2025 has arrived and with it another year of scenarios from your mama's basement. For the past couple of years, I have usually begun the year with a PTO scenario. For 2025, I am going back to 2021 when I made a scenario based on an episode of the TV series, The Gallant Men. For 2025, I would reach back to the 1970's and a personal favorite Sgt Rock comic.
It's still amazing when I remember what I could buy with 20 cents in pocket. For two dimes...you could buy a Sgt. Rock comic or The Haunted Tank or Weird War of Sgt. Fury and many other great WWII themed comic books. My stack of old comics has vanished over the years. Storing them in a hot Oklahoma attic was not kind to them. A small number of my Sgt. Rocks were illustrated by Russ Heath. this remain my absolute favorites. Russ Heath was a stripe above everyone else in my opinion. He just got it right.
Putting together an ASL scenario based on this story has been rattling around in my brain for years. And finally, I decided it was time to put on paper. I kept this scenario small and with enough "color" SSR's to hopefully capture the feel of a Sgt. Rock comic. Hypothetical scenarios aren't alway popular with the ASL Community at large, but some folks might enjoy seeing a iconic comic book hero show up in the ASL World. Certainly, Sgt. Rock belongs there and maybe...just maybe the German "Iron Major"....Rock's arch nemesis.
Now, while the Sgt. Rock story here is based on a comic, the other information provided in the scenario is based on actions of the 36th Infantry and German 198th Infantry Division during the fighting around Montelimar.
As always, these monthly "Basement Quality" Scenarios are offered for fun only and as a thank you to the readers of this blog.
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All Grumble Jones scenarios are available from the ASL Archive website.
(Just search on Grumble Jones)
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