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Avalanche Press is an American company that publishes board wargames and has published some role-playing game supplements. They have produced The Great War at Sea and Panzer Grenadier series , as well as Red Parachutes , one of their earliest games and a detailed study of the Soviet crossing of the Dnepr River in 1943.
Avalanche Press was started in 1994 by Mike Bennighof and Brian Knipple. In 1996, Avalanche Press released the first game in the Great War at Sea series. Twice, the series has won the Origins Award for the best historical game of the year. [1] [2] They have also received many finalist nominations for the Origins Awards.[ citation needed ]
Avalanche Press was one of the publishers who began producing role-playing game supplements for the d20 System by 2002. [3] : 395 From 2000 to 2005, Avalanche Press produced products using the open-source d20 system. [4] The book Celtic Age won the 2002 Origins Award for Best RPG Supplement.[ citation needed ] Avalanche Press obtained the license to produce a game based on the Iron Empires comics by Christopher Moeller, and wanted to release a d20 setting book titled Iron Empires Lost Histories in 2004, and when Luke Crane contacted Moeller in 2005 to offer his help, he learned that the project was not being worked on and so Moeller reached a new licensing deal with Crane to publish it. [5] : 194–195
Avalanche Press' physical plant is located in Irondale, Alabama [6] after previously being in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
On September 12, 2008, Avalanche Press posted a survey so that fans could vote on games that they would like to see made. [7] These games include a variation of the Great War at Sea series during the age of sail, a conflict between the United States and Canada on the Great Lakes during the 1920s, an updated version of U.S. Navy Plan Orange, a game covering the German Plan Z, a World War II air combat game, a game covering the Six-Day War as well as one based on Napoleon's campaigns.
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This page lists board and card games, wargames, miniature games, and tabletop role-playing games published in 2004. For video games, see 2004 in video gaming.
The Panzergrenadier Division "Großdeutschland", also commonly referred to simply as Großdeutschland or Großdeutschland Division, was an elite combat unit of the German Army (Heer) that fought on the Eastern Front in World War II.
This page lists board and card games, wargames, miniatures games, and tabletop role-playing games published in 2002. For video games, see 2002 in video gaming.
Matrix Games is a publisher of PC games, specifically strategy games and wargames. It is based in Ohio, US, and Surrey, UK.
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This page lists board and card games, wargames, miniatures games, and tabletop role-playing games published in 2006. For video games, see 2006 in video gaming.
The Great War at Seaseries of board wargames released by Avalanche Press features operational and tactical-level naval combat in the period of the early battleships and dreadnoughts. Each game in the series comes with a common rule book and tactical map, as well as game-specific operational map, counters and scenarios.
Second World War at Sea is a game series produced by Avalanche Press covering naval combat during World War II. The series is based on Avalanche Press' Great War at Sea. The two series share many features although they are separate both from a rules standpoint and a scale standpoint.
The Panzer Grenadier series of board wargames is Avalanche Press's series of World War II and The Korean War tactical land combat. The first game in the series was released in 2000.
The Rome at War series is Avalanche Press' Board wargame series covering ancient land combat. The series started in 2000 with the release of Hannibal at Bay.
Ree Soesbee is an American game designer of collectible card games, role-playing games, and massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs), as well as a writer of primarily fantasy novels.
Michael Bennighof is a game designer who has worked primarily on board games.