Ochi: The Italian Invasion of Greece, 1940

[JayTownsend]

I probably shouldn't share this as it is from the most recent Gold-Club news letter but for the sake of increased sales and interest for those who haven't bought into the GC yet:
 New for 2022
Ochi: Greece 1940
Les Marocains: France’s Islamic Heroes
 
Avalanche Press is a different beast than other wargame publishers; we revel in our quirkiness and have at times done ill-considered things solely to be different rather than for any good reason. One difference of which we haven’t taken enough advantage is that the company is creator-owned, with a small cadre of long-time outside game designers. We’re not reliant on what freelance designers choose to offer us; we can actually plan for the games and books we want to publish.
 
I imagine those other guys yelling at each other, things like: “We already have eleven strategic Napoleonic games! Another just cannibalizes sales!” “Payroll’s due in five days. Palooza it right now or go unpaid.” I’m only imagining a little; we had very similar discussions back in the bad old days.
 
We don’t have to do that ever again. It seems obvious, but that liberating thought didn’t come easily - that’s how our industry works, that’s how we worked for years. We can choose to make the games we think you’ll like, from the ground up. And the books/expansions that you’ll want, to make those games more fun once you’ve had them for a while.
 
So that’s where Ochi and France’s Islamic Heroes come in. They didn’t just tumble over the transom; I solicited them from their designers, specifically to expand Parachutes Over Crete and 1940: The Fall of France, respectively. From your standpoint, they’ll add more scenarios and cool pieces to games you’ve already played and enjoyed, so you can have fresh fun in a familiar place. From ours, they refresh the sales life of their core games. These are good things all around.
 
Ochi is from Jay Townsend; it’s (modern) Greek for “Oh hell no,” the phrase Greek dictator Ioannis Metaxas uttered in response to Italian demands that Greece capitulate in October 1940. Greeks still celebrate Ochi Day, and now you can too. It has 40 scenarios of Greek-Italian action, and 176 new pieces (you’ll also need Conquest of Ethiopia).
 
France’s Islamic Heroes is from Philippe Léonard, and it’s about the exploits of the elite 1st Moroccan Division in the 1940 campaign. The Moroccans were long-service professionals, tough bastards who charged panzers with bayonets - and won. You get 88 new die-cut and silky-smooth pieces, plus of course scenarios in story-arc format.
 
With just four Panzer Grenadier books on the current schedule, these two are both turned in and will be among the first we add when we finally Bring the Palooza.