Lest we forget...

In Flanders Fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

In Flanders Fields
By: Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae (1872-1918)
Canadian Army

Bonus Pack Action

ASL Starter Kit Bonus Pack #1! Announced a couple of hours ago here:

http://talk.consimworld.com/WebX?14@366.9nwhaouanqF.22@.ee6d502/76439

The good news, I think, is that ASLSK is getting much love from MMP. Awesome!

ADDENDUM - Back at home, here's some more stuff for you too lazy to get to CSW:

The HOT Box Cover (by Niko Escubi):

Cost is US$10 plus shipping.

Included is THREE scenarios for ASLSK1 level only and one SK-map, a new one, "P". Design credits according to Brian Youse (http://talk.consimworld.com/WebX?14@366.5vq9aoJCnS0.10713617@.ee6d502/76455):

I did Clearing Carentan, Chas Argent and I did One More Hedgerow, Ken Dunn did Sink's Encouragement. Ken and I created the map, Charlie Kibler painted it.

Order page is here: http://www.multimanpublishing.com/ASL/prodbp1.php

ASLSK XP1!

Enough with the acronyms. ASL Starter Kit is getting an Expansion Kit from MMP and it just hit pre-orders:

http://www.multimanpublishing.com/preorder/viewGame.php?id=81

GO!

Really Chas-tastic!

So, it turns out that September is a very busy time for teachers. Who'da thunk it? Anyways, Chas is churning out the ASL stuff now:

http://talk.consimworld.com/WebX?14@366.FUQraw4XinT.140@.ee6b46b/39628

Chas-tastic

Here's some fun news. (I've been out of it for a few days with the startup at school!) Good ol' Chas Argent, who has been the "Action Pack" guy for MMP for the past couple of years (more? less?) has been hired on as a full-time employee of MMP. Announcement from Brian Youse here:

http://talk.consimworld.com/WebX?14@366.aFsSaXKbfRr.108@.ee6d502/75273

Congrats Chas! I think, as many others do, that ASL is in great hands!

AP6

Well, well, well... what's this about?!

http://talk.consimworld.com/WebX?14@366.M3g4aKU5d3d.136@.ee6d502/75046

Half-boards...!

ADDENDUM: Chas Argent has posted what this might look like here: http://talk.consimworld.com/WebX?14@366.M3g4aKU5d3d.722@.ee6b46b/39375 COOL!!!

S15 AAR - The long story short...

It wasn't pretty. MartijnV, my opponent, took me apart quite skillfully to make it to the VASLeague Final.

Complete AAR to follow but I just wanted to mention that once again, my game was a super-positive experience. I have yet, knock on wood, to play anyone who wasn't a good sport.

Also, Martijn and I drew quite an audience. Kudos to Lorenzo and ChrisNL who were another set of eyes for us for rules oversights. Again, the ASL community seems to be quite awesome.

VASLeague Round 4 - News! I suck!

Just wanted to let everyone know that reading is a skill that is integral to ASL. Also, "Level 1" means hills. "Level 0" is the ground. Read over your S15 scenario card... yeah, the Germans set up on the HILL, not the ground.... God I suck... That is all.

p.s. Thanks to MartijnV, my opponent for a tough, tough game so far. One other thing, does anyone have a good method of recording and transmitting HIP-status Guns to opponents in VASL? The problem being that my encrypted files to Martijn were not able to be opened by him (they are vanilla Microsoft Word 2007 files). Ease of use and infalliability a plus!

p.p.s. Wow we drew quite the crowd on VASL while playing today. Shout outs to Lorenzo, Andy, Pvt. Davis, Evan, et. al. Roll low kids!

World of ASL - Updated August 2009

Just caught this on CSW here. Mr. Mark Pitcavage has once again updated his World of ASL resource on his Desperation Morale website. Go check it out:

http://www.desperationmorale.com/worldofasl/worldrecent.html

Here's what he says about the update:

I have uploaded a major update to the Desperation Morale Website's World of ASL Compendium, adding the more than 20 ASL related products that have come out between May-August 2009, including the longest review of an ASL product in the compendium, of the travesty "One Wild Ride."

"Mr. Ekted's" ASL Primers

Thanks to Luke (rindu!) who posted in the last comments page:

Dude, I just remembered something. Some links for your learning ASL roll. About a year before the Richfam tutorials came out, ekted from BGG wrote two blog posts, outlining the basics of SK. They were way helpful to me, and he's a cool guy!

http://ekted.blogspot.com/2006/05/asl-primer-i.html

http://ekted.blogspot.com/2006/05/asl-primer-ii.html

Check 'em out!