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If you want to cheat at ASL, there are lots of simpler ways to do it than hack VASL. Purposely playing the rules wrong in your favor is probably the easiest.

It definitely happens that I forget to log off after a gaming session. Occasionally I will connect before my opponent and stay alone in the room for a few minutes, but that accounts for a way smaller proportion of the time I stay alone in a VASL room.

In my playing the only Germans on the Fa map section were a Marder and squad stranded all alone on the hill, all others had managed to retreat to the Sa section and so benefited from Cloaking. Symmetrically, we played that Americans just on the Fa map section, but very close to the Sa section...

"Vassal" is a French word, so I pronounce it like the word. VASL, on the other hand, cannot be properly pronounced with a French accent, so I always spell it. Little possible confusion in the French-speaking community.

Or, if you're in Bog terrain, you can try changing VCA.

This is a common misreading of the rule. To count for Encirclement (or for inflicting DM status), the shot needs the potential to inflict a NMC or worse; this means that, among the possible DRs, at least one must result in NMC or worse. If the attack is leader-directed, or otherwise immune to...

I don't see where you can honestly see a loophole. C2.28 says all guns have B12 unless they have a different printed B#; it then refers to A9.7 for what a B# means (since A9.7 only talks about SW, and guns are not SWs), and there it is clear that an Original DR >= your B# results in malfunction...

This is going to kill 90% of my post-scenario fun, while I stay up until early morning marking the map after the game... plus, it will also kill many opportunities for mistakes while doing it. Looks great, really. Are they as easily shown/hidden as the original control markers? They do seem to...

If you like early war battles (or at least, battles low on heavy metal), Inor by LFT is an absolute blast. The CGs are light on chrome (they include mechanisms for reinforcement attrition/delay due to battery fire, and the longer CG has rules to simulate troop rotation on the French side, but...

Yeah, a 150+mm CH is likely to be the receiver's wurst nightmare. Until Random Selection picks the broken Conscript HS, of course. Also, a Snake DR is not necessarily a CH on the Infantry Target Type. If the Final TH DR is not <4, a subsequent dr is needed.

Just updated VASSAL and VASL to try out this extension. It seems quite nice. I noticed it doesn't seem to interact too well with the "Hideable Control Markers" extension, though. In my current DZ:SME campaign, I am using this extension to mark setup areas with the thick lines that normally line...

I don't think the rules worry about how the piece got there - it's a legal hex, so setup in there is allowed.

Yeah, that's what I do too. But then when the tank moves, sometimes the AL remains in place. Normally I see it and move the AL as well, but it's easy to miss.

At least VASL shows you the HIP unit, just more transparent. So you'd be even more likely to forget about the HIP AL in a FtF game! Now, occasionally I'll move the tank and leave the AL behind, and in a long battle I could forget which tank it was in the first place. So I'll try to think of the...

Hmm, that's pretty clear cut, and convincing. Thanks! (I believe that, since Night is only invoked by SSR, it should be the standard that Scenario Attacker and Scenario Defender roles be systematically attributed by SSR; it would be much clearer that way)

Scenario 4 in CG3 of DZ:SME is a Night scenario, and the scenario SSR state that: the Germans are the Scenario Attacker on map section Sa the Americans are the Scenario Attacker on map section Fa the Americans cannot use Cloaking This "dual" situation has strange aspects; I am understanding...

Last time I checked (that is, yesterday, I believe), the preorder was not possible from the LFT site (which is where I usually get my BFP products). Will it get there, or should I start looking for another (EU-based) option? (Of course this is more a question for Xavier and his acolytes)

Non-reality argument: When you "use" the option to change [V/T]CA instead of firing, you are at least giving up something in exchange for the CA change - maybe you could have hit something with that shot (and you're not risking malfunction or SAN by taking an artificial dummy shot). If your...

I've always seen it played as the "not necessarily" applies to both. Basically: once in a Woods/Building, you must stop unless your next hex is also a Woods/Building hex; same-building-ness or attached-woods-ness is irrelevant.

I have absolutely no problem with the AF products themselves (I just bought two of them). There are some design choices in their HASL modules that I would most certainly prefer went the other way, but then I am not a designer myself, so it's completely all right that they decide what they want...