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Advanced Squad Leader (1985)

Players
2
Best: 2
Playing time
120–480 min
Age
14+
8.02
Average rating
3,978
Ratings
4.74/5
Weight
#595
BGG rank
Top 1,000
Alternate names:ASL: Advanced Squad Leader Rule Book – 2nd Edition +3 more
Designer:Don Greenwood
Artist:Rodger B. MacGowan, Charles Kibler, Nicolás Eskubi
Publisher:The Avalon Hill Game Co +2 more
Average rating, ratings count, weight and rank are sourced from BoardGameGeek (BGG).
Game DNA
  • This game: Strategy 7, Luck 9, Interaction 5, Complexity 9.5, Theme 5
Strategy7.0
Luck9.0
Interaction5.0
Complexity9.5
Theme5.0

This game's strategy, luck, interaction, complexity and theme.

WargameWorld War IIModular BoardVariable Player PowersSecret Unit DeploymentHexagon GridSimulationDice RollingGrid MovementScenario / Mission / Campaign GameInterruptsCritical Hits and FailuresRatio / Combat Results TableVariable Set-upMovement PointsLine of Sight

Overview

Advanced Squad Leader is the completely reorganized and re-designed version of the original Squad Leader system. This three-ring binder is the basic rules for the entire system and provides the ultimate combination of playability and detail. Full-color charts and pictures make this the most readable of rulebooks - and it includes a full-service index as well for quick reference.

And ASL is more than "squads"; the system includes the rules for everything from machine guns to bazookas, tanks and ordnance weapons, paratrooper drops, glider landings and beach assaults. And much more. This set of rules is constantly kept up to date by expansions included with the modules.

ASL goals are scenario-defined and vary from tasks such as exiting troops off of one edge of the board, to inflicting a certain number of casualty points on the opposing force, to capturing a certain number of goal-buildings or areas.

This is just the rulebook. To start playing the game the newcomer must get, at least, the Beyond Valor: ASL Module 1. There are a great many ASL Modules available. "Core Modules" provide additional rules, units from different nationalities, and additional geomorphic mapboards. "Historical Modules" provide campaign games simulating multi-day battles using actual historical maps rather than geomorphic mapboards, including additional rules, counters and paper maps. Many modules have dependencies on earlier modules.

Rulebook contents:

Introduction Chapters A, B, C, D, H (Design Your Own, German & Russian vehicle notes only), J [1st edition] Chapters A, B, C, D, E, H (Design Your Own, German & Russian vehicle notes only), J, K [2nd edition] Index & Glossary

1st edition additional changes/chapters:

chapter E in Yanks: ASL Module 3 chapter F in West of Alamein: ASL Module 5 chapter G in Code of Bushido: ASL Module 8 / Gung Ho!: ASL Module 9 chapter K in Paratrooper: ASL Module 2 8 revised RuleBook pages [A 17-18/A 29-30/B 31-32/F 1-2 all marked "92"] in Croix de Guerre: ASL Module 10

2nd edition additional chapters:

chapter F in Hollow Legions: ASL Module 7a chapter G in Rising Sun: ASL Module 13

(Note: this is a description of the ASL rulebook which is published separately. For the ASL family, check Game wiki.)

