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Michael Bennighof

250 games Designed 240 games Art for 62 games

Michael Bennighof is a game designer who has been the co-founder and president of Avalanche Press Ltd. He has a PhD in military history from Emory University and is known for his Series: Panzer Grenadier (Avalanche) of games. Interview Interview with Gamingreport.com Articles Games listing at Pen-paper.net Games listing at Mobygames.com

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Designed and illustrated 52 games

Great War at Sea: Jutland 2006 0
Great War at Sea: U.S. Navy Plan Gold 2006 0
Great War at Sea / Second World War at Sea: Cone of Fire 2008 0
Second World War at Sea: Horn of Africa 2013 0
Second World War at Sea: South Pacific 2023 0
Great War at Sea Jutland: Coast Defenders 2025 0
Great War at Sea Jutland: Portugal's Armada 2025 0
Great War at Sea: Risk Fleet 2024 0
Second World War at Sea: Bismarck – Les Portes-Avions 2024 0
Second World War at Sea: Java Sea 2024 0
Second Great War at Sea: Sword of the Sea 2023 0
Panzer Grenadier: River Battleships 2021 0
Second Great War at Sea: Tropical Storm 2020 0
Second Great War at Sea: The Cruel Sea 2019 0
Great War at Sea Jutland: Battle Analysis 2019 0
Armata Romana: A Panzer Grenadier Scenario Book 2018 0
Great War at Sea: Jutland 1919 2018 0
Second Great War at Sea: Tropic of Capricorn 2018 0
Second World War at Sea: Alternatives for ''Deutschland'' 2017 0
Second World War at Sea: Finland's Fantasy Fleet 2017 0
Great War at Sea: Rise of the Dragon 2016 0
Panzer Grenadier: Iron Curtain – Maple Leaf Brigade 2016 0
Great War at Sea: U.S. Navy Plan Gray 2016 0
Panzer Grenadier: 1942 – The Defense of France 2016 0
Second World War at Sea: South American Navies 2016 0
Second World War at Sea: Plan Z 2016 0
Panzer Grenadier: Variant Panthers 2016 0
Panzer Grenadier: Na Forsai Cosanta 2016 0
Panzer Grenadier: Imperial Marines 2016 0
Island of Death: Return to Malta 2016 0
Second World War at Sea: Royal Netherlands Navy 2015 0
Great War at Sea: Spoils of Victory 2015 0
Great War at Sea: High Seas Fleet 2015 0
Great War at Sea: Triple Alliance 2015 0
Great War at Sea: Central Powers 2015 0
Alsace 1940 2015 0
Second World War at Sea: Sea of Iron 2015 0
Panzer Grenadier: Iron Curtain – National People's Army 2015 0
Panzer Grenadier: Horse Soldiers 2015 0
Great War at Sea: C.S. Navy Plan Blue 2015 0
Second World War at Sea: Poland's Fantasy Fleet 2015 0
Land Cruisers: A Panzer Grenadier Scenario Book 2015 0
Second World War at Sea: The Habsburg Fleet 2014 0
Great War at Sea: Turkish Black Sea Fleet 2014 0
Second World War at Sea: FDR's Lost Ships of 1937 2014 0
Great War at Sea: Remember the Maine 2013 0
Panzer Grenadier: 1940 – The Fall of Luxembourg 2013 0
Second World War at Sea: The Kaiser's Navy 2012 0
Great War at Sea: Confederate States Navy (Second Edition) 2012 0
Second World War at Sea: Spice Islands 2009 0
Second World War at Sea: Imperial and Royal Navy 2008 0
Second World War at Sea: La Regia Marina 0

