(from the APL website :) During the late spring and early summer of 1942, the Imperial Japanese Navy launched a series of aggressive operations. Barely taking time to refuel, Japanese carriers and cruisers struck the Dutch East Indies and Ceylon. Committing a basic error of dividing their forces, the Japanese then split their fleet carriers into two groups...
From the Avalanche Press website: In 1937, President Franklin Roosevelt cut defense spending in response to the demands of Republicans and conservative Democrats for a balanced budget, even as unemployment continued to soar. Had he continued with his use of naval construction as a jobs program, the U.S. Navy would have had a number of additional heavy...
From the Avalanche Press website: The British Home Fleet tried to stop her, but Bismarck’s guns ripped apart the battle cruiser Hood. The pride of the Royal Navy went to the bottom of the Denmark Strait southwest of Iceland and Bismarck disappeared into the fog. But HMS Prince of Wales had managed to hit Bismarck below the water line, and she left behind...
This is an expansion for the SWWAS series that adds 15 scenarios using the hypothetical Dutch Fleet from Spice Islands in the North Atlantic and North Sea. From the APL website... "In the 17th century, Dutch leaders put their faith in their powerful navy and skilled admirals, winning repeated victories as their spread their commercial empire around the...
This is the twelfth of the Avalanche Press Golden Journal supplements. It contains 70 additional counters as well as variants for two games: Counters: The majority of the counters included are "long" rectangle pieces meant to replace ships in a number of other games that were originally represented by "small" square counters. Pieces are replaced in the...
From the Avalanche Press website: During the late 1930’s, the German Kriegsmarine came up with a plan for a powerful new fleet, built around several aircraft carriers and a half-dozen huge battleships, with flotillas of supporting cruisers and destroyers. Admiral Erich Raeder called this ambitious program Plan Z, and looked to complete it sometime in 1948....
Our Second Great War alternative history story arc posits a world in which Woodrow Wilson’s attempts to forge a compromise peace in late 1916 succeeded. Millions of lives were saved and vast destruction averted, while the great empires of Eastern Europe – Germany, Austria, Russia and Turkey – survived for another generation. But not all accepted this new...
In May 1940, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered the U.S. Pacific Fleet to move its major base from San Diego, California to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The Japanese government rightly interpreted this as a threat, as Roosevelt intended. The Japanese would not strike for another 18 months, but had they done so the fleets involved would have been very...
This is the twenty-second of the Avalanche Press Golden Journal supplements. It contains 30 additional counters as well as new scenarios for their use. —user summary Britain’s Royal Navy converted the hulls of three “light battle cruisers” into aircraft carriers: Courageous, Glorious and Furious. Three other battle cruisers served in their original...
Avalanche Press calls this their "Ultimate World War II Naval Game" - a claim with some merit, it would seem, as this game is ENORMOUS. “Leyte Gulf” is a "Second World War at Sea"-series game based on the final struggles of the Imperial Japanese Navy. The largest naval battles in history are included here – the Battle of Leyte Gulf and the Battle of the...
This "what if" collection of aircraft carriers, suggested by an avid wargamer and drawn up by the folks at Avalanche Press, comprises three ships that did not see action at Leyte Gulf, but are sisters of ships that do have unit counters in the game. The included carriers are the Essex-class Tarawa and Boxer, and the Commencement Bay-class Bairoko (Bairoko...
"Strike South" is a "Second World War at Sea"-series game based on the Japanese efforts in early World War 2 to seize the rich assets of the Dutch East Indies. There are 140 “long” playing pieces, depicting the major fleet units of both sides: battleships, aircraft carriers, cruisers and fleet destroyers. There are also 280 square playing pieces, half the...