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In 1996, Avalanche Press astonished the
wargaming world with Great War at Sea:
Mediterranean. The game launched a series
of games that has totaled nine titles so far,
plus five more in the related Second World
War at Sea series.
The game was notable for a number of achievements: the
stunning artwork of its playing pieces, showing warships
with sharp detail never seen before. It played quickly
and smoothly. And it featured fifty scenarios, or separate
game situations, an unheard-of number in most board games.
The game sold out quickly, and in 2001 Avalanche Press
brought out a new, deluxe edition. The artwork got even
better and the number of scenarios climbed to seventy.
Mediterranean covers naval conflict between
1911 and 1923, with most of the scenarios based on naval
actions of the First World War. The centerpiece is the
1914 hunt for the German battle cruiser Goeben,
made famous in Barbara Tuchman’s Guns of August.
The battle cruiser and her consort, the light cruiser
Breslau, are loose in the Mediterranean Sea and
its up to the British and French to hunt them down before
they escape or destroy the vital French troop convoys
heading from Algeria to France.
Twelve of the scenarios are battle scenarios, useful
for learning the game system or for quick fun. The 58
operational scenarios cover a wide variety of situations:
The Italo-Turkish War of 1911-1912 and the Balkan War
between Greece and Turkey usually pit small and outdated
fleets against one another. A number of scenarios cover
the First World War’s most intense but possibly
least-known naval campaign, the struggle for control of
the Black Sea. The struggle for the Adriatic between Austria-Hungary
and Italy is also shown. Several scenarios explore war
plans for campaigns arching over the entire Mediterranean,
based on the actual staff studies. The scenarios are based
on primary research in several military archives and represent
a serious historical study of the era.
The playing pieces sport accurate, highly detailed drawings
of the ships that made history. Eleven nations are represented:
Germany, Britain, France, Austria-Hungary, Russia, Turkey,
Greece, Italy, Romania, Bulgaria and Japan. The ships
range from elderly ironclads relegated to coastal defense
duties to massive super-battleships like the Italian Caracciolo
class that were designed but never built.
The book supplement Dreadnoughts,
published in 2004, takes the study even deeper, adding
historical background on the Austrian, Spanish and Turkish
fleets, 26 scenarios and more, as well as actual die-cut
playing pieces.
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Mediterranean, 2nd Edition includes:
- 390 counters
- Two 17"x22" strategic maps
- One 25"x25" tactical map
- 12-page rulebook
- 80-page scenario book
- Two organizational cards
Stock #0016
Price: $59.99
Status: Now available!
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