The 2 Half-Squads

Greetings Listeners,

Best wishes for the New Year from our broadcast to yours!

We want to thank you for all of your amazing support over the years. We owe so much to you all.

Listen and see if you have won the French Counters.The drawing happens now. 

Dave Kand Dave T played Trap by Mishap SV12 from the Swedish Volunteers. There is an after action report in this show. Photos can be found on our Twitter feed.  We also recount a Desperado miniatures game that we played as well as a game of Space Empires that Jeff played. We also tear into the latest box of ASL goodness called The Fight for Seoul.

Desperado Zombie Game 

Get over to the new Italian ASL company and pre-order Brevity Assault and Biazza Ridge.

SHOW TIMES

1:00 Auld Lang Syne and Chat

12:35 Drawing for French Counters

16:30 What Have You Been Playing Lately

28:00 What's in the Box?

52:10  Total Running Time

SHOW LINKS

Advancing Fire Game Company

Le Franc Tireur Korea Game

The 2 Half-Squads is brought to you by Ritterkrieg, Bounding Fire Productions, Broken Ground Design   and kind donations from listeners like you!

Greetings Cheery Holiday Listeners,

We believe you will forgive our slightly longer than usual banter, when you hear the heartfelt sharing that is included therein. Please remember to see your doctor.  In our Rules segment we cover First Fire rules and marvel that it took us nearly eleven years to get to them.  Learn all about First Fire in our usual kind of quiz show format.  You get to see what you know as you try to guess the answers along with us.  Review those FFMO and FFNAM modifiers while you listen.

Get over to the new Italian ASL company and pre-order Brevity Assault and Biazza Ridge. 

SHOW TIMES

1:00 Banter

15:00 The Rules Rule

47:00 Letters

1:13:40 Total Running Time

SHOW LINKS

Advancing Fire Game Company

The 2 Half-Squads is brought to you by Ritterkrieg, Bounding Fire Productions, Broken Ground Design   and kind donations from listeners like you!

Dave Ramsey operates the fantastic Advanced Squad Leader website The ASL Archive. You kind find a trove of interesting ASL material here, publications, scenarios reviews, opponents wanted and even a source that tells you the average length of a scenario. The audio quality is a bit uneven and we apologize but you will learn of all the angles that you can get on a scenario in this interview with Dave.

SHOW TIMES

55:10 Total Running Time

SHOW LINKS

Illuminating Rounds on Youtube

Barkmann's Corner Early Animation

The 2 Half-Squads is brought to you by Ritterkrieg, Bounding Fire Productions, Broken Ground Design   and kind donations from listeners like you!

What a great opening song, thanks to Dennis and Steve again! Speaking of the Swedish Volunteer pack Dave discusses his latest game from said pack, SV9 Mexico and Morocco.  A new segment about books premieres in this episode. You may be saying to yourself...."self, haven't the Half-Squads always talked about WWII books?" And you would be correct, however Dave's review of Brackman's book about the Tokyo War Trails, titled The Other Nuremberg, goes into more detail than the normal banter.

We finally get to taking a gander at Advanced Squad Leader Starter Kit #4 thanks to Ritterkrieg.com.

0:01 Hooked on the Swedish Song

3:20 Banter With Special Offers So Listen Closely

16:50  What Have You Been Playing Lately?

29:30 Book Review

39:35 What's in the Box?

1:11:05 Total Running Time

Hooked on the Swedish

Concept:  The2HalfSquads

Lyrics:  Dennis Donovan

I just played the Swedish

Yeah, I saw those

I…, I’m hooked on the Swedish

The Swede pack’s sweet as candy

It’s quite the smorgasbord:

Chapter H and

I..., I’m hooked on the Swedish

Go and get one

I, I’m hooked on the Swedish

I’m hooked on the Swedish

Said I’m hooked on the Swedish

Hello Fans, Friends, and Family,

Sorry for the slight delay in publishing, we won't name names but....Dave forgot to keep our scheduled time.  A time that was already delayed due to scheduling issues.  But, anyway.

We hope you enjoy the wonderful opening song by Dennis and Stephen Stewart.  

The contest for the French Broken Ground Design Counters ends December 15th. Simply send us a gmail with French Counters in the subject line and you will be entered into our drawing.

For Box Art Review we run a special compare and contrast of bonus pack #7 and #10 viewed side by side. Dave adds an in depth look at the scenarios of Hatten in Flames. 

The beautiful shot glasses with Clink and Drink printed on them along with our logo are available now in limited quantities (only 14 to be exact). Send us a gmail asking if there are any available and we will let you know what you need to do to get one....if you are one of the lucky 14 that is.

