Re: Important Announcement on Future of Dispatches

Thanks David for the positive feedback, I feel we 
made the right call on this, Vic.
 

________________________________
 From: David Goldman <[email protected]>
To: Vic Provost <aslbunker-/[email protected]>; ASL Discussion List <aslml-4AbWFiq3us5mR6Xm/[email protected]> 
Sent: Monday, May 21, 2012 11:30 PM
Subject: Re: [Aslml] Important Announcement on Future of Dispatches
  
Vic,

Good decision.  Keep up the good work.

David Goldman

At 08:59 PM 5/21/2012, you wrote:
>Hello
>to all my ASL Comrades at the Main ASL Mailing List. I was going
>to wait until Issue #35
>came out in September to break the news but can't
>find a real reason
>to sit on it so here goes. One of my and this hobby's best
>friends, Ralph
>McDonald, who has been printing Dispatches from the Bunkersince
>we started publishing it way back in 1997, will no longer be able
>to
>do so in the next year or so. His position and department are being
>relocated
>to NJ in yet another consolidation in corporate America.
>Ralph
>will not being moving out of the region but his means to do the
>printing
>for this Newsletter will.
>I
>checked around at several vendors including some local printers and
>the
>big-box
>stores and found out it will cost much more than I want to pass
>along
>to my customers. After mulling over yet another price increase I did
>not
>want, I came to the conclusion that several subscribers have been clamoring
>for
>in the last year, namely, Dispatches will be going GREEN!
>What
>does that really mean? I will be doing 2 more hard copy issues which
>will
>be
>mailed out via the USPS as I have for the past 15 years. After Issue #36 I
>will
>be
>e-mailing pdf. file copies of each issue in March and September to all of
>my
>subscribers.
>To inform everyone what their Last Issue is, I'll group the e-mails
>by
>last issue with the information in the first line of the e-mail that the pdf.
>file
>is
>attached to. To compensate everyone for not getting an actual hard
>copy,
>I
>will add an issue onto everyone's sub after Issue #36 ships. I will also be
>lowering
>the price of a 4 Issue Subscription to $15.00 for Everyone, no longer
>will
>there
>be 2 different prices for subscribers in the USA and my International
>readers,
>one
>price will fit all. You still get a minimum of 16 scenarios for $15.00 plus a
>total
>of
>48 pages of ASL stuff and now will be able to view it on your 
>tablet, I-Pad or
>whatever
>portable
>device comes down the road and will be able to print your own color
>copies
>of
>our scenarios. I still think it is a heck of a deal for the money 
>and will be a
>much
>more
>flexible as a digital product going forward.
>Not having
>to deal with an actual paper mailing means we won't be at the mercy of
>the
>US
>Postal Service, which as everyone knows, is in dire straights in a changing
>digital
>landscape.
>No more having 5 - 10 issues 'lost in the mail' or coming back with a
>bad
>mailing
>address each time I send them out. Also no waiting for the next postage
>increase
>that
>I have to absorb or pass along. I will be asking everyone to reply 
>to me after
>Issue #36
>ships
>next March with their current
>e-mail they want me to send the newsletter to.
>Also
>gives me the peace of mind of treading a little lighter
>on mother earth in general.
>I
>know there will be some 'Old School Grognards' out there who will 
>not be happy
>with this
>decision
>but there is no doubt in my mind that sending paper anything
>through snail-mail
>is
>fading into the dust-bin of history and will be seen in such light in the
>not-too distant
>future. This
>change also recharges my batteries for the long run and I plan on
>keeping
>on
>with the newsletter for at least another 15 years, God willing.
>So
>now, with that off my chest, let's look at what we have in store for Issue
>#35:
>The
>Gin Drinkers Line - Hong Kong 1941 - Nice tourney style offering from
>our
>own
>Joe Gochinski with a reinforced company of Elite and 1st line
>Japanese
>infantry
>tries to wrest the Bd 62 village from the 7th Rajput (Indian)
>Regiment.
>Plays
>fast and bloody, very tense fight over those Huts.
>The
>Gateway - Hatten, France, January 1945 - Steve Johns brings us the
>tourney
>style
>gem as Panzer Grenadiers and Pioneers, supported by Stugs and a
>Flame-Hetzer,
>smash
>into the 42nd Rainbow Division during Operation Nordwind. With two 57L
>ATGs
>the
>out-manned GIs will do their best to defend Board 1a.
>A
>Willingness to Die - Robert Hammond is back with the next in the 6th Panzer
>Division
>series.
>It is day two of Operation Barbarossa and elements of the Russian 48th
>Rifle
>Division
>stand in the path of the German advance at Paislinus, Lithuania. A very
