The scenario pack sleeve - yes it really does feature a ‘hero’ character that looks like the above!
The back of the outer sleeve - note the use of squares.
The rest of the contents look something like the below:
Two of the game boards. These are 7 x 7 squares and the squares themselves are 40mm across. Ideal Portable Wargame sized actions methinks - certainly for 15mm although 20mm would work (vehicles typically deploy over two squares).
Landing craft, beach defences and part of the Atlantic Wall
The Germans and yet more defensive positions
A close up of the units, in this case the Germans. Everything you need to know about the unit is featured on their counter
The Americans along with some hardware for tackling the defences and yet another piece of the Atlantic Wall.
I have scored a couple of other bits and pieces in support of this system - a couple of terrain packs and an upgrade kit that takes the core system up to the current version of the rules. In terms of the terrain boards I now have eighteen - six each from the base game featuring generic Normandy countryside, the D-Day set mentioned and also from the Carentan set - these feature a number of buildings in a village/town style setting. With the various terrain overlays I am pretty much set up for a wide variety of battlefields to fight over so my plan is that once I have organised the collection I shall be able to do exactly that.
This mini project certainly satisfies many of my ongoing and circumstantial requirements in that when stored it will be be fairly compact, the production quality is very high and so is visually very good to look at and above all of this it is a fun system.
Looking forward to this!
I’ve been tempted by this in the past… it’s a lovely looking game.
ReplyDeleteI particularly like the artwork on the counters.
All the best. Aly
Hello there Aly,
ReplyDeleteIt has a real combo book vibe about it and the artwork reflects it. Advanced Squad Leader it isn’t but it is a lot of fun!
The company that produced it is no more but the owners/designers are looking to get set up again at some point. They also produced a Stalingrad version and also, wait for it, a 40K version featuring Marines and Orks!
All the best,
DC