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 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...
From the publisher: Our Second Great War setting is based on the premise that the First World War came to a negotiated end in late 1916, leaving the great empires intact but planting the seeds of renewed conflict a generation later. Second World War at Sea: South American Navies looks at the involvement of Latin America's leading powers: Argentina, Brazil...
Arctic Convoy is the newest boxed game in the Second World War at Sea series. It covers the Allied attempts to push convoys through the Norwegian and Barents Seas while German aircraft, submarines and surface ships try to stop them. Famous convoy operations like those of PQ12 and PQ17, British carrier raids, German-Soviet destroyer skirmishes along the...
Thousands of miles from the major theaters of World War II, small British and Italian squadrons struggled to control the entrance to the Red Sea. Cut off from their bases in Europe, the Italian Red Sea Flotilla did its best to close off this vital route leading from India and Australia to the Suez Canal. Horn of Africa takes players to this little-known...
From the Avalanche Press website: World War II began when the German battleship Schleswig-Holstein opened fire in the early morning hours of 1 September 1939. The war started on the Baltic Sea, and some of its very last actions took place there as well. Sea of Iron is a complete Second World War at Sea boxed game based on actions on the Baltic Sea between...
From the Avalanche Press website: Poland's Fantasy Fleet gives you the fleet the Polish admirals hoped to build in the 1930's, with battle cruisers, heavy cruisers, light cruisers and large destroyers. Seemingly an insane proposition, the fleet had a very real purpose: to secure the lower reaches of the Baltic Sea in the event of a war between Poland and...
From the Avalanche Press website: The Finns relied on large-caliber coast-defense guns to protect their long, rocky coastline with its countless small islands and skerries: over 1,200 kilometers’ worth. To support the powerful but immobile big guns, Finnish strategy called for small, armored coast-defense ships that could slip between the islands and...
Our 24th issue looks at the designs considered by the German Navy for their Deutschland-class armored cruisers, the famous “pocket battleships.” You get 20 new Second World War at Sea pieces, with six different versions of the ships plus the original design for the Scharnhorst class. Design studies took two variant paths: an armored coast-defense ship for...