This Gold Club Golden Journal attempts to dial back the incredible firepower of the Marine platoons included in Saipan. This product corrected the values on the Marine counters for the early version of the Panzer Grenadier: Saipan game. This journal includes the lower DF Marines at 8-3 rather than 10-3 direct fire. The newer version of Saipan have the...
This is the eight of the Avalanche Press Golden Journal supplements. It contains 40 additional counters with rules to cover their use and an additional scenario. Variants: Rifleman of Saipan - Alters the strength of the US Marines INF units. Armor on Saipan - Provides alternative tanks for Scenario 10 Scenario: Massed Armor - Requires pieces from Saipan...
Dragon Rampant (known as Kiwi Armour prior to release and now sometimes as Dragon Rampant (Kiwi Armour)) is Golden Journal #56 and adds counters for the 1st New Zealand Army Tank Brigade and scenarios using them against the Germans and Italians in Tunisia and against the Japanese in New Zealand. Due to the name change late in development, many webpages...
Panzer Grenadier: Leyte 1944 In October 1944 American soldiers stormed ashore on the island of Leyte in the Philippines, fulfilling Douglas MacArthur’s promise to return. Japanese troops put up fierce resistance and reinforcements poured in, including elite paratroopers. Not until December would Leyte be secured. Designer Jay Townsend brought you the...
From the Avalanche Press website: The liberation of France began with the Allied invasion on D-Day, 6 June 1944. From Sword, Gold, and Juno beaches, British Army troops fought their way across the hedgerows and rolling green hills, driving back Hitler’s Wehrmacht and SS forces. Fierce German resistance, featuring skilled use of tanks on the defensive...
At dusk on Christmas Eve 1941, the Imperial Japanese Army’s 11th Army began a renewed offensive against Changsha, the capital of Hunan Province. What was intended as a diversion to keep the Chinese from interfering with the Japanese attack on Hong Kong became a major operation of its own. The six Chinese armies (each the size of a small Western corps, with...
From the Avalanche Press website: While the SS assault the Kursk salient from the south, German plans had the Ninth Army hurling three panzer corps against the bulge's northern flank. With weeks to prepare, the Soviet 13th Army had dug in with multiple lines of anti-tank guns, and once the Germans broke through they had to face the Second Tank Army. Kursk...
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. In January 1943, the German Army began to re-organize the shattered 78th...
For their June 1943 offensive at Kursk, the German high command bet a lot of its chips on the Grossdeutschland Panzer Grenadier Division. It had more tanks than any of the Regular Army panzer divisions, plus additional weapons from machine guns to Tiger heavy tanks, and additional assault guns and other battalions. Add to that enormous combat experience...
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. Like all other major powers, the Red Army studied and rejected many proposed...
From the Avalanche Press website: In early November 1942, American and British forces stormed ashore in French-ruled Morocco and Algeria, beginning a campaign to press the Axis into a small bridgehead around the ports of Tunis and Bizerte in Tunisia. The U.S. Army had its first exposure to combat in the European Theater, while fresh British forces joined...
From the publisher's website: In the spring of 1943, Benito Mussolini ordered the Italian Fascist Milizia Volontaria per la Sicurezza Nazionale (MVSN, better known as the Blackshirts) to form an armored division. The “M” Armored Division would draw its personnel from battle-hardened Blackshirt veterans of the Eastern Front, and be equipped with the very...