Designed 188 games

Battle for Germany box cover Battle for Germany · 1975
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Eastern Front: A Panzer Grenadier Game box cover Eastern Front: A Panzer Grenadier Game · 2005
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Great War at Sea: The Mediterranean box cover Great War at Sea: The Mediterranean · 1996
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Panzer Grenadier box cover Panzer Grenadier · 1998
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Great War at Sea 2: The North & Baltic Seas box cover Great War at Sea 2: The North & Baltic Seas · 1998
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Panzer Grenadier: Airborne – Introductory Edition box cover Panzer Grenadier: Airborne – Introductory Edition · 2006
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Road to Berlin: Platoon Level Combat in World War II – A Panzer Grenadier Game 2005 0
Second World War at Sea: Bomb Alley 2002 0
Elsenborn Ridge: Tactical Combat During the Battle of the Bulge – A Panzer Grenadier Game 2008 0
Battle of the Bulge: Platoon Level Combat in World War II – A Panzer Grenadier Game 2002 0
1940: The Fall of France – A Panzer Grenadier Game 2009 0
Second World War at Sea: Midway 2002 0
Panzer Grenadier: Desert Rats 2004 0
Cassino '44: Gateway to Rome 2009 0
Great War at Sea: 1904-1905, The Russo-Japanese War 1999 0
Afrika Korps: The Desert War – Platoon Level Combat in World War II: A Panzer Grenadier Game 2002 0
Second World War at Sea: Eastern Fleet 2001 0
Beyond Normandy: The British Advance, 1944 – A Panzer Grenadier Game 2004 0
Second World War at Sea: Coral Sea 2010 0
Guadalcanal: Semper Fi Series 2003 0
Great War at Sea: U.S. Navy Plan Orange 1998 0
Kursk, South Flank: A Panzer Grenadier Game 2012 0
Great War at Sea: Cruiser Warfare 2004 0
Red Parachutes: Soviet Airborne Assault Across the Dnepr 1995 0
They Shall Not Pass: The Battle of Verdun 1916 2007 0
Second World War at Sea: Arctic Convoy 2008 0
Great War at Sea: U.S. Navy Plan Red 2002 0
Second World War at Sea: Leyte Gulf 2005 0
Red Steel: Clash Of Armor At Kishinev 1996 0
Great War at Sea: U.S. Navy Plan Black 1999 0
Infantry Attacks: August 1914 2010 0
Great War at Sea: Pacific Crossroads 2010 0
Great War at Sea: Russo-Japanese War 2013 0
Fire in the Steppe: Battles in Ukraine, 1941 – A Panzer Grenadier Game 2018 0
Panzer Grenadier: Airborne 2001 0
Blood & Iron: Bismarck's Wars for Empire 1993 0
Risorgimento: Italy's Wars of Liberation 1848-1866 1997 0
Blood on the Snow: The Battle of Suomussalmi 1995 0
Winter Fury: The Battle of Tolvajärvi 1939 2001 0
Alamein: History's Turning Point 1942 2006 0
Twilight of the Habsburgs 2000 0
Forgotten Axis: The Romanian Campaign 2001 0
Forgotten Axis: The Finnish Campaign 1999 0
Forgotten Axis: Murmansk 1941 1999 0
Eagles of the Empire: Napoleon in the Desert 2002 0
Panzer Grenadier: Pacific Armor 2026 0
Dishonor Before Death: The Waffen SS in France 1944 2026 0
Panzer Grenadier: Mindanao 1945 2026 0
Great War at Sea: Kingdom of Hawaii 2024 0
Great War at Sea Jutland: North Sea 1914 2024 0
Great War at Sea: Russo-Japanese War – Shopping Spree 2024 0
Panzer Grenadier: Dragon's Teeth 2024 0
Panzer Grenadier 1940: Polish Exiles 2024 0
Java Sea: Wicked Sisters 2024 0
Java Sea: Royal Thai Navy 2024 0
Fleets of the Second Great War: La Royale, The French Navy 2023 0
Golden Journal Number 51: Kursk – Dogs of War 2023 0
