Squad Leader: The Game of Infantry Combat in World War II [BOX SET]

I had originally bought Squad Leader back 30 years ago and fell in love with the game. Finally, here was a game that was a tactical simulation with individual leaders and support weapons and squad sized units that has the feel of tactical combat with out role playing. Well, I guess the players role play the company commander but the scale is small enough to imagine how fire fights took place. Also, Squad Leader was the original gate way drug to Advanced Squad Leader. Lots of memories playing this game with friends. Squad Leader is not without its flaws. With out playing a double blind game with a referee, you pretty much know where the enemy is on the board giving the player more knowledge of enemy deployment than a commander in real life would have had. Tanks in the original game were represented abstractly, an issue that would be addressed in future gamettes like Cross of Iron. Having owned SL, Cross of Iron through GI Anvil of Victory, the patch work of rules made the game confusing thus creating Advanced Squad Leader which is more a remake of the original Squad Leader and Gamettes that a reordering of the original game. However Advanced Squad Leader is not an easy game to learn since the rules were not written in incremental learning steps.To me, Squad Leader and Advanced Squad Leader is the finest close tactical combat game ever. Any more detail would require too much accounting and role playing and at a company scale you would lose much of the small unit tactics and the game would be more like Panzer Leader.

Absolutely brilliant classic tactical game. Pity the supplements cost more than I, or the United Nations, could afford. Will somebody please think of the adult children who still love this series! The sooner an unmodified reissue of the extra parts is circulated, along with supplemental notes from Avalon Hill's magazine, the better. For everyone.There has never been a better compromise between playability, flexibility and realism. People have tried, but nobody has succeeded. This is the definitive it.

Squad Leader was one of the earliest and still top ventures from classic strategic/tactical wargames into squad level, front-line, tactical play. It was a game ahead of its time, and is still one of the greatest wargames ever produced. Because of its contemporary uniqueness, it incorporates a graduated approach to building up the scenarios so the players gradually learn the rules, and also so contemporary grognards could get used to squad-scaled mapboards and movement. Still a great game, with a good feel for company-level combat, and a wide variety of units and capabilities. The different scenarios offer great variety and you can even build your own scenarios. This is an especially good game for a novice or first-time wargamer.

I own the original and the follow ons (Cross of Iron, GI: Anvil of Victory and Crescendo of Doom) along with the entire original ASL series. Great games, hard to find fellow gamers to play now due to all the computer gamers. I do think your price is just a bit ludicrous for this though, I know I can find it for less then half your price in New/Mint unpunched condition online at several outlets. I suggest your revise your price, the savvy buyer will never pay what you are asking.