From the Avalanche Press webpage… “ 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. On the morning of 9 April 1940, two German...
After the initial success in “Day”, weeks of hard combats in Normandy had been fought. The region was ideal for the defense, with bocages, forests and rough land. The great allied advantages was the aerial supremacy and the great mobility of their units, had been almost annulled for closed combats far from the short and in difficult land. The weather also...
This is a new game in the Advanced Tobruk: Tank Battles in North Africa 1940-43 System (ATS) that allows gamers to recreate squad-level action in World War II. The Gothic Line was a German defensive front in Italy. From the publisher's website: A highly detailed rendition of this titanic struggle pitting combined-arms US Army forces against determined...
Gothic Line: The Campaign in Northern Italy – AUGUST TO OCTOBER, 1944 is a simulation of the battles in the Northern Apennines mountains fought to cross the Po River and end the war in Italy by Christmas 1944. This game simulates the campaign at the battalion/division level. Each combat strength point of Divisions/brigades/regiments are represented by...
In the pre-dawn darkness, Japan's Col. Goto launches a massive (by Japanese standards) armored attack against the US Marines on Saipan. All but one of his 44 tanks were wrecks by morning. Marines joked that Japan's T-97 tanks were nothing more than "kitchen sinks." Part of Against the Odds Magazine's Pocket Battle Games series, this postcard-sized game...
A relatively simple game covering the final days of the Third Reich, with the final race between Zhukov and Koniev to take the Reichstag. Russian units are Corps, German units are a mish-mash of battallions, brigades, and a few regiments. The map has two scales, an operational-scale covering the Elbe to the jump-off lines on the Oder, and a "grand...
Graf Spee is a World War II tactical naval game, pitting the German pocket battleship Graf Spee versus three Royal Navy cruisers off the coast of South America, December, 1939. Designed by Gary Graber. The game was initially released as a "Mini-Sim" game in Panzerschrek #13. The required the components to be photocopied and mounted prior to playing. It was...
In the wake of the Great War, a new arms race loomed. The United States and Japan each trusted in a strong navy to achieve future security and retain political influence. Within three years of the Treaty of Versailles, no less than twenty-five new battleships and battlecruisers had been ordered by the two powers, exactly equal to the number already in...