PREORDER***Steel Wolves and German Fleet Boats - Germanys Submarine Campaign 1939-43

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From Compass Games

Two great games together and updated in this Deluxe Edition!

Steel Wolves is a solitaire simulation of the German submarine war against British and Allied shipping, the follow-on title to the award-winning Silent War. Volume I covers the period from the start of the War in 1939 to the early months of 1943. You serve as BdU, Befehlshaber der U-Boote; the Supreme Commander of Uboats, Kreigsmarine. Your mission is to deploy your forces with maximum effect to destroy British and Allied shipping while limiting your submarine losses.

Featured scenarios cover actions ranging from famous short single sub patrols through short campaigns, ending with the full campaign covering 1939 to 1943. The game map breaks the Atlantic, Mediterranean, South Atlantic, and Western Indian Ocean into historical Operations Areas through which subs patrol in search of shipping.

Special rules feature historical events such as the invasion of Norway and Torch; b-dienst, ULTRA, and the intelligence war; torpedo improvements, German wolfpack tactics, Super-Skippers, large vs. small U-boat philosophy, appeals to Berlin for resources, and many others. Every German sub deployed between 1939 and 1943 (as well as some what-if classes) is represented with its very own counter, each meticulously and accurately drawn and shown from their side in full color. Players familiar with Silent War will find Steel Wolves take the system to new depths, while those trying it for the first time can quickly get into action!

Learn More about the included Expansion: German Fleet Boats!

Steel Wolves Expansion 1: German Fleet Boats assumes that Germany never entered into the 1935 Naval agreement, instead following OKM’s original view that aircraft and hydrophone technology will dramatically impact concentrated submarine operations around the British Isles and that the fleet boat concept of long-range submarines is needed to operate outside areas of dense ASW coverage.

German Fleet Boats assumes significant changes to the historic design strategy: instead of focusing on medium Type VII boats, the Germans turn to the larger U-cruiser with which they experimented with in World War I. German Fleet Boats assumes that early Type I, II, and VII submarines are built as historically occurred, but prior to starting a more extensive building program, OKM decides to build cruiser/fleet type submarines starting with more Type Is and four of the even larger (projected) Type III, the designs for which were based on the IA, then followed by the VIII, XI, and XII.

German Fleet Boats alters the opening of the campaign, allowing players to play through to the end of the England Imperiled scenario, which ends at the start of Operation Barbarossa. Modifications include changes to allied task forces and the availability of additional allied units. Also included are three additional Italian Cagni class submarines.

This new edition features a mounted game board, an updated full-color rule book incorporating all changes and improvements, and an updated map and charts/tables. Steel Wolves and German Fleet Boats, Deluxe Edition, is the definitive game of the German submarine war against British and Allied shipping.

Product Information

Complexity: Medium

Playing Time: 1 hour (scenarios), 125 hours (full campaign)

Solitaire Suitability: Perfect (designed for solitaire play)

Designers: Brien Miller & Stephen Jackson

Developer: Stephen Jackson

Artist: Brien Miller

Components:

1 MOUNTED full-size map (22” x 34”)

13 full sheets of 1.3″ x 0.65” and 0.65″ x 0.65″ counters

Multiple full-color set-up and player aid cards

3 booklets

1 10-sided die

1 full color box and lid set (3″ deep box)

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