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...
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...
From the Avalanche Press website: In June 1967, Israeli forces struck first against the Egyptian, Syrian and Jordanian forces massing on their borders for a final invasion of the Jewish state. For six days, battle raged along all fronts with the Israelis inflicting massive defeats on their Arab foes before the United Nations brokered a cease-fire...
Driven back into the Pusan Perimeter, American and South Korean forces – soon joined by British, Turkish and other United Nations contingents – held the line and in the fall of 1950, launched a powerful offensive against the North Koreans. With strong tank-led forces surging northward and other units landing by sea at Inchon, the United Nations rapidly...
From publisher's website: On June 25th, 1950, North Korean forces surged across the 38th Parallel into South Korea, starting what would become the Korean War. Within days the South Korean capital of Seoul had fallen and the Republic of Korea (ROK) Army had been routed. Remnants retreated southward and finally gathered around the port city of Pusan, where...