Re: Important Announcement on Future of Dispatches

You bet Bill, I am quite relieved with the positive feedback
I've been getting. Thanks again for your support, Vic.
 

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 From: Bill Watkins <[email protected]>
To: 'Vic Provost' <aslbunker-/[email protected]>; 'ASL Discussion List' <[email protected]>; 'ASL Mailing List Current May 2004' <aslml-aslml.net-4AbWFiq3us5mR6Xm/[email protected]> 
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2012 12:01 AM
Subject: RE: [Aslml] Important Announcement on Future of Dispatches
  
Love it!  See you on my ereader!

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
On Behalf Of Vic Provost
Sent: Monday, May 21, 2012 10:00 PM
To: ASL Mailing List Current May 2004
Subject: [Aslml] Important Announcement on Future of Dispatches

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 enemy Bunker complex,
Subscriptions and Back-Issues are still available and here is how to get
yours (all prices include S & H and PayPal Fees. Also Please make all
checks/money orders out to Vic Provost, NOT Dispatches from the Bunker):

4 Issue Subscription (Starting with current Issue #34): 

In the USA: $16.00 (Check/Money Order/Cash or PayPal) 

Outside
the States: $20.00 (International Postal Money Order, USA Currency or PayPal
only. Sorry, NO Credit Cards, Personal Checks not drawn on a USA Bank, NO
Western Union, this is an Old School Amateur Effort and our Hobby, not a
Full Time 'Business' :-)

If using PayPal please send your remittance in USA Funds via PayPal to: 

[email protected]

If using PayPal
please also notify me here at
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with your shipping address
and just what you are ordering, Thanks.

Back-Issues and Bundles 

  
With the
news at the top of this update, Ralph will not be doing any reprints of Back
Issues so what I already have on hand is what is available. If you want any
Back Issues Please e-mail me for
availability: 
$4.00 per
Issue in the USA, $5.00 outside States.

All 14 Issues now in print
:
$40.00 in the USA, $50.00 outside the states.

The Works: 
All
Issues in print plus a 4 Issue Subscription, starting with current Issue #34
(16 Issues in total)
$50.00 in the USA, $60.00 outside the states

Make
your remittance out to Vic Provost and send to: 

Vic Provost
Dispatches from the Bunker
P.O. Box 2024
Hinsdale MA 01235
USA 

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: 
[email protected]
and I'll do my best to
answer your query. Thanks
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. 

'SSR: 
All Occupants of the Bunker Location
are considered Fanatic [A10.8]' 
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