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Steel Wolves and German Fleet Boats: Deluxe Edition

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Year
2025
Players
1
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Publisher
Compass Games
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Description

Solitaire simulation of the German U-boat war against Allied shipping bundled with the German Fleet Boats expansion

Description

Solitaire simulation of the German U-boat war against Allied shipping bundled with the German Fleet Boats expansion

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Video ZzpS1SVyxSI Zilla Blitz Other at 14:22 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
  • Deluxe edition includes the original expansion
  • Magnificent achievement to make something so big and massive and still make it so playable
  • Looks beautiful, magnificent production
  • Gameplay is fantastic
Cons
  • Doesn't encompass the last fatal two years of the U-boat campaign.
Thematic elements
  • Submarine warfare (WWII)
  • Atlantic Ocean
  • Strategic operational level simulation
Comparison games
  • Silent War
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • Naval Warfare — Focuses on submarine warfare in the Atlantic.
  • Patrol Actions — Includes patrol actions and engagements.
  • solitaire play — Explicitly designed as a solitaire game.
  • Strategic/Operational Simulation — Simulates submarine warfare at a strategic or operational level, covering all produced U-boats from 1939-1943.
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Quotes (from this video)
  • So, that one I'm looking at, this is not this though. But the other game that keeps coming up in people's comments on that Avalon Hill video, top 10, Flattop now.
  • But the game system looks really, really interesting. And I'm very interested for a number of reasons in carrier combat in World War II from just a game design perspective.
  • So, um, this one surprised me. I'm looking forward to our true topics here. These are more half topics, I think, than a full topic.
  • Do you match the dice in your war games with the belligerance?
  • 61% of you of us, I guess I should put me in it, too, because yeah, that's I just got a bunch of dice. Said yes, that you actually changed the dice colors for the belligerents.
  • Excluding digital versions like those on Vassel or Board Game Arena or Tabletop Simulator, etc. How many different board games or war games do you think you play each month?
  • 70% of viewers say they play one to two different games each month.
  • The rule is to have fun. That's really what we want to concentrate on.
  • We have Rich Spilkey. Let's check to see if Rich has all the answers correct. I'm happy to say that Rich went three for three and he is the winner of a $100 store credit to Noble Knight Games.
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Video 2Gf-vNeYSOg Zilla Blitz Other at 22:25 sentiment: other
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Excited
Pros
  • Solitaire game
  • Covers U-boat campaign in WWII Atlantic
  • Deluxe edition with improvements
  • Massive campaign with potentially hundreds of hours of gameplay
Cons
  • Distant future release
Thematic elements
  • U-boat Campaign
  • Atlantic (WWII)
  • Historical
Comparison games
  • Silent War
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • Campaign play — Features a massive campaign with potentially hundreds of hours of gameplay.
  • Solitaire — Designed as a solitaire game.
  • Submarine Combat — Focuses on the U-boat campaign.
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  • a game that covers the the Battle of alera in the peninsula War down in Iberia Napoleonic ERA this is a a compl reimagining of their first version
  • this is kind of a Euro war game hybrid with a very interesting historical theme set in the uh in 5554 BC you play as one of the three client kingdoms either the regnes the brigantes or the ieni who are fighting control fighting for control of Britain
  • if you're not familiar with old school tactical it feels like every time I show a video of any kind of tactical combat system on the channel there's always at least three or four comments about people that say hey have you tried old school tactical what do you think about old school tactical
  • steel wolves and German Fleet boats so this is Silent War their award-winning game about sub about the entire submarine campaign in World War II in the Pacific takes that system to the Atlantic and you play as ubot commander
  • another game that's instant excitement combat volume 4 Eastern Front
  • three days of Gettysburg deluxe edition taking us all the way back to GMT games
  • this is really going to be the definitive edition of this classic game which has been around first published in 1995
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