[ASLML] ASLSK vs Partrooper & PI

[cameron.henson at us.army.mil]

Let's look at it from your point of view then. If I purchase ASLSK and learn the rules therein, what next? Can you sit down with an opponent and play any of the hundreds of published scenarios? Not unless that person wants to teach you how to play. At some point folks are going to have to make that decision and invest the money if they want to play the whole system. So why pay the additional $24? 

For most of us, we made the difficult transition from SL to ASL with BV and the ASLRB. Back then that was how much of an investment, $80? Paratrooper came out to help coax those playing SL to ASL and in itself added more rules as you progressed through the Paratrooper scenarios. But when we finished with the transition we were versed well enough in the rules to start playing any of the ASL scenarios. 

If ASLSK gets people interested in playing the full version of ASL, great. Congratulations. But what then? I really hope you all suceed, I just hope you have the business model in place to back up your ambitions. 

C. Kent Henson
Battlin' Bastard from 'Bama

----- Original Message -----
From: Brian Youse <byouse at cablespeed.com>
Date: Thursday, April 1, 2004 10:02 am
Subject: Re: [ASLML] MMP Stormtroopers-LONG

> > As for the ASLRB reprint, I wouldn't look for it anytime soon. 
> I'm 
> > glad that some people will buy and play ASLSK but I still think 
> we had 
> > a Programed Instruction system in place that would have done the 
> job 
> > with Paratrooper and its Chapter K.
> 
> Jim Stahler's article has been available on our website for some 
> time, 
> under the ASL Articles section. Here:  
> http://www.multimanpublishing.com/ASL/articles.php  It has been 
> there 
> for quite some time.
> 
> However, I am much more inclined to believe that a person is more 
> likely to take the ASL plunge on a $24 stand-alone product rather 
> than 
> the solution of buying the ASL rulebook ($80), Paratrooper ($30+), 
> several maps ($10 or $24 depending on how you buy them), and 
> downloading the PI off our website.
> 
> $24 versus $120+
> 
> I can't even believe I have to point what certainly seems to be 
> obvious.
> The only problem with the ASL Starter Kit is that we didn't do it 
> five 
> years ago.
> 
> Brian
> 
>