The ASL fanatics in New England got together two years ago and started building a scenario pack to commemorate 20 years of their involvement with ASL and more importantly, 20 years of their friendship via ASL.  

This is truly a pack built by ASL fanatics, for fanatics.  As such, standards are very high as these folks are well know players and scenario designers themselves.

One of the first ones that interests me is YASL#1 Full Immersion Baptism (Designer : Carl Nogueira).  I was involved in its playtesting.  This is the Spanish Civil War, replete with the Republican, the Nationalists, the Condor Legions and Moors with their ability to seek cover in the folds of the ground.  

YASL#4 The Twin Pimples (Designer : Andy Howard), it’s British regulars and commandos pitted against Italians in the desert and at night.  We are talking about 21 Italians & toys against 10 British squads and 9 commandos.  

My first game out of this pack will most likely to be YASL#5 Patrols on the Trail to Hell (Designer Vic Provost) perhaps for no other reason than that I have been a huge fan of Vic Provost’s & the Bunker crew’s PTO design.  This is a 5 turn USMC vs IJA jungle action that looks to be a good introduction for newer folks to the PTO terrain.  

Oh hey, gritty Ground Snow at Dusk, ’44 Eastern front action in YASL#6 Hein Olshana (Designer : Robert “Kedge” Johnson).  I know, you never get tired of ETO.  StuGs (with no radios) vs SU76Ms!  

YASL#8 Ass Backwards (Bob Tufano & Tom Morin) is the only other scenario in existence (according to ASL Scenario Archive) that features the British Archer.  The Archer is a tank destroyer with a 76LL gun pointing BACKWARDS.  This is a 6.5 turner that puts Panthers on the German side and plays on the Riley’s Road Map (from ASL Operation Veritable Historical Study).  

Tanks ONLY action?  You should take a look at YASL#9 Rack’em Up!  (Designer : Ted Wilcox).  This is German vs American (9 on 9), Jan 1945, Falling Snow and burnt out buildings (read : Open Ground).  It’s a fast one with 4 turns.  

Paratroopers on the IJA?  YASL#10 Dropping Topside (Designer : Michael J “Pooch” Puccio).   Two German tank destroyers vs SIXTEEN  T-34s?  YASL#11 Ja, Bix (Designer : Brian “Dr Death” Sullivan).  It’s a 5.5 turn where both parties can vary their OB.  

YASL13 Die to the Last Man (Designer : Joe Gochinski) features the CG style OB purchases that I was hooked onto since St Louis’s China-Burma-India The Lost Theater pack.  The IJA may run or they may fight.  It’s up to the British to figure out.  

Joe Gochinski is also the designer of one of my favorite scenarios – DB099 The Gin Drinkers’ Line, featuring Hong Kong.  

By the way, when I call them fanatics, they are real fanatics.  I don’t just mean they play like there’s no tomorrow.  This pack features some of the best ASL scenario designers.  Carl Nogueira is the designer for CH Dien Bien Phu and for the upcoming Dinant CG, Tom Morin is the designer for Valor of the Guards, Vic Provost (OB14 Pursuing Kobayashi), Stephen Johns, Ted Wilcox, Michael Puccio, Ralph McDonald and Joe Gochinski & the others have long lists of published scenarios in Dispatches from the Bunker, the New England ASL newsletter.  

Vic Provost – SSR: All Occupants of the Bunker Location are considered Fanatic [A10.8]

The Nor’easter ASL Tourney XX Anniversary Pack is truly a scenario pack designed by fanatics, for fanatics.  It’s product that these group of friends can all be proud of.  I am actually quite happy about the production (PDF) and the delivery (free & instantaneous).  I know a good number of these folks personally, out of which Carl Nogueira spent the most time teaching me how to play properly.  I just KNOW I am getting a top notched product.  I also wish to show my support and therefore encourage more of these publishing efforts from other ASL groups around the world.

Who knows?  We might even see a couple starting to come out of Asia!!  

To get your own copy of Nor’easter ASL Tourney XX Anniversary Pack:

The cost of the Pack is $15.00. Please forward your payments to the PayPal account of Carl Nogueira if paying by PayPal or to:
Carl Nogueira
7 Green Street
New Bedford MA 02740
If paying by check/money order, please make payable to Carl H. Nogueira.
If you have any questions regarding any aspect of the scenario pack, please contact Carl at chnogueira@aol.com, or here on facebook.

To get our own subscription to Dispatches from the Bunker:

Contact Vic Provost at aslbunker@aol.com

(I backordered all copies apart from keeping a subscription going forward, it IS that good.)