Expansions

All American: The 82nd Airborne at Shanley's Hill – June 6-9, 1944
ASL Action Pack #1
Armies of Oblivion: ASL Module 12
ASL Action Pack #2
ASL Comp: BdF II – The Battle for Parker's Crossroad
Arnhem: The Third Bridge
Armored Stand
Airborne Stand!: The Battle for the Marcus Heim Causeway
ASL Action Pack #3: Few Returned
All American: The 82nd Airborne at Kellam's Bridge – June 6-9, 1944
All American: The 82nd Airborne at Timmes' Orchard – June 6-9, 1944
Action at Carentan!
ASL Action Pack #4: Normandy 1944
ASL Annual '97
ASL Annual '93b
ASL Action Pack #5: East Front
7.SS-Gebirgs Division "Prinz Eugen"
ASL Action Pack #6: A Decade of War
ASL Annual '89
ASL Annual '90
ASL Annual '91
ASL Annual '92
ASL Classic
ASL Annual '93a
ASL British AFV Vehicle Cards
ASL Annual '95
ASL Annual '96
All Time Favorites
ASL Action Pack #7
ASL Comp: Devil's Domain – Metalgods at Ponyri
ASL Action Pack #8: Roads Through Rome
ASL Comp: Facing the Blitz
ASL Comp: BoB Normandy
ASL Comp: Afrikakorps – Reluctant Offensive
ASL Comp: Afrikakorps – El Alamein
ASL Comp: Darkest December
ASL Comp: Battle of the Bulge I
ASL Comp: Darkest December
ASL Comp: Digger Pack I
ASL Comp: Genesis II – The Arab-Israeli Wars
Achtung! Panzer!
ASL Comp: Bandenkrieg – Hell Behind the Eastern Front
ASL Comp: Fire and Ice
ASL Comp: Bir el Gubi – Italian Redemption in the Desert
ASL Action Pack #9: To the Bridge!
ASL Action Pack #10
Advanced Squad Leader: Deluxe Pack 1
ASL Comp: Afrikakorps – El Guettar Stakes
ASL Comp: Afrikakorps – Frontier War
ASL Comp: Afrikakorps – Along the Via Balbia
ASL Action Pack #11: 29 Let's Go!
ASL Comp: Afrikakorps – Battle of Gazala
ASL Action Pack #12: ASL Oktoberfest XXX
ASL Action Pack #13: ASL Oktoberfest XXXII
Anzio 1944: On patrol with the First Special Service Force
1.SS-Panzerdivison Leibstandarte Normandie
ASL Action Pack #14: ASL Oktoberfest XXXIV
ASL Comp: Afrikakorps – Benghazi Handicap
ASL Action Pack #15: Swedish Volunteers
ASL Comp: Genesis III – Arab-Israeli War 1948-67
ASL Action Pack #16: From the Land Down Under
ASL Comp: Gettysburg – Retro Map 2nd Edition: Devil's Den
ASL Comp: Gettysburg – Turning Point 1863
ASL Comp: Gettysburg – The Battle of Culp's Hill
ASL Comp: Gettysburg – Into the Wheatfield
ASL Comp: Behind Utah Beach – The Battle for Hill 30 and Chef du Pont
ASL Comp: GWASL II – Blasted Woods: French Great War
ASL Comp: GWASL I – Tankschrecken!
ASL Comp: GWASL III – Over There! American Great War
ASL Comp: GWASL IV – Samsonov's Army: Russian Great War
ASL Comp: GWASL V – Hapsburg Ambitions: Austria-Hungary
ASL Comp: GWASL VI – Blood on the Isonzo: Italian WW1
ASL Comp: GWASL VII – Soldiers of the Sultan: Turkish WW1
ASL Comp: GWASL VIII – Gallipoli and Beyond: ANZAC WW1
ASL Comp: GWASL IX – Bulgarian Summer: Bulgarian WW1
ASL Comp: GWASL X – Slavic Warriors: Serbian WW1
ASL Comp: GWASL XI – Balkan Aspirations: Romanian WW1
ASL Comp: GWASL XII – With the British in Palestine: British and Irregular
ASL Comp: GWASL XIII – German East Africa: German and Irregular
ASL Comp: GWASL XIV – Yser Stand: Belgian WW1
ASL Comp: GWASL XV – Vimy Ridge and Beyond: Canadian WW1
ASL Comp: Cambrai 1 – Armoured Fist 1917
ASL Comp: Cambrai II – Black Friday: Fontaine
ASL Comp: Cambrai III – A Panorama of Hell Bourlon
ASL Comp: Cambrai IV – Highlanders Ground
ASL Comp: French Algeria – Djebel Fighters 1954-1962
ASL Comp Afrikakorps: Operation Torch
ASL Comp Afrikakorps: Bitter Enders
ASL Comp Afrikakorps: Combined Arms
ASL Comp Afrikakorps: Second Time Around
ASL Comp Afrikakorps: Hellfire Pass and Beyond
ASL Action Pack #17: Oktoberfest XXXV
ASL Comp: Breakout from Borisov 1
ASL Comp: Breakout from Borisov 2
Advanced Squad Leader Overlay Bundle
ASL Action Pack #18: Oktoberfest XXXVII
ASL Action Pack #19: Roads to Rangoon
ASL Arnhem 2024
ASL Action Pack 20: ASL Oktoberfest XXXIX
ASL Action Pack #22: A World at War
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