This is the twelfth of the Avalanche Press Golden Journal supplements. It contains 70 additional counters as well as variants for two games: Counters: The majority of the counters included are "long" rectangle pieces meant to replace ships in a number of other games that were originally represented by "small" square counters. Pieces are replaced in the...
From the Avalanche Press website: During the late 1930’s, the German Kriegsmarine came up with a plan for a powerful new fleet, built around several aircraft carriers and a half-dozen huge battleships, with flotillas of supporting cruisers and destroyers. Admiral Erich Raeder called this ambitious program Plan Z, and looked to complete it sometime in 1948....
Our Second Great War alternative history story arc posits a world in which Woodrow Wilson’s attempts to forge a compromise peace in late 1916 succeeded. Millions of lives were saved and vast destruction averted, while the great empires of Eastern Europe – Germany, Austria, Russia and Turkey – survived for another generation. But not all accepted this new...
In May 1940, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered the U.S. Pacific Fleet to move its major base from San Diego, California to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The Japanese government rightly interpreted this as a threat, as Roosevelt intended. The Japanese would not strike for another 18 months, but had they done so the fleets involved would have been very...
During the 1930’s, France built up a force of modern warships, the Force de Raid, to counter German naval construction. Britain seemed far less ready to stand against Hitler, and French leaders felt they had to be ready to fight Germany again, this time alone. Force de Raid is a Campaign Study, with fourteen scenarios depicting this Franco-German naval...
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 1939, the French Navy operated the world’s fourth-largest aircraft carrier...
This is the twenty-second of the Avalanche Press Golden Journal supplements. It contains 30 additional counters as well as new scenarios for their use. —user summary Britain’s Royal Navy converted the hulls of three “light battle cruisers” into aircraft carriers: Courageous, Glorious and Furious. Three other battle cruisers served in their original...
Avalanche Press calls this their "Ultimate World War II Naval Game" - a claim with some merit, it would seem, as this game is ENORMOUS. “Leyte Gulf” is a "Second World War at Sea"-series game based on the final struggles of the Imperial Japanese Navy. The largest naval battles in history are included here – the Battle of Leyte Gulf and the Battle of the...
This "what if" collection of aircraft carriers, suggested by an avid wargamer and drawn up by the folks at Avalanche Press, comprises three ships that did not see action at Leyte Gulf, but are sisters of ships that do have unit counters in the game. The included carriers are the Essex-class Tarawa and Boxer, and the Commencement Bay-class Bairoko (Bairoko...
"Strike South" is a "Second World War at Sea"-series game based on the Japanese efforts in early World War 2 to seize the rich assets of the Dutch East Indies. There are 140 “long” playing pieces, depicting the major fleet units of both sides: battleships, aircraft carriers, cruisers and fleet destroyers. There are also 280 square playing pieces, half the...
Golden Journal expansion / variant for Second World War at Sea: Strike South, Plan Z and Coral Sea with counters for conversions of British and US battlecruisers into aircraft carriers. Part the Second Great War alternative history story arc. Contains 3 variants to existing operational scenarios and 1 new battle scenario. Comes with 10 long ship counters...
From the Avalanche Press website: At the turn of the last century, South America seemed poised to make the same economic leap as the northern half of the hemisphere. Fueled by booming exports of grain, cattle, coffee and rubber, Brazil and Argentina saw their economies grow rapidly and at one time both stood among the world's ten wealthiest nations. All...