Strategic level game covering WW2 in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. The game was created as an introduction to military simulation for students taking the conflict simulation course run by its' designer at King's College London. As such it was designed to be the simplest possible representation of the war. Game consists of -12 page rulebook...
The Second World War is a grand-strategic, historical simulation game about World War II. Players represent the major powers involved in the conflict and have at their command the forces with which to wage war and achieve victory for their country or alliance. The game covers the European, North African, and Pacific Theaters on three maps and four...
SOPAC: Naval Action in the Southern Pacific 1942-43, is part of Avalanche Press Ltd's Second World War at Sea series of naval battle games. SOPAC recreates the Solomon Islands Campaign of late 1942. Like other games in the series, SOPAC uses a combination of Operational and Tactical displays, similar to those originally found in Avalon Hill's Midway, but...
Following their victory at Pearl Harbor, the Imperial Japanese Navy's First Air Fleet moved through the American, Dutch and British colonies of South and East Asia. Having taken the mighty British naval base at Singapore, the next move was to enter the Indian Ocean and challenge the Royal Navy there. Eastern Fleet' is a complete game in the Second World...
The British Pacific Fleet fought alongside its American allies in the final stages of the Pacific War, advancing from its Indian Ocean bases to Tokyo Bay. This Second World War at Sea scenario book adds more than three dozen new scenarios to the game system and includes 210 new playing pieces. The Second World War at Sea games Leyte Gulf, Strike South and...
From the Avalanche Press website: In the 17th century, the Dutch built powerful fleets to protect their overseas trade, particularly the riches flowing from the Spice Islands — the region that would become known as the Dutch East Indies and eventually Indonesia. In 1880, the discovery of oil in the archipelago made them once again a potential source of...
From the Avalanche Press website: Return to the world of the Second Great War, where Wilson’s Peace ended the First Great War on Christmas 1916. Twenty-four years later war returned to Europe, with Russia, France and Italy seeking to overturn the settlement with a war of aggression against the Central Powers of Imperial Germany, Austria-Hungary and the...
This is the seventeenth of the Avalanche Press Golden Journal supplements. It contains 25 additional counters as well as rules for their use in multiple Second World War at Sea games. The premise is that the British hoped to sell the battleship Agincourt after World War I. These pieces are various possible roles for which the ship could have been...
In Eastern Fleet, there is significant historical disparity between the the strength of the British Eastern Fleet and the Japanese First Air Fleet. This supplement seeks to increase the strength of the Eastern Fleet to allow for a more head to head assault. The supplement comes with 25 new pieces (10 ship and 15 aircraft) and 4 new scenarios (2 operational...
A Campaign Study In the Battle of the Coral Sea in May 1942, the U.S. Navy thwarted the Japanese attempt to seize Port Moresby on the south-east coast of New Guinea. From there, Japanese planes could have ranged over the Coral Sea and supported landings on the north-east coast of Australia. That didn’t happen; the Americans would win again at Midway a...
In February 1942, the German Navy prepared a top-secret mission, known as Operation Cerberus, to move the battle cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau (known to British sailors as the “Wicked Sisters”) and heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen from Brest in western France to Norway. Without special training operations or any other moves that might alert the British, they...
For three years, Britain's Royal Navy and Italy's Regia Marina waged a ferocious battle for control of the Mediterranean Sea. Fifty scenarios re-create these struggles: the battleship duels at Cape Teulada, First Sirte, Second Sirte and Cape Matapan. The convoys to Malta. The Italian torpedo boat Lupo's defeat of two British cruisers. This is the ultimate...