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Le Franc Tireur #15: Arid and Desert Terrain

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Playtime
480 min
Age
14+

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This issue focuses on arid and desert terrain. It includes 8 new maps and 23 scenarios (in color) as well as a small set of rules. The magazine is 88 pages in English. The scenarios cover warfare between 1919-1945, and covers such diverse nationalities as Native American vs US, Mongolian vs Chinese, and Chinese vs White Russian as well as the usual forces in World War 2 conflicts. 7 conflicts are pre-WW2, while 16 are set in the 1941-1945 period. Contents: - Editor’s Foreword - Advancing Fire - 30 years of ASL Ring - 10 questions to Steve Swann - ASL events - ASL humor "The play fast machine" - The North African Tirailleurs - The Tunisian Campaign 1942- 43 - Surrender (A15.5) - Map concepts - Left out in the Sun too long - Chapter AD : Arid Desert Terrain - The Russian Civil War ASL rules - Night and Desert rules - Bibliography Scenarios: LFT274 Bear Valley: Native American / US, 9 January 1918 LFT275 Trust Us: Mongolian / Chinese, 18 July 1919 LFT276 Genghis Khan Lives: Chinese / White Russian, 13 February 1921 LFT277 No Post Here: Japanese – Russian, October 1935 LFT278 Toridatsu: Mongolian / Japanese, 12 February 1936 LFT279 The Russians are coming: Spanish Nationalist – Spanish Republican, 29 October 1936 LFT280 Salvation at the Temple: Japanese – Chinese, 25 September 1937 LFT281 Pink Hill: New Zealand – German, 25 May 1941 LFT282 Gardens of Heaven: British – Vichy French, 14 June 1941 LFT283 Road to Merdjayoun: British – Vichy French, 16 June 1941 LFT284 Vichy Strikes Back: British – Vichy French, 16 June 1941 LFT285 The Arab Legion: British – Vichy French, 1 July 1941 LFT286 The Last Fire Mission: Russian – German, 24 April 1945 LFT287 Operation Scipio: British – German, 6 April 1943 LFT288 Fondouk Express German – British & US, 21 9 April 1943 LFT289 Haka at Takrouna: German & Italian – New Zealand, 20 April 1943 LFT290 Picking Olives: Italian – British, 20 April 1943 LFT291 First Skirmish: German – US, 26 November 1942 LFT292 Engineer Hill: US – Japanese, 29 May 1943 LFT293 Wild Men from Texas: German – American 15 December 1943 LFT325 The Cauquigny Bridgehead: American – German, 6 June 1944 LFT326 Vitamin B: Japanese & Indian – British, 14 February 1945