The 2 Half-Squads

After the fantastic interview last show, we couldn't really follow it up with anything as great as that, so we decided to clean out some letters,  bring you what's new in the Advanced Squad Leader world with In The News, and talk about scenarios we have played lately.  Simple, yet beautiful.   Enjoy.

When you can snag interviews with people the likes of Ken Katz, you've got an excellent show with The Forgotten War, Korea 1950-1953.  Ken does an outstanding job giving us the run down on the development, history, boards, counters and rules of this fascinating new module. We are really looking forward to this one. 

very little effort on the part of the interviewers.   You also don't need to edit a whole lot. Ken brings us the inside scoop on the soon to be released (well, soon is a relative term) Multi-Man ASL product

Happy Halloween All. We bring you a very scary show for this very scary season. Hear lot's of interesting ideas, thoughts and suggestions from our listeners as we share their letters. These letters also include some film suggestions and Advanced Squad Leader tournament announcements.  Listen closely as we determine the winners of the contest and see if you are one of the lucky ones.  Our contest participates answer the question "what would you like to see more of in ASL?".  They have some great ideas. Scenario designers listen up.

In this episode we interview the indomitable Rich Spilky about his adventures and mis-adventures at ASLOK. You may have heard of the luck o' the Irish, well listen to this show and you will learn of the luck o' the Perry and how that can effect a games outcome. Rich raps it up with an in-depth look at his rules table 28. It's great, it deals with backblast!  Can't get enough backblast now can we?

Is your refrigerator running?

Oh boy, have we got a show for you! Not only do we bring back our special guests from the last show, Spilky and the Forgs (great name for a rock band eh?) and we give you a great opening song with lyrics by D. Donovan and beautiful vocals by Megan K.

Not only do we provide you with a report from the

Texas ASL Tourney and we give you with a fantastic look at the new ASL Map Pad Packs from Broken Ground Design.  Not only do we give you a rip roaring edition of Quiz Show and the usual and somewhat amazing BANTER.

But we also provide you with a....with a........well....maybe that is all we provide you with.

Realizing that Dave and Jeff alone make for an awfully lonely (and sometimes just plain awful) show, they invited Rich Spilky, and Bill and Will Forg to discuss their game of The Last Bid from Red Barricades. As you might expect, you will gain some great tactical advice from the discussion. After that "after action report" Rich and Bill both discuss their latest Advanced Squad Leader related products and ideas.  These brilliant ideas include new charts, a better method of making tongs and counter containers, and much more. Oh, yeah, and don't think you can steal these great ideas.  They are patented.

There really isn't anything such thing as "motor goat bun" rules in Advanced Squad Leader.But there are rules about WIRE, and we give them a steely look in this episode.  Banter includes discussion of the film Guadalcanal Diary, The Fighting Sullivans and War For the Planet of the Apes. We cover a few ASL scenarios that we played lately, including Into The Rubble 17 from Bounding Fire Productions. Listen to the letters from our wonderful listeners and get some ideas about how to store your ASL goodies in order to better travel with it, discover players who are looking for fellow gamers in their area. Learn how to get started in the game.

CONTEST! Here is the latest contest... send us a gmail the type of specialty scenarios that would you like to see more of? More partisans? More special forces? Commandos? MGB? Or what historical area should be explored in an ASL product?  Brest Litovsk? Corriegedor? Zombies?

Send us your opinion by October first and you will be entered into our drawing.  The prizes include The Scenario Designers Handbook (1st place), Critical Hit 10th Anniversary Magazine (2nd place), and the Sabaton CD (3rd place).

Everybody loves counters.  Alan Findlay of Broken Ground Design makes some cool ones. Alan checks in with The 2 Half-Squads and discusses his gaming background and introduction to Squad Leader. Broken Ground Design makes an interesting mouse pad scenario pack as well as some beautiful color counters that are historically accurate.

Did you know that Chinese Commissars are notorious pyromaniacs? If you didn't then you obviously have not listened to this episode of The 2 Half Saquads, the only podcast on the net, dedicated nearly 100% to the greatest game in the world, Advanced Squad Leader.  Did you know our letters segments provide a place for listeners to make requests of other listeners much like some of the best ASL forums. A place for fans of the game to connect and make connections. If you think that is a great thing, then you need to support us on Patreon.  Even if you don't think that is a great thing you still need to support us on Patreon.

Did you know that HIP units can be left off the board and their location can be written down on a sheet of paper? If you didn't then you don't play a lot of ASL AND haven't listened to this episode.

So,,,,,,why don't you give it a listen now?

The 2 Half Squads are sponsored by

Ritterkrieg and Bounding Fire Productions

SHOW TIMES

0:02  Song Sleeze Freezer

3:10 Banter

13:20 Letters

29:30 Free Hat Contest Winner Announced

31:30  What in Da Box?

1:08:50 Total Running Time

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We discuss a ton of scenarios from a variety of Advanced Squad Leader producers including ones from St. Louis Burma Pack, Into the Rubble 2, Le Franc Tireur and Multi-Man Publishing.  Speaking of rubble we dig in to the rubble rules and since you might need to remove the stuff, we cover the Clarence, sorry, we meant clearance rules. That'll show how to clear, rubble, wire and all kinds of ASL stuff.