Re: Important Announcement on Future of Dispatches

You may want to consider ePub as well as PDF Vic (Mush better for Reading
on Digitial devices)

On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 10:38 PM, Vic Provost <aslbunker-/[email protected]> wrote:

> You bet Bill, I am quite relieved with the positive feedback
> I've been getting. Thanks again for your support, Vic.
>
>
> ________________________________
>  From: Bill Watkins <[email protected]>
> To: 'Vic Provost' <aslbunker-/[email protected]>; 'ASL Discussion List' <
> [email protected]>; 'ASL Mailing List Current May 2004' <
> [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):
>
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>
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>
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>
>
> 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:
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>
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>
> Vic Provost
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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:
> [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.
>
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