Why no operational U-boat campaign games?
I sometimes play Silent Hunter III, but I’ve often wondered why there isn’t an operational game on the U-boat campaign. I really enjoy Defending the Reich, because it lets me plan and orchestrate an entire strategic bombing campaign. But I’d really love to have a game that lets me be Doenitz, sitting in my HQ, orchestrating a submarine campaign against allied shipping, directing my boats to likely convoy areas and receiving reports of their results. Why isn’t there such a game? Not much is needed in the way of graphics. I don’t want another shoot-em-up type submarine game. I want to be, as the designer notes for the submarine board game Silent War put it, “the chief financial officer to the Grim Reaper,” calculating, planning…
