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ORIGINAL: Howard Mitchell

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ORIGINAL: hellfirejet

Well hows about an Atlantic version then? untill they make the whole world version

I would really like to see an Atlantic WW2 game at the WitP level. Back in 1970s SPI did a solitaire game called wolfpack which covered the U-Boat war, and PC games such as Great Naval Battles covered the surface ship side, but you could imagine a game at WitP's level of detail covering the whole Atlantic campaign.

The WitP game engine isn't the one to do it with, unfortunately, but I can always dream.

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ORIGINAL: CarnageINC

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ORIGINAL: Howard Mitchell

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ORIGINAL: hellfirejet

Well hows about an Atlantic version then? untill they make the whole world version

I would really like to see an Atlantic WW2 game at the WitP level. Back in 1970s SPI did a solitaire game called wolfpack which covered the U-Boat war, and PC games such as Great Naval Battles covered the surface ship side, but you could imagine a game at WitP's level of detail covering the whole Atlantic campaign.

The WitP game engine isn't the one to do it with, unfortunately, but I can always dream.

If they did make a Atlantic version, it definately would have to be WW I. THAT! Would be so cool....WOW...just thinking about that with the Atlantic raiders in the south and the huge battlefleets in the North Sea and Med...jezz I'm getting excited just thinking about that!

If any of you are intrested in naval board games you absolutely have to check out Avalanche Press and the Great War at Sea Series, I've gotten all but 2 of them and the art work and play style are great. Money well spent! I only bring up that point because they have a great WW I series in the North Sea and Med. plus others featuring raiders and stuff...I always wanted those games to be digitalized.

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ORIGINAL: hellfirejet

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ORIGINAL: Howard Mitchell

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ORIGINAL: hellfirejet

Well hows about an Atlantic version then? untill they make the whole world version

I would really like to see an Atlantic WW2 game at the WitP level. Back in 1970s SPI did a solitaire game called wolfpack which covered the U-Boat war, and PC games such as Great Naval Battles covered the surface ship side, but you could imagine a game at WitP's level of detail covering the whole Atlantic campaign.

The WitP game engine isn't the one to do it with, unfortunately, but I can always dream.

Hi Howard,
Yes I would love to see an Atlantic version also, I know that the German navy were far to timid in using there surface fleet. In my humble opinion Hitler and his admirals had not a scooby on how to do anything with the surface fleet,now if they had used the same principal as the U boats hunting in wolf packs, If Bismarck,Tirpitz,Scharnhorst,Gneisenau,Admiral Scheer,Lutzow,Admiral Graf Spee + the heavy cruisers all were in a task force then I think Britains dominance at sea would have been severely tested ?

Put it this way Britain struggled to cope with just one or two surface raiders at a time harrassing the convoy system off merchant ships, a larger fleet like the one above would have scared the **** out of the admiralty.

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Seems to me that Germany just didn't have the fleet train or base support to support operations in the Atlantic for such a large fleet. Fueling one or two ships with small pre-placed assets, or fueling/supplying U-Boats from "interned" freighters is one thing. Supporting a surface action group away from home ports without a bunch of AOs is another. And repeatedly making the run past England or past Gibralta to get to German, Italian or French ports would have been dangerous.