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'Wir Fahren Gegen Engeland' (We drive against England) was a German board game about the attempred blockade of Germany. The game board extends from Norway south to Britainy. It was publishd by Fritz Westenberger in 1940. It was a kind of tactical board game. A player can choose to be either a submarine commander or a airplane pilot. It was a popular World War I song. Also played during World War II. A flier inside the game box translates as, " A new war game by submarines and airplanes from the "Scholz 'artistic games" collection. All of you are eagerly following the daring deeds of our brave submarine men and aviators, who are inflicting blow upon blow to the British. What you can in reality not be allowed to stand on the command tower of a submarine, or to approach the English coast in a fast flight, you can experience here in the game. With these little submarines and airplanes you are supposed to go 'against England' and you can destroy the whole English fleet if you are all skillful. That’s as much a game as you want it to be! First take the game board, look at it carefully, you will find the British Isles and the British fleet marked on it. How the game works in detail is explained on the following very simple rules of the game. Now see to it that you can have a great deal of English tonnage dumped on the seabed. Whoever reaches the highest number of tons has won; the less successful one will be smarter the next time, because real guys like you are known not to let themselves be shaken. The title picture of the game is based on a photo from Weltbild G.m.b.H.; the colored plan was drawn by Fritz Westenberger. The rules of the game are on the inside!" Like many of these games, there seems to be little skill involved. It seems to be mostly rolling the dice.
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Figure 1.--'Wir Fahren Gegen Engeland' (We drive against England) was a German board game about the attempred blockade of Germany. The game board extends from Norway south to Britainy. It was publishd by Fritz Westenberger in 1940. It was a kind of tactical board game. A player can choose to be either a submarine commander or a airplane pilot.