In August 1939, the German armored cruiser Admiral Graf Spee set out from Germany for the South Atlantic Ocean. Several weeks after the German invasion of Poland, she began to attack Allied merchant shipping. British and French warships scoured the South Atlantic in search of the German cruiser. After sinking nine merchant vessels totaling just over 50,000...
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...
“ In April 1942, the Japanese Combined Fleet offered Fourth Fleet the carrier Kaga (then completing repairs to the hull damage that kept her out of the Indian Ocean operations) for the upcoming Operation MO, the capture of Port Moresby. Fourth Fleet’s commander, Shigeyoshi Inoue, had been the pre-war head of naval aviation and recognized that one carrier...
In the years before the Second World War exploded, both the United States and the Empire of Japan expanded their fleets and air forces, planning to build even more new ships and planes. The outbreak of war scuttled many of these drawing-board vessels, but that hasn’t kept us from adding them to Second World War at Sea. The Emperor's Sword is a massive...
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...