My Schedule

I'm actually going to be bold (for me) and attend the first three days or so all by myself. If any of the Atlanta group is planning on being there, and you read this, look me up. I'll be sitting by myself somewhere in the ball room trying not to look too pathetic. I might be on an old cheap laptop...

Later in the week, one of my new friends up here, Jeff DeYoung - the king of the 3D map, will be arriving with a group of people from Grand Rapids. I can't recall who is coming with them, but I'll be looking forward to seeing them. Jeff and I have a scheduled battle of Bloody Red Beach, where I will be taking a large task force of US Marines in on an amphibious landing against well dug-in Japanese (who will have to be well dug-out, to use a quote from Barry Johnson from the Atlanta group). Napalm, naval artillery, and a ton of flamethrowers and demolitions charges. It promises to be nothing but carnage! Can't wait.

Later, my other local friend, Chris Garrett will be showing up. I've been doing a lot of play testing with Chris for the upcoming Journal, and I regularly absorb a thumping from him. I only hope to offer a better game after I soak up some new ideas and tactics in my ASLOK madness. We've been playing so many partisan and Minor scenarios, anything above an 8 IFT shot looks devestating.

My goal is to win one game per day over the course of the week. Based upon my level of play, that's pretty ambitious. Stay tuned.

My ASLOK experience

Ever since I returned to ASL back in 2001, ASLOK was in my sights. I'm fortunate to have my brother living in Cleveland, not more than twenty miles from the ASLOK venue. Given that I have recently moved to Kalamazoo from Atlanta, my ASLOK dream is easily accomplished.

So this year I took a full week of vacation and made plans to head to Cleveland. My brother and his wife were kind enough to put me up at thier place and even loan my a vehicle. So I am now primed to have a complete, satisfying and relatively cheap ASLOK experience.

I will arrive on Saturday, Oct. 2nd and conclude gaming on Friday, Oct. 8th. Six complete days of nothing but WW II gaming, with nary a care in the world.

I have to thank my wife, Diane, for making this possible. Without her complete understanding and support, this just wouldn't happen. I'm awfully lucky.

So this short-lived Blog will be updated each and every day with pictures, reports, and lamentations regarding my ASLOK experience. If you aren't an ASL gamer, I'll still try to make it entertaining by giving a general description of Cool Events (TM) and why they are cool in layman's terms.

Let the dice fly!

ASL Oktoberfest 2003 Information

ASL Oktoberfest 2003 Information