infantry casualties I inflicted). I rolled the TD from the graveyard up behind the hill to watch the central entry to the village, but then Dash popped a Mark IV on the hill adjacent. Killed it, but not before all the halftracks rolled into the village and started bypass freezing my squads (having disembarked their passengers beside the central two-hex building outside the village). About the time the left SS horde came prancing into the village with a nary a single infantry casualty (does a wounded 9-2 from a sniper count?), I cried uncle and surrendered on American turn 4.

The end result was: one GO Panther (one dead, the other immobilized and abandoned by the crew), one GO MkIV (four dead, one MA disabled recalled), two GO halftracks (one destroyed by streetfighting, one blasted by a bazooka), 14 or so GO squads (he lost/reduced a couple on the right from the mortar), all the leaders (the 9-2 was wounded but survived), and about 3 surviving tank crews running around being a pain in the arse. I only had about 8 squads left and all three leaders, but had lost two bazookas to squads being eliminated and the HMG to a pin result in the middle of the street when they had smoked, then tried to dash across to road to escape the oncoming combined arms juggernaut. I still had both MMGs, two BAZ, all my leadership, one AT gun, and a mortar, but had folded like a chair under the SS advance. I had mauled his AFVs due to mismanagement by the German player and a healthy dose of luck, but in the end it didn't matter at all. By turn 4, his left and center/hammer and anvil infantry attack had essentially locked all my infantry from moving and adjusting, turning my mobile defense into a stationary one. And despite having the advantageous position, my measly Airborne were staring down tall stacks of SS with leaders and MGs. I had some pretty rotten luck with ROF, but at best I might have only delayed a few squads from moving on the village by a single turn. If you removed half the German armor from this and gave the Americans more infantry, I still doubt they would have much of a chance. The SS just have too much firepower and too high morale, and the Americans are hard pressed to even slow them down. Dash controlled half the village with only a fraction of his forces having entered the village, and it would have turned into a wholesale massacre by turn 6 the way things were going. The only way the Americans can win this one is through amazingly skilled play, a truckload of luck, and an incompetent German player. However, it was great fun and the mauling his armor took was a moral victory for me. It definitely knocked a few inches of rust off my infantry and combined arms skills, so next we're looking to play something a little bigger still. Suggestions?

Another indie to keep an eye upon:



I wonder how the "relaxing tempo" is going to be achieved.