Panzer Grenadier
World War II Tactical Combat

Panzer Grenadier is our platoon-level series of World War II combat. It’s easy to play and best of all, once you learn the rules to one of the games, you can play ALL of them right out of the box. And we cover everything you could possibly imagine, with more coming all the time. From well-known battles like the Battle of Kursk through lesser-known conflicts like the invasion of Tinian, Panzer Grenadier puts you in command of the troops, tanks and artillery that made history.

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Here's a look at all of our Panzer Grenadier products:

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Invasion 1944
A Panzer Grenadier introductory game! American troops fight the Germans in Normandy in June and July 1944 in 21 scenarios. Comes with two maps and 176 playing pieces.

Playbooks - A Complete Game in a Book!
1940: The Fall of France
Africa Orientale Italiana
American D-Day
An Army at Dawn
Ardennes 1944
Broken Axis
Conquest of Ethiopia
Dragon's Teeth
Elsenborn Ridge
Fire & Sword
Gates of Leningrad
Invasion 1944
Korean War: Pusan Perimeter
Korean War: Counter Attack
Kursk: Burning Tigers
Kursk: South Flank
Liberation 1944
River Battleships
Saipan 1944

Boxed Games
Fire in the Steppe
Parachutes over Crete
Road to Dunkirk

Golden Journals
No. 25 Land Battleships
No. 27 Sherman Tanks
No. 29 Ancient Armor
No. 34 Bron Pancerna
No. 36 Atlantic Marines
No. 37 Heavy Metal
No. 39 Legions of Zog
No. 49 Storm Division
No. 51 Dogs of War
No. 54 Stalin's Tanks
No. 56 Kiwi Armour
No. 58 Darkness Falls
No. 60 9 April 1940
No. 62 Jarama River 1937
No. 63 Ochi

Books
Afrika 1944
Armata Romana
Black Panthers
Book of Armaments: Eastern Front Artillery
La Campagne de Tunisie
The Deluge
Dishonor Before Death
Grossdeutschland 1944
Go For Broke (3rd edition)
Korean Armies
Land Cruisers
Leyte 1944
Lithuania's Iron Wolves
Marianas 1944
Spearhead Division
1940: Swallows of Death

Campaign Studies
1940: The Last Days of May
1940: Polish Exiles
Big Red One
Black Sea Marines
Elsenborn Ridge: Britain's Battle of the Bulge
Fire in the Steppe: 49th Mountain Corps
Grossdeutschland at Kursk
Parachutes Over Crete: Heraklion
Legend of the Iron Wolf
Mareth Line
New Zealand Division
Puppet Brigade
Tank Battle at Raseiniai
Uprising

Print and Play Downloads
Changsha Operation
Peace In Our Time
River Battleships: Blue Danube
1942: Moroccan Division
1942: The Defense of France
Land Cruisers: The Lithuanian Campaign

More extras
Winter Wonderland

Playbooks
A Playbook has everything you need to play (except dice), and you don't need any parts or rules or anything else to play every scenario in the box.

River Battleships
Panzer Grenadier takes to the waters, in this game of river monitor combat. The actual river monitors of the Soviet Union, Poland, Romania and more can fight one another or support (and fight) troops on land. With 191 die-cut and silky-smooth pieces in four different shapes and sizes, and two river maps.

Invasion 1944
A Panzer Grenadier introductory game! American troops fight the Germans in Normandy in June and July 1944 in 21 scenarios. Comes with two maps and 176 playing pieces.

Elsenborn Ridge, Playbook Edition
Thirty-five scenarios from the northern flank of the Battle of the Bulge: the battle for St. Vith and the Twin Villages, the attack of Battle Group Peiper and more. With four maps, and 583 playing pieces including U.S. Army, German army and Waffen SS forces, and of course some markers.

Broken Axis
The Soviet spring and summer offensives in Romania, held off at first by the Grossdeutschland Division but eventually resulting in Romania switching to the side of freedom. Forty-five scenarios, four new maps, and 517 playing pieces.

1940: The Fall of France
German panzers roll into France, to be met by fierce resistance. It was no roll-over on the tactical level, and these 50 scenarios show why. Comes with eight maps and 660 playing pieces.

