Airborne - Remastered

When we launched the Panzer Grenadier series in the year 2000, I knew right away we'd need an introductory game. Something relatively small and easy to handle, to excite players about all the other battles they could fight now that they knew the rules. Brian Knipple designed a game we called Airborne, with just one map and 20 scenarios. We released it on 11 September 2001, which sort of hampered its early sales. But it eventually recovered, and two different boxed editions would sell out over the years that followed. Yet Airborne, the boxed game, never really filled that role of "introductory game" very well - it was just a small boxed game. The situations found in the Normandy airborne landings really didn't show off the game series very well, particularly the "panzer" part of Panzer Grenadier. They're very good - they're just not a really good starting place. They need to be presented on their own, in their own book - like this one. Mike Perryman revised Brian's original scenarios to draw on parts from other games (chiefly Battle of the Bulge and Elsenborn Ridge), expanding some now that he had a broader canvas with which to work. And then he designed 14 new ones using the same greater resources, not least of them the German paratroopers not included in the original Airborne but available in the boxed games. He also worked over Patrick Callahan's "Behind the Beaches" mega-scenario. After development by John Stafford, we have a very fine set here.