Le Franc Tireur is our "homebrew" ASL magazine. With roughly one release per year stuffed with scenarios and articles, LFT aims at producing the best third party ASL magazine that we can, with professional color printing and layout.
Every issue covers a specific theme with articles and scenarios related. While being produced by French ASL enthusiasts, Le Franc Tireur is about 100% in English.
DASL was dead... thanks to Steve Swann, Dave Ramsey and some other great guys, LFT is proud to bring you this Deluxe pack with new boards and scenarios.
Le Franc Tireur historical studies contain scenarios, maps, countersheets and historical rules ... as every ASLer can expect!
We released our second module in July 2011, and are already working on some other topics with hopes of releasing one module every 2 or 3 years.
As if a magazine is not enough, Le Franc Tireur also produces From the Cellar scenario packs, which usually feature scenarios that did not make it into the Le Franc Tireur (mostly for timing reasons) but that we liked so much that we wanted to publish them, or which contain scenarios related to a specific topic such as the Russian Revolution (FTC4) or SS scenarios (FTC 3).
Some Bounding Fire products are now available for European customers from Le Franc-Tireur.
In 2020, Chuck Hammond and Chad Cummins, two lifelong friends and seasoned grognards with more than 60 years of combined experience in ASL, set out to create a product of exceptional quality. The scenarios, they agreed, would have to be highly enjoyable, reasonably balanced, thoroughly playtested and meticulously proofread in order to minimize / eliminate any errata. Just as importantly, every scenario would have to demonstrate high replay value. The result of more than a year of their hard labor is Hazmo’s first scenario pack: "A World at War". Rest assured there will be more projects to follow!
Some Heat of Battle products are now available for European customers from Le Franc-Tireur. Available products and pricing are listed here on the site of Heat of Battle.
After several years we have found back some old Tactiques magazines, still as good as always, and with plenty of scenarios.
A couple of them are definitely out of print, but well, these gems are still available until they are sold out.
Please be aware that all the Tactiques magazines are in French, but the scenarios can be found in English in Internet (VFTT, former Coastal Fortress site, and so on), though I have heard that the translations were quite poor.
Jim Stahler has been involved in Squad Leader and Advanced Squad Leader for nearly half a century. He was one of the original playtesters for both Squad Leader and ASL and he has been a playtester for all of the Squad Leader modules and many of the ASL modules. He has written numerous articles about ASL published in the Avalon Hill General, the ASL Annual, and the ASL Journal. He has updated the majority of the original scenarios from Squad Leader to ASL. He has drawn on his vast experience with the game system to create a comprehensive book focused on ASL, The ASL Companion.
The ASL Companion is far more than just a rehash of the rules. This work discusses the components and the play of ASL. It explains the rules in a more conversational format than the Rulebook, and it often lists several scenarios that feature the rules being discussed, to allow players to give those rules a try.
It also discusses how and when to apply the rules to the play of the game, and in some cases it gives the motivation for the rules. It includes loads of examples to supplement the examples in the ASL Rulebook, and lots of analyses of probabilities, since luck lies at the heart of ASL.
The ASL Companion is not a substitute for the Rulebook. Rather, consider it a commentary on the Rulebook. The intent of The ASL Companion is to serve as a guide to ASL, to make the rules easier to understand, and to make the more obscure parts of the game become more accessible to the ASL player.
