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Squad and Leader
* Advanced Squad Leader, a tactical wargame
Avalon Hill's PanzerBlitz ( 1970 ), Panzer Leader ( 1974 ), and Squad Leader ( 1977 ) were particularly popular during this time, with their innovative geomorphic mapboard system.
Advanced Squad Leader ( 1985 ) became a niche hobby in and of itself, and Axis and Allies ( 1984 ) was very popular with the mass market audience and Games Workshop's Warhammer Fantasy Battle ( 1983 ) spawned a long-lasting line popular miniatures games including the successive editions of Warhammer and the science-fantasy Warhammer 40, 000 game.
* John Hill-Designer of Squad Leader, Johnny Reb, and other well-received designs.
* Steel Panthers-( Strategic Simulations, Inc., 1995 )-an early tactical wargame on the same scale as Squad Leader, which led to two sequels, and a complete revision of the title for free release.
Close Combat stemmed from an early attempt to translate the Squad Leader boardgame to the computer.
CM's genesis was also as a failed attempt by Avalon Hill to translate Squad Leader to the computer.
Advanced Squad Leader is a successful tactical scale wargame.
The popular long-time game series Advanced Squad Leader was licensed to Multi-Man Publishing.
Advanced Squad Leader -
A squad is led by an NCO known as a Squad Leader.
His / her second in command is known as an Assistant Squad Leader.
* Solitaire Advanced Squad Leader ( Avalon Hill, 1995 )
Subtitled The Squad Leader Card Game, Up Front was intended as a card version of their successful Squad Leader series of games, but it represented a radical change in approach.
Wargaming was reaching its high water mark, just as the release of Squad Leader by Avalon Hill took the wargaming world by storm ( eventually resulting in an unprecedented 200, 000 copies sold ).
* Squad Leader ( NCO ) MP40
Schilling formed a deep-rooted interest in the board wargame Advanced Squad Leader.

Squad and Avalon
Their first publication was Backblast, a fanzine for Avalon Hill's wargame Advanced Squad Leader ( ASL ).
Advanced Squad Leader ( ASL ) is a tactical-level board wargame, originally marketed by Avalon Hill Games, that simulates actions of approximately company or battalion size in World War II.
The game was first published by Avalon Hill in 1985 as a successor to the award-winning Squad Leader series, on which the game is based and from which the rules and components were directly developed.
Avalon Hill actually suggested that anyone wishing to play ASL also purchase the original Squad Leader and gain experience with that system first, and kept the original SL and three gamettes in print.
On January 15, 1999, Multi-Man Publishing, LLC ( MMP ) announced an exclusive association with Hasbro, Inc. " to develop, produce, and distribute games and other products for Avalon Hill's Advanced Squad Leader ( ASL ) game system.
Close Combat was developed as a computer game version of the acclaimed Avalon Hill board game Advanced Squad Leader ( ASL ).
Avalon Hill's Squad Leader ( 2000 ), a man-to-man wargame utilizing the Soldiers at War engine, has also been compared ( unfavorably ) to X-COM and Jagged Alliance.
This became a hallmark of Avalon Hill tactical games such as Squad Leader.
Squad Leader is a tactical level board wargame originally published by Avalon Hill in 1977.
One of the most complex wargames of its time, Squad Leader is the natural extension of the trend towards greater realism ( and hence complexity ) initiated by several earlier games, including Avalon Hill's own PanzerBlitz and Panzer Leader.

