Hull Down

  For my next series of articles for newbies I thought I would concentrate on something that tends to cause issues with all new players and that is simple tank combat. Literally one tank on one tank to try and get some safety concepts into new players heads.   Tanks are precious resources in ASL. Most scenarios are designed with 'basic competence' in the rules ingrained so if you have a tank (especially a late war tank) then the scenario is often balanced on the owning player knowing how to use that tank properly. If due to lack of experience it isn't used competently or gets destroyed fast then the actual game balance is suddenly drastically against you which can lead to bad gaming experiences. In my own ASL career for probably the first few years my own tank experiences went something like this Ooo I have a panther. Supposed to be one of the best tanks in the war..Great this will be fun. Ok lets start up and move to attack. Enemy approaching I will take a shot!. Wha...

  Repost of lost blog post from 2017? The invasion of Poland was a success for German arms but perhaps a strategic failure for hitler . his plan had always recognised that enemy number one was Russia and enemy number two was France and he had planned on smashing France quickly then turning on Russia. In this plan he saw Poland as a willing ally and Britain as if not an ally then at least a friendly neutral. his aggression elsewhere had hardened attitudes and the Poles, stubborn as ever and exposed between two powerful enemies, were not willing to play ball. hitler thus invaded and in doing so finally pushed Britain over the brink.      The Polish army was prepared for the conflict though not for Blitzkrieg and their army resisted as the Germans swarmed in. Prior to the war’s start the Polish 4th army had taken positions in the north west of Poland (Pomerania) to prevent hitler occupying this area by coup de main as he had similarly done in sudetenland earlier. The arrival ...