The Germans were split into two teams. The Reds played as the Royal Navy. Their side held a pile of tokens to represent the forces at their disposal: twelve battleships, five aircraft carriers, twenty-seven light cruisers and a hundred destroyers.13 The Blues played as the Germans. With tokens representing fifteen torpedo U-boats, two large fleet U-boats, two artillery U-boats, a minelayer, an armoured raider and a single supply ship, they were impossibly outgunned. The rules of the game, which was set four years into the future, at a time when Germany was imagined to again be at war with
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