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...
1940: The Last Days of May is a Panzer Grenadier Campaign Study. with 11 scenarios from the final days of the German invasion of France, in two chapters, each with a battle game to link the scenarios together. You’ll need Panzer Grenadier: 1940 The Fall of France and Road to Dunkirk to play all of the scenarios. The scenarios come from the updating of...
Surrounded by three hostile powers — Poland, Germany and the Soviet Union — Lithuania chose not to resist their imperialist advances during the Second World War. The Lithuanian Army consisted of but three infantry divisions, a cavalry brigade and a small tank detachment. But many within the political and military hierarchy, including dictator Antanas...
Bo wolność krzyżami się mierzy On 21 September 1939, as Polish troops continued to resist German and Soviet invaders, the Polish Army in France began to form. Polish soldiers who had escaped over the country’s neutral borders joined Poles from around the world, chiefly Polish workers resident in France. By May 1940 the Polish Army in France numbered four...
From the publisher's website: Aachen 1944: Germany Invaded is a supplement for the Panzer Grenadier series. There are ten scenarios, or separate game situations, based on the battles of October 1944 between divisions of the United States First Army driving onto German soil and those of the German Seventh Army desperately trying to keep them out of the...
From the publisher: Between January and May 1944, Allied forces launched four major attacks on German positions at the abbey of Monte Cassino. Three times the Germans drove them back, until finally on 18 May 1944 a troop of Polish Lancers raised their red-and-white pennant over the ruins. Over 50,000 Allied soldiers and more than 20,000 Germans fell in the...
From the Avalanche Press website: National People's Army adds the East Germans to Panzer Grenadier, with their kasernierten ("garrisoned") police, the predecessor of the East German Army. Armed initially with the Third Reich's castoff weaponry - Czech, Polish and Yugoslav rifles and machine guns - as tensions rose in 1950 they received new arms (some...
From the Avalanche Press website: In July 1943, history's greatest tank battle erupted when the German Army hurled 50 divisions at the Red Army around the city of Kursk, including 17 panzer and panzer grenadier divisions with over 3,000 tanks. Long aware of German plans, the Soviets were ready and waiting, with heavily fortified lines backed by 3,600 tanks...
From the Avalanche Press website: No intelligence reports had prepared the German Army for the new Soviet T-34/76 medium tank: a well-balanced vehicle with much better firepower, armor protection and mobility than anything in the German arsenal or even on German drawing boards. In December 1941, the Germany Army’s Weapons Bureau ordered two firms, MAN...
On the combined-arms battlefield, it’s the armor that slashes through and the infantry that takes and holds ground. But it’s the artillery that destroys, that creates the breakthroughs and crushes attacks before they even begin. The Book of Armaments is all about artillery in Panzer Grenadier, focused on the Eastern Front games (Fire in the Steppe, South...