Dispatch #35 is at the Printer...

Hello to all 
my ASL Comrades. Playtesting is done and Dispatch #35 
has 
gone to the printer. It is due 
out at the Bunker Bash on 9/29. 
Here  
is 
what it will contain: 
  
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. 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  
resurrected 
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): 

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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 
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All 14 Issues now in print 
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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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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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