Squad Leader (Avalon Hill Board Game)

[Crossroads]

Have played this game in my past with my Father many moons ago and I have just bought the first Squad Leader board game off Ebay. Would like to know if anyone else plays this game. I think the campaign series borrows a lot off this board game. There is also an online game called VASL which uses a game engine called VASSAL which replicates the board game Squad Leader. Oh yeah SL is a hexagonal board which uses counters and dice to resolve results.

Yes, Campaign Series owes a lot to some early Avalon Hill classics, but not to Squad Leader series as such, but to Panzerblitz and Panzer Leader. 6 minutes per turn, 250 m hexes, platoon size units, sounds familiar yes?

Here's a site dedicated to these games: http://gregpanzerblitz.com/

Most if not all of the PL situations (ie. scenarios) and some of the PB situations ( http://gregpanzerblitz.com/scenarios.htm ) are translated into CS scenarios, and can be found from the Game Depot searh page by searching for "Ode to Panzer Leader" or for "alanarv", or Alan Arvoult, the guy who's behind some of the original PL expansios for 1940 France, for an example.

http://www.wargamer.com/gamesdepot/search_key.asp

If any of you is not using the PB (EF) of PL (WF) user mods for CS, now would be the time to start doing that!