Burning Tigers
Three German Army panzer corps assault the Soviets with new Panther tanks in history's greatest tank battles. With 40 scenarios, 517 die-cut playing pieces and four new maps.

You can read the publisher's preview here.

Kursk
The German SS Panzer Corps challenges the Soviet 1st Tank Army in history's greatest tank battles. With forty scenarios, four maps and 660 playing pieces. It's all about the tank battles. This game is not yet available.

An Army at Dawn (Playbook edition)
American troops enter the desert war, with 40 scenarios from the battles for Tunisia in 1942 and 1943. You get four desert maps and 517 die-cut playing pieces featuring American, German, Italian British and French units.

Dragon’s Teeth
The American assault on the Siegfried Line, September - November 1944. With 42 scenarios, 495 pieces and four maps.

Fire and Sword
The ultimate Panzer Grenadier game! The 1944-45 battles for Hungary, with 52 new scenarios, 913 pieces and five brand-new maps.

Liberation 1944, Playbook Edition
British troops fight the German from the Normandy beaches across northern France. With forty-one scenarios, four maps and 517 playing pieces.

Boxed Games
Boxed games are the heart of the Panzer Grenadier game system. Each of them is a “core” game: it has everything you need to play, and you don’t need any parts or rules or anything else to play every scenario (complete game situation) in the box.

American D-Day
American troops storm ashore to fight the Germans in Normandy in June and July 1944 in 32 scenarios. Comes with four maps and 517 playing pieces. This game is not yet available.

Fire in the Steppe
The centerpiece of the Panzer Grenadier series. It’s all about the June 1941 tank battles of Brody-Dubno (second only to Kursk for sheer size) with 42 scenarios, eight maps and 562 playing pieces.

Saipan 1944
The fiercest land battle of the Pacific War depicted in 40 scenarios, as American soldiers and marines battle Japanese army and naval troops for the crucial island base. Four maps, 495 pieces. This game is not yet available.

Conquest of Ethiopia
The Italian invasion of Abyssinia, 1935-36, with forty scenarios, eight maps and 517 playing pieces. This game is temporarily unavailable.

You can read the publisher's preview here.

Gates of Leningrad
The 1941 German drive on Leningrad, with 33 new scenarios, 517 pieces and four maps. This game is not yet available.

Korean War: Pusan Perimeter
The North Korean People's Army surges across the Pusan Perimeter against the determined but outgunned South Korean and American defenders. There are 48 scenarios, four new maps and 517 playing pieces. This game is not yet available.

You can read the publisher's preview here.

Korean War: Counter Attack
United Nations force break out of the Pusan Perimeter, land at Inchon, liberate South Korea and conquer most of North Korea. Sixty-two scenarios, six new maps, and 517 playing pieces. This game is not yet available.

You can read the publisher's preview here.

Road to Dunkirk
The British Expeditionary Force fights its way across Belgium and France to the sea in its epic escape from the German panzers. There are eight maps, 47 scenarios, six battle games and 517 playing pieces.

Africa Orientale Italiana
The campaign in Italian East Africa, 1940-41. British (including African), Indian and South African forces battle the Italians in Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia. With eight maps, 671 playing pieces and 43 new scenarios. This game is temporarily unavailable.

Parachutes over Crete
The 1941 German airborne invasion of Crete, with 39 new scenarios, 493 pieces and four maps.

Ardennes 1944
The advance and destruction of SS Battle Group Peiper during the Battle of the Bulge, with 68 new scenarios, 517 pieces and eight maps. This game is not yet available.

Historical Studies
In-depth looks at the history behand the battles and campaigns, or the troops who fought them, with seperate history and game books to give you a rich experience you will not find anywhere else.

Black Panthers/Separate, But Heroes
The segregated African-American 761st Tank Battalion fought Jim Crow and the Nazis. Our book, Separate, But Heroes, tells their story along with that of other segregated African-American units and a general history of Race in America. Black Panthers Second Edition is an expansion for Elsenborn Ridge with 24 new playing pieces for the Black Panthers, and 36 scenarios featuring the 761st and other segregated units that courageously fought for their country. This Historical Study is not yet available.

