Welcome to Willie & Joe's Supply Depot
This is where we keep track of the wargamer's scorecard -- Willie & Joe are just making a pot of joe. Grab a cup, sit back, and take in the latest stats on our supply.
I've gotten questions over the years asking how many games I own, how many scenarios I've played, how many counters I've acquired by now, and so on. I've never had an exact answer, so I feel like that needs to change. I can no longer reasonably say 15,000 counters since I acquired War in the Pacific (which itself has 8,000+), and guessing between 30,000-40,000 seems inadequate. So, I've enlisted Willie & Joe's help to keep track -- here's hoping Bill Mauldin won't mind lending their services out now that they've been drilled out of service and sent back to the home front. I certainly wouldn't entrust myself alone to such a momentous task, so who better to help keep everything straight than Willie & Joe. After all, they make a wicked cup a joe, and a wargamer without his grog is, well ... I'm not sure.
So, 'what is the Supply Depot' you ask? It's simple - it's a list of the wargames, components, and scenario/campaign play throughs that I've acquired and completed over the years. If it's here, it's currently a part of the collection.
Willie's Bulletin
16 March 2026 -- New! -- I've added the following games to my collection: The Mighty Endeavor, OCS Sicily II, and Fire in the East.
21 December 2025 -- After a trip out to the Decision Games HQ, I've come away with several additional games that I just couldn't let slip: Aachen: First to Fall, Hougoumont: Key to Waterloo, Lettow-Vorbeck: East Africa 1914-1918, Vikings: Scourge of the North, Germantown: Washington Strikes, Rommel's Panzers, & Stalin's Tanks. In addition, I was also kindly gifted Supply Lines of the American Revolution by some friends of mine in New Jersey.
30 September 2025 - There are yet even more acquisitions to the ever-growing collection of wargames: HASL 1: Red Barricades, Poland Defiant, and Storm of Steel!
25 June 2025 - Some final acquisitions for the month of June, including S&T Singapore, Atlantic Wall: D-Day to Falaise for the GOSS series of games from Decision Games, War in the Desert for the Europa series (at a steal of a price), and a 1st edition copy of Panzer Grenadier from Avalanche Press. That's all for June (and my bank account)!
11 May 2025 -With a surprise return there are two new acquisitions to the Game Supply Manifest to kick off 2025 on AARC: Decision Games's D-Day at Omaha Beach and Cherkassy Pocket. We'll have more to come soon, but take this as an indicator that the updates on Willie's Bulletin will become more frequent from here on out.
16 November 2024 - Yes, that's right folks, Joe has scrounged up a new update for the bulletin. These days, there's virtually no time to keep things here in shipshape, and we're afraid it will stay like this for a few years to come (PhDs don't come quick, or easily), but alas, Joe & Willie will still provide the occasional update. At today, they've worked hard to uncover the only ASL scenario saved from the days of Between Two Trenches that I designed (albeit somewhat poorly). Check out their latest Blast from the Past!: On the Moro.
27 May 2024 - Just a quick update, today. Last month, we acquired three OCS titles that I didn't have an opportunity to log until now. We've now added Burma, Korea, and Reluctant Enemies to the inventory. More to come later this summer (in the way of news, not games -- the bank account would never stand for that)!
24 March 2024 - Hi Folks! The game supply manifest has been posted, along with an update on two new game purchases! We've now added Europe in Turmoil I & II to our collection. You can find a link to the game manifest below and Joe has also just finished putting together another Blast from the Past! from the SheepsHeadBay days: the Great Hearts of Iron IV Mistake. We've got lots more exciting news on the horizon as well, so check back soon!
2 March 2024 - Blast from the Past! Joe has scrounged up an AAR for 88s at Zon.
18 February 2024 - The initial inventory. We'll provide more updates soon as we receive more supplies.
Joe's Archives
While I've been working on this site since 2019, I've had several other blogs & sites where I posted articles and videos that bear relevance to AAR Central and for one reason or another, none of them remain. For the sake of archiving everything and moving them onto this site, I've saved what I can and have included a record here of the sites and pages that no longer exist.
World War II Chronicles (WW2Chronicles): A blog from 2011-2012 with a short life span that chronicled different histories of the second world war. All content lost. My research on Operation Husky and the timetables for the operation's success was perhaps the single biggest loss from that time.
SheepsHeadBay: A now defunct YouTube channel from 2016-2017. The channel featured videos on board games, videos on battlefield (wargame) tactics, and miscellaneous hobby videos with occasional videogame content thrown in (including machinimas). The channel was supplementary to the precursor website from AAR Central (see below). Some content from the channel remains. Time permitting, I will upload what videos remain and post them on the site.
