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

[BanzaiCat]

Just received notification that my P500 order of The Hunted: Twilight of the U-Boats, 1943-45 is charged and will be shipping soon. I'd forgotten about this and can't wait to catch sh*t at home for it, LOL.

Did anyone else sign up for this one?

Has anyone played the original The Hunters? I heard it was terrific and a copy of the original has always been priced impossibly high. I know GMT did a reprint of The Hunters (or is in the process of doing this), but I thought The Hunted would be much more interesting and challenging.

[JasonPratt]

Oh, cool, they made / are making a series from that classic duology??

[BanzaiCat]

Oh, cool, they made / are making a series from that classic duology??

Oh yes. The Hunted is on its third printing and this is a new version I think. Silent Victory is a game I played a bit a few years ago and these are based on that system as well.

[Barthheart]

I have and have played quite a bit of The Hunters. Fun in the same sense that B-17 Queen of the Skies is fun, the narrative. Few real decision points but great story.
Plays much quicker than B-17 QotS. You can do a whole U-boat carrier in about 2 hours... depending on how lucky/unlucky you are.

I didn't get The Hunted though... one game of this style was enough for me.

[BanzaiCat]

It's been a while since I played Silent Victory. Not even sure if I still have it or if it's one of the games I sold before I moved. It might be in storage at the moment.

Sigh. Like I need more games. I'd forgotten about this P500.

The only other one I have right now is for Mr. President, but that won't come out probably until closer to the end of this year.

[Barthheart]

LOL... Yeah I think I'm all caught up on my pre-orders/KS but I really can't remember.... 

[Barthheart]

HA! Nope I was wrong, I'm waiting on some more Warfighter cards to show up.... 

[BanzaiCat]

 

[Staggerwing]

I got my paid notice as well.

[JasonPratt]

I have all three games in my shopping cart.

I fill out small amounts every day or two.

This makes me feel better.  I get to feel like I may buy it, and then I get to feel responsible for not buying it. Win win!(?)

[BanzaiCat]

That's what I did with P500s last year. I had to cull a half dozen or so of them from my list. 

[JasonPratt]

BUT I WANTS THEM!

sigh

[BanzaiCat]

"Wanting" and "able to afford" are two separate things, heh. 

[JasonPratt]

At a little more than US 30 a pop (on P500), I could afford all three of them at once, with some budgeting elsewhere.

I just couldn't play them at any time anywhere feasibly.

I can pick up any of them on Vassal for free at any time, for example, and two of them (Hunters and SVic) have some very nice ports to TTS. Am I playing them? ha! So what does that tell me?

That tells me that any money I spent on them would be purely out of gratitude to the publishers, devs, and designers; I would never really play them. I have nowhere to play them anyway.

I would be much happier just playing the current Uboat PC attempt (still in development alpha), and/or mod-patched SH3, 4, and/or 5. The latter of which by the way I have never tried to play, although I'm pretty sure I bought them...

[Boyerwulf]

I just got notice a few days ago that my order for the Hunters is being shipped. Am I to understand correctly that the Hunted has come out and is being shipped as well?