Books
These scenario books usually include playing pieces, and anywhere from 30 to 40 new scenarios plus background articles on the campaigns and the armies that fought them. They are not playable by themselves, but require pieces from one or more boxed games (see the individual product pages for listings).

Marianas 1944
American Marines and soldiers battle the Japanese on Tinian and Guam in this expansion for Saipan 1944, with 30 new scenarios, 24 new die-cut, silky-smooth pieces and two new maps.

Go For Broke (3rd Edition)
America’s immigrant heroes battle the Nazis in 29 scenarios and two battle games featuring the 442nd “Nisei” Regimental Combat Team, the most-decorated unit in American military history with 21 Medals of Honor. Scorned in their own land, they fought for freedom on foreign soil. With 77 pieces.

Afrika 1944
What if the Tunisian Campaign had lasted for another year? The German DAK wields more modern weapons - Panther and Tiger II tanks, Nebelwerfer rocket launchers and more - but the Allies are far more experienced. With 130 pieces and 24 scenarios.

Spearhead Division
Twenty-five new scenarios for Elsenborn Ridge (and only for Elsenborn Ridge) focused on the U.S. Army's crack 3rd "Spearhead" Armored Division, with four "battle games" linking them together plus 88 die-cut, silky smooth playing pieces showing the Spearhead Division in its own special livery.

Grossdeutschland 1944
Twenty new scenarios for Broken Axis (and only for Broken Axis) focused on the German Army's elite Panzer Grenadier Division Grossdeutschland, with four "battle games" linking them together plus 88 die-cut, silky smooth playing pieces showing the Grossdeutschland Division in its own special livery.

Dishonor Before Death
The Waffen SS battles the American liberators of Normandy in 30 scenarios taking place in the summer of 1944. With 165 die-cut pieces showing the SS militia in an alternative black color scheme.

Leyte 1944
Forty-six new scenarios for Saipan 1944 (you'll also need Marianas 1944 and, for just one scenario, Elsenborn Ridge) devoted to the American return to the Philippines: Japanese paratroopers, rocket-firing gunboats and more! Plus 88 new die-cut, silky-smooth playing pieces.

The Book of Armaments: Eastern Front Artillery
It’s all about artillery on the Eastern Front, with new player displays, special artillery rules and 88 new die-cut, silky-smooth playing pieces. For use with Fire & Sword, Fire in the Steppe, South Flank, Burning Tigers, Broken Axis, and Gates of Leningrad.

La Campagne de Tunisie
The French campaign in Tunisia, 1942-43, with 88 new die-cut, silky-smooth playing pieces and 12 new scenarios. A book supplement for An Army at Dawn.

Armata Romana
The Royal Romanian Army invades the Soviet Union in Summer 1941. An expansion book for Fire in the Steppe (and only Fire in the Steppe) with 98 die-cut pieces and 20 scenarios.

Lithuania’s Iron Wolves
Lithuania did not fight in 1939, 1940 or 1941. In this expansion, the Lithuanian Army takes on the Poles, Germans and Soviets in 22 scenarios with five battle games, and 165 die-cut pieces.

Swallows of Death
An expansion book for 1940: The Fall of France, focused on the exploits of Moroccan troops. With 35 new scenarios and 88 new die-cut, silky smooth pieces showing the Moroccans in their own special color scheme plus elite French recon troops, horsed machine-gun units, the unusual WT15 tank destroyer and the crack horsed cavalry of the Spahis Marocains.

The Deluge
The German invasion of Poland in 40 new scenarios for Fire in the Steppe with eight battle games in our popular story-arc format interweaving history and game play. With 165 new die-cut playing pieces.

Korean Armies
A history/analysis/ scenario book for Pusan Perimeter and Counter Attack, with 30 new scenarios, and plenty of background and analysis on the Korean experience in the Korean War. This book is not yet available.

Land Cruisers
Gigantic war machines that never existed wage a war that never happened. The Land Cruisers are huge, they are slow, they are powerful and you get to play with them in 10 new scenarios with 72 new die-cut, silky-smooth pieces.

Golden Journals
Our little publication exclusively for the Gold Club.

