At the moment German troops launched their surprise invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, Romanian dictator Ion Antonescu declared a “holy war” against the Communist regime. A half-million Romanian soldiers participated in these early campaigns, fighting fierce battles in Bessarabia, at Odessa and in the Crimea. Armata Romana is an expansion for our...
This is the twenty-fifth of the Avalanche Press Golden Journal supplements. It contains 24 additional counters as well as scenarios that use them. —user summary There are four new tanks presented in the set of pieces, all of them proposed to the Red Army in the late 1930’s for the “breakthrough” role: the T35B, with a modified engine and armor, the T35C...
Golden Journal No. 48: Black Helicopters is built around the 28 helicopter pieces that were used in the old Secret Weapons book (part of a larger sheet including the heavy tanks in Golden Journal No. 37: Heavy Metal). You’ll need Parachutes Over Crete (for the German mountain troops), River Battleships and Fire in the Steppe (for the maps and most of the...
Tank Battle at Raiseiniai is a Campaign Study based on the June 1941 tank battle at and around Raiseiniai in Lithuania. The Soviet 3rd Mechanized Corps, assisted by 12th Mechanized Corps, counter-attacked the German 41st Motorized Corps in a series of large-scale armored clashes. Tank Battle at Raiseiniai adds 10 new scenarios to Fire in the Steppe, split...
Black Sea Marines is a Panzer Grenadier Campaign Study, with 11 scenarios based on the land battles of the Black Sea Fleet Marines in the dark days of 1941 against German and Romanian invaders. There are two chapters, each with a battle game to link the scenarios together. You’ll need Panzer Grenadier: Fire in the Steppe, Armata Romana and River...
The massive tank battle at Brody-Dubno in June 1941 included the two divisions of the German 49th Mountain Corps and the Adolf Hitler Life Guard Motorized Regiment of the Waffen SS party militia. These battles were not included in Fire in the Steppe, based on the clashes at Brody and Dubno, since Fire in the Steppe doesn’t include pieces for German...
Dispatched to France in September 1939, the ten infantry divisions of the British Expeditionary Force pressed forward into Belgium eight months later to meet the onrushing German panzer divisions. Faced with overwhelming odds, the British gave ground slowly as they fell back toward the English Channel, finally exiting the Continent through the miraculous...
In late May 1941, the German Air Force launched history’s first large-scale airborne invasion, dropping a division of paratroopers onto the island of Crete, followed by a mountain division landed from transport planes. For thirteen days the motley Allied garrison of Australian, New Zealand and Greek troops put up fierce resistance before the Germans...
German paratroopers landed on Crete in May 1941, hitting four drop zones defended by Australian, New Zealand and British troops, plus hastily-organized Greek regiments and often the armed Cretan populace. Our Parachutes Over Crete game covers the air landings at Maleme, Prison Valley and Rethymno; this new Campaign Study looks at the battle for Heraklion...
During the Second World War, several Eastern European nations fielded flotillas of river monitors - armored, shallow-draft warships that operated on the great rivers. These gunboats (anything on a river is a “boat” no matter its size) were designed to provide artillery support, engage enemy troops and if necessary, to fight other river monitors. River...
The First Great War ended in December 1916 with Wilson’s Peace, a negotiated settlement that left all parties vaguely dissatisfied (except those no longer called on to die by the millions). The Second Great War erupted in August 1940, with Serbian, Russian, French and Italian armies attacking the Central Powers in a naked grab for territory and power....
Breaking the Siegfried Line, 1944 On 11 September 1944, a patrol from the U.S. 5th Armored Division crossed the German border, beginning a campaign that would last three and a half months and cost over 140,000 casualties as the Americans tried to break through the Siegfried Line defenses, known to the Germans as the West Wall. Dragon’s Teeth is a complete...