The ASLRB is not an easy book to read, so I asked to see a live game one Sunday afternoon. I asked to have a look at it, and I never put it back down. There it was, up on a shelf near the ceiling, a shrink wrapped copy of the Advanced Squad Leader Rulebook v2. It’s the size of a small walk-in closet, except that it’s wall to wall military books.

I then came across the tiniest military bookstore one day.

I planned to learn the game again and get back into it. The internet connected me with some very active Squad Leader groups.

So, decades later, while I stared at the screen, memories of great times came back and I bought myself that copy. Unfortunately when I went to university, I found a few other things more interesting and I forgot about wargames all together. I was a Squad Leader player back when I was in high school. One day in February 2013, I chanced upon a copy of Squad Leader on eBay.