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  2. ASLOK 2007

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    Just a quick note to thank all of the Scandinavian ASLers who made the trek to ASLOK this year--Robert, Klas, Lars, and Mattias. It is always great when any of you can grace us with your presence. I also had the pleasure of playing Mattias for the first time, in a very fun playing of Kravchenko's Sixth Guards Tank Army.

     

    For those of you who did not come this year, we did miss you, and hope you will come back soon. ASLOK is always more fun when you are there, plus we never run out of matches.

  3. AP 17 Valley of Death - What Next !

    in Allmänt

    Posted · Edited by pitman

    Welcome to the forum, Pitman!

    You take a lot of effort to read news about your Action Pack it seems. You also speak the language of sweden, eeehh? :rolleyes:

     

    I think my ability is limited to what I have learned from the "Swedish Chef." :)

     

    However, there is a Swedish to English internet translator which is helpful to me. :)

     

    Anyway, my direct thoughts were that it was really unnessecary to use same name for scenario as previously published scenario from FRF.

    If this was unintentionally it's one thing but Im sure that you had information already available.

     

    I don't think ASL'ers like new scenarios interferring with old names/existing scenarios!

     

    We both got our scenario title from the same historical source, independently of each other.

     

    Of course, when I designed "The Valley of Death," back in late 2004 or early 2005, FRF was not yet published. Had "Valley of Death" already been published at the time, I probably would not have designed my scenario in the first place, but chosen some other action instead (although our two scenarios are very different in nature and offer different playing experiences).

     

    FRF knew about my scenario (they downloaded an early playtest kit of it) but if I remember correctly, never told me that FRF had a scenario in the works with the same name. By the time FRF actually came out, I had been using my scenario title for quite a while already and liked it a lot. So I thought about it, and in the end decided to keep it. I didn't think it would cause any confusion; there are already scenarios out there that duplicate titles; with nearly 4000 scenarios it is inevitable from time to time.

     

    Obviously, I have been a big booster of FRF since the release of the first one, and recommended it many times to people, so there was never any attempt at disrespect, etc.

     

    best,

     

    Mark

  5. AP 17 Valley of Death - What Next !

    in Allmänt

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    I agree, by creating all these "this-time-this-happened" SSR's you are not playing ASL. We have a great rule system and I think we should stick to it. We have HASL for special events.

     

    Now, wait a second! You are saying that designers should not use Scenario Special Rules to create Special Rules for the scenario?

     

    Am I the only person who think that sounds a little bit wrong?

     

    No partisans in Urban Guerrillas? No Hitler Youth in the sewers in Acts of Defiance? No burning buildings in Shanghai in Flames?

     

    I think a little chocolate fudge for our vanilla ice cream every now and then is a nice thing. :)

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