No. 63 (Deluxe): Ochi
The Italian invasion of Greece in October 1940 turned into a bloody failure in the Pindos Mountains, as the Greeks not only stopped the aggressors but invaded Italian-ruled Albania. We have this full story, with 176 pieces and 40 new scenarios. You’ll need Parachutes Over Crete and Conquest of Ethiopia to play all of the scenarios. This volume is not yet available.

No. 62 (Deluxe): Jarama River 1937
The bloodiest battle of the Spanish Civil War took place in February 1937 in the Jarama Valley east of Madrid. We tell this story with 176 new pieces and 20 scenarios, and of course the historical depth you expect from an Avalanche Press book. You’ll need 1940: The Fall of France to play all of the scenarios. This volume is not yet available.

No. 60: 9 April 1940
The German invasion of Denmark took place on 9 April 1940. The royal government ordered the army not to resist, but in places they did anyway. We bring this story to Panzer Grenadier with 24 new pieces and ten new scenarios. You’ll need 1940: The Fall of France to play all of the scenarios. This volume is not yet available.

No. 58 (Deluxe): Darkness Falls
When German troops poured in Austria in March 1938, Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg ordered the Federal Army not to resist them. The Bundesheer would be absorbed into the German armed forces and 247,000 Austrian soliders and 24,000 civilians would die in the war that followed (along with 65,000 Austrian Jews murdered). We study those events, the structore of the Bundesheer, and the never-executed Jansa Plan to defend against German aggression. You get 330 (!) new die-cut and silky-smooth pieces and 30 scenarios to help tell this story. You’ll need 1940: The Fall of France and Elsenborn Ridge to play all of the scenarios. This volume is not yet available.

No. 56: Dragon Rampant (Kiwi Armour)
In June 1941, New Zealand began to form the 1st New Zealand Army Tank brigade, an infantry-support formation equipped with Valentine and Stuart tanks. The brigade never made it into combat, but it does now. You get 24 new die-cut and silky-smooth pieces and ten brand-new scenarios so you can play with them. You’ll need An Army at Dawn and Saipan 1944 to play all of the scenarios.

No. 54: Stalin’s Tanks
Soviet tank designs proposed but never put into mass production fight at Brody-Dubno and Kursk: the T34/57 “Exterminator,” the T34/95 close-support tank, the KV5 Tiger Killer and the KV220 breakthrough tank. You get 24 new die-cut and silky-smooth pieces and nine brand-new scenarios so you can play with them. You’ll need Kursk: Burning Tigers. and Fire in the Steppe. This volume is not yet available.

No. 51: Dogs of War
A very special Golden Journal with 176 (!) brand-new die-cut and silky-smooth pieces displaying the German pieces from Kursk: South Flank in the same black color scheme we used for Dishonor Before Death. Plus the story of the SS militia divisions that fought at Kursk, and a set of completely new historical scenarios from the August 1943 fighting along the River Merchyk.

No. 49: Storm Division
The unique German 78th Storm Division fights in the Battle of Kursk, with its massive allotment of heavy weapons. You get 24 new die-cut and silky-smooth pieces and six brand-new historical scenarios so you can play with them. You’ll need Kursk: Burning Tigers.

No. 48: Black Helicopters
Helicopters join your Panzer Grenadier arsenal: 28 die-cut pieces with real helicopters that flew (sometimes not very well), their story, and a set of five new scenarios so you can play with them (and fight river monitors with helicopters!). You’ll need Fire in the Steppe and River Battleships.

No. 39: Legions of Zog
In April 1939, Italian troops invaded Albania. The Royal Albanian Army fought back . . . briefly. This is a thing that really happened, and now you can fight for Albania against the fascist hordes. The Albanians aren’t very good, but neither are the Italians. You get 24 new die-cut and silky-smooth pieces and four scenarios; you’ll need Conquest of Ethiopia and An Army at Dawn to play the scenarios.

No. 37: Heavy Metal
The giant drawing-board tanks of Britain and Germany clash on the battlefields of 1946 Belgium. Featuring Panzer Maus, the Tiger III, the Black Prince and the Tortoise. With 49 die-cut and mounted pieces and seven new scenarios.

