During the first half of the 20th century, the United States and the Japanese Empire constantly made plans for a naval war against the other rising power. Each believed that the U.S. Navy would fight its way across the Pacific Ocean, with important clashes taking places in island chains like the Marianas and the Carolines. Pacific Crossroads is the new...
From the publisher: In 1907, the Imperial Chinese Navy proposed a new building program to provide three regional fleets, each built around a new modern battleship. Two years later a naval commission headed by the Regent's brother, Prince Tsai-hsun, recommended a fleet of eight dreadnoughts and 20 cruisers plus supporting vessels, and began soliciting bids...
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...
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...
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...
As day breaks, the men are already lined up in the trench. Some have shaky hands, but all grip their rifles tightly. On the other side of the parapet, the no man's land is deathly quiet. As the sun's rays reflect off the bayonets, the officers look nervously at their watches. But everyone is confident, because the pigeons that arrived the day before have...
The Great War in Europe (TGWiE) is a two player or two-team game simulating the campaigns of the main European theaters of the First World War, from August 1914 to the armistice. Players represent the political and military high commands of the Central Powers and the Allies, conducting operations on the western front, the eastern front, Italy and the...
In 1995 Ted Raicer's game, The Great War in Europe, was published in Command Magazine by the XTR Corporation. The game was well received, and shortly afterward, an expansion, The Great War in the Near East, was also released. The Deluxe edition of The Great War in Europe is more than a consolidation of these two games. The rules have be rewritten to...
From Command magazine issue #38. The Great War in the Near East is a stand alone game using the core mechanics of The Great War in Europe (from Command issue #33) and depicting World War I in Palestine, Iraq & on the Turkish Front. The game also can be used as a add on module for The Great War in Europe as the counters have an added diagonal slash on them...