>cool
>Sniper
>SSR that Robert  & Tom Morin collaborated on make this a hornets nest
>for
>the
>advancing lancers as they try to control woods/buildings on board 38 along
>with
>exiting
>20 VPs. A nice, innovative design with wrinkles that only Robert seems to
>come
>up
>with.
>Les
>Homme de Neige - New Dispatches designer Bruce Childs has come up
>with
>a
>Big, Brutal melee in the mountain tops near Storvtn, Norway in May 1940. On
>Bds
>2,
>9 & 15 with a couple companies worth of French 1st liners and Elite Ski
>troops trying to
>clear
>the hilltops of dug in German mountain troops. Snowshoes also make a
>rare
>appearance
>in Deep Snow conditions in Alpine style hills. Very cool looking
>action.
>We'll
>also be announcing our ASL Article winner in #36 and am still looking for
>submissions
>for
>the scenario design contest, see the parameters in Issues #33 or #34. Carl
>Nogueira
>will
>have more Tactical Tips and I'll have all the usual scoop on the regional ASL
>scene.
>Meanwhile,
>Dispatches from the Bunker Issue
>#34 shipped out right
>after
>the Nor'Easter Tournament and here is
>what it contained:
>
>Trail
>to Hello Again. Redesign of DB019 with a design much more in
>keeping
>with my original scenario: a meeting engagement between
>similar
>company sized Marine and Japanese forces in the trails on
>Bougainville.
>I've gotten some nice feedback on it already.
>
>Spare the
>Pagoda, Mandalay Burma 1945: As the British continued their
>sweep into
>the southern section of Mandalay, they ran into Japanese resistance
>centered on
>a Pagoda. Can it be cleared in time to allow the offensive to continue?
>Tourney
>sized on board 3a.
>
>Land
>Sharkey: Normandy July '44: Operation Goodwood had erupted the preceding
>day and the
>Ulster Rifles came under fire from a Church in a village astride the 
>Escarville
>-
>Troarn Road.
>Can they clear this obstacle of the threat being raised in the 
>British flank?
>Tourney
>sized on Bd 63.
>
>Hold the
>Brickworks: The final entry in Adam Lunney's Brickworks series finds a final
>push
>by elements
>of the 10th Panzer Division trying to wrest control of the 
>Brickworks from the
>8th Argyles.
>Medium tourney sized on Bd 44.
>
>Sandbanks on
>the Volga. The latest in Andy Hershey's Stalingrad actions finds us back in
>the
>Barricades, this time at the onset of Operation Hubertus in the final push to
>take the city.
>This time we
>se the fighting shift into the fuel tank farm in the Eastern rear area of the
>southern
>RB map. Big
>killer of a scenario for all you fans of urban combat, looks like 
>another fine
>RB
>action from
>Andy.
>
>We'll also
>have a new partnership with BattleSchool with Dispatches subscribers
>getting
>discounts on their precision dice. Also, the ongoing scenario design 
>contest,
>a look at
>Churches in ASL and of course Carl Nogueira's continuing Tactical Tips.
>
>As has
>been noted in the past. I have retired Back-Issues #01 - #20.
>I am trying to
>figure out a proper outlet for what is not now MMPs
>copyright
>material as the below website is now dead and will not be
>resurected
>anytime soon.
>
>www.aslbunker.com
>
>
>Huge
>News you may or may not have heard, is MMP has put together
>a scenario pack
>called 'Out of the Bunker' featuring scenarios that
>originally were published
>in Issues #01 - #20. See the link below:
>
>http://www.multimanpublishing.com/ta...9/Default.aspx
>
>For
>those unfamiliar with Dispatches, it is a 12 page Amateur
>ASL Newsletter
>that comes to the greater ASL Community twice
>a year, sometime in March and
>September courtesy of the New
>England ASL Community, including the Bunker
>Crew and
>our yasl Brothers in Southern New England. It typically
>contains
>4 New Scenarios, Analysis of each one, a Main Article on
>any
>aspect of the game system, Tactical Tips, ASL News and
>Tournament
>Updates from our region.
>
>IF this sounds like CH by 400+ NOBA on the
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>Remember, Dispatch #28 included Tom Morin's 3 scenarios and
>5 date
>mini-campaign of the brutal battle that took place on
>Guadalcanal at the Ilu
>River (Alligator Creek).
>
>Also Please remember that Dispatch #23 is
>devoted to
>VotG including the 3 scenarios that Tom Morin designed
>specifically for the newsletter, analysis of each, Tom's
>VotG Saga and
>Jim Torkelson's look at VotG from the
>German point of view.
>
>Any other
>questions just reply to my e-mail at:
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>again to all my Contributors, Playtesters, and
>Subscribers, without whom the Newsletter would
>not be possible. Thanks
>for your time and
>consideration, your ASL Comrade, Vic Provost.
>
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