Squad and Hill
20 Clinton Hill School, in Flushing, where he was captain of the TV Squad.
As of 2011 the Angelina County Narcotics Squad consists of Sergeant Allen Hill and Tom Matthews.
Allen Hill of the Angelina County Narcotics Squad said that the local meth trade is doing more damage to the county than drug couriers passing through the county, crack cocaine, and heroin.
Emergency Medical Services: Rocky Hill First Aid and Rescue Squad ( Station 53 Rescue )-temporarily decommissioned as of 3 / 17 / 2011 by Resolution 2011-33 ,.
Rocky Hill First and Rescue Squad is currently covering two 12-hour shifts on the weekend ( and attempting to scramble crews at other times ), but primary EMS coverage for the Borough is currently being provided by Princeton First Aid and Rescue Squad-Station 168, with Montgomery EMS-Station 47 EMS providing secondary back-up ( MEMS also provided 7 months of primary coverage prior to PFARS.
It has been featured as a plot device in numerous TV shows, including The Secret Life of the American Teenager, Skins, Hall Pass, Grounded for Life, (" Henry's Working for the Drug Squad "), Arrested Development (" Afternoon Delight "), Taxi, Laverne & Shirley, Barney Miller, Frasier, Family Guy, American Dad !, How I Met Your Mother, Desperate Housewives, One Tree Hill, Glee, Gilmore Girls, The Young And The Restless, Weeds, The L Word, Degrassi: The Next Generation, My Name is Earl, I Love Keith Allen, 90210, Swingtown, The Big Bang Theory and Frasier (" High Holidays "), as well as in movies such as Love and Other Disasters, EuroTrip, Next Friday, Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo, Never Been Kissed, Adventureland, Grandma's Boy, Can't Hardly Wait, Life as We Know It, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, and Empire Records.
In 1976, the Central Park Medical Rescue Squad purchased a used type II ambulance from Lenox Hill Hospital.
Then the game switches the player to command the entire 2nd Squad after the Battle of Bloody Gulch ( Hill 30 ).
In 2010, The Collins Hill Cheer-leading Competition Squad went to State for the first time in eight years and received third place.

Squad and 1977
Unlike the unwavering high standards seen in the fictional Sweeney, the actual commander of the Flying Squad, Detective Chief Superintendent Kenneth Drury was convicted of five counts of corruption and jailed for eight years on 7 July 1977.
Lupino guest-starred on numerous television programs, including The Ford Television Theatre ( 1954 ), The Twilight Zone ( 1959 ), Bonanza ( 1959 ), Burke's Law ( 1963 – 64 ), The Virginian ( 1963 – 65 ), Batman ( 1968 ), The Mod Squad ( 1969 ), Family Affair ( 1969 – 70 ), Columbo ( 1972 – 74 ), Barnaby Jones ( 1974 ), The Streets of San Francisco (" Blockade ", 1974 ), Ellery Queen ( 1975 ), Police Woman ( 1975 ) and Charlie's Angels ( 1977 ), to name a few.
He executive produced the 1980s cult kids movie, The Monster Squad ( 1986 ), and co-wrote the screenplay for the Charles Bronson thriller, Telefon ( 1977 ).
Guest roles on other popular TV shows include: McCloud ( 1971 ), The Mod Squad ( 1972 ), Kung Fu ( 1974 ), The Rockford Files ( 1975 ), Three for the Road ( 1975 ), The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman ( 1976 ), and McMillan & Wife ( 1977 ).
Also present in the film but absent from the soundtrack are " Dad, I'm in Jail " by Was ( Not Was ) from their 1988 album What Up, Dog ?, " Fast Lane " by Urban Dance Squad from their 1990 album Mental Floss for the Globe, " Weinerschnitzel " by The Descendents from their 1981 EP Fat, " Love Comes in Spurts " by Richard Hell and the Voidoids from their 1977 album Blank Generation, and " Talk Hard ," by Stan Ridgway, the original version of which has never been released ( though Ridgway has released a live version of the song ).
Gus Chambers ( 1958 – 13 October 2008 ) took over vocals in Coventry punk band Squad ( formed late 1977 ) from Terry Hall ( who left to form The Specials ).
He was in charge of operations at the Flying Squad from 1973 to 1977 as its deputy head under Commander Don Neesham, and then head of Q Division detectives at Wembley.

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