Between Two Trenches: A site from January-May 2017 that served as a precursor to AAR Central. The scope of the first posts there served as the initial inspiration for the approach to my AAR's on the current site. Until recently, I thought everything but the last three posts from that site had been lost, but I've luckily recovered everything from Between Two Trenches and will move it onto AAR Central over time.
The Scorecards
I. The Games
Non-Series Games and the occasional Odds & Ends:
Axis Empires: Ultimate Edition (Decision Games)
Battle Over Britain (Tactical Series Rules, Inc.)
B-17 Flying Fortress Leader (Dan Verssen Games)
- Technically a series game ... but Willie & Joe couldn't be bothered on this one.
Cherkassy Pocket: Encirclement at Korsun (Decision Games)
Churchill (GMT Games)
Combat Command: Tactical Armored Warfare, France 1944 (SPI)
Conquistador: The Age of Exploration (SPI)
Empire of the Sun - 1st Ed. (GMT Games)
Flat Top - 1st Ed. (Battleline)
Flat Top - 2nd Ed. (The Avalon Hill Game Co.)
Foxhole: Utah Beach (Diffraction Entertainment/The Knowledge Company)
Frederick the Great: The Campaigns of The Soldier King 1756-1759 (SPI)
Gettysburg (The Avalon Hill Game Co.)
- Since there are so many games named Gettysburg, Willie has noted that this is the 1977 game by AH.
John Company (Wehrlegig Games)
Micro Napoleonics (Tabletop Games)
PanzerBlitz (The Avalon Hill Game Co.)
Paths of Glory (GMT Games)
Poland Defiant (Revolution Games)
Resist! (25th Century Games)
Sails of Glory (Ares Games)
Storm of Steel (Decision Games)
Supply Lines of the American Revolution: The Northern Theater, 1775-1777 (Hollandspiele)
Unconditional Surrender! World War 2 in Europe (GMT Games)
The U.S. Civil War - 3rd Ed. 2nd Printing (GMT Games)
War in the Pacific - 2nd Ed. (Decision Games)
Zhukov's First Victory: The Battles of Nomonhan (High Flying Dice Games)
Advanced Squad Leader (The Avalon Hill Game Co. & MMP):
*A breakdown of all modules in the series is available here.
Core Module I: Beyond Valor (1st Ed.)
Core Module IIIa: Yanks (2nd Ed.)
Core Module V: West of Alamein (1st Ed.) (purchased without the box -- pieces clipped -- full inventory still to do)
Core Module Va: For King and Country (1st Ed.)
Core Module VI: The Last Hurrah (1st Ed.)
Core Module VIIa: Hollow Legions (1st Ed.) (purchased without the box)
Core Module Xa: Croix de Guerre (1st Ed.) (purchased without the box)
Core Module XI: Doomed Battalions (3rd Ed.)
Core Module XII: Armies of Oblivion (2nd Ed.)
Core Module XIII: Rising Sun
Core Module XIV: Hakkaa Päälle!
Historical Module I: Red Barricades
Historical Module VIII: Festung Budapest
Historical Module IX: Hatten in Flames
ASL Starter Kit #1
ASL Starter Kit #2
ASL Starter Kit #3
ASL Starter Kit Expansion Pack #1
ASL Starter Kit Historical Module: Decision at Elst
ASL Action Pack #1 (2nd hand - to be inventoried)
ASL Action Pack #2 (2nd hand - to be inventoried)
ASL Action Pack #3: Few Returned
ASL Action Pack #4: Normandy 1944
ASL Action Pack #5: East Front
ASL Action Pack #6: A Decade of War
ASL Scenario Pack #3: Rivers to the Reich
ASL Annual '93a
ASL Journal Issue #1
ASL Journal Issue #2: Kakazu Ridge
Gembloux: The Feint (Critical Hit)
Platoon Leader v2.5 (Critical Hit)
Advanced Squad Leader Game System Rules (1st Ed. & the "Pocket" Edition)
Advanced Tobruk System (Critical Hit):
Advanced Tobruk System Basic Game I: Stalingrad
ATS Table Top: Bandenkrieg – Hell Behind the Eastern Front
D-Day Rangers
The Combat! Series (Critical Hit):
No. III: Combat! Normandy
D-Day Series (Decision Games):
D-Day at Omaha Beach
Der Weltkrieg Series (SPW/Decision Games):
No. II: Tannenberg: Eagles in the East / Galicia: The Forgotten Cauldron
No. III: Serbia the Defiant / Romania: Transylvanian Gambit
No. IV: The 1916 Brusilov Offensive / Gorlice-Tarnow Breakthrough
No. V: The Italian Front: 1915-1918
No. VI: The Western Front: 1914 to 1918
No. VII: Osmanli Harbi: The Ottoman Fronts – 1914 to 1918
No. IX: The Grand Campaign
The East Front Series (GMT Games):
Barbarossa: Army Group Center, 1941 (2nd Ed.)
