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...
From the Avalanche Press website: In December 1912, Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy renewed their 30-year-old military pact known as the Triple Alliance. In the months that followed, staff officers from all three fleets prepared detailed plans for operations against the French and British fleets in the Mediterranean in case of war. Yet when war came in...
In a different summer of 1862, following a series of disastrous Union defeats and internal frustrations with the course of this accursed Civil War, the Confederate States of America wins its independence, and from that time on, the North American continent is divided between two nations: the CSA and the USA. Confederate States Navy is a 64-page book...
From the Avalanche Press website: In the early decades of the 20th century, the U.S. Navy made plans to fight many potential enemies. Plan Red, the strategy for war with Britain, included sub-plans for conflict with British Dominions. War with Australia, code-named Plan Scarlet, would be a purely naval affair. U.S. Navy Plan Scarlet is a 64-page book...
From the publisher's website: Great War at Sea: Confederate States Navy introduced a world where the Confederate States achieved a negotiated peace with the Union in 1862, but fighting erupted again a little more than five decades later. CSN: Plan Blue takes the fighting to the Northern theater, using the map and pieces from U.S. Navy Plan Red as well as...
From the published: Picking up the story from C.S. Navy: Plan Blue, Great War at Sea: U.S. Navy Plan Gray looks at naval operations in the Second War of the Rebellion as the outnumbered Confederate States Navy along with its British, Canadian and Imperial Mexican allies battles the much larger Union fleet. In Plan Blue, we covered the early months of 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 Japanese navy, many times the size of the German squadron....
This is the twenty-sixth of the Avalanche Press Golden Journal supplements. It contains 20 additional counters for use with Great War at Sea: Cruiser Warfare as well as scenarios and variants for their use. —user summary We have the armored cruiser Blücher as re-designed with 11-inch (280mm) guns in place of her actual outfit of 8.2-inch (210mm) pieces....