Merry ASL Christmas

Woek up this Christmas morning to see two new scenario packs had been released for Pre-order by MMP. Initially I thought it might have been Rising Sun as well.

I've ordered my usual two of each (one set for me, and one set for whoever locally wants one)

An interesting mix of scenarios from the first four packs by Friendly Fire, which given how many from those packs have already been publishedin the Journal, means I could have avoided ordering this. However we are talking about someone who owns about three versions of Dzerzhinski Tractor Works so restraint is not a realistic option. Maybe this way I can get John Knowles to broaden his ASL horizons from the older school Official  ASL scenarios.

I would have liked to see Wunderwaffe, Wunderwagen and Pavlov's Dogs included with a small half countersheet but perhaps the reprint of SV will include them as part of the countersheet.

ROAR Stats are as of December 25, AEST.

BoF1 The Marco Polo Bridge Incident  [FrF3-17] (Japanese vs Chinese, China, 1937)
ROAR: Chinese 35, Japanese 27
BoF2 A Polish Requiem [FrF3-26] (German vs Pole, Poland, 1939)
ROAR: German 32 Polish 26
BoF3 The Abbeville Bridgehead [FrF2-09] (French vs German, France, 1940)
ROAR: French 15, German 26
BoF4 About His Shadowy Sides [FrF3-19] (Russian vs German , Lithuania, 1941)
ROAR: German 47, Soviet 37
BoF5 Adolf’s Amateurs [FrF3-20] (German vs Russian, Finland, 1941)
ROAR: German 25, Soviet 24
BoF6 Cavalry Brigade Model [FrF3-21] (German vs Russian, Russia, 1942)
ROAR: German 10, Soviet 7
BoF7 The Fields Of Black Gold [FrF2-12] (German vs Russian, Russia, 1942)
ROAR: Soviet 43, German 24
BoF8 Sting Of The Italian Hornet [FrF4-29] (Canadian vs Italian, Sicily, 1943)
ROAR: Italian 34, Canadian 26
BoF9 Pursuing Frank [FrF4-31] (Russian vs German Poland, 1944)
ROAR: Soviet 6, German 12
BoF10 To Have And To Hold [FrF1-07] (American vs German, France, 1944)
ROAR: US 17, German 21
BoF11 Second Thoughts [FrF1-08] (German vs American France, 1945)
ROAR: German 23, US 19
BoF12 Forging Spetsnaz [FrF3-24] (Russian vs Japanese, Korea, 1945)
ROAR: Soviet 20, Japanese 19

Looking at the ROAR Stats, I can see why a couple or three will get tweaked, but there's a distinct feeling that these are the second wave rather than assault troops of Friendly Fire. However they are Friendly Fire designs so they generally make for great ASL. Marco Polo, Abbeville and Fields of Black Gold are my favourites from this selection.

Pretty standard fare, although the inclusion of the old GI overlays will be interesting especially as a pre-cursor to the Overlay bundle. The Breskens series are pretty much non-entities as far as scenarios go, encapsulating the worst excesses of SL-GI. There was niore than the obvious board reason they were released as part of the Rogue series by AH.