Bismarck: Force de Raid 2023 0
Infantry Attacks: Winter's Battle 2023 0
Great War at Sea Jutland: Dogger Bank 1915 2023 0
Panzer Grenadier: Fighting Irish 2023 0
Panzer Grenadier: New Zealand Division 2023 0
Great War at Sea: Iron Dogs 2023 0
Voice of the Arabs: A 1967 – Sword of Israel Story 2023 0
Black Sea Marines 2023 0
Second World War at Sea Midway: Aftermath 2023 0
Intervention 1967: A Sword of Israel Expansion 2023 0
Great War at Sea: Caribbean Empires, Part I 2022 0
Second World War at Sea: Plan Z – Fleet Air Arm 2022 0
Panzer Grenadier: Tank Battle at Raseiniai 2022 0
Panzer Grenadier: Legions of Zog 2022 0
Second Great War at Sea: River Plate 2022 0
Golden Journal Number 42 Midway: Battleship-Carriers 2022 0
Panzer Grenadier: Peace in Our Time 2022 0
Eastern Fleet: Gulf of Aden 2022 0
Panzer Grenadier: Lithuania's Iron Wolves – Legend of the Iron Wolf 2022 0
Panzer Grenadier: Changsha Operation 2022 0
Panzer Grenadier: The Book of Armaments Eastern Front Artillery 2022 0
Golden Journal No. 48: Black Helicopters 2022 0
Infantry Attacks: Franz Josef's Armies 2022 0
Coral Sea: Defending Australia 2021 0
Golden Journal Number 37: Heavy Metal – German and British Heavy Tanks 2021 0
Midway: Deluxe Edition 2021 0
Midway: Rising Sun 1940 2021 0
Panzer Grenadier: The Deluge 2021 0
Panzer Grenadier: Atlantic Marines 2021 0
Infantry Attacks: Fall of Empires 2021 0
Great War at Sea: Alternative Dreadnoughts 2021 0
Black Panthers: A Panzer Grenadier Book 2021 0
Fire in the Steppe: 49th Mountain Corps 2021 0
Panzer Grenadier: Lithuania's Iron Wolves 2021 0
Grossdeutschland 1944 2020 0
Parachutes over Crete: A Panzer Grenadier Game 2020 0
Second Great War at Sea: Caspian Princes 2020 0
Second World War at Sea: Plan Z – Stolen Fleets 2020 0
Panzer Grenadier (Modern): 1967 – Sword of Israel: Four-Five Commando 2020 0
Bron Pancerna 2020 0
Afrika 1944: A Panzer Grenadier Expansion Book 2019 0
Slovakia's War: A Panzer Grenadier Scenario Book 2019 0
Panzer Grenadier: Ancient Armor 2019 0
Second World War at Sea: Eastern Fleet – British Carriers 2019 0
Fleets of the Second Great War: Imperial Germany 2019 0
Great War at Sea Jutland: Dogger Bank 2019 0
Great War at Sea: Cruiser Warfare – Armored Cruisers 2018 0
Fire in the Steppe: Battles in Ukraine, 1941 – Land Battleships 2018 0
Soldier Kings: The Potato War 2018 0
Defiant Russia: Red Victory 2018 0
Africa Orientale Italiana: The Fall of Italian East Africa, 1941 2018 0
Great Pacific War: Co-Prosperity Sphere – A Scenario Book 2017 0
Panzer Grenadier: Soviet Paratroopers 2017 0
Second World War at Sea: Ships of Plan Z 2017 0
Second World War at Sea: Battle Cruisers into Carriers 2017 0
Battles of 1866: Blood & Iron 2017 0
Panzer Grenadier (Modern): 1967 – Sword of Israel: Soviet Airborne 2017 0
Panzer Grenadier: Sherman Tanks 2017 0
Gazala 1942: Italian Armored Divisions 2016 0
Soldier Emperor: Indian Empires – The Struggle for India, 1767-1849 2016 0
Second World War at Sea: Gin Palace 2016 0
Soldier Emperor: Dreams of Empire 2016 0
Equinox 2015: Riflemen of Saipan 2015 0
Panzer Grenadier: Blackshirt Division 2015 0
Great War at Sea: Great War of the Worlds at Sea 2015 0
Fortress Malta 2014 0
Battles of 1866: Austrian Gatling Guns 2014 0
Soldier Kings: Most Serene Empire 2013 0
Battles of 1866: German Armies 2012 0
They Shall Not Pass: Bavarians at the Gates 2012 0
Golden Journal Winter 2012: Assorted naval variants 2012 0
