From the Avalanche Press website: The Finns relied on large-caliber coast-defense guns to protect their long, rocky coastline with its countless small islands and skerries: over 1,200 kilometers’ worth. To support the powerful but immobile big guns, Finnish strategy called for small, armored coast-defense ships that could slip between the islands and...
Our 24th issue looks at the designs considered by the German Navy for their Deutschland-class armored cruisers, the famous “pocket battleships.” You get 20 new Second World War at Sea pieces, with six different versions of the ships plus the original design for the Scharnhorst class. Design studies took two variant paths: an armored coast-defense ship for...
The German Navy captured many enemy vessels, but placed none in service larger than a destroyer. In Plan Z: Stolen Fleets, the German Kriegsmarine adds battleships, aircraft carriers, cruisers and more taken from the French, Soviet and Dutch navies to its order of battle along with a few new German-built ships. Stolen Fleets is an expansion for our Second...
Golden Journal No. 45: Fleet Air Arm is a Plan Z variant, built around the East of Suez sheet. You get an embiggened version of the usual book plus this time 210 die-cut pieces instead of the usual 20 to 40. That is a lot of ships, including scads of Royal Navy light and escort carriers and of course the airplanes to fly off of them and some escorting...
From the publisher's website: In late 1916, Woodrow Wilson attempted to bring an end to the First World War. He failed. In another reality, he succeeded. The great empires survived, yet the peace proved flawed and world-wide war returned in 1940. That war is the background of our Second Great War at Sea series. Tropic of Capricorn is a complete boxed game...
Second Great War at Sea: Tropic of Capricorn told the story of a war that never happened: a naval conflict between Argentina, Chile and Brazil breaking out in 1940 as part of the world-wide Second Great War. Tropical Storm picks up the story, as a German squadron arrives to aid the Brazilians and the naval war continues. The Second Great War is our...
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...