If the enemy gets a RE, you may find something unpleasant and unexpected happening to you, eg his AFV charging from offboard into your flank. If one is rolled for your own side you may be fortunate enough to receive decent reinforcements or to have the enemy suffer adversely in some way. To add considerably to the Fog of War, a Random Event may take place in the Rally Phase.
Within a certain range or if affected by friendly fire they are Activated, a process which either turns the counter into enemy units or shows it to be a Dummy. These either hold their position (if on the defensive) or advance randomly. The enemy forces are represented at first by Suspect counters, different-coloured "?" that may represent 1-3 enemy squads with or without support weapons and leaders, or a gun or AFV. Victory or defeat in the Mission depends on achieving the Victory Conditions, as in an ordinary ASL scenario. Extra troops may be randomly allocated depending on the mission. Your forces comprise 130 BPV of infantry or a historically-based company of about 9-12 squads and leaders, minus any losses if the Campaign game is being played. A scenario (or "Mission") is selected (randomly, if desired, and possibly as part of a Campaign) and your forces set up accordingly. It should first of all be stressed that these rules were not designed for use with existing, non-SASL scenarios, but require the use of the fourteen scenarios in the box. The rules actually require less verbiage than one might imagine for a games system this complex. Some people may be disappointed that there are no new boards or overlays, but as most of us already have forty or so boards and a whole load of cardboard to stick onto them, this is a minor quibble. There are also fourteen scenarios, which I'll come back to later.
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Was it worth the wait?įor the £30 or so that it costs in the UK, you certainly get a huge amount of material - system counters galore, several pages of SASL rules, and two or three stiff cards of charts for the Germans, Russians and US forces, plus one for generic player events and dice rolls. The possibility was discussed with the first release of the ASL Rulebook, but it took Charlie Kibler about ten years to finally get to the point of release of the first solitaire module (and possibly the last, due to Avalon Hill's sellout to Hasbro). This game, in other words, was crying out for a solitaire variant. With the best will in the world you know that there is an HMG and 10-3 leader under that "?" counter, and so you subconsciously or self-consciously move the other side's troops accordingly. The scenarios are still entertaining and exciting, but somehow that ultimate dimension of guesswork isn't there. Come to think of it, a lot of ASL players don't know anybody who would be interested in playing, so they try to play both sides themselves. It's also impractical to ask a friend just to pop around for an hour to play the odd turn in between other events, like dinner and going out. As a result, you'll be lucky to finish the scenario by midnight. You then may have two hours play, slowed down by references to the copious rulebook, measurements for LOS, and agonising over whether to push a squad into the line of fire of a stack of defenders.
Of that evening, you spend maybe an hour choosing a scenario, picking the right counters out of the literally thousands and setting them up while trying to think of a game-winning strategy. If you are lucky enough to find a human opponent (well, I've never persuaded any of our pets to play), then you've got maybe one evening once a week to have a game, assuming you don't have a lot of other commitments. Avalon Hill's Solitaire Advanced Squad Leader, better known as SASLĪSL is a time-consuming game. SOLITAIRE ADVANCED SQUAD LEADER Last updated : updated text and added links to SASL Tips, German Gebirgsjäger and Soviet Cossacks.