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German Fleet Boats
Requires:Steel Wolves: Germany's Submarine Campaign Against British & Allied Shipping – Vol 1 1939-43
Designed by Stephen C. Jackson, Brien J. Miller
Published by Compass Games
Expansion
Moderate Depth: 30 Min Teach
Community Snapshot
Medium complexity
~2500 min
8.2 on BGG (26)
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Since 2013, German Fleet Boats has captivated fans of area movement with its medium complexity design.
How It Plays
Area Movement
You move your pieces across different regions on the board, trying to position yourself in the best spots.
About This Game
German Fleet Boats is an expansion game for Compass Game's Steel Wolves - the German Submarine Campaign against Allied Shipping 1939-1943. German Fleet Boats assumes that Germany never entered into the 1935 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 are needed to operate outside areas of dense ASW coverage. German Fleet Boats postulates a change in Uboat 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.…
Source: BoardGameGeek