Re: Dispatches Update & Playtesters Needed

Vic

I havce some time in my life to test the Gin Drinkers Line

Cheers

Aaron

On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Vic Provost <aslbunker-/[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello
> to all my ASL Comrades at the List. We are well into the In-house
> playtesting on
> the scenarios that will debut in Issue #35, due out at the Bunker Bash in
> late
> September.
> the first two are ready for some outside testing right now and am
> asking
> for
> some 'volunteers' to give either or both a try and get a report back to us
> in
> the
> next
> month. The two larger actions need some more work but should be ready early
> in
> July. You get a Free Copy of # 35 when you submit a report and here is what
> we
> are
> working on:
>
> The
> Gin Drinkers Line - Hong Kong 1941 - Nice tourney style offering from
> our
> own
> Joe Gochinski as 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. Tourney style with
> nice
> toys.
>
> 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. Medium sized action takes around 6 hours to complete.
>
> 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
> larger
> action
> for those not afraid to spending 8+ hours on a scenario.
>
> We'll
> also be announcing our ASL Article winner in #35 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.
> Also
> see the next few paragraphs on the Big Announcement I made
> last
> month on Dispatches Future.One of my and this hobby's best friends,
> Ralph
> McDonald, who has been printing Dispatches from the Bunker
> since
> 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 printers 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.
>  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.
>
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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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