Avalanche Press is an American company that publishes board wargames and has published some role-playing game supplements. The company was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Irondale, Alabama.
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
- Eagles of the Empire series
- The Great War at Sea series—Dreadnought era naval combat
- Infantry Attacks series—World War I tactical combat (a spinoff of Panzer Grenadier)
- Panzer Grenadier series—World War II tactical combat
- Rome at War series—Ancient warfare series (closely related to the Napoleonic Battles series)
- Second World War at Sea series—World War II naval combat (a spinoff of Great War at Sea)
- Third Reich/Great Pacific War series—World War II strategic game
Games
0-9
- 1898: The Spanish–American War (2000)
- 1904–1905: The Russo-Japanese War (1999)
- 1940 - The Fall of France (2009)
- 1967 - Sword of Israel (2013)
A
- Afrika Korps: The Desert War (2002)
- Airborne (2002)
- Airborne: Introductory Edition (2006)
- Airlines (1998)
- Alaska's War (2007)
- Alsace 1945 (2005)
- America Triumphant: Battle of the Bulge (2003)
- Avalanche: The Invasion of Italy (1994)
- Arctic Convoy (2008)
- An Army at Dawn - Tunisia 1942-1943 (2015)
B
- Battle of 1866 - Frontier Battles, War of Empires (2012)
- Battle of the Bulge (2002)
- Beyond Normandy (2004)
- Bismark (2005, 2015, 2019)