Avalanche Press
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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 , one of their earliest games and a detailed study of the Soviet crossing of the Dnepr River in 1943.
History[]
Avalanche Press was started in 1994 by Mike Bennighof and . 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.[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 had the license to produce a game based on the Iron Empires comics by Christopher Moeller, and had planned to release a d20 setting book called Iron Empires Lost Histories in 2004.[5]: 195 When contacted Moeller directly in 2005 to offer to help with the project, he learned that it was dead and that Moeller was now looking for a new RPG publisher, so Crane and Moeller were able to reach a new licensing deal.[5]: 195
Avalanche Press' physical plant is located in Irondale, Alabama[6] after previously being in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
Future games survey[]
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.
Series[]
- The Great War at Sea series -- Dreadnought era naval combat
- Infantry Attacks series -- World War I tactical combat (a spinoff of Panzer Grenadier)
- Panzer Grenadier series -- World War II tactical combat
- Rome at War series -- Ancient warfare series (closely related to the Napoleonic Battles series)
- Second World War at Sea series -- World War II naval combat (a spinoff of Great War at Sea)
- Third Reich/Great Pacific War series -- World War II strategic game
Games[]
0-9[]
- 1898: The Spanish–American War (2000)
- 1904–1905: The Russo-Japanese War (1999)
A[]
- Afrika Korps: The Desert War (2002)
- (2002)
- Airborne: Introductory Edition (2006)
- (1998)
- Alaska's War (2007)
- (2005)
- (2003)
- (1994)
B[]
- Battle of the Bulge (2002)
- Beyond Normandy (2004)
- Bismark (2005)
- (2006)
- (1995)
- Bomb Alley (2002)
C[]
- (2003)
- Cruiser Warfare (2004)
D[]
- (2004)
- Desert Rats (2004)
- (1999)
E[]
- Eastern Fleet (2001)
- Eastern Front (2005)
F[]
- Fading Legions (2002)
G[]
- (2005)
- (2002)
- (2003)
- Great Pacific War (2003)
- Great War at Sea: The North and Baltic Seas (1998)
- Great War at Sea: The Mediterranean (1996, 2001)
H[]
- Hannibal at Bay (2000)
- Heroes of the Soviet Union (2001)
I[]
- Imperium: Third Millennium (2001)
- Infantry Attacks: Empires End (2007)
- (2006)
J[]
- Jutland (2006)
L[]
- Leyte Gulf (2005)
M[]
- (1994)
- Midway (2002)
N[]
- (2002)
- (2005)
O[]
- (1996)
P[]
- Panzer Grenadier (1998)
- (1999)
Q[]
- Queen of the Celts (2007)
R[]
- (2005)
- (2005)
- (1997)
- (2005)
- Red Warriors (2006)
- (1999)
- Road to Berlin (2005)
S[]
- (1998)
- Sea of Troubles (2007)
- Semper Fi! Guadacanal (2003)
- Sinister Forces (2006)
- (2003)
- (2002)
- (2004)
- SOPAC (1999)
- (2006)
- Strike South (2005)
- Survival of the Witless (1997)
T[]
- Tears of the Dragon (2003)
- (2006)
- Third Reich (2001)
- (2006)
U[]
- U.S. Navy Plan Black (1999)
- U.S. Navy Plan Crimson (2008)
- U.S. Navy Plan Gold (2006)
- U.S. Navy Plan Orange (1998)
- U.S. Navy Plan Red (2002)
W[]
- (2001)
Supplements[]
- All For One, One For All
- Arctic Front (2002)
- Aztecs: Empire of the Dying Sun
- Celtic Age
- Distant Oceans (2003)
- Doom of Odin
- Dreadnoughts (2004)
- East of Suez
- Edelweiss (2003)
- Endless Sands
- Great White Fleet
- Greenland Saga
- I, Mordred
- Jungle Fighting (2004)
- Little People
- Nile Empire
- Noble Knights
- Noble Steeds
- Player's Guide: Third Reich/Great Pacific War (2004)
- Ragnarok!
- Tank Battles (2003)
- Twilight of Atlantis
- Viking Age
- Vlad, the Impaler
- Zeppelins (2006)
References[]
- ^ "List of Winners Presented at Origins 1999". Archived from the original on October 31, 2007.
- ^ "List of Winners Presented at Origins 2000". Archived from the original on May 5, 2009.
- ^ Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. ISBN 978-1-907702-58-7.
- ^ "Avalanche Press Ltd". boardgamegeek.com.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Shannon Appelcline (2014). Designers & Dragons: The '00s. Evil Hat Productions. ISBN 978-1-61317-087-8.
- ^ "About Avalanche Press". November 8, 2010.
- ^ "Future Games". September 12, 2008.
External links[]
- Board game publishing companies
- Game manufacturers
- Role-playing game publishing companies
- Wargame companies