World War II began when German tanks rolled across the border of Poland on September 1st, 1939. The Poles fought back courageously, blunting several attacks, but the force of numbers and superior weapons drove them back toward Warsaw. Once the Soviet Union launched its own treacherous attack, the Polish state was doomed. The Deluge is a Panzer Grenadier...
1940: The Last Days of May is a Panzer Grenadier Campaign Study. with 11 scenarios from the final days of the German invasion of France, in two chapters, each with a battle game to link the scenarios together. You’ll need Panzer Grenadier: 1940 The Fall of France and Road to Dunkirk to play all of the scenarios. The scenarios come from the updating of...
Bo wolność krzyżami się mierzy On 21 September 1939, as Polish troops continued to resist German and Soviet invaders, the Polish Army in France began to form. Polish soldiers who had escaped over the country’s neutral borders joined Poles from around the world, chiefly Polish workers resident in France. By May 1940 the Polish Army in France numbered four...
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: 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...
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...
From the Avalanche Press website: The liberation of France began with the Allied invasion on D-Day, 6 June 1944. From Sword, Gold, and Juno beaches, British Army troops fought their way across the hedgerows and rolling green hills, driving back Hitler’s Wehrmacht and SS forces. Fierce German resistance, featuring skilled use of tanks on the defensive...
At dusk on Christmas Eve 1941, the Imperial Japanese Army’s 11th Army began a renewed offensive against Changsha, the capital of Hunan Province. What was intended as a diversion to keep the Chinese from interfering with the Japanese attack on Hong Kong became a major operation of its own. The six Chinese armies (each the size of a small Western corps, with...
Several times a year, when we feel like it, the Golden Journal brings Gold Club members some fun extras for their Avalanche Press games. Our new-model Golden Journal features a “real” booklet, just like a small magazine, and a small set of die-cut, silky-smooth playing pieces. Like all other major powers, the Red Army studied and rejected many proposed...
From the Avalanche Press website: In early November 1942, American and British forces stormed ashore in French-ruled Morocco and Algeria, beginning a campaign to press the Axis into a small bridgehead around the ports of Tunis and Bizerte in Tunisia. The U.S. Army had its first exposure to combat in the European Theater, while fresh British forces joined...