SHOWTIMES

0:01 Counterstruck Song

5:10 Banter With Special Offers So Listen Closely

19:13  Box Art Review and Shot Glass Fundraiser Details and Unicum Taste Testing.

27:00 Actual Box Art Review

35:00 What's in the Box?

45:00 Hatten Scenarios in Depth

1:09:30 Total Running Time

Lately Dave has played SV7 Probing Korsus from the Swedish Volunteers Pack.  We cover Stream-Woods hexes, Light Woods, Prepared Fire Zones and Towers in our Terrain Time segment. That is a ton of terrain and it moves us nearer to the end of the terrain rules section in the Advanced Squad Leader Rule Book. At the end of the episode we tack on some recorded ASL talk from a meeting of the PAASL club, you may enjoy some guys just talking about ASL.  

SHOW TIMES

1:00 Chit Chat

11:30 What Have You Been Playin' Lately?

19:30 Allied Minor Counters from Broken Ground Design

23:00 Terrain Time

47:45 PAASL Chat - Just Talking ASL

56:00 Total Running Time

Nashville Parthenon

Scenario SV4 Robing Korsus in the Scenario Archive

Not sure that opening the show with banter about aging bodies is, by any stretch of the imagination, a good idea, but of course we do it anyway.  Then we discuss getting stuck in the mud in your Kayak.  Kayakers beware. During the letters segment we take a look at the new Pacific Theater offerings from Broken Ground Design. Exciting stuff. We introduce you to a few others. See their links below. Grab your conductor hat and get on board as we depart the station and cover Railroads and Steeples during Terrain Time.

SHOW TIMES

1:00 Banter

17:30 Letters

41:00 Terrain Time

1:13:52 Total Running Time

Griff Hosker - Author

 Broken Ground Counters Explained

Adam Lunney- Historian, Author, Loyal Listener 

 Ritterkrieg #83 Announcement

Bounding First Fire Tournament 2019

Together we discuss our visit to Comic Con and our wonderful time with Henry Winkler. Then Dave tells  what it is like to become an almost empty nester, then he gives us an update from the Palatine Area Advanced Squad Leaders game club. During that report, you will hear from Will Marrerro, Dan Janezik, Mike Stubits, Ron Schatz, and Bill Forg. They discuss Scenario RPT 55: Coudehard Cache, Scenario HG-2 Konista Crackdown and Scenario 43: Into the Fray.

Together we discuss our visit to Comic Con and our wonderful time with Henry Winkler.

Letters are as fascinating as usual. 

DAVE, HENRY, and MIKE

SHOW TIMES

1:00 Banter

13:00 Letters

31:00 PAASL After Action Report

58:45 Total Running Time

SHOW LINKS

Bunkers in Greece

Wild West Fest

The Greeks attacking the hill on left and woods on right. 

Near the end. Success in taking the hill and most of the village.

We are honored to have the privilege of interviewing the designer of Multi-Man Publishing's Advanced Squad Leader Historical Module Number 9, Hatten in Flames, Andy Rogers. He is an interesting person to talk with. The game is a wonderful module with 8 scenarios and 2 campaign games based on the World War II battle. Check out the amazing website linked below to learn more about the battle and have a listen to this episode to learn more about the game. 

SHOW TIMES

1;00 Intro 

3:00 Interview

1:02:35 Total Running Time

SHOW LINKS

Andrew Rogers Hatten Website

Andrew Rogers Hatten Website

Welcome to another fascinating episode of the one and only podcast dedicated 100% to the greatest game in the world, Advanced Squad Leader. Mike Stubits joins us again as Dave banters a bit too long perhaps but he recounts his wild adventures while in Greece. Just check out these photos from a most romantic Air B&B.  That ought to get you interested. In our What's in the Box segment we look at Broken Ground Designs' Hungarian counters. Get your bell ready to ring in and play along with our Terrain Time segment on roadblocks. There are several after action reports in the PAASL recordings. Dan and Dave played Scenario WO13 All The Stops.  Mike and Rich played FrF93 Wiener Walzer.  ASL newcomer Vince played Ron in S1 Retaking Vierville. Get some advice on how to play them here. 

SHOWTIMES

1:00 Dave's Amazing Greek Odyssey

20:00 Contest Winner Announced

25:00 What's in the Box?

34:00 Terrain Time

46:00 PAASL Talk

1:06:40 Total Running Time

The 2 Half-Squads is brought to you by Ritterkrieg, Bounding Fire Productions, Broken Ground Design   and kind donations from listeners like you!