Idiot's Guide to ASL

Or, Stuff I Forget

SamB@ExMSFT.com

Bore Sight               C 6.4

• Scenario Defender Only
• All Guns (including MA, SA)
• MMG, HMG, Lt Mortars

PF                          C 13.3, C 8

• After September, 1943
• July – Sept 1943 by SSR only
• Squad 1-3 OK, 6 Pins
• 8 IFE Equiv. No Residual FP
• Max = squads              (1943)
• Max = Squads * 1.5            (1944)
• Max = Squads * 2            (1945)

ATMM                    C 13.7

• During or after 1944
• Squad 1-3 OK, 6 pins
• -3 DRM for CC vs Vehicle

Special Ammo          C 8

HIP                        A 12.3 – A 12.34

Elite                       A 1.21

• Depletion + 1            C 8.2
• AFV Crew            D 5.1

Commissar             A 25.22

• Any scenario On / Before 10/42

Riders                    D 6.2

• Russian 1942, Others 1943

Grain in Season          B 15.6

• June to September (inclusive).
• Plowed fields in April and May

Orchards in Season          B 14.2

• April to October (inclusive)

Stream                   B 10.4

• Dry                   Gully
• Shallow             3 MF
• Deep                 4 MF
• Flooded             N/A

Infantry SMOKE          A24, C8.5

Ordnance SMOKE        

OBA SMOKE

WP                         A24.43, C8.5

• USA
• Brits in 1944 & 1945
• Japanese
• By SSR

sD                          D13.1, D13.31

• N/A if you have fired
• Places dispersed Smoke in own hex
• BU is +1 DRM to placement

sM                         A12.32

• N/A if you have fired
• Dispersed Smoke 1 to 3 hexes
• In TCA and LOS
• Case A applies If change of CA

sP                          D13.1, D13.33

• N/A if you have fired
• Must be CE
• Places Dispersed Smoke in own hex

sN                          D13.34

• N/A if you have fired
• Must be BU
• Places Dispersed Smoke in own hex
• Used in CC            A 11.622

EC, Victory Conditions & SSRs

The Plan: You DO have one, don’t you? What approach? Will you fall back? When?

·         Best approach to VC area?

·         Distance / Turn?

• Tank / Antitank
• Reinforcements – when / where?
• Special Capabilities?

After Setup:

• Review all Pre-Game Items
• Is setup legal? Setup area & number (type) of units.
• Concealment Growth
• Record location of A. Leader
• Note HIP unit Location

RPh:

• Setup off board Reinforcements
• Recombine HS
• Transfer / SW Recovery
• Deploy
• Scrounge
• Repair
• First MMC self Rally
• Remove DM

PFPh:   Review the Plan!

• Remove / Flip SMOKE
• Fire Ordnance SMOKE
• Radio Contact / OBA (SMOKE)
• Other OBA Action
• Mop Up / Entrench
• Kindling
• Resolve Attacks
• (Un)Limber guns
• Change CA is able to fire w/o IF
• Mark / cancel AA modes
• Collateral Attacks?

MPh:

• Move Berserk First
• May Change CE / BU
• Crews Abandon / Enter
• SW Recovery (1MP)
• SMOKE Grenades (WP?)
• Clearance Attempt
• sD (D13)
• DB / FB sighting TC (DFF)
• T-H Hero (8 hex range)
• Search at end of its MPh
• Units in Flame location Eliminated
• Berserkers w/ no KEU return to GO

DFPh:

• Ordnance Dispersed SMOKE
• Radio Contact / OBA (SMOKE)
• Subsequent Fire vs adjacent enemy
• DB / FB sighting TC
• Change CA is able to fire w/o IF
• Collateral Attacks?

AFPh:

• If Mild Breeze, Place Drifting SMOKE
• Fire Ordnance Dispersed WP
• During Gusts, Remove / Flip SMOKE
• Resolve Attacks
• Blaze Spread
• Flame to Blaze

RtPh:

• Voluntary Break
• Conduct Routs
• Surrender
• Interrogation              E2
• Eliminate Infantry in Blaze

APh:

• Transfer SW / Prisoners
• TH Heros (ADJACENT)
• Advance
• May Change CE / BU
• Place / Remove CE

CCPh:

• Place onboard all HIP (under "?")
• Reveal Strength
• Remove dummies          
• Check for Ambush
• ATMM??? (C13.7)
• TH Hero (vs. Same Hex)
• Resolve CC
• Resolve Aerial Combat
• Remove TI, Flip Stun
• Grow Concealment