Avalanche Press

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American game publisher

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::summary American game publisher ::

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FieldValue
founded1993
founderMike Bennighof, Brian Knipple
hq_locationIrondale, Alabama
website
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| founded = 1993 | founder = Mike Bennighof, Brian Knipple | hq_location = Irondale, Alabama | website =

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.

History

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.

Avalanche Press was one of the publishers who began producing role-playing game supplements for the d20 System by 2002.

From 2000 to 2005, Avalanche Press produced products using the open-source d20 system. The book Celtic Age won the 2003 Origins Award for Best RPG Supplement.

Series

Games

0-9

A

B

  • Battle of 1866 - Frontier Battles, War of Empires (2012)
  • Battle of the Bulge (2002)
  • Beyond Normandy (2004)
  • Bismark (2005, 2015, 2019)
  • Bitter Victory: Sicily 1943 (2006)
  • Blood on the Snow (1995)
  • Bomb Alley (2002)
  • Broken Axis - The Invasion of Romania 1944 (2016)

C

  • Cassino ‘44 - Gateway to Rome (2009)
  • Chickamauga & Chattanooga (2003)
  • Cone of Fire (2008)
  • Conquest of Ethiopia (2018)
  • Cruiser Warfare (2004)

D

  • Defiant Russia: 1941 (2004)
  • Desert Rats (2004)
  • Digging (game) (1999)

E

  • Eastern Fleet (2001)
  • Eastern Front (2005)
  • Eagles of the Empire - Preussisch-Eylau (1999)
  • Eagles of the Empire #1 - Borodino (1994)
  • Eagles of the Empire #2 - Friedland

F

  • Fading Legions (2002)
  • Fire in the Steppe - Battles in Ukraine 1941 (2018)
  • Fire & Sword - Battles For Hungary 1944-1945 (2022)

G

H

I

  • Imperium: Third Millennium (2001)
  • Infantry Attacks: Empires End (2007)
  • Island of Death: The Invasion of Malta, 1942 (2006)
  • Invasion 1944: The Americans in Normandy (2016)

J

K

  • Kokoda Campaign (2016)
  • Kursk - South Flank (2012)

L

  • Leyte Gulf (2005)
  • Long War - Plan Z (2017)
  • Liberation 1944 (2014,2016)

M

  • McArthur's Return: Leyte 1944 (1994)
  • Midway (2002)

N

  • Napoleon in the Desert (2002)
  • Napoleon on the Danube (2005)

O

  • Operation Cannibal (1996)

P

  • Panzer Grenadier (1998)
  • Preussisch-Eylau (1999)
  • Pacific Crossroads - Japanese-American Naval War Plans 1917-1922 (2010)
  • Parachute Over Crete (2019)

Q

R

  • Red God of War (2005)
  • Red Parachutes (2005)
  • Red Steel: Clash of Armor at Kishinev (1997)
  • Red Vengeance (2005)
  • Red Warriors (2006)
  • Res Publica (1999)
  • Road to Berlin (2005)
  • Rome at War #1 - Hannibal at Bay (2000)
  • Rome at War #2 - Fading Legions (2002)
  • Rome at War #3 - Queen of the Celts (2007)
  • Red Russia - The Russian Civil War 1918-1921 (2008)

S

T

  • Tears of the Dragon (2003)
  • They Shall Not Pass: The Battle of Verdun, 1916 (2006)
  • Third Reich (2001)
  • Tiger of Malaya (2006)
  • Tropic of Capricorn (2018)

U

W

  • Winter Fury (2001)

Supplements

d20 System supplements

References

References

  1. "Avalanche Press".
  2. "List of Winners Presented at Origins 1999".
  3. "List of Winners Presented at Origins 2000".
  4. Shannon Appelcline. (2011). "Designers & Dragons". Mongoose Publishing.
  5. "Avalanche Press Ltd.". boardgamegeek.com.
  6. "Origins Winners Announced".
  7. "1940: The Fall of France – A Panzer Grenadier Game".
  8. Games, Noble Knight. "1967 - Sword of Israel - Panzer Grenadier Modern - Avalanche Press from Avalanche Press".
  9. "Avalanche Press Second World War At Sea Naval Boardgames".
  10. "An Army at Dawn: Tunisia 1942-1943 – A Panzer Grenadier Game (Playbook second edition) {{!}} Board Game Version {{!}} BoardGameGeek".

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