From the original company website entry: Japan entered the modern age in 1868, with a new young emperor determined to make his island nation a world power. After decades of steady progress, Japan began its own practice of colonialism, defeating China in 1894. As the Japanese began to infiltrate the semi-independent Kingdom of Korea, they ran into Russian...
From the APL website: Spain’s colony of Cuba had attracted American expansionist desires since at least the 1850s. By the end of the century, the American “Yellow Press” had made attempts by Cuban revolutionaries to overthrow Spanish colonial rule a leading news story. American public opinion demanded that Spain grant independence to Cuba. When the U.S....
The Great War at Sea series tackles a hypothetical naval war between US and Britain based on actual US navy plans. Players plot their task forces moves on the strategic map, and, when contact is made, combat is fought on the tactical map. First Edition (2002) had four battle and nine operational scenarios. Second Edition (2013) has the same counters and...
From the Avalanche Press website: In the early decades of the 20th century, the U.S. Navy made plans to fight many potential enemies. Plan Red, the strategy for war with Britain, included sub-plans for conflict with British Dominions. War with Australia, code-named Plan Scarlet, would be a purely naval affair. U.S. Navy Plan Scarlet is a 64-page book...
From the publisher's website: Great War at Sea: Confederate States Navy introduced a world where the Confederate States achieved a negotiated peace with the Union in 1862, but fighting erupted again a little more than five decades later. CSN: Plan Blue takes the fighting to the Northern theater, using the map and pieces from U.S. Navy Plan Red as well as...
From the published: Picking up the story from C.S. Navy: Plan Blue, Great War at Sea: U.S. Navy Plan Gray looks at naval operations in the Second War of the Rebellion as the outnumbered Confederate States Navy along with its British, Canadian and Imperial Mexican allies battles the much larger Union fleet. In Plan Blue, we covered the early months of the...
In the summer of 1914, Germany’s East Asia cruiser squadron’s superbly-trained crews of long-service professionals made Admiral Maximilian Graf von Spee's small fleet the envy of the China station. But when war broke out, this tiny force found itself far from home and threatened by the powerful Japanese navy, many times the size of the German squadron....
This is the twenty-sixth of the Avalanche Press Golden Journal supplements. It contains 20 additional counters for use with Great War at Sea: Cruiser Warfare as well as scenarios and variants for their use. —user summary We have the armored cruiser Blücher as re-designed with 11-inch (280mm) guns in place of her actual outfit of 8.2-inch (210mm) pieces....
From the Avalanche Press website: History’s best-known naval battle was just one part of the ongoing four-year struggle to control the seas around Germany’s coasts. If the German High Seas Fleet could catch and destroy a portion of the much larger British Grand Fleet, the blockade suffocating Imperial Germany might finally be broken. Great War at Sea:...
From the website Fleets are usually built with one purpose in mind: to protect their owner's maritime trade, and deny such trade to their nation's enemies. The United States and Great Britain gave great thought to how they would protect their own trade and interrupt that of the other nation, in case the two English-speaking powers ever came to war. South...
Another DIY product for the GWAS series, adding the French and Russian Navies as prizes of the British and Germans. From the APL website... "Different courses of the Great War might well have seen warships of the Marine Nationale or Imperial Russian Navy serving under British or German colors: taken as booty by a victorious Germany (the actual fate of...