- BGG rank
- BGG #18,240
- BGG rating
- 8.8
Lone U-Boat: A Solitaire Wargame
2025
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- 1 player
- Complexity 1.3/5
For 1 player
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Lone U-Boat: A Solitaire Wargame is a board game released in 2025 for 1 player. It was designed by Mike Lambo and its main mechanics are Dice Rolling, Grid Movement, and Hexagon Grid.
About the game
It is late 1942 and the seas are dangerous and frightening. Allied convoys surge across the Atlantic, bringing vital supplies to Britain and Russia. But beneath the waves, Germany’s U-Boats are on the hunt, silent and deadly. You are the commander of a Type VIIC U-Boat, the backbone of the Kriegsmarine’s submarine fleet. Your mission is to intercept and destroy merchant shipping, evade aggressive escorts and survive the increasing threat of Allied air power. Aircraft patrol the skies and escort ships roam the convoy lanes. Your deck gun may still sink a lone freighter, but surfacing risks instant retaliation. The decisions you make on when to hide and when to attack will be crucial to your success as a U-Boat captain. This hex and counter game is one of stealth, timing, and nerve. You’ll manage movement, depth, detection and damage across a range of different maps. Escorts will use sonar sweeps, depth charges and gunfire and, if you're too near the surface, the skies may bring additional dangers. Can you complete your mission or will your U-Boat become yet another silent wreck beneath the Atlantic? How the game works This is a solitaire wargame. You play the game, and the enemy is controlled by the game. You will need at least 6, but preferably a few more, standard six-sided dice. It is highly recommended that the counters provided on the final page of the game are used to play this game. Simply stick them to card and cut them out. Quick to set up, easy to play, very replayable but certainly challenging, this game should provide you with hours of fun.
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Lone U-Boat: A Solitaire Wargame supports 1 player according to the catalogue. This is the publisher’s listed player count, so the game is designed for exactly that number of participants. Variants for other group sizes, if any, are described in the rulebook of your edition, so check it before setting up a different configuration.
Lone U-Boat: A Solitaire Wargame has a complexity rating of 1.3 out of 5 from BoardGameGeek players, which makes it a light game. The rating reflects how much rules knowledge, planning and decision-making a typical game demands. Expect a longer first teach for heavier games, and use a preparation guide before game night.
Lone U-Boat: A Solitaire Wargame belongs to these categories: Wargame, Nautical, and World War II. Its main mechanics are Dice Rolling, Grid Movement, and Hexagon Grid. Categories describe the theme and setting of a game, while mechanics describe what players actually do on their turns. Each mechanic links to a catalogue hub with similar games, which helps when you want something comparable.
The credited designers of Lone U-Boat: A Solitaire Wargame are: Mike Lambo. These credits come from the published game data and name the people responsible for the game’s design, not its illustrators or publishers. Designer pages on MeepleRules collect other titles by the same designers, which helps when you enjoy a game and want to find similar ones.
The catalogue lists Lone U-Boat: A Solitaire Wargame as a base game. It can be played on its own with the components in the box and does not require any other title. Expansions, if any exist, add new content or rules on top of it and are listed separately in the catalogue with a link back to this base game.