MacGowan & Lombardy's The Great War by award-winning game designer Dana Lombardy is a simple, fast-playing stand-alone (non-collectible) 2-player & SOLO card game built around important weapon systems, commanders, and other historical aspects of this unprecedented industrial-scale war. One player represents Germany. The other player represents the Entente...
A strategic level, area movement game based on WWI. The map covers all major European and West-Asian countries ranging from Britain and France in the west to Persia and Russia in the east. Players maneuver armies, corps, and naval squadrons while engaging in mobilization, combat, and diplomacy. There are seven historical and one hypothetical scenario, plus...
Dreadnoughts is a supplement to Avalanche Press's Great War at Sea series of naval games. It expands all prior main games in the series, requiring elements from other games to play any of the scenarios. No map is included, only expansion game pieces. Numerous articles and scenarios cover Spanish, Turkish, Russian, Greek, French, and Romanian plans in the...
THE GREAT WAR AT SEA (not associated with Avalanche Press) The first in a planned series of expansion sets to supplement the Great War at Sea game series! The South America Expansion set covers the ships available to these nations from 1895 through 1925. 191 markers from 9 navies (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Columbia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and...
For a brief period, Ferdinand Graf Zeppelin's giant gas-filled airships ruled the world's skies. Though conceived as passenger craft, during the First World War rigid and semi-rigid airships performed long-range scouting and bombing missions. Great War at Sea: Zeppelins includes die-cut-and-mounted playing pieces, but these are special, oversized ones:...
From the Avalanche Press website: During the late 1800s, two emerging industrial powers began to build large modern fleets: the United States and Germany. Perhaps inevitably, tensions rose between them. Each entered the imperialist race very late and had to content itself with the leftovers which the British and French had passed by. When the United States...
From the late 18th to the middle of the 20th century, the Indian subcontinent was perhaps the most valuable overseas possession of the British Empire, commonly referred to as “the brightest jewel in the Crown.” Defense of the critical trade routes connecting this jewel to the other reaches of the Empire and Great Britain herself fell primarily to the ships...
From the Avalanche Press website: In May 1918, German troops occupied Sevastopol, base of the Russian Black Sea Fleet. All of the Central Powers – even the Bulgarians – made claims on at least some of the ships of the Black Sea Fleet as war reparations, as did the newly-independent Ukraine. The German Navy intended to man the best ships with Turkish crews...
For a brief period, Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin's giant floating cylinders seemed poised to play a major role in naval warfare. But just as the technology matured, high-performance aircraft, a spectacular accident caught on film and the Great Depression combined to bring an end to military and most civilian use of the rigid airship. Airships is a...
From the Avalanche Press website: For hundreds of years, the Dutch maintained dominion over a vast empire of overseas possessions. By the early 1900’s, many of these territories had been lost to Great Britain, however one of significant import remained: the East Indies, which would later become modern day Indonesia. Little Holland controlled the resources...
From the publisher's website: In Great War at Sea: Triple Alliance, we explored the notion of Italy remaining true to her alliance partners, Germany and Austria-Hungary, during the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. Staff officers from all three fleets prepared detailed operational plans, yet when war came in August 1914 Italy refused to join her...