From the Avalanche Press webpage for Golden Journal 57 / Coast Defenders… “ 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. The...
From the Avalanche Press website… “ 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. Golden Journal No. 59: Portugal’s Armada is...
Imperial Germany laid down her last dreadnought in January 1915, and never completed her. But planning continued for new classes of battleships, battle cruisers, armored cruisers and scout cruisers. All understood that they could not possibly be built during the course of the ongoing First World War, but would be laid down afterwards. Reflecting the...
In 1905, the Imperial Russian Navy suffered a decisive defeat at the hands of the Japanese, with the Pacific Fleet (including much of the Baltic Fleet, sent around the world to reinforce the Far East) annihilated. In the years that followed, soaring economic growth allowed the Navy to begin rebuilding, a process that had not borne fruit when the First...
Great War at Sea series. From "Avalanche Press" Website: During the early decades of the Twentieth Century, the United States Navy made plans to fight a host of potential enemies. Some of these future wars seemed inevitable, particularly that with Japan. Others depended on changes in current politics, but Navy planners wanted to be prepared just in case....
From the Avalanche Press website: At the end of the Great War, the German High Seas Fleet was interned at Scapa Flow at the northern tip of Scotland as a guarantee of the November 11th Armistice. Within weeks, French leaders were demanding that at least a portion of the ships, if not all of them, be handed over to France as compensation for the destruction...
From the publisher: In 1907, the Imperial Chinese Navy proposed a new building program to provide three regional fleets, each built around a new modern battleship. Two years later a naval commission headed by the Regent's brother, Prince Tsai-hsun, recommended a fleet of eight dreadnoughts and 20 cruisers plus supporting vessels, and began soliciting bids...
From the Avalanche Press website: Japan entered the modern age in 1868, with a new young emperor determined to make his island nation a world power. After decades of steady progress, Japan began its own practice of colonialism, defeating China in 1894. As the Japanese began to infiltrate the semi-independent Kingdom of Korea, they ran into Russian agents...
The Great Lakes area between the United States and Canada was the scene of much fierce fighting during the War of 1812, however subsequent years brought a series of treaties that effectively demilitarized not only the Lakes region but the entire U.S.-Canadian border. Nevertheless, throughout the 1800’s and early 1900’s, periodic tensions arose between the...
Throughout the Great War, staff officers of the High Seas Fleet suggested sending a battle cruiser around the northern tip of Britain into the Atlantic Ocean to prey on enemy shipping. Moltke proved the concept in June 1912 with her visit to New York, and scouting forces commander Franz Hipper urged that she be dispatched into the Atlantic. Later the...
In the summer of 1914, Germany’s East Asia cruiser squadron’s superbly trained crews of long-service professionals made Admiral Maximilian Graf von Spee's small fleet the envy of the China station. But when war broke out, this tiny force found itself far from home and threatened by the powerful Imperial Japanese Navy, many times the size of the German...
On 26 April 1898, the United States declared war on Spain. Five days later, the U.S. Navy’s Asiatic Squadron, led by Commodore George Dewey, steamed into Manila Bay, where they destroyed Admiral Patricio Montojo’s Spanish Pacific Squadron. The Americans held a significant edge in fighting power, but Dewey’s victory electrified the American public and...