Game of the Week - Dec 2 - 8

It's time for our next featured title, and this time we go back to sea during WWII with Naval Campaigns: Kriegsmarine! This title will be on sale at 25% off until Sunday, December 8th.

In May, 1941, the German Battleship Bismarck sailed into the North Atlantic to challenge the British control of the seas and threaten her vital convoy routes. That journey would be the stuff of legends, as the Bismarck would blow up the HMS Hood off Iceland before being run down while making a break for France. However, that was only a small part of the bitter battles fought between the Kriegsmarine and the Royal Navy during the war.

The war between Germany and the United Kingdom would not only be marked with the thunder of battleship guns, but the explosion of torpedoes launched from Schnellboot against coastal traffic in the English Channel.

In Kriegsmarine you can control the German fleet in actions like the Battle of Denmark Strait, North Cape, or Narvik. You can raid Allied shipping in the Atlantic, North Sea and Baltic while they try to hunt you down and stop you. You can also control the Allied navies leading the hunt to send the Kriegsmarine to the bottom of the ocean floor. The choice is up to you!

The force mix is quite a bit different than the Jutland title, where the newer ships were larger and generally more powerful, but less numerous. 

You can read more of the details on this title in the Design Notes.

Kriegsmarine contains 58 stand alone scenarios as well as 2 campaigns for you to choose from. Actions range from small coastal raids to a hypothetical battle between large fleets.

Included are battles from 1939 to 1945 in the Atlantic Ocean. A sampling would be:

River Plate
Narvik
Numerous convoy attacks in both the English Channel and Atlantic and Arctic Oceans
Denmark Strait
Barents Sea
PQ-13 Convoy
North Cape

The two campaigns bring in and additional 22 scenarios, 10 of which are pulled for the Random Campaign feature, which does just that - pulls a random scenario each time it is played, so there will always be a certain amount of Fog of War. Further, most of those scenarios use Deployment Boxes which gives a further element of randomness with each play.

For video content, The Mack has 3 videos posted about game play, with this being the first:

And for a historical view, a documentary on The Battle of the Atlantic:

Now for some reading material...