The Hunted: Twilight of the U-Boats, 1943-45

The Hunted is a tactical level game placing you in command of one of several models of WWII U-boats.

Your mission is to destroy as much Allied Shipping and as many Capital ships as possible.....and still come home. Players will find it EXTREMELY challenging to survive an entire tour from 1943 to 1945, at which time, if still alive, you will surrender at port, having done your part on the front lines. If desired, a player may start with a more advanced model of U-boat which may actually increase their chances to survive.

Players MAY be reassigned to a newer model of U-boat under some circumstances, but typically will stay in the same boat until the end of game or until sunk.

Game System Highlights:

• 12 German U-Boat types represented
• 12 Patrol Assignments including anti-invasion patrol
• 300 named shipping targets, including 20 Capital ships
• Special Missions for Abwehr Agent Delivery, Supply Delivery, Replenish, and Minelaying
• Combat encounters with individual ships, ships with escort, convoys, enemy submarines, and aircraft
• Daytime and Night Engagement including Wolfpack patrols
• U-Boat Damage includes flooding, hull, torpedo doors, periscope, fuel tanks, crew injury (by crew type), engines, hydrophones, flak gun(s), deck gun, batteries, radio
• Crew Advancement, Commander Promotion including decorations up to the Knight's Cross and new awards including the Wound Badge, U-Boat Front Clasp, German Cross in Gold, and U-Boat War Badge
• Multi-player and Tournament Rule options (including Wolfpack Tournament)
• Evasive Maneuvers, Patrol Abort, Variable Escort Quality, Resupply at Sea, Gibraltar Passage, Reassignment to Newer U-Boat, Torpedo Duds, BOLD decoys, "Alberich" Anti-sonar coating, Schnorkel, NAXOS radar detector, Random Historical Events, and much, much more!

German technological advances abound in the second half of the war. Decoys, Schnorkels, homing torpedoes, FaT ladder search pattern torpedoes, and the Type XXI "Electroboot" have all given hope to the U-Boat crews. But balanced against these are Allied ASW advances — Hedgehog, Squid, Fido, and an ever-increasing air presence.

You were The Hunter, but now you are The Hunted. Can you bring your boat home in a tension-packed situation where every decision may be your last?

Game Components:

• One ½” full-color counter sheet
• One ¾” wide full-color counter sheet
• Rules booklet with designer's notes
• Five player aid cards, 2-sided
• Six U-Boat Display Mats, 2-sided
• Two U-Boat Patrol Maps, 2-sided
• U-Boat Combat Mat
• Eight U-Boat Kommandant Cards
• U-Boat patrol logsheet
• Three 6-sided, two 10-sided dice, and one 20-sided die
• Boxed