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GWASL XI: Balkan Aspirations

Note: Critical Hit publishes products at a high volume and its products have a general history of quality control issues.  Critical Hit provides no review/evaluation copies and typically prices its products very high.  For all these reasons, Desperation Morale no longer acquires all, or even most, Critical Hit products for analysis and write-up on this […]

GWASL X: Slavic Warriors

Note: Critical Hit publishes products at a high volume and its products have a general history of quality control issues.  Critical Hit provides no review/evaluation copies and typically prices its products very high.  For all these reasons, Desperation Morale no longer acquires all, or even most, Critical Hit products for analysis and write-up on this […]

GWASL IX: Bulgarian Summer

Note: Critical Hit publishes products at a high volume and its products have a general history of quality control issues.  Critical Hit provides no review/evaluation copies and typically prices its products very high.  For all these reasons, Desperation Morale no longer acquires all, or even most, Critical Hit products for analysis and write-up on this […]

GWASL VII: The AIF at War

Note: Critical Hit publishes products at a high volume and its products have a general history of quality control issues.  Critical Hit provides no review/evaluation copies and typically prices its products very high.  For all these reasons, Desperation Morale no longer acquires all, or even most, Critical Hit products for analysis and write-up on this […]

GWASL VIII: Ottoman Adventures

Note: Critical Hit publishes products at a high volume and its products have a general history of quality control issues.  Critical Hit provides no review/evaluation copies and typically prices its products very high.  For all these reasons, Desperation Morale no longer acquires all, or even most, Critical Hit products for analysis and write-up on this […]

GWASL VI: Blood on the Isonzo

Note: Critical Hit publishes products at a high volume and its products have a general history of quality control issues.  Critical Hit provides no review/evaluation copies and typically prices its products very high.  For all these reasons, Desperation Morale no longer acquires all, or even most, Critical Hit products for analysis and write-up on this […]

GWASL V: Hapsburg Ambitions

Note: Critical Hit publishes products at a high volume and its products have a general history of quality control issues.  Critical Hit provides no review/evaluation copies and typically prices its products very high.  For all these reasons, Desperation Morale no longer acquires all, or even most, Critical Hit products for analysis and write-up on this […]

GWASL IV: Samsonov’s Army

GWASL IV:  Samsonov’s Army (hereinafter GWASL IV) is the fourth in Critical Hit’s series of scenario/map packs trying to bring ASL rules to World War I.  Before reading this write-up, the write-up for GWASL I, the first in the series should be read, as many of the comments made there apply to this product as […]

GWASL III: Over There!

GWASL III:  Over There! (hereinafter GWASL III) is the third in Critical Hit’s series of scenario/map packs trying to bring ASL rules to World War I.  Before reading this write-up, the write-up for GWASL I, the first in the series should be read, as many of the comments made there apply to this product as […]

GWASL II: Blasted Woods

GWASL II:  Blasted Woods, hereinafter simply GWASL II, is the second module in Critical Hit’s unfortunate attempt to use the Hot Tub Time Machine to take ASL back to World War I, a conflict for which ASL simply was not designed. Desperation Morale has written a very detailed write-up of the first module in the […]

GWASL I: Tankschreken!

How often is it that the title of a movie or book or game is itself a misspelling?  That’s what we have here with GWASL 1: Tankschreken! [sic], the first module in Critical Hit’s goofy attempt to port ASL back to World War I.  Tankschreken is apparently supposed to be tankschrecken, one of several terms […]

Cambrai IV: Highlanders’ Ground

Note: Critical Hit publishes products at a high volume and its products have a general history of quality control issues.  Critical Hit provides no review/evaluation copies and typically prices its products very high.  For all these reasons, Desperation Morale no longer acquires all, or even most, Critical Hit products for analysis and write-up on this […]

Cambrai III: A Panorama of Hell: Bourlon

Note: Critical Hit publishes products at a high volume and its products have a general history of quality control issues.  Critical Hit provides no review/evaluation copies and typically prices its products very high.  For all these reasons, Desperation Morale no longer acquires all, or even most, Critical Hit products for analysis and write-up on this […]

Cambrai II: Black Friday: Fontaine

Note: Critical Hit publishes products at a high volume and its products have a general history of quality control issues.  Critical Hit provides no review/evaluation copies and typically prices its products very high.  For all these reasons, Desperation Morale no longer acquires all, or even most, Critical Hit products for analysis and write-up on this […]

CH Annual Issue 5

CH Annual Issue 5 is the latest iteration of Critical Hit’s house mag for ASL players. The theme for this issue is on the Arab-Israeli Wars, in coordination with other products Critical Hit released the same year involving those conflicts. Critical Hit claims that Annual 5 includes a full “Suez Crisis/Sinai ’56 module INSIDE. With […]

Cambrai 1: Armoured Fist 1917

Note: Critical Hit publishes products at a high volume and its products have a general history of quality control issues.  Critical Hit provides no review/evaluation copies and typically prices its products very high.  For all these reasons, Desperation Morale no longer acquires all, or even most, Critical Hit products for analysis and write-up on this […]

Lend-Lease Set 1 / Red-Lease Set 1

Lend-Lease Set 1 (apparently subtitled “Allied AFVs in Action on the Eastern Front” and hereinafter referred to as LL1) is a difficult product to categorize. It contains a full 5/8″ countersheet, 4 scenarios, and 2 new geoboards.  It is not quite a scenario pack, map pack or counter pack but essentially an amalgam. Because the […]

Hindenburg Line: Battle of Vierstraat Ridge

Hindenburg Line (hereinafter just HL) is a historical module designed for use with Critical Hit’s “GWASL” series, a misguided attempt to use ASL rules to simulate the extremely different combat of World War I.  For an extended discussion of the GWASL rules, and their flaws, please see the write-up for GWASL1: Tankschreken! [sic].  According to […]

AP Style Geo AP 1 Collection

The awkwardly named AP Style AP 1 Collection (hereinafter AP1) appears to be nothing more than a cynical attempt to make a fast buck by throwing together a bunch of already-published geoboards and offering them as a collection. There are no scenarios here, just boards; Critical Hit suggests that players design their own scenarios for […]

SCW1

SCW1 (called The Spanish Civil War 1 in the rules) is, along with its sister module, SCW2, actually the third edition of an older product that has previously gone under the titles Guerra Civil and Condor Legions.  The original module was broken into two separate modules for its third edition, presumably in order to charge […]

SCW2

SCW2 (called The Spanish Civil War 2 in the rules) is, along with its sister module, SCW1, actually the third edition of an older product that has previously gone under the titles Guerra Civil and Condor Legions.  The original module was broken into two separate modules for its third edition, presumably in order to charge […]

Critical Hit Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 4

General information on Critical Hit Magazine can be found here. With this issue, full of interesting stuff, the quality level of Critical Hit Magazine began to improve after a considerable period in the doldrums (probably not coincidentally, the totally failed attempt to publish the magazine quarterly was abandoned). The articles focus strongly on scenario and […]

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