Counter Quality

[larry marak]

Absolutely right, I was bonkers (don't get to be 64) MMP bought the rights to reprint the old Avalon Hill ASL material, as well as issue new material for the system from Hasbro Toys, HOWEVER before Avalon Hill went down Critical Hit bought the rights to do "official" ASL material without Avalon's editorial imput. There was a considerable lawsuit for a while after MMP bought it's right's from Hasbro, which ended in the courts ruling that Critical Hit's ASL license from Avalon Hill was still valid. During the time that the case was in the courts Critical labeled their products as for "squad's and leaders" and created the Combat/ATS engine in case they lost the case. Critical Hit's ASL material's are now marketed as ASL comp to distinguish them from MMP's ASL products and they have issued materials bringing ASL into the 1960's, as well as a "broken" expansion into the American Civil War era.