The 2 Half-Squads

Mike Stubits joins Dave and Jeff in the Broadcast Foxhole as he discusses his gaming background and his tournament experiences.  He is freshly back from the St. Louis Tournament that he attended with Rich Spilky.  And he recounts his adventures and the wonderful generosity of the Texas ASL boys!

You can brush up on your pillbox rules during Terrain Time, which doubles as a kind of Quiz Show so pack up your pachyderms, your ASL kit in your trunk, and play along!

SHOW TIMES

1:00 ASL Tournament Talk

29:00 Terrain Time

1:06:20 Total Running Time

SHOW LINKS

Pachyderms at Brookfield Zoo

Boardgame Geek Pillbox Questions

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

Lot's of letters get us off on the right foot on this show. You can always rely on the listeners to provide some great material. Tournament announcements, commendations, questions and answers (although not very good ones, from us). What's in the Box? examines the Polish and Romanian

counters from Broken Ground Design and...wait for it....the new contest!  BING, BING, BING, simply get on Twitter if you can, Tweet at #T2HSPoles state that you would like the Polish counters and you will be entered in the contest.  We realize there could be some complications with this method including the fact that if you are not on Twitter you will hate us, but we will just have to figure it out as we go. Contest ends July 31st.  What we have played lately is SV8 Mud and Blood, FrF97 Wrecking the Rentals, and ASL111 Balkan Sideshow.

SHOW TIMES

1:00 Random Talk

 9:30 Letters

37:30 What's in the Box?

47:00 Contest Announced

50:00 What Have You Been Playing Lately?

1:07:02 Total Running Time

SHOW LINKS

Malaya Madmen Singapore July 26, 2019

Canadians and Brits at Arnhem

Duitse aanval bij Westervoort Video 10 mei 1940

Tanker Coin

Wild West Fest ASL Tourny

Possiby a Real Best of List That We Are On

St. Louis ASL Tourny

Peg Leg Porker - Nashville

ASL Balkan Sideshow Controversy on Game Squad

Welcome to episode 222.  We are proud to present our interview with Oliver Gray.  He has a lot's of interesting things to say about all of our favorite topics including but not limited to his counter storage system known as the Great Wall of Raaco, his collection of counters,WW2 history books,  his Battleschool dice and of course his Advanced Squad Leader collection itself. 

He is currently paytesting the Konigsberg Pack for George Kellin at Lone Canuck Publishing as has playtested Scotland the Brave for Ray Tapio at Critical Hit. He has been doing proofreading for Alan Findley of Broken Ground and he is a huge fan of Bounding Fire Productions products. Olli used to run a local ASL club in Scotland where he provided all the kit (he certainly has enough),  and .up until a couple of years ago he had a semi regular get together for ASLers at Highlander Games in Dundee. Olli is a Veteran and served many years in the British Royal Air Force and loves a good old malt whisky. Here's to Olli.....cheers.....clink and drink.

Despite the title of this episode it is, as usual, rated PG. Perhaps Dave and Jeff's natural animal magnetism is to blame. If you are wondering what this conversation is all about you will want to jump right into the letters section where you will be granted understanding as well as access to good old ASL talk. For the most detailed rules discussion continue to Terrain Time and learn about Narrow Streets. Watch  out for that street fighting advantage. 

SHOW TIMES

1:00 Too Much Talk (but cool historical movie topics covered)

20:00 Letters 

38:00Terrain Time

1:09:15 Total Running Time

We apologize for the bad audio quality in the first 8 minutes. Dave attended the ASL Open, even though he didn't play, he had a great time (surprisingly) watching Rich Spilky and Wes Vaughn play ASL 21 The Professionals. You can hear a discussion of it during banter. The winner of Critical Hit's Arnhem: The Third Bridge is announced.  Terrain Time teaches you how to place and avoid anti-tank mines as you play with armored fighting vehicles. 

SHOW TIMES

1:00 ASL Talk (disguised as Banter)

9:00 Winner of Arnhem: the Third Bridge Announced

21:00 Terrain Time

55:35 Total Running Time

Greetings Advanced Squad Leader Fanatics! Welcome to the show. Loose ends get tied up as we finish our review of LFT 14. Achtung Minen! Yes, learn your mine rules right here and right now but watch your step, we don't want you to go Kablooey.  Terrain Time in a nice quiz type format covers those rules as well as wire rules.

1:00 Bantero

14:00 LFT 14 Continued

28:20 Terrain Time

1:01 Some Quick Plane Advice from LFT

1:04:42 Total Running Time

Greetings Brothers of the ASL Rule Book,

        We hope you are doing well and that you will enjoy the wonderful opening song performed 100% (and we mean it when we say it this time) by Jeff Hallett.  We remind our listeners of our contest to win Arnhem: The Third Bridge by Critical Hit.  Enter by April first, and no, we are not fooling. The majority of this effort centers on Le Franc Tireur's newest magazine, issue #14.  Inside you will find the history of the Italians in WWII and in ASL.  It includes a full set of Italian counters with additional paratroops as well as many scenarios.  In the What's in the Box portion of the show, Jeff discusses the card type game Mighty Little Defenders and Dave discusses, ASL Scenario SV3 Absolute Markajarvi. 

SHOWTIMES

0:01 Long May We Run

4:45 Banter

19:15 Letters

37:00 What Have You Been Playin' Lately Bro?

50:00 What's in the Box?

1:14:10

SHOW LINKS

Blind Hex Chart

Human Wave Tournament

Hooked on a Feeling by Blue Swede