ASL Journal
Multi-Man Publishing elected to
publish a periodical devoted to Advanced Squad Leader after
acquiring the rights to ASL. In the introduction to the first
issue, they noted:
This...is our first product
under the Hasbro aegis, and we hope it will serve as a bridge
from the Monarch-Avalon past to the MMP/Hasbro future. In form
and content, the Journal might as well have been named
the ASL Annual, following as it does closely in the
footsteps of its predecessors. We changed the name to signal a
new beginning and because we don't want to be tied into the
only-once-a-year schedule that is inherent in the title Annual.1
Issue 10 saw the
introduction of a new publishing format:
ASL Journal
10’s new format features separate, cardstock scenarios, rather
than the traditional method of binding the scenarios in with the
rest of the pages, with the magazine itself now printed on the
same 80-pound gloss paper we use for our Special Ops magazine.
Players will no longer have to photocopy the scenarios or remove
them from the magazine prior to playing, and the new glossy
paper for the 48-page magazine proper will significantly improve
the brightness and clarity of articles therein. Using scenario
card inserts also makes it easier to include other inserts, such
as the player aids also provided in ASL Journal 10.2
Cover Gallery/Issue Listing
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ASL Journal
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ASL Journal
2
(2000) |
ASL Journal
3
(2001) |
ASL Journal
4
(2002) |
ASL Journal
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(2003) |
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ASL Journal
6
(2005) |
ASL Journal
7
(2006) |
ASL Journal
8
(2010) |
ASL Journal
9
(2011) |
ASL Journal
10
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ASL Journal
11
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ASL Journal
12
(2017) |
ASL Journal
13
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Special
In 1998, several articles and
scenarios from The General were reprinted in ASL Classic.
In 2003, Out of the Attic appeared, with additional
reprints of scenarios and articles, from third party publishers -
including Backblast magazine, which Multi-Man Publishing
had printed before acquiring the rights to officially publish ASL.
Billed as "Issue One", a second issue appeared in 2010,
with a promise to print a third.
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ASL Classic |
Out of the
Attic #1
2003 |
Out of the
Attic #2
2010 |
ASL Annual
Aside from regular features in The
General, Avalon Hill also produced a series of magazines
focused on ASL but with some original SL content also, beginning
in 1989. The ASL Annual was, as the name implies, released
with regular issues once a year and was popular enough that two
issues were published in 1993 (called ASL Annual '93a and
ASL Annual '93b). No issue was published in 1994, with
issues again appearing in 1995, 1996 and 1997. The 1995 issue was
named ASL Annual '95w (Winter) in anticipation of a second issue
being printed that year, but it did not materialize.3
Scenarios located in the ASL Annual
were numbered sequentially with an "A" prefix, either ASL
Scenario A1, A2, etc., or SL Scenario A1, A2, etc., Deluxe ASL
Scenario A1, A2, etc. The first two issues featured content for
the original Squad Leader series of games, but this content was
dropped beginning with the the 1991 issue.
Cover Gallery/Issue Listing
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ASL Annual
'89 |
ASL Annual
'90 |
ASL Annual
'91 |
ASL Annual
'92 |
ASL Annual
'93a |
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ASL Annual
'93b |
ASL Annual
'95w |
ASL Annual
'96 |
ASL Annual
'97 |
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Notes
- ASL Journal 1
(1999).
-
MMP website, accessed 12 April 2015
- The online review of the 1995 Winter Annual by
View from the Trenches noted: "...let's hope they can get
the promised '95 (Fall) annual out this year."
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