German Fleet Boats

Steel Wolves Expansion Game 1: German Fleet Boats assumes thatGermany never entered into the 1935 Naval agreement, instead followingOKM’s original view that aircraft and hydrophone technology willdramatically impact concentrated submarine operations around the BritishIsles and that the fleet boat concept of long range submarines areneeded to operate outside areas of dense ASW coverage.

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

German Fleet Boats alters theopening of the campaign allowing players to play through to the end ofthe England Imperiled scenario which ends at the start of OperationBarbarossa. Modifications include changes to allied task forces and theavailability of additional allied units. Also included are threeadditional Italian Cagni class submarines.

Components:

• 1 full sheets of 1.30” x 0.65” submarine counters
• 1 rules booklet
• 1 full color box and lid set