No. 36: Atlantic Marines
The Marines storm ashore on Martinique to fight the Vichy French, and on Iceland to fight German mountain and parachute troops. You get 165 (!) die-cut and mounted pieces, plus 11 scenarios and three battle games to tie them together.

No. 25: Land Battleships
The Soviet T-35 heavy tank, with its five turrets and 12-man crew, appears in Panzer Grenadier: Fire in the Steppe. It might not have been a very good tank, but it most definitely was a very big tank. We tell all about it, with 24 new die-cut and silky-smooth pieces for the proposed upgrades and variants plus some Land Battleship scenarios for Fire in the Steppe so you can crush the fascist invaders.

No. 27: Sherman Tanks
Is the M4 Sherman tank of Panzer Grenadier studly enough? We discuss this question with lots of Sherman tank background information, a new (historical) scenario and best of all 24 new die-cut and silky-smooth pieces with upgraded (with better armor) U.S. Army and Marine Shermans that you can use in Elsenborn Ridge, Saipan 1944, Invasion 1944 and other games.

No. 29: Ancient Armor
In the years just after the First World War, the United States Army took delivery of tanks ordered for the conflict but not ready in time to be shipped to France: the “Liberty” heavy tank and M1917 light tank, copies of British and French designs. In 1940 the tanks still existed in storage, and were offered to Canada for training use but eventually were scrapped and recycled. But you get to take them to Ireland and Guam – with 24 new die-cut and silky-smooth pieces - and send them into action in this variant for Saipan 1944 and Road to Dunkirk. This volume is available to all!

No. 34: Bron Pancerna
Poland designed and built its own tanks, and just before the German invasion Polish drawing boards and testing grounds hosted several modern designs better than anything the Germans had. You get 24 new pieces for them so you can fight the invaders, and scenarios for The Deluge.

Campaign Studies
Brief books adding 10 or so new scenarios to one of our games, plus background articles on the campaigns and the armies that fought them.

1940: The Last Days of May
A set of 11 scenarios from the final days of the German invasion of France, with two battle games to link them together. You’ll need 1940: The Fall of France and Road to Dunkirk to play them.

Elsenborn Ridge: Britain’s Battle of the Bulge
A set of 11 scenarios, plus historical background and two battle games, drawn from the intervention of the British XXX Corps to stop the German panzers east of the Meuse. Requires Elsenborn Ridge and Liberation 1944.

Fire in the Steppe: 49th Mountain Corps
A set of 10 scenarios, plus historical background and two battle games, drawn from the battles of the German 49th Mountain Corps and Waffen SS Life Guard Regiment in the Brody-Dubno tank battles of June 1941. Requires Fire in the Steppe, Parachutes Over Crete and Slovakia’s War.

Parachutes Over Crete: Heraklion
A set of nine scenarios, plus historical background and three battle games, drawn from the May 1941 German airborne assault on Herkalion, capital of Crete, defended by the British 14th Brigade and determined Greeks. Requires Parachutes Over Crete and Road to Dunkirk.

Legend of the Iron Wolf
A set of ten scenarios, plus historical background and two battle games, extending the story of Lithuania’s Iron Wolves into 1941 with new battles that never happened. Requires Lithuania’s Iron Wolves, Slovakia’s War and Fire in the Steppe.

Tank Battle at Raseiniai
A set of ten scenarios, plus historical background and two battle games, based on the June 1941 battle in Lithuania. Requires Fire in the Steppe, 1940: The Fall of France and Lithuania's Iron Wolves.

Black Sea Marines
A set of eleven scenarios, plus historical background and two battle games, based on the 1941 battles of the Black Sea Fleet's tough Marines at Odessa and in Crimea. Requires Fire in the Steppe, River Battleships and Armata Romana.

Panzer Grenadier: Mareth Line
A Campaign Study focused on the battles along the Mareth Line in March 1943. It comes with 309 die-cut and mounted pieces, and ten new scenarios.You’ll need An Army at Dawn to play all of the scenarios. This Campaign Study is not yet available.

Grossdeutschland at Kursk
Eleven new scenarios for Kursk: Burning Tigers, all focused on the battles of the Grossdeutschland Panzer Grenadier Division against the Soviet 1st Tank Army between 11 and 14 July 1943. You’ll need Kursk: Burning Tigers (and only Burning Tigers) to play the scenarios.

