From the Avalanche Press website: In the spring of 1940, the French Army appeared invincible. They awaited the expected German offensive with great confidence, ready to repel their ancient foes and overwhelm them in 1941 with a massive wave of new armored divisions. Instead it was the German panzers that did the overwhelming. Despite heroic efforts in...
From the Avalanche Press website: 1940: The Fall of Luxembourg gives you the entire order of battle of Luxembourg forces in the Second World War in Panzer Grenadier format. That adds up to a whopping 16 counters, including leaders, plus four more markers for the curious Luxembourgeouis (Luxemburger? Luxembourgian?) defense strategy: stop the Germans by...
From the publisher: When France fell to the Germans in June 1940, she possessed a strong force of tanks and armored vehicles – many of them technologically superior to those of the Germans. Yet even better tanks and guns had been designed. Some of these existed as prototypes, and some had even entered production but had not reached front-line troops in...
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...
Surrounded by three hostile powers — Poland, Germany and the Soviet Union — Lithuania chose not to resist their imperialist advances during the Second World War. The Lithuanian Army consisted of but three infantry divisions, a cavalry brigade and a small tank detachment. But many within the political and military hierarchy, including dictator Antanas...
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...
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’...
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...