Golden Annual Number 5:
Great War at Sea: War Plan Gold

During the early decades of the 20th 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.

One of these plans, labeled “Gold,” studied a potential naval war with France. The United States had stood alongside its “oldest ally” during the First World War, but in the years immediately afterwards the Navy looked at the potential for radical politicians to change France from friend to foe. Also, the peace negotiations which followed the war revealed deep underlying tensions between the Americans and their European allies; some of the more paranoid came to believe the next war would be between Europe and America.

War Plan Gold is based on these plans. American officers believed the seat of conflict would be the same as that of the undeclared naval war against France in the 1790s: the Caribbean Basin.

War Plan Gold includes the ships projected by the Armee Navale but never built due to the Washington Naval Treaty: the large Gilles and Durand-Viel battle cruisers, Normandie and Lyon class battleships, and the very odd “croiseur de combat” battleship-carrier design. And of course the Americans receive a number of new ships, like the “alternate Omaha” large scout cruiser design.

War Plan Gold is a re-made edition of our old U.S. Navy Plan Gold. It will double the size of the usual Journal/Annual (32 pages), with 24 scenarios drawing on what you get in the package, the 210 pieces of the old U.S. Navy Plan Gold and the old Gold map. It will be in a standard-format book, just like the Journals. The old scenarios will be totally replaced, some re-made and some tossed out.

NOTE: War Plan Gold does not include the Great War at Sea Volume Two series rules. You can find these in any Great War at Sea game (Jutland, Remember the Maine or Russo-Japanese War).

War Plan Gold is a very special, very limited release. It uses the map and pieces from the old U.S. Navy Plan Gold game, and we only have 200 sets of those. Once they’re gone, we won’t be reprinting them.

We’re making this game to help offset a huge, looming import tax bill for the upcoming Great War at Sea: Far Side of the World game. Its pieces are on their way to us now. Your orders help us overcome that, without crippling our little company in the process.

Order War Plan Gold Here
Use your standard Gold Club discount to take 20 percent off.

Order War Plan Gold (book only) Here
Use your standard Gold Club discount to take 20 percent off.

Stock Code: APL6905

Price: $50.99

Status: Coming Soon

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