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Poster: Doug Holt
Post Date: 2/5/2025


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Rodger MacGowan has seen his home and RBM Studio facility destroyed in the Palisades fire in California. His son Steven has set up a gofundme account where you can learn what happened and offer recovery help if you wish.

Poster: Doug Holt
Post Date: 1/24/2025


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Poster: Doug Holt
Post Date: 1/10/2025


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Poster: Doug Holt
Post Date: 12/25/2024


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Poster: Doug Holt
Post Date: 12/20/2024


Princeton 1777

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Poster: Doug Holt
Post Date: 12/13/2024


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Poster: Doug Holt
Post Date: 12/3/2024


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Game: Assault Series



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Publisher: Game Designers Workshop (GDW)
Series: Assault Series
Game Type: Board
Designer(s): Frank Chadwick
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Description:


Assault postulates a conventional conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union in the European environment in 1985." Assault, the first game in the Assault Series, includes U.S. and Soviet ground forces. Contains Assault, Boots and Saddles.


Articles


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Pub Date
Article Description
Source
942
Date: 7/15/2024
Poster: Doug Holt
My Assault Page - New Expanded Soviet Army

"New expanded Soviet Army enters the war with the Soviet Air Force (VVS), updated Western Group of Forces and new rules for Advanced Assault including updated CAS and Radar rules." Christopher Selman, on My Assault Page, has posted a tremendous update. Check it out!
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941
Date: 5/31/2024
Poster: Doug Holt
Assault Series Hungarian Army

"This time the Hungarians support the Southern Group of Forces effort." Christopher Selman, on My Assault Page, has posted variant Hungarian Army counter sheets and data charts (as PDFs).
Web Link
940
Date: 5/22/2024
Poster: Doug Holt
Assault Series Albanian Army

"Now the Albanian Army engages in border clashes with just about everybody." Christopher Selman, on My Assault Page, has posted variant Albanian Army counter sheets and data charts (as PDFs).
Web Link
939
Date: 5/13/2024
Poster: Doug Holt
Assault Series Romanian Army Variant Materials

"New threat for the Greeks and Yugoslavians as the updated Romanian Army's Danube Front enters the fray." Christopher Selman, on My Assault Page, has posted variant Romanian Army counter sheets and data charts (as PDFs).
Web Link
938
Date: 4/24/2024
Poster: Doug Holt
Assault Series Updated Bulgarian and Russian Counters

"The Balkans heat up as the Turks and Greeks face the updated Bulgarians and Russians." Christopher Selman, on his My Assault Page website, has posted variant counter sheets (as PDFs) for Bulgarians and Russians.
Web Link
937
Date: 3/25/2024
Poster: Doug Holt
Soviet Airborne Command - Independent Desant Battalions/Brigades and Airborne Divisions

Christopher Selman, on his My Assault Page website, has posted variant counter sheets (as PDFs) for Soviet Airborne Command - Independent Desant Battalions/Brigades and Airborne Divisions.
Web Link
936
Date: 8/19/2022
Poster: Doug Holt
Updated XVIII Airborne Corps for Advanced Assault

If you are a fan of GDW's Assault Series, Christopher Selman, on his My Assault Page website, has posted an updated counter sheet (as a PDF) for the XVIII Airborne Corps.
Web Link
935
Date: 7/18/2020
Poster: Harvey M.
Golan Heights 1973

The Assault Website run by the Southeast Tennessee Association of Wargamers provides this homegrown variant for Game Designer Workshops Assault Series.
Web Link
934
Date: 1/8/2020
Poster: Doug Holt
Middle East ​Assault

Fans of GDW's Assault Series, check it out! Christopher Selman, on his My Assault Page website, has posted counter sheets (as PDFs) for the Egyptian 3rd Army in the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Thanks Christopher!
Web Link
932
Date: 1/1/1900
Poster: Mark D.
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933
Date: 1/1/1900
Poster: Mark D.
review

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