Special Ops Issue #3

Special Ops Issue #3 includes the game A Victory Complete: The Battle of Tannenberg, 1914, articles and errata counters for several MMP games. It also contains ASL/ASLSK material. ASL/ASLSK articles: ASL Etiquette by Dave Ramsey Don’t Go Off Half-Tracked: Getting the Most Out Of Your Halftracks in ASL by John Slotwinski & Phil Palmer Teaching ASL by Robert Wolkey Forward to Elst! by Ken Dunn ASL scenarios: O5 The Tsar’s Infernal Machines (Brian Youse & Ken Dunn) This 7-turn scenario is a 1914 World War I action between Russian and German forces and features two new vehicles: the Russo-Balt armored car and the Mannesmann-Mulag armored truck. The infantry of each side is represented by Conscript MMC that are treated as Green by SSR and may use a version of the Banzai Charge to maneuver “en masse.” 18 German squads, 10 Russian squads & 2 crews, 5 Russian AFV O6 Third Time’s The Charm (Ken Dunn) This 7-turn scenario, set in the Crimea in 1942, features a Russian relief force attempting to aid a surrounded Russian rifle regiment in its attempt to break out through German lines. 10.5 German squads & one crew, 14 Russian squads and a variable number of reinforcement Infantry, 6 Russian AFV ASLSK scenarios: S52 Extraordinary Bravery (Tom Morin) Set in Danzig on September 1, 1939, a small but determined Polish force must hold off a polyglot force of VGAD (Reinforced Border Surveillance Service, or Verstärker-Grenz-Aufsichts-Dienst) and SS units in their efforts to wrest control of the Danzig Post Office away from its defenders in this 4½-turn scenario. 7 Polish squads, a mixed force of 4-4-7 SS squads and Axis Minor 1st Line/Conscripts, 1 German AFV and 2 German 75* INF guns. S53 Workers Unite! (Vincent Maresca) A mixed force of Russian industrial workers and NKVD troops must defend Smolensk for 6½ turns from the German 29th “Falcon” Infantry Division, including a detachment of Pioniers with flamethrowers and demolition charges. 18 Russian 1st Line and Conscript squads and 18 German Elite & 1st Line squads. ASL other material: Fourteen ½” and eighteen 5/8” counters for use with two of the issue’s scenarios Also included are Chapter H entries for the Russo-Balt armored car and the Mannesmann-Mulag armored truck used in scenario O5.