Great War at Sea: Iron Dogs 2023

Several times a year, when we feel like it, the Golden Journal brings Gold Club members some fun extras for their Avalanche Press games. Our new-model Golden Journal features a “real” booklet, just like a small magazine, and a small set of die-cut, silky-smooth playing pieces.

The first clash of modern dreadnoughts took place at the Battle of Dogger Bank in January 1915, where five British battle cruisers met and defeated three German battle cruisers (plus one large armored cruiser). The battle features heavily in our Great War at Sea: Jutland Second Edition, and we delved into the battle more deeply in the analysis book Jutland: Dogger Bank.

Iron Dogs presents these nine heavy ships (plus three more than could have been present, and are used in the variant scenarios in the Dogger Bank book) on the huge, oversized pieces we’ve used before for battleships in Golden Journal No. 31: Deluxe Bismarck. You don’t need these pieces to play Jutland; they’re the same as the pieces in the game. Just way bigger and way nicer.