From the publisher: After some months of quiet, Europe’s “soft underbelly” became a brutal theater of war in 1940 when Italy joined the Axis. Italian convoys fought their way south across the Mediterranean, while British convoys tried to cross the Middle Sea from west to east. Each, in turn, tried to stop the other and claim control of these troubled...
The Mediterranean naval war includes more intense action in the air and on the sea than we could stuff into our game on the topic, La Regia Marina. The Middle Sea is a very large expansion set for La Regia Marina: 630 new pieces (210 double-sized “long” pieces, 420 standard-sized square ones) and 40 new scenarios. It covers the action from the summer of...
From the Avalanche Press website: The U.S. Navy began its counter-offensive against the Japanese in August 1942, with landings on the islands of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands. The Japanese struck back in turn, and fierce naval battles raged in “Ironbottom Sound” by night while aircraft carriers dueled by day. The Americans and their Australian allies...
The Solomons Campaign of 1942 saw the American and Japanese navies engage in the most intense naval combat of World War II. For months the two sides fought over Guadalcanal, a miserable jungle-covered island with a vital airbase. Ironbottom Sound: A South Pacific Story continues the tale that we began in Second World War at Sea: South Pacific. You get 36...
This is alternative-history naval campaign from Avalanche Press' Second Great War setting, with Imperial Russian and Ottoman Turkish flotillas waging a war that never happened on the Caspian Sea. Caspian Princes is a complete Second World War at Sea game. You get everything you need right here in this little package (or in the attached download) including...
Immediately after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Japanese forces began their “Strike South” against the American, British and Dutch colonies in South-East Asia. The combined American-British-Dutch-Australian fleet resisted as best they could, but would be crushed in February 1942 in the Battle of the Java Sea. Java Sea is a Second World War at Sea series game...
In the mid-1930’s, Thai military dictator Plaek Phibunsongkhram commissioned a modest naval building program. The Royal Thai Navy quickly received modern coast-defense ships, submarines and torpedo boats from Japanese and Italian shipyards. In 1940, Thailand challenged Vichy France over the provinces lost to French Indo-China in 1893, leading to a Thai...
Adolf Hitler launched his sneak attack on the Soviet Union in June 1941. The Red Army reeled back from the assault, losing thousands of tanks, guns and planes. On 21 August 1941 the first convoy loaded with equipment and weapons left Iceland for the Soviet Arctic port of Archangel. For the next two years, the Royal Navy would force through convoys to the...
Secrets of the Deep is a fun, fast filler in which players play as scuba divers who are trying to raise as much treasure from the ocean as possible before time runs out. This task is complicated by limited air supply, hazards, and fierce competition from other divers. In the course of a turn, players balance using different air tanks to dive the ocean for...
See-Schlacht is a card game based on battleship. Each player receives a couple of empty sea cards, 3 single ships (red ship cards), 1 small fleet (2 brown ship cards) and 1 large fleet (3 yellow ship cards). First each player lays out his sea cards in a grid defined by the players (e.g. 4 x 5 cards). Then each player replaces secretly empty sea cards by...
See the Sea is a classic bingo game with sea animals for the youngest players. Three versions of the game are included: 2+ years: to get know undersea world 3-5 years: classic bingo game - draw the tockens and fill your field. 4-7 years: bingo+memory with die. Roll the die and open as many chips as you have on the die. Get open animals from your field and...
Four sailing ships are docked in the port. The little sea dogs have to skillfully use their colored sails in order to be the first to reach the mysterious rainbow island. One by one, in a clockwise direction, the players each pull a sail out of the sailor's kit bag: the boat onto which a colored sail is stuck moves ahead to the next free square of the same...