Battles of 1866: Frontier Battles 2012 0
Winter Soldiers: A Panzer Grenadier Scenario Book 2011 0
Second World War at Sea: Orange Waters 2011 0
Panzer Grenadier: Airborne (Third Edition) 2011 0
Panzer Grenadier: Carpathian Brigade 2011 0
Great War at Sea: Prizes of War 2011 0
Enlightened Warlords: A Player's Guide to Soldier Kings 2011 0
Panzer Grenadier: Polish Steel 1948 2010 0
Panzer Grenadier: Indian Unity 2010 0
Great War at Sea: Confederate States Navy 2010 0
Great War at Sea: U.S. Navy Plan Scarlet 2010 0
Second World War at Sea: The Tsar's Navy 2009 0
Second World War at Sea: Strait of Magellan 2009 0
Panzer Grenadier: Hopeless, But Not Serious – The Austrian Federal Army, 1934-1938 2009 0
Panzer Grenadier: Grossdeutschland 1946 2009 0
Great War at Sea: Reichsmarine 2009 0
Great War at Sea: Black Waters 2009 0
Panzer Grenadier: Waltzing Matilda 2009 0
Workers & Peasants: The Red Army's Rifle Divisions, 1939-1945 – A Panzer Grenadier Scenario Book 2009 0
Battles of 1866: Koniggratz 2009 0
Panzer Grenadier: North of Elsenborn 2009 0
Infantry Attacks: The Chihuahua Incident, 1916 2009 0
Panzer Grenadier: Kokoda Trail 2009 0
Tide of Iron: Designer Series Vol. 1 2008 0
First Axis: Slovakia at War 1939-1945 – A Panzer Grenadier Scenario Book 2008 0
Panzer Grenadier: War on the Equator 2008 0
Panzer Grenadier: Secret Weapons 2008 0
Great War at Sea: Airships 2008 0
Panzer Grenadier: Iron Wolves – Lithuania's Army 2008 0
Panzer Grenadier: Divisione Corazzata 2008 0
Arctic Front: Finland's War, 1939-1944 – A Panzer Grenadier Scenario Book: Deluxe Edition 2008 0
Great War at Sea: Zeppelins 2007 0
Panzer Grenadier: South Africa's War 2007 0
Panzer Grenadier: Iron Curtain 2007 0
White Eagles: A Panzer Grenadier Supplement Book 2007 0
Second World War at Sea: East of Suez 2007 0
Second World War at Sea: Black Sea Fleets 2007 0
Panzer Grenadier: North Wind 2007 0
Panzer Grenadier: Alaska's War 2007 0
Great War at Sea: Sea of Troubles 2007 0
Red Warriors 2006 0
Panzer Grenadier: Blue Division 2006 0
Panzer Grenadier: Sinister Forces 2006 0
Tank Battles: A Panzer Grenadier Scenario Book 2005 0
Third Reich/Great Pacific War Player's Guide 2004 0
Great War at Sea: Dreadnoughts 2004 0
Third Reich Deluxe Map 2004 0
Second World War at Sea: Distant Oceans 2003 0
Edelweiss: A Panzer Grenadier Scenario Book 2003 0
Arctic Front: Finland's War, 1939-1944 – A Panzer Grenadier Scenario Book 2002 0
Great War At Sea: Great White Fleet 2002 0
Taman '42 1993 0
Kestenga: Another Fight to the Finnish 1993 0
Black Sea Fleet 1914-1918 1991 0
Salla 1941: A Fight to the Finnish 1991 0
Soldier Emperor: Asian Empires Land War in Asia, 1759-1825 0
Rome at War: King of Kings 0
Ironclads: Hearts of Iron 0
Battles of 1866: Custoza 0
Ironclads: Divided Waters 0

Art for 10 games

Korean War: Pusan Perimeter – A Panzer Grenadier Game 2014 0
Saipan 1944: A Panzer Grenadier Game 2012 0
Spearhead Division: A Panzer Grenadier Scenario Book 2017 0
Korean War: Counter Attack – A Panzer Grenadier Game 2017 0
Invasion 1944: The Americans in Normandy – Introductory Game to Panzer Grenadier 2016 0
River Fleets: A Panzer Grenadier Game 2016 0
La Campagne de Tunisie: A Panzer Grenadier Scenario Book 2016 0
The Kokoda Campaign: Jungle Battles in New Guinea – A Panzer Grenadier Game 2015 0
Marianas 1944: A Panzer Grenadier Scenario Book 2014 0
Great War at Sea: U.S. Navy Plan Crimson (Second Edition) 2013 0