"The Hunters with Das Boot" Topic

Started the solitaire boardgame The Hunters: German U-Boats at War 1939-1943. It's a paperwork campaign, but fraught with decision making. Your U-Boat can get pounded hard, hard, hard. Have put down 167,00 tons and earned a Knight's Cross. Almost lost the Boat twice. But the game needs something. eureka. Das Boot (1981) Soundtrack. Here you go:

YouTube link

Cut and paste that to your Desktop and hit play next time you whip out The Hunters. yea.

So, what do you think of the rules thus far?

They sound like fun.

I found that the game has very few decision points for the player, and those are pretty obvious. You wind up being a dice caddy for the game to let it run its many charts and subroutines, but it is a very interesting narrative that the dice will build for you if you don't mind rolling it up. After playing for an hour I realized that I had not made any real decisions and it was all driven by the dice.

Ex submarine weapons officer. I want to do more than decide to attack and then see what the dice do to me.

I had two close calls nearly losing the boat. Nine missions. I am pressing the game hard, moving in close for all shots, daring detection. I am much more a miniature gamer, but have been amazed how much damage to integral systems the Type IX can take and come home. I do not care how the dice are driving the game. The75 percent loss rate is a fascinating environment, though the truly lethal era begins where this game ends. Next campaign I will track misses, duds, and rounds fired from deck gun.veteran status does not impact die rolls much. There are many boxes where I find nothing. Historical. Love the target sheets and d100 selecting process.

Oh yea. Encountered Malaya. No torps left. Sailed home. A dozen warships encounters are all ships sunk historically by U-boats.

HMS Malaya wasn't sunk by a U-boat …

MH

Truly. Malaya survived the war and was scrapped in 1948.