New Zealand Division
A set of 11 scenarios with 88 pieces plus historical background and two battle games, based on the 2nd New Zealand Division’s 1943 campaign in Tunisia.

1940: Polish Exiles
Eleven new scenarios for 1940: The Fall of France, highlighting the Polish Army in France, four hard-fighting divisions and two brigades of Polish soldiers who escaped their homeland and Polish volunteers and reservists from around the world. You’ll also need The Deluge and 1940: Swallows of Death to play all of the scenarios.

Big Red One
Eleven new scenarios for An Army at Dawn, all focused on the battles of the U.S. 1st Infantry Division the Axis during the 1943 Tunisian Campaign. You’ll need An Army at Dawn (and onlyAn Army at Dawn) to play the scenarios.

Puppet Brigade
Nine scenarios and 88 new pieces bring the Slovak Army’s role in Operation Barbarossa to Fire in the Steppe. The Slovak Army was not very large, and not very good, but it was there! You’ll need Fire in the Steppe and Broken Axis to play all of the scenarios.

Uprising
Eleven new scenarios for Fire & Sword in two chapters: the 1939 Slovak-Hungarian War, and the 1944 Sloval National Uprising. Not just another game of the Slovak-Hungarian War! You’ll need Puppet Brigade, Fire & Sword and Broken Axis to play all of the scenarios.

Instant Gratification!
Special, downloadable expansions. You’ll have to assemble the pieces yourself.

Changsha Operation
The Japanese 11th Army’s offensive in Hunan Province in December 1941 and January 1942 was turned backed by stout Chinese resistance. With 88 new pieces and eight new scenarios. You’ll need Pusan Perimeter and Counter Attack to play all of the scenarios.

Peace In Our Time
In the fall of 1938, the German Army planned to invade neighboring Czechoslovakia, an operation abandoned when Czechoslovakia’s democratic allies abandoned her. We study this war that never happened with 10 new scenarios and 176 new playing pieces. You’ll need 1940: The Fall of France, Fire in the Steppe, Elsenborn Ridge and Broken Axis to play all of the scenarios.

River Battleships: Blue Danube
The Second Great War comes to the Danube, in this expansion for River Battleships. You get ten scenarios set in an engaging story, and 84 new playing pieces. You’ll need River Battleships to play the scenarios.

1942: Moroccan Division
The new weapons of 1942: The Defense of France are in the hands of the Swallows of Death - the French Army’s elite 1st Moroccan Division: the MAS40 semi-automatic battle rifle, the new AMX38 light tank, the 75mm TAZ 39 anti-tank gun. The Germans get a battalion’s worth (each) of the planned but never produced heavily modified ex-Soviet T34 and KV tanks. And six new scenarios so you can play with them!

1942: The Defense of France
When France fell in June 1940, her factories had just begun to deliver new tanks at full volume, with new tanks and guns at the prototype stage. This expansion set brings those weapons to your game table: the Somua S41 medium tank, Char B1ter heavy tank, the new AMX38 light tank, the 75mm TAZ 39 anti-tank gun, and the fully-tracked Lorraine 39 armored personnel carrier. The Germans get a battalion’s worth of the PzKpfw 747r – the Soviet-made T34 in German service. And ten new scenarios so you can play with them!

Blackshirt Division
The Italian Fascist militia had an armored division. The “M” Division had all the latest German-made equipment: tanks, assault guns, and 88mm anti-aircraft guns (instead of artillery). It didn’t see any combat, but now you can stomp all over these Fascists. You get 88 pieces and 10 new scenarios for An Army at Dawn.

Land Cruisers: The Lithuanian Campaign
Imperial Germany's massive Land Cruisers travel to the Eastern Front to face the Imperial Russian invasion of Lithuania. It’s just as weird, and as fun, as it sounds. You get 88 pieces and 10 new scenarios; you’ll need Fire in the Steppe, Lithuania’s Iron Wolves and Land Cruisers.

More Extras

Additional stuff to increase your Panzer Grenadier fun.

Winter Wonderland
The four maps from Elsenborn Ridge, but in a snow-covered scheme for that cold December feeling.