If it's not specified in the rules, I'd say the SJ Radar won't be included on your boat until after your patrol and you perform rest/refit. It wouldn't make sense for new equipment to be included until you've reached a friendly port.

@WW2SolitaireBoardGameChannel

3 жыл бұрын

I hadn't thought of that but that makes a lot of sense! I mean it would be one thing with escort detection +1, but that are enemy ships. I agree that it wouldn't make sense that your ship suddenly has new equipment and next time that I'll play I won't play it like that. Thanks for your feedback and thanks for watching!

@tommantek3632

3 жыл бұрын

@@WW2SolitaireBoardGameChannel indeed, I'm enjoying your playthru and especially how you explain each of your moves. I don't own the game yet but plan to, especially after this!

@WW2SolitaireBoardGameChannel

3 жыл бұрын

@@tommantek3632 Thank you very much! I'm very thankful for everyone who takes their time to connect. It doesn't matter if I have thousands of views, if no one comments it feels like no one is watching. It's you guys who keep the channel running!

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Really informative overview showing the different gameplay situations. It helped me to learn the game.

@WW2SolitaireBoardGameChannel

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Believe it or not, in one of my games I performed 3 emergency appendectomy operations. I felt that I was on a hospital ship. Funny how quirky dice can act. Enjoyed your replay and certainly agree that The Hunters is a more enjoyable game. Best wishes. (The operations were all successful).

@WW2SolitaireBoardGameChannel

3 жыл бұрын

Haha that's crazy! Did you ever get your kommendant killed in the hunters from a big wave when on deck? That happend to me and I was not happy 😂

@m_tulla4327

3 жыл бұрын

Hey guys, enjoyed this play through! Just wondering why you enjoyed the hunters more as this is a later version of the same game. Cheers

@WW2SolitaireBoardGameChannel

3 жыл бұрын

@@m_tulla4327 Well first if all I enjoyed the theme of the hunters more. Chasing Convoys with a German u-boat after watching das boot is something special. I also liked the way that game builds up, becoming increasingly difficult throughout the game. Silent Victory is the other way around, it becomes easier. Also I was a little bothered with the errata of Silent Victory, it took me quite a few days to clarify a lot of the rules and I did not feel that was the case with the Hunters.

Maru means its part of the Japanese merchant marine.

@WW2SolitaireBoardGameChannel

9 ай бұрын

Ah there we go, I learn something new from you guys everyday! Thank you

@jumpmaster82nd.

6 ай бұрын

I think the meaning goes a bit deeper than that but yeah merchant ships (and non warships) used maru as a suffix. Maru means "circle" and was applied in the hopes the ship would have luck and makes its "round" trip. I think I read that in Ian Tolls "Pacific " trilogy...

Liking it even before watching to the end (but don't worry: I'm going to in short anyway) because I greatly appreciate the effort of taking the time to record sessions of long(ish) games like this one! That being said, I'd still prefer the Atlantic theatre of operations (i.e. The Hunters/d) but you already knew that... ;-)

@WW2SolitaireBoardGameChannel

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching Michele! Yeah the hunters is without doubt superior to this game.

@micheleb1421

3 жыл бұрын

...just a generic tip (good for all games in Greg Smith's submarine series): you should *always* roll to identify the maximum amount of ships in a convoy (i.e. 4) because this way you increase your chances of getting a(nother) "4","5" or "6", which could then reveal itself to be a juicier target than, for example, the only "5" you rolled out of three dice...

@WW2SolitaireBoardGameChannel

3 жыл бұрын

@@micheleb1421 oh yeah I always do! But in Silent Victory convoys are just 3 ships, not 4 like in the hunters!

@micheleb1421

3 жыл бұрын

Ooops, I feel very dumb now :-| My bad, sorry. I think this shows clearly that I never played Silent Victory (I only own The Hunters... yet).

@WW2SolitaireBoardGameChannel

3 жыл бұрын

@@micheleb1421 Michele if I got a dollar every time I did i rule misstake, I would be a really rich man 😜 PS: The hunters is a much better game in my opinion. Stick with it!

Good paly though though break at the end. Early war scenarios are frustrating with the amount of duds as I see yours compounded by dice rolls. Good recovery on most rules and process mistakes. One to point out, patrols are one month not two in both Hunters and SS. The 'P' comes into play in Hunters for extended patrols in the Type IX and VIID boats.

@WW2SolitaireBoardGameChannel

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Yeah that's what I meant to say, with the Type IX subs you'll be out for 2 months. The Type VII will only do 1 month patrols ^^

Hey, any chance you’ll be doing a play through of Beneath the Med?

@WW2SolitaireBoardGameChannel

2 жыл бұрын

Hi, Dale! I haven't gotten that game yet (I did not even get "The Hunted" yet!). But Gregory Smith is one of my favorite designer so I'm bound to get it sooner or later!

@daleprosser350

2 жыл бұрын

@@WW2SolitaireBoardGameChannel can’t wait for it! I love the mix between pace and still talking through what you’re doing, it really helps learn the rules:)

It's a "Patrol'n'Write" game :P

@WW2SolitaireBoardGameChannel

Жыл бұрын

Lol 😆

Nu blev ja sugen på att plocka fram beneath the med har ej provkört det ännu. Har dock the hunters och raiders of the deep bra spel

@WW2SolitaireBoardGameChannel

3 жыл бұрын

Jag har hört väldigt mycket bra om beneath the med! The hunted verkar sådär.. lite svårt för min smak.

Skulle du helhjärtat rekomendera dett som första "hunter" spel?

@WW2SolitaireBoardGameChannel

2 жыл бұрын

Nej, The hunters är bättre!

@janttu

2 жыл бұрын

@@WW2SolitaireBoardGameChannel thx for da rapid aswere buddy!

Snake eyes. You ran out of luck. :)

@WW2SolitaireBoardGameChannel

3 жыл бұрын

It was nice when I got the snake eyes for a critical hit on that large freighter! But not so nice when I was on the receiving end...

@micheleb1421

3 жыл бұрын

That's proof that Kruppstahl is Kruppstahl, and that the Americans made much thinner subs i.e. more prone to imploding ;-D Anyway, good playthrough! A few small mistakes here and there didn't detract at all from the enjoyability of the viewing experience. Still... it definitely seems easier than The Hunters (although that's historically accurate, given the enormously lower figure of losses suffered by US subs compared to German ones).

@Obalcan

3 жыл бұрын

@@micheleb1421 you have 20% chance of dieing through the whole campaign as was historically the case. What is tbe percentage in The Hunters?

@micheleb1421

3 жыл бұрын

@@Obalcan Uhm, I don't have the figures at hand but, given that historically Germany produced a total of 1.162 U-Boats and 785 of them were destroyed, I'd say it's definitely more than 20% (67,5% after doing a quick math)... Of course this takes into account the whole war but a horrendous amount of boats were lost during 1943 alone (especially during "Balck May"), so I'd say around 40-50% or so...

@Obalcan

3 жыл бұрын

@@micheleb1421 ok, thanx, sounds reasonable still. In The Hunted chanches for survival are around 20-30%, eh? So when you wanna go on vacation you board the American sub and when you wanna get spanked, you board the Kraut sub in later years and when you wanna have both of these elements you go with the The Hunters. And when you want some pizza you go with Beneath the Med. See, you need them all (when errata gets fixed). :)