04.2017 Red Banner

Publisher/Date:
DC Conscripts ASL Club (2017)

Product Type:
Newsletter with Scenarios

Country of Origin:
United States

Contents:
Newsletter of approx 10-12pp length, inc. one or two text-based scenarios.

Red Banner is an ASL newsletter created by and largely for members of the DC Conscripts, a Washington, D.C., area ASL club.  That club had a previous newsletter, ‘Scripts, which faded into oblivion, as hobby newsletters tend to do. Red Banner began in early 2017 with the promise of appearing quarterly, a schedule that may be difficult to sustain with new content. The editor appears to be John Gorkowski.

Red Banner takes the form of a 10-12 page newsletter apparently created as a Word document with no newsletter-style layout.

Issue #1 contained excerpts of an old Department of the Army pamphlet (part of the series of manuscripts created by captured German Army officers after the war and widely reprinted since, as they are not copyrighted) and an AAR of a recent club game day.

Issue #2 contained an analysis of ASL rules in light of articles about battles in the May 1940 campaign and an AAR.

Both issues to date have also contained scenarios.  The scenarios are unformatted–that is, they appear simply as text, which was acceptable in the 1980s but puzzling now, given how easy it is to lay out a scenario. The scenarios do not mention designers or playtesters but may be designed by John Gorkowski.

2024 Notes:  Red Banner has continued its publication run as an irregular–but aspiring to be quarterly–newsletter, with its issues downloadable (now as PDF files) here.  The scenarios in later issues have a more standard formatting and are identified as being designed by John Gorkowski.

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