If you missed it here it is. MMP held its first roundtable discussion hosted by one of the Ms in Multi-Man Publishing … Curt Schilling. Topics include: the upcoming ASL product schedule, HASL design discussion, and some “behind the curtain” info on how MMP works, as well as a bunch of Q&A from the peanut gallery.
Big thanks to Curt for allowing us to share this!
Here’s a summary of the ASL product portion of the discussion:
= New info
- Ponyri Station HASL (Slaughter at Ponyri?), almost done, playtest done, final edits being done, Pete Shelling design
- Karkov in Flames HASL, hopefully will see pre-order this year, scale similar to Hatten in Flames (smaller HASL), Andy Rogers design
- Marco Polo Bridge Incident (? unsure of exact title) playtest done, will ship as separate versions for both ASL and Starter Kit, Ken Dunn design
- Chef-du-Pont HASL (follow on to Sainte-Mère-Église) in final playtesting
- Spanish Civil War core module, BIG! Playtest done, final editing happening, preorder this year
- Journal 15 this year
- Operations magazine with have a HASL map and “several” scenarios, featuring the fight to relieve the Korsun Pocket (Russia v Germany, Jan/Feb 1944). More scenarios on this map might be published later
- Polish Eagles (? unsure of final title) being worked on, Ken Dunn design
- SK Magazine layout pretty much done and is in proofing – “Basic Training” is its official name
- Rotterdam HASL (Dawn of Eagles?) being worked on
- Starter Kit Stalingrad! Will use SK ruleset (presumably with some extra rules) on existing MMP Stalingrad map(s) (this one was a surprise)
- HASL e-rulebook, some of the older HASL rulesets will be sold as a PDF bundle so they can be played on VASL by those who couldn’t (or didn’t) buy the originals back in the day. Presumably that means anything appearing in this “HASL e-rulebook” will never be reprinted, but I could be wrong…
- Concerning the ASL rulebook: MMP will republish the binder version of the RB without the binder and will always be in synch with the e-rulebook. Whenever the e-rulebook is updated, self update high-resolution versions of the binder rules will be available to be printed and inserted into your binder.
- Contested Lands (last title mentioned) core module was removed from the production schedule due to current situations happening in the Middle East. The module is basically done, and will be added back to the schedule when the time is right.
Title of listed products are preliminary and only reflect titles provided in previous updates. We probably won’t know the final title of any product until we see it on pre-order with final box artwork.
And as always … Thanks for the support!!
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Great update, thanks!!
Operations mag will contain a “HASL Map” with a few scenarios to be played on that map. Features the fight to relieve the Korsun Pocket. Will likely get more content in the coming years.
The first 8 products listed we plan on having, at a minimum, on Pre-Order this calendar year.
Is this Curt? Thanks for clarifying, updated the listing.
I’m going to have to take out a second mortgage! Good time to be an ASl player.
Thanks Curt and Neal, great discussion and information. There is alot in the pipeline, so we will be happy and content with what is coming up. I look forward to the next Roundtable Discussion…and as Neal closes with, Roll Low. 🙂
” Contested Lands core module was removed from the production schedule due to current situations happening in the Middle East. ” -> This explanation is bogus : not the same place, not the same time, not the same people, not the same leaders, etc…
” Karkov in Flames HASL, hopefully will see pre-order this year ” -> It seems MMP/HASBRO guys are not aware of what happens in Ukraine. Compared to the previous statement, it is either a very bad joke or pure cynicism.
You’ll have to watch the video for the detailed explanation. But here’s the tl;dr summary: “Hasbro said so.”
Sounds like it was out of MMP’s hands.
But we live in a woke world, where everything offends everybody. Big corporations are terrified of the wrong ‘message’. So your opinion is your opinion, nothing more. No lies in those statements btw, simple facts. You don’t like them that’s on you.
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I agree : big but weak.
I hope this module is postponed only because it is an interesting topic and I have learnt a lot of things in participating to its design (at a small scale).