From the Avalanche Press website: In December 1912, Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy renewed their 30-year-old military pact known as the Triple Alliance. In the months that followed, staff officers from all three fleets prepared detailed plans for operations against the French and British fleets in the Mediterranean in case of war. Yet when war came in...
In a different summer of 1862, following a series of disastrous Union defeats and internal frustrations with the course of this accursed Civil War, the Confederate States of America wins its independence, and from that time on, the North American continent is divided between two nations: the CSA and the USA. Confederate States Navy is a 64-page book...
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...
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...
Description from the publisher: During the brief period between 1906 and 1914, so the story goes, Britain and Germany engaged in a furious naval arms race sparked by the launch of the Royal Navy’s revolutionary battleship Dreadnought. This rivalry, egged on in Germany by Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, then helped ignite the First World War. As usual...
More ink has been spilled over the Battle of Jutland than any other naval battle in history. Jutland: Battle Analysis 1914 looks at what happened before the Battle of Jutland: Helgoland Bight, the Scarborough Raid, the Yarmouth Raid and more. Jutland: Battle Analysis 1914' is different from other works on the North Sea campaign, thanks to its ties to our...
“ The 1916 Battle of Jutland was not the only action on the North Sea during the Great War. The battle cruisers of Britain’s Grand Fleet and Germany’s High Seas Fleet met in the January 1915 Battle of Dogger Bank, and both fleets continually sortied into the waters dividing them. Jutland: Dogger Bank continues the story we began with Jutland: North Sea...
“ Great War at Sea: Jutland Second Edition is a game tightly focused on the Battle of Jutland in May and June 1916. Jutland: North Sea 1914 extends the story into the battles that happened, or could have happened, before the Battle of Jutland: Helgoland Bight, the Scarborough Raid, the Yarmouth Raid and more. Jutland: North Sea 1914 adds 43 more scenarios...
Your college history books were wrong. There never was a “dreadnought race” between Britain and Germany before the First World War. There was a marketing campaign by the Vickers-Armstrong shipbuilding combine to create a threat that could only be answered by more spending on more dreadnoughts. That’s not some alternative-history starting point. That’s what...