Gettysburg – The Battle of Culp's Hill continues the series and also equips the player with a second edition presentation with all known errata input, plus the bonus counters needed to add more units for playing the scenarios enclosed. Ownership of ASL Comp: Gettysburg – Turning Point 1863 is required to play. During the Battle of Gettysburg, July 1–3...
GWASL III – Over There! In this expansion the Americans enter the fray with all the fanfare that was mustered as they boarded ships to save Europe. The proud, but untested ‘doughboys’ could not have known what was waiting for them ‘over there’ specifically, battle-hardened German soldiers, led by officers that knew victory first-hand. And were fighting for...
One of the most compelling theaters in the history of warfare was the Middle East during the Great War. From late 1914 until mid-1915, the British defend the Suez Canal, taking on various Turkish and Senussi irregulars in their attempts to capture or damage the canal, to block it. A major victory was earned in August 1916, at Rumani, near the coast. This...
A key player in the Central Powers, Austria-Hungary and its territorial ambitions represented a match to the tinder-box that become World War I. The Hapsburgs, namely Emperor Franz Josef, dreamed the dreams of conquerors. Ever an expansionist, Josef’s latest conquest was Bosnia-Herzegovina. And it was a Bosnian Serb that assassinated Crown Prince Franz...
Italy upended their Central Powers allies by entering the war on the side of the Allies in May of 1915, following secret negotiations. Italy fought mostly against Austria-Hungary along the northern border, including high up in the now-Italian Alps and along the Isonzo river. The war was initially a failure for Italy despite being numerically superior to...
The soldiers of the Ottoman Empire fought a variety of combatants during World War I. There were five main campaigns in the theatre: the Sinai and Palestine Campaign, the Mesopotamian Campaign, the Caucasus Campaign, the Persian Campaign, and most famously, the Gallipoli Campaign. The Ottomans joined the Central Powers, goaded by Germany, in its hope that...
When war broke out in August of 1914, the news was met by wildly cheering crowds in Australia. Following some months of mobilization, the AIF exited the country in November 1914 and, after several delays due to the presence of German naval vessels in the Indian Ocean, arrived in Egypt. Their first task was to defend the Suez Canal. In early 1915, however...
Following Bulgaria’s entry into the war on the side of the Central Powers on October 14th, 1915, the death knell for Serbia and Romania began to sound. The Bulgarian Summer of 1915 saw the Entente attempt to win the hearts and support of Bulgaria. It was all for naught, as the country entered the war aligned with Germany and her allies. And mobilization...
Serbia was blamed for the start of World War I following the assassination of Archduke Franz-Ferdinand in Sarajevo. Yet the Serbs would enjoy the first Allied victory of the war, after they drove the Austro-Hungarians out of the town of Sabac on 19 August 1914. Before they could, however, civilians were rounded up in the town and massacred. On the 5...
Romania entered the war in August of 1916, on the Allied side, in an attempt to seize the prize: Transylvania. This region in Austria-Hungary had a Romanian ethnic majority but was under Hungarian control at the time. Despite initial successes, the combined forces of Russia and Romania suffered several defeats, and by the end of 1916 only Moldavia remained...
Another fascinating era in Great War military history is represented by the German East African Campaign. It was the setting of the famous movie, "The African Queen", and devolved into a series of battles and guerrilla warfare clashes, which started in German East Africa and spread to Mozambique, Northern Rhodesia, British East Africa, Uganda and the...
Tiny Belgium was not well prepared for what would come to be known as The Great War. Adherence to strict neutrality meant an absence of treaties, and the protection (or escalation, as it would turn out) they afforded. Yet, the tiny nation did not lack for valor! The Belgian strategy was to concentrate near Brussels and hold off the Germans as long as...