Fantasy En'Counter - Der Online-Shop für Rollenspiele, Brettspiele, Miniaturen, Tabletops, Cosims, Trading Cards und mehr!

Fantasy En'Counter Logo
 

Fantasy En'Counter c/o Holger Willert  •  Gudulastr. 5 D  •  (Hofgebäude rechts hinten)  •  45131 Essen
Tel.: 0201 786877  /   0201 797743 (rund um die Uhr 24h Service)  •  Fax: 0201 797410  •  EMail: fanen@fanen.com

Einkaufswagen
Suche
Suche starten

Kategorien

Brettspiele
Rollenspiele
Tabletops / Miniaturen
Cosims
Kartenspiele
Magazine
Bücher
CDs
Figuren
Allgemein


Kataloge
(Cosims)

Firmen
Produktlinien
Spiele nach Titel


Service
Warenkorb

Warenkorb / Kasse

Bestellbedingungen

Bestellungen und mehr

Bilder aller Art

Die Galerien - Bilder aller Art

Kontaktdaten

Kontaktdaten & Anfahrt

AGB

AGB

Impressum

Impressum

Datenschutzerklärung

Datenschutz-
erklärung


Seitenabrufe

232661047 Seitenabrufe seit dem 30.06.2003


Pfad: 

HauptseiteCosimsProduktlinien (Cosims)ASL - Advanced Squad LeaderMarch Madness 2013 Commissar Pack (Reprint)


 (Klicken zur Vergrößerung)

Vorbestellen!

March Madness 2013 Commissar Pack (Reprint)

 

Hersteller: 

Kansas City Irregular ASL Club

Produktlinie: 

ASL - Advanced Squad Leader

Bestellnummer: 

KCIAC 2013.1

Produkttyp: 

Hintergrundmaterialien

Sprache: 

Englisch

Preis: 

ca. 20,00 EUR

Anmerkungen:

 

Bitte vorbestellen

Produktbeschreibung

In 2013 the theme is Commissars. The Commisar pack features eight scenarios in which the Soviet player can have commissars (rule A25.22).

To celebrate and promote its annual “March Madness” ASL tournament, every year the Kansas City ASL Club designs and releases a themed scenario pack. The 2013 iteration of this series is the Commissar Pack, the self-evident theme of which is commissars, although, oddly enough, many of the scenarios in the pack do not contain any commissars on the OB (though they can be exchanged for, one supposes).

The commissars in question are all Soviet commissars so that basically makes this an East Front-themed scenario pack (actually, an early East Front pack, as all of the scenarios are set in 1941-1942). The other name for this pack could be the River Pack, as 5 of the 8 scenarios use river boards. Oddly enough, the depth and current of the river is specified in each of these scenarios, even though in every scenario but one there is no actual way for anybody to cross said rivers.

Boards (collectively) required include: 3, 7, 8, 12, 13, 23, 33, 34, 37, 40, 52, 58, 60, 61, 64, and 65.

Previous iterations of this annual pack were printed only in small numbers–enough for tournament attendees and a few dozen more to be sold on E-bay. The Commissar Pack is the first pack in this series given a somewhat larger print run with the idea of selling more copies to the general ASL audience. The fact that the Commissar Pack is an East Front pack may help with such sales. However, it is not clear how much play these scenarios will get, as these scenarios mostly appeal to only a limited audience.

The main “problem” (obviously not a problem for people with similar scenario tastes) with the scenarios in the Commissar Pack is their playability, or rather lack thereof. First, 7 of the 8 scenarios are large in size. Somehow one small scenario managed to sneak in when they were napping. Moreover, many of these scenarios are not simply large but very large. MM30 (Frozen Vzvad), for example, pits 40 Soviet squads against 19 German squads and a ton of guns and fortifications. MM27 (Odessa Madness) features 33.5 German and Romanian squads attacking 24 Soviet squads and even more fortifications. Some of the others are similarly gargantuan.

They are big in other ways, too. Four of the scenarios use three full boards, three scenarios use two full boards, and one scenario (the baby one) uses most of two boards. Half of the scenarios are 9 full turns long, while three more are 8 full turns long. The “baby” scenario is 6.5 turns long.

Generally speaking, these scenarios tend to resemble stereotypical Squad Leader scenarios that included everything but the kitchen sink, because Squad Leader played pretty fast. Advanced Squad Leader, however, does not play fast, and most of the scenarios will take a long (or very long) time to play. Although a minority of ASLers prefer huge, meaty scenarios, and most ASLers certainly enjoy playing a huge scenario every once in a while, the reality is that most ASLers will simply not be able to find the time to play most of these scenarios. Dan Best, who designed all these scenarios, has demonstrated here and in the past that he definitely has a “type,” but the question is how many other people have that same type.

To add to the beefiness, 6 out of 8 of the scenarios use at least one module of OBA, while 2 of the scenarios are Night scenarios. No scenarios use air support. Two scenarios, MM27 (Odessa Madness) and MM25 (Futile Bravery) require rules and counters (respectively) from Valor of the Guards.

Some of the scenarios are SSR heavy. The most problematic SSR appears in MM25 (Futile Bravery) and consists primarily of 10 tiny-typed lines of terrain modifications, such as “no hills on Board 8 exist” and “no water terrain exists on Board 23,” etc. ASL players as a rule hate to have to remember wholesale terrain modifications. It is a shame this scenario has such modifications, as it may feature the most interesting tactical situation in the pack. A small (only in a relative sense) force of Germans must defend a bridge from a huge horde of poor-quality Soviet troops coming from both sides of the bridge; the Soviets win at the end of any game turn that they control any bridge location.

This scenario pack will appeal to East Front aficionados who like Super Big Gulp scenarios. Others may find it a tad too unwieldy for their tastes.

Weitere Bilder

 (Klicken zur Vergrößerung)

 (Klicken zur Vergrößerung)

Warenkorb

Im Moment ist Ihr Warenkorb noch leer. Klicken Sie auf 'Kaufen' oder 'In den Warenkorb legen', um ihn zu füllen.


Newsletter

Anmeldung für unseren Newsletter

Abmeldung für unseren Newsletter


News
(Cosims)

Frisch eingetroffen - "Prigoschin Strikes: The long Way to Moscow"

(28.06.2023)

Like it or not, we live in interesting times …”

(12.03.2022)

Like it or not, we live in interesting times …”

(03.03.2022)

Jäger verlorener Schätze aufgepasst!

(13.03.2019)

(Alle News)