The Great Barrier Reef Card Game is a small-box card game where players grow a portion of the reef in a tableau in front of them. On your turn, play a card from your hand to extend your reef in an attempt to create patterns. Randomly selected scoring cards will tell you what patterns are in play. Then draw from the card row according to the number on the...
Great White Fleet - A Great War At Sea scenario book. =First Edition, 2002: Twenty operational scenarios feature the battleships and armored cruisers of the pre-dreadnought era. Most are based on actual war plans, including the Russian Admiralty's 1903 wargame that decided the Tsar on war with Japan. Also includes Karl Laskas' variant tactical rules for...
Dreadnoughts is a supplement to Avalanche Press's Great War at Sea series of naval games. It expands all prior main games in the series, requiring elements from other games to play any of the scenarios. No map is included, only expansion game pieces. Numerous articles and scenarios cover Spanish, Turkish, Russian, Greek, French, and Romanian plans in the...
From the Avalanche Website During the course of the First World War, the United States continued to build huge new battleships despite a pressing need for destroyers and merchant ships. In Britain, Royal Navy planners wondered just what their American allies were up to, because such a fleet could only have one potential adversary. Britain also made plans...
For a brief period, Ferdinand Graf Zeppelin's giant gas-filled airships ruled the world's skies. Though conceived as passenger craft, during the First World War rigid and semi-rigid airships performed long-range scouting and bombing missions. Great War at Sea: Zeppelins includes die-cut-and-mounted playing pieces, but these are special, oversized ones:...
From the Avalanche Press website: During the late 1800s, two emerging industrial powers began to build large modern fleets: the United States and Germany. Perhaps inevitably, tensions rose between them. Each entered the imperialist race very late and had to content itself with the leftovers which the British and French had passed by. When the United States...
In June 1919, 11 battleships, five battle cruisers, eight light cruisers and 50 destroyers of the German High Seas Fleet attempted to scuttle themselves in the British anchorage at Scapa Flow. Most of the crews succeeded, and the enraged Allied Powers soon stripped Germany of her remaining modern warships as well. The mass sinking at Scapa Flow did clear...