From the Avalanche Press website: National People's Army adds the East Germans to Panzer Grenadier, with their kasernierten ("garrisoned") police, the predecessor of the East German Army. Armed initially with the Third Reich's castoff weaponry - Czech, Polish and Yugoslav rifles and machine guns - as tensions rose in 1950 they received new arms (some...
From the Avalanche Press website: In July 1943, history's greatest tank battle erupted when the German Army hurled 50 divisions at the Red Army around the city of Kursk, including 17 panzer and panzer grenadier divisions with over 3,000 tanks. Long aware of German plans, the Soviets were ready and waiting, with heavily fortified lines backed by 3,600 tanks...
From the Avalanche Press website: No intelligence reports had prepared the German Army for the new Soviet T-34/76 medium tank: a well-balanced vehicle with much better firepower, armor protection and mobility than anything in the German arsenal or even on German drawing boards. In December 1941, the Germany Army’s Weapons Bureau ordered two firms, MAN...
On the combined-arms battlefield, it’s the armor that slashes through and the infantry that takes and holds ground. But it’s the artillery that destroys, that creates the breakthroughs and crushes attacks before they even begin. The Book of Armaments is all about artillery in Panzer Grenadier, focused on the Eastern Front games (Fire in the Steppe, South...
The II SS Panzer Corps controlled three mechanized infantry divisions made up of party militia and lavishly equipped with tanks, vehicles and artillery. They spearheaded the southern flank of the German offensive at Kursk in July 1943, where the Soviet 5th Guards Tank Army decisively blunted their advance. This Golden Journal supplement includes four new...
In June 1944, American Marines and soldiers stormed ashore on Saipan, a large island in the Central Pacific whose possession would put Allied heavy bombers in range of Japanese cities. Three weeks of savage fighting would finally see the island secured, as places like Death Valley, Hell’s Pocket and Purple Heart Ridge entered the U.S. Marine Corps’...
Panzer Grenadier: Marianas 1944 In June 1944, American marines and soldiers began the conquest of the Japanese-held Mariana Islands. After a bloody 24-day struggle for the island of Saipan, next the Americans invaded Guam and Tinian in late July. Guam fell after 20 days of battle; Tinian, after eight. B-29 Superfortress bombers soon arrived on the islands...
This Gold Club Golden Journal attempts to dial back the incredible firepower of the Marine platoons included in Saipan. This product corrected the values on the Marine counters for the early version of the Panzer Grenadier: Saipan game. This journal includes the lower DF Marines at 8-3 rather than 10-3 direct fire. The newer version of Saipan have the...
This is the eight of the Avalanche Press Golden Journal supplements. It contains 40 additional counters with rules to cover their use and an additional scenario. Variants: Rifleman of Saipan - Alters the strength of the US Marines INF units. Armor on Saipan - Provides alternative tanks for Scenario 10 Scenario: Massed Armor - Requires pieces from Saipan...
Ancient Armor is the 29th issue of Avalanche Press's Golden Journal. The 29th issue features the original American tanks, the license-built Liberty heavy tank (a copy of the British Mark VIII) and M1917 light tank (a copy of the Renault FT17). Though they remained in storage in 1940, they saw no World War II combat action. The 8 scenarios feature...
Dragon Rampant (known as Kiwi Armour prior to release and now sometimes as Dragon Rampant (Kiwi Armour)) is Golden Journal #56 and adds counters for the 1st New Zealand Army Tank Brigade and scenarios using them against the Germans and Italians in Tunisia and against the Japanese in New Zealand. Due to the name change late in development, many webpages...
Panzer Grenadier: Leyte 1944 In October 1944 American soldiers stormed ashore on the island of Leyte in the Philippines, fulfilling Douglas MacArthur’s promise to return. Japanese troops put up fierce resistance and reinforcements poured in, including elite paratroopers. Not until December would Leyte be secured. Designer Jay Townsend brought you the...