Barbarossa: Army Group South, 1941
The Europa Series (GRD/GDW):
*A breakdown of all games in the series can be found here.
Europa Ib: Fire in the East
Europa IIIc: Balkan Front
Europa IVc: Narvik: The Campaign in Norway, 1940
Europa VIb: War in the Desert (reimplements Europa VIa, IX, & XI)
Europa XIV: A Winter War
Europe in Turmoil (Compass Games):
Europe in Turmoil: Prelude to the Great War (Deluxe Edition)
Europe in Turmoil II: The Interbellum Years
Fields of Fire (GMT Games):
No. I: Fields of Fire
The Fighting Wings Game System (Clash of Arms Games):
Vol. III: Whistling Death
The Folio Game Series (Decision Games):
Aachen: First to Fall
Grand Operational Simulation Series (Decision Games):
No. I: Wacht am Rhein (2nd Ed.)
No. III: Atlantic Wall: D-Day to Falaise
Grand Tactical Series (Multi-Man Publishing):
No. I: The Devil's Cauldron: The Battles for Arnhem and Nijmegen
No. II: Where Eagles Dare: The Battle for Hell's Highway
MicroHistory (Metagaming):
No. I: Rommel's Panzers
No. III: Stalin's Tanks
Mini Game Series (Decision Games):
Germantown: Washington Strikes
Hougoumont: Key to Waterloo
Lettow-Vorbeck: East Africa 1914-1918
Vikings: Scourge of the North
Operational Combat Series (The Gamers & MMP):
No. III: Tunisia
No. VI: Burma (1st Ed.)
No. VII: Sicily II
No. VIII: Guderian's Blitzkrieg II (1st Ed.)
No. IX: Korea (2nd Ed.)
No. XIII: Reluctant Enemies
Panzer Grenadier Series (Avalanche Press):
Panzer Grenadier (1st Edition)
Panzer Grenadier: Airborne Introductory Edition
Panzer Grenadier: Eastern Front
The Second World War Series (Diffraction Entertainment/The Knowledge Company):
No. V: Operation Merkur – The Invasion of Crete, 1941
No. VII: Hakkaa Päälle
No. X: Barbarossa
Standard Combat Series (The Gamers & MMP):
No. XII: Guadalajara
No. XIX: The Mighty Endeavor (Revised & Expanded Edition)
Strategy & Tactics Magazine Games (Multiple Publishers):
No. 56: Revolt in the East
No. 86: Singapore
Ted Racier's "Dark" Series (GMT Games):
No. I: The Dark Valley Deluxe Edition (2nd Ed.)
No. II: The Dark Sands: War in North Africa, 1940-42
No. III: The Dark Summer: Normandy 1944
The Undaunted Series (Osprey Games):
No. I: Undaunted: Normandy
Up Front (The Avalon Hill Game Co.):
No. I: Up Front
No. II: Banzai
No. III: Desert War
The Warfighter Series (Dan Verssen Games):
Warfighter WW2: Europe
Warfighter WW2: Pacific
WW2 Expansion #5: Ammo Box
The World in Flames Series (Australian Design Group):
Days of Decision I (purchased incomplete; maps and other materials missing)
The World in Flames: Final Edition
- The World in Flames Classic Game
- Africa Aflame
- Asia Aflame
- Planes in Flames
- Ships in Flames
- Mech in Flames
*Metal clanging, drills whirring -- a roughshod sign indicates "Men at Work"*
II. Willie's Components Summary
Total Games, Expansions, and Misc. Materials Owned: 121
Total Counters Under Management: 96,187
Total Cards Awaiting Card Sleeves: 3,829
Total Maps Lacking Plexiglass: 605
Single Largest Game: War in the Pacific, 2nd Edition (8,960 counters and 345 maps of all kinds)
Single Smallest (Core) Game: Resist! (90 Cards)
Game Series with Most Ownership: Advanced Squad Leader
Games Series of Complete Ownership:
- SPW's Der Weltkrieg
- Ted Racier's Dark Series
- Up Front (the three core AH modules)
And now, as of 24 March 2024, Willie has put together a link to the Game Supply Manifest. (Disclaimer: some of these component totals are of my own calculation. Not all counter totals are provided for each game so in cases where totals were not readily available, I've provided my own calculation. Like anything in which humans are involved, there's the propensity for human error, so take these totals with a grain of salt.)
III. Joe's Scenario Tallies
Joe's currently rummaging through the old archives and tabulating scenario plays. He'll provide an update soon!