The Paddington Bears Homepage

G'Day, and welcome to the Home page of the Paddington Bears, a club based in Sydney dedicated to the play and enjoyment of Advanced Squad Leader.
For those that have never heard about Advanced Squad Leader (ASL), it is a World War 2 simulation wargame based upon squad level infantry tactics. The game is published by The Avalon Hill Game Company in a series of modules.
For more information click here.
For an introductory guide in PDF format, Click here
For the complete FAQ
Anyway, enough said for those newcomers out there, for those that live and breathe the game, this is yet another ASL site where we hope to present the view from Down Under. The club meets every first Saturday of each month in the upstairs room of the Paddington- Woollahra Returned Servicemen's League (RSL) Club, surrounded by memorablia and 'memorials' to the club's four Victoria Cross winners.

In recent years we have become broader in our scope, with frequent other board games making an appearance, such as Sword of Rome, Wellington, Flying Colors, Napoleon at Bay and others. Generally speaking we are more interested in the more technical 'wargame' end of the boargame community, rather than the Euro game end, but the odd game of nutmeg trading has taken place from time to time..

To mail The Paddington Bears ASL Club

Information about the

Paddington Bears 98 Scenario Pack

Paddington Bears '97 Scenario Pack

&

Paddington Bears '96 Scenario Pack

Those Ragged Bloody Heroes: The Battle of Gona

THOSE RAGGED BLOODY HEROES depicts the bloody Pacific Island fighting on the northern coast of New Guinea. Here the Australian 7th Division has pushed the Japanese invader north in the long and bloody Kokoda Trail campaign. During the weeks prior to the battle for Gona, General Horii's defenders toiled long and hard to prepare a defensive ‘death-trap’ that awaited the oncoming—and unsuspecting Australian soldiers. Cleared fire-lanes, log bunkers and Japanese snipers await your men of the Australian 7th Division as you re-fight this tragic and controversial battle.

To order

VASL board

Brief History of the Gona Battle

ASL Links Directory

Australian Sites

ASL
N.J. Hickman

Australian World War II History
The Australian War Memorial
The Australian Army History
Australian WW2 AFV Portal

Australian Game and Book suppliers
Napoleon's Military Bookshop
Military Simulations
Warchest

Selected ASL Sites 

Multi-Man Publishing Makers of the Game
ROAR (The Automated ASL Record, also personal record)
VASL (Virtual ASL, play Online)
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Rules Q&A
TO SUBMIT Q&A to MMP (a.k.a Perry Cocke)
Webgrognards

 OZ ASL - Aussie Advanced Squad Leader 

Last Updated: 27th March 2008