Editing Advanced Squad Leader (section)

=== Gear ===

The primary game components are now produced and sold by [https://mmpgamers.com/ MMP] who took over after [[Exterminatus|Avalon Hill went out of business.]]

The good news is, unlike certain [[Games_Workshop|companies]] psychotic desire to put players on a never ending treadmill of purchases, MMP ASL modules are complete packages. The purchase of one generally includes a dozen or so Scenarios, a few Boards, and the complete counter-set for one (or more) Nationalities. So one can even skip some modules. Don't like the French, don't buy the module.

Price wise the modules go for $100-$200 depending on size. All told there's maybe a dozen core modules. So one, if so inclined could get into almost all of the ASL goodness for $1-2K.

Also, there's a large third part industry selling Scenario packs, alternative counter sets (better art work mainly) and all kinds of additional paraphernalia. <b>COMPLETELY OPTIONAL</b>

The bad news is MMP re-publishes modules in a completely haphazard manner, seems to have but a couple of modules in stock at any point in time and their product run is slower than old people fucking. So if you want straight-from-the-horses-mouth modules from MMP and are looking to get 'em all, expect a long wait. Like decades. I shit you not.

Alternatively, there's the after market. EBay, FB Groups, other sites. Comes in 2 flavors.

There are [[That_guy|fucktards]] who've sat on a module and never opened it. New In Shrink! Generally expect to pay at least original retail, if not more. A few modules, due to rarity or demand, go for prices the might make Forge World blush. Then there are opened, punched, used offerings. Generally cheaper but given the sheer number of counters in any given module, it hard to determine if you got the whole thing.

Another option is to keep an eye out for collections for sale. Due to [[Rage|disgust]] or Death, occasionally a Complete or Partial collection comes up for sale. While the former type is probably priced more or less correctly, the latter is often being sold by someone with little to no idea of the value of this pile of rules, counters and boards. An unscrupulous ASLer could get a nice set at a steal price, of course depriving some poor widow of multiple hundreds or thousands of <local currency>. But who am I to judge.

VASL. Lovely [http://vasl.info/ VASL]. [[VASSAL_Game_Engine|VASSAL]] is a computer program that allows for the playing of board games over the internet. VASL is the VASSAL module for ASL. Within this module is almost EVERY counter and board in the ASL universe. FOR FREE. You cheap fuck. With VASL and the Rules, one can play. Voila.

And if yer really destitute, but know someone with the ring bound rules, and someone with access to a business grade scanner, you can just toss the entire ruleset into the hopper, push SCAN and BINGO! <b>Grats!</b> You now have a LARGE (~750MB) PDF of the rules. Or so I'm told.