From the publisher's website: The First Great War ended in December 1916 with Wilson’s Peace, a negotiated settlement that left all parties vaguely dissatisfied (except those called on to die by the millions). The Second Great War erupted in August 1940, with Russian, French and Italian armies attacking the Central Powers in a naked grab for territory and...
From the Avalanche Press website: Formed during the U.S. Army’s 1941 pre-war expansion, the Third Armored Division fought its way from Normandy deep into Germany. Breaking German resistance, the division suffered enormous casualties – over 16,000 of them, 2,500 of them killed in action (including division commander Maurice Rose). Late in the war, the...
Shattered in the Battle of Alamein in late 1942, Germany's once-formidable Afrika Korps stumbled back from Egypt across Libya, to meet its end in Tunisia. Axis and Allied armies had surged back and forth across the Western Desert for just over two years, each time managing to recover from defeat and eventually stage a counter-offensive. ...could the...
Panzer Grenadier: Black Panthers tells the story of segregated African-American units that fought in World War II. Black Panthers is a special expansion for Panzer Grenadier: Elsenborn Ridge. It has 24 new die-cut playing pieces for the Black Panthers under their distinctive insignia, and two dozen scenarios based on the epic battles of the 761st and other...
Soon after the 16 December 1944 German attack in the Ardennes, British troops began moving into position for a counter-attack. By late December the British XXX Corps was heavily involved in helping push back the German Sixth Panzer Army, advancing alongside the Americans to erase all German gains by early January. The Battle of the Bulge is rightly...
World War II was scheduled to begin on 28 September 1938, when German armies would cross into neighboring Czechoslovakia. Unexpectedly, Britain and France agreed to almost all German demands, and the Munich Agreement caused the Germans to cancel their plans. The Czech Army numbered 1.5 million men, with 17 regular and 17 more reserve infantry divisions and...
In May 1940, German panzer divisions attacked the Soviet Union, beginning a two-year campaign that finally ended in the summer of 1942 with the defeat of the Stalinist regime. Immediately afterwards, Germany’s supreme leader turned his attention to the Western allies, Britain and France, beginning the lengthy conflict that would become known as the Long...
From the Avalanche Press website: In the spring of 1940, the French Army appeared invincible. They awaited the expected German offensive with great confidence, ready to repel their ancient foes and overwhelm them in 1941 with a massive wave of new armored divisions. Instead it was the German panzers that did the overwhelming. Despite heroic efforts in...
From the Avalanche Press website: 1940: The Fall of Luxembourg gives you the entire order of battle of Luxembourg forces in the Second World War in Panzer Grenadier format. That adds up to a whopping 16 counters, including leaders, plus four more markers for the curious Luxembourgeouis (Luxemburger? Luxembourgian?) defense strategy: stop the Germans by...
From the publisher: When France fell to the Germans in June 1940, she possessed a strong force of tanks and armored vehicles – many of them technologically superior to those of the Germans. Yet even better tanks and guns had been designed. Some of these existed as prototypes, and some had even entered production but had not reached front-line troops in...
This is an expansion booklet for The Deluge, 1940: The Fall France, and Fire in the Steppe (all three needed to play). We look at the tanks that the Poles tried to acquire or produce before the German invasion. Polish industry wasn’t capable of putting the new tanks into series production in time, and the Poles failed in their quest to purchase the Somua...
In August 1939, France’s Armée d’Afrique mobilized ten Moroccan infantry regiments; all of them would fight in the coming campaign in France, three of them forming the elite 1st Moroccan Infantry Division. The “Swallows of Death” already carried a fearsome fighting reputation from the trenches of the First World War, and they would only add to their black...