Second World War at Sea

The greatest conflict in human history played out on all of the world's oceans, and we cover these battles in our Second World War at Sea series.

The Second Great War is our innovative alternative-history setting for Second World War at Sea.

Here's a look at all of our Second World War at Sea products:

Boxed games
Arctic Convoy
Bismarck, Second Edition
Coral Sea
Eastern Fleet
Horn of Africa
La Regia Marina
Midway Deluxe Edition
Sea of Iron
South Pacific
Strike South
Tropic of Capricorn

Expansion Sets
Plan Z
The Cruel Sea
The Emperor's Sword

Books
Black Sea Fleets
Ships of Plan Z

Second Great War at Sea Books
The Second Great War
Sword of the Sea
The Habsburg Fleet

Boxed games

Boxed games are the heart of the Second World War at Sea 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.

Tropic of Capricorn
The Second Great War comes to South American waters with 24 scenarios, one full-sized map and 180 new silky-smooth, die-cut playing pieces (100 long, 80 standard). $59.99.

Eastern Fleet, Second Edition
British-Japanese carrier battles in the Indian Ocean, 1942. With 24 scenarios, one full-sized map and 280 die-cut playing pieces (100 long, 180 standard). $64.99.

Midway Deluxe Edition
The climactic carrier battle of the Pacific War, with more than 50 scenarios, 700 playing pieces, a large operational map of Hawaiian waters and a special tactical map of Pearl Harbor. $99.99. This game is not yet available.

South Pacific
The Solomons Campaign of 1942 and 1943. Over 1,000 silky-smooth, die-cut playing pieces one 22x28-inch operational map, a special Tactical Map showing “Ironbottom Sound,” and over 60 scenarios, organized in our “story arc” format. This game is not yet available.

La Regia Marina
The Mediterranean Campaign of 1939 through 1943. With almost 1,000 silky-smooth, die-cut playing pieces, two 22x28-inch operational maps and over 75 scenarios in our “story arc” format. This game is not yet available.

Arctic Convoy, Second Edition
The brutal battles between the Royal Navy (with Soviet and American help) trying to escort convoys through to Murmansk and Archangel, and the German warships, submarines and aircraft trying to stop them. $79.99

Bismarck, Second Edition
The German Navy's commerce raids of 1939 through 1941 into the North Atlantic. American, British and French warships hunt the grossly outnumbered Germans, who do have the vast gray Atlantic in which to hide. $79.99. This game is not yet available.

Coral Sea
The introductory game for the series, based on history's first carrier battle, in which no ship fired on (or even sighted) another. $34.99 This game is currently unavailable.

Horn of Africa
Battles in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden that actually happened (or could have happened) in 1940 and 1941, plus the possible 1936 British intervention in the Abyssinian War. $44.99.

Sea of Iron
Naval warfare on the Baltic Sea, 1939-1945. Incloudes the German, Soviet, Swedish, Finnish and Polish navies - plus the Baltic States. $79.99

Strike South
The Japanese storm through the Philippines and Dutch East Indies in 1941 and 1942. The Battle of the Java Sea, the last sortie of Prince of Wales, the heroic last fight of the Houston and more. $59.99. This game is currently unavailable.

Expansion Sets
Not playable alone, these add more ships, planes and scenarios to existing games.

The Cruel Sea
The Second Great War comes to the North Atlantic, with the ships, airships and planes of Imperial Germany, Imperial Russia and Republican France. With 740 new pieces and 30 new scenarios. $99.99.

Plan Z
The ships and planes of the famed German Plan Z, and the British ships and planes that would have been built to match them. With 510 new pieces and 30 new scenarios. $64.99.

The Emperor’s Sword
Japan and the United States vie for the Pacific with the ships and planes planned and never built (or built too late to see action). With 770 new pieces and 30 new scenarios. $99.99. This item is not yet available.

Books
These scenario books include playing pieces, and anywhere from 20 to 30 new scenarios plus background articles on the campaigns and the navies 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).

The Second Great War
A sourcebook for the Second Great War alternative history setting, laying out the background of the participants, their armed forces and the course of this war that never happened.

Sword of the Sea
The Second Great War at Sea in Turkish waters: the Black Sea, Red Sea and Eastern Mediterranean. With Ottoman, Imperial Russian, German, Romanian, Greek and Bulgarian ships and aircraft. A companion to The Habsburg Fleet (Second Edition); Sword of the Sea also requires La Regia Marina and Horn of Africa. This book is not yet available.

Ships of Plan Z
A sourcebook all about the ships found in our Second World War at Sea: Plan Z expansion set, plus 95 new "long" ship pieces.

The Habsburg Fleet, 2nd Edition
Austria wages naval war against France, Italy and Britain in the Mediterranean Basin. With 40 new scenarios and 180 playing pieces (100 "long" ship pieces and 80 square ones) adding the Imperial and Royal Austrian Navy plus additional ships and aircraft (including more aircraft-carrying zeppelins) for Italy, France, Britain and Montenegro. $34.99.
This book is not yet available.

Black Sea Fleets, 2nd Edition
This book covers the Black Sea forces of the Soviet Union plus those of Turkey and Romania with 210 new die-cut-and-mounted playing pieces and a wealth of scenarios and background articles. $29.99
This book is not yet available.