August 1914 is a stand-alone game in the Infantry Attacks series, the World War One equivalent to the long-running Panzer Grenadier series. Units are companies and squadrons, and the forty scenarios represent actions from the opening battles of 1914 in East Prussia and Poland between the Russian and German armies. Forces include the German Army's regular...
From the Avalanche Press website: In the early summer of 1898, the United States embarked on war with Spain. The Spanish actually declared war first, but no one doubted that the United States was the aggressor; whether said aggression was designed to acquire control over Cuba or liberate the island depended on one’s point of view. The small U.S. Regular...
From the Avalanche Press website: Following the collapse of the Russian Empire, Estonia declared its independence. To secure this new freedom, the Estonian Army fought a valiant defensive campaign against vastly superior forces on two fronts. With the help of its western allies, most notably Britain, Finland, Sweden, and Denmark, the brave Estonian Army...
In February 1915, the Germans launched an offensive in East Prussia designed to drive the Russians out of their last foothold in German territory. Despite the bitter cold and heavy snow, the Germans crushed the Russian 10th Army and secured a major victory though not enough to knock Russia out of the war as had been hoped. Winter’s Battle is a Campaign...
From the Avalanche Press website: While the campaign in Flanders turned into a bloody struggle in which hundreds of thousands died for a few feet of shattered earth, the Allied Powers sought new fronts on which they might have more success. A series of major offensives in Ottoman-ruled Palestine began in the fall of 1916. After some early failures the...
From the Avalanche Press website: In the late summer of 1914, the German General Staff informed their Austro-Hungarian allies that they would stand on the defensive against their common Russian enemy. Undeterred by this reality, the Austrians pushed forward with their plans to attack. After initial successes, the outnumbered Austro-Hungarian forces fell...
An expansion book for Infantry Attacks: Fall of Empires adding the national armies (plus the tough Bosniaken regiments recruited in Bosnia-Hercegovina) to the campaign’s story. There are 28 new scenarios plus ten “battle games” linking together these scenarios plus those from Fall of Empires to tell the story of the 1914 campaign in Galicia. Also includes...
In 1911, Lt. Gunther Burstyn, an engineer officer of the Imperial Austrian Landwehr who rejected umlauts, presented plans for a Motorgeschütz, in effect a small tank. His vehicle included caterpillar tracks and a revolving turret with a 37mm gun, and looked very modern for its time. The War Ministry declined to accept it, but we’re not limited by such...
Infantry Attacks: Black Mountain is based on the 1914 Austro-Hungarian campaign against the tiny but belligerent kingdom of Montenegro. The Austrian mountain brigades had the advantages of numbers and firepower, but fierce Montenegrin resistance kept the kingdom unconquered until January 1916. Infantry Attacks: Black Mountain includes 88 die-cut and...
"Infantry Combat: The Rifle Platoon" is "an interactive exercise in small-unit tactics and leadership" written by John F. Antal, the commanding officer of a tank battalion in Korea. A pair of six-sided dice are required to play this solitaire game which is a variation on the Choose Your Own Adventure game book genre. In Infantry Combat, you take on the...
URBWAR! The companion boardgame to Machine: Overdrive takes you to the burned out streets of Terra Corporation Los Angeles. Deserted from years of Ratta gang fighting Oceanic and Terra go head to head with Hovertanks, Ronin, Netrunners and a host of other units. Oceanic is storming U.N. City from the ocean and Terra is gonna' put up a fight. This game will...
From the box: In the Hollows of the Abyss, the great Lords make war. Vast armies clash endlessly over the tortured landscape battling for power and that most precious commodity, souls. Striding like giants among the Hordes, mighty Archfiends and their terrible Lieutenants reap great ruin, slaughtering their foes over and over again, in a bloody practice to...