FWIW, I'm less than impressed with ASL. It's a dated technology (state of wargaming ca 1981), and has evolved into MASSIVE rules with games becoming exchanges of "Who read the rulebook last". In fact even the producers of the game defacto realized the monster it had become dy designing a "Game Assist Program" that handled some of the combat routines and the almost infinite dice rolling. Before some folks here, open up I HAVE played it and in fact won gaming tournaments in that particular simulation.Say, I keep hearing about ASL. Is it a benchmark game that SP might aspire to, or an ancient boardgame with it's own failings?
One fellow I play with was trying to get me interested in it(the boardgame) , but mentioned that it is also a computer game.
Many aspects of SL/ASL are in fact incorporated into SPWAW: morale, "national characteristics", and breakdowns. Your call naturally, but personally I'd rather game on a PC, than carry around a huge binder, a stack of mapboards and racks of thousands of counters...but that's just me <img src="smile.gif" border="0">