Episode 300: What? Already?

Rich, Mike and Jared return to the Remote Broadcast Foxhole and join us in a serious Roundtable conversation about our love of the game. We can tell you why Advanced Squad Leader is the greatest game in the world. We also tackle that age old question that we find on so many forums, "Does ASL teach history?".  Then we compare and contrast wargames with fantasy games.  But, before that, we hear a questionable rendition of the song Olive Groves written by the one and only, Dennis Donovan, and let our listeners speak as they congratulate us on the big 300. 

What's in a number? 

We would like to thank our mysterious benefactors for the wonderful gifts that we have received in the mail. Wow. You really do like us!  And, in order to pay back the community we'd like to offer...wait for it, it's a really big prize...are you ready?  It's a brand new copy of... SWORD AND FIRE: MANILA.  To hear how to enter the drawing have a listen.  

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SHOWTIMES

0:01 Song Olive Groves

3:00 Listener Voicemails

Olive Groves

Concept & Lyrics: Dennis Donovan  

Performed by: The Worst of The 2 Half-Squad Singers

The scenario starts in a sleepy little town

Down around Anzio

And the guys are preppin’ for another game

Reading the SSRs

The orchards in this one are strange

Always in season it seems

Well, we’re talking’ ‘bout Olive Groves

Oh, Olive Groves

Well, the MF and the MP

They both are doubled

Groves have a hindrance of one

‘though it’s not quite apparent,

They are inherent

And the T.E.M.’s one

Some say that this rule’s inane

But it’s part of the ASL game

Oh, we’re talkin’ ‘bout Olive Groves

Oh, Olive Groves

‘though they grow in the Mediterranean

You find them in North Afrika too

Rule A9 3 2

Says AFVs in Groves

Can claim wall advantage, that’s right

And though it’s part of the ASL game

The groves don’t see much play

So just keep re-checking rule F13