From the Avalanche Press website: Japan entered the modern age in 1868, with a new young emperor determined to make his island nation a world power. After decades of steady progress, Japan began its own practice of colonialism, defeating China in 1894. As the Japanese began to infiltrate the semi-independent Kingdom of Korea, they ran into Russian agents...
In the months just before the Russo-Japanese War, agents for both empires scoured the globe for additional warships they might purchase or, more often, stop the other side from purchasing. But you can have them all (for free, at least at first): Argentine and Chilean armored cruisers; Turkish, Chilean and Brazilian coast defense ships. We have their...
The Great Lakes area between the United States and Canada was the scene of much fierce fighting during the War of 1812, however subsequent years brought a series of treaties that effectively demilitarized not only the Lakes region but the entire U.S.-Canadian border. Nevertheless, throughout the 1800’s and early 1900’s, periodic tensions arose between the...
Several times a year, when we feel like it, the Golden Journal brings Gold Club members some fun extras for their Avalanche Press games. Our new-model Golden Journal features a “real” booklet, just like a small magazine, and a small set of die-cut, silky-smooth playing pieces. The first clash of modern dreadnoughts took place at the Battle of Dogger Bank...
Great War at Sea: South Seas Mandate is based on what US Navy planners foresaw as the opening stages of War Plan Orange, the plan for a Pacific naval war against Japan. It is set in the years just after the First World War and features ships planned but never built: the American Design 150 battle cruiser, the Japanese Type X light battlecruiser, the...
In one of the First World War’s best-known naval escapades, the German battle cruiser Goeben eluded her British and French pursuers in August 1914, escaping to Turkey and helping to widen the war into entirely new theaters. That would only be the first of many naval operations on the Mediterranean Sea and the adjoining Adriatic and Black Seas with naval...
Throughout the Great War, staff officers of the High Seas Fleet suggested sending a battle cruiser around the northern tip of Britain into the Atlantic Ocean to prey on enemy shipping. Moltke proved the concept in June 1912 with her visit to New York, and scouting forces commander Franz Hipper urged that she be dispatched into the Atlantic. Later the...
In the summer of 1914, Germany’s East Asia cruiser squadron’s superbly trained crews of long-service professionals made Admiral Maximilian Graf von Spee's small fleet the envy of the China station. But when war broke out, this tiny force found itself far from home and threatened by the powerful Imperial Japanese Navy, many times the size of the German...
On 26 April 1898, the United States declared war on Spain. Five days later, the U.S. Navy’s Asiatic Squadron, led by Commodore George Dewey, steamed into Manila Bay, where they destroyed Admiral Patricio Montojo’s Spanish Pacific Squadron. The Americans held a significant edge in fighting power, but Dewey’s victory electrified the American public and...
Tactical card-based wargame adapting the Combat Commander system to WWI. In 1914, the great powers of Europe could not save the international system that had been in place since Metternich a century before. Tangled alliances pushed them to the brink. Nations miscalculated and expected a short, limited war, but a four-year World War blew up in their faces...
Great War Commander: British Expeditionary Force is the sequel to Great War Commander. Great War Commander: BEF's main theme is the addition of a new faction: Great Britain and their Dominions. This second game in the Great War Commander game series includes units, cards and scenarios depicting the fighting forces of this great nation. Great Britain's own...
Great War Commander Battle Pack Nr1 is the first of what will be many themed scenario packs for use with the Great War Commander series of games. This first Battle Pack is focused on the western front with actions opposing the German forces to the US, British, French and even Portuguese troops. This Battle Pack features 12 new scenarios - one of which is...