ATLANTIC SENTINELS: Playthrough / February 1942

Atlantic Sentinels is set in the Battle of the Atlantic, but this time, you are playing from the perspective of the the ships escorting and protecting the precious convoys from the U-Boat threat. In this video, we will play through the first month of the campaign game.
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Atlantic Sentinels is a solitaire, tactical level game placing you as the Senior Officer of the Escort, shepherding a convoy in the North Atlantic from the attacks of U-boats, both singly and in wolfpacks.
You are in command of a convoy escort group, composed typically of 4-10 escort vessels guarding a convoy on its way across the Atlantic.
Your mission is to protect as much Allied shipping as possible while simultaneously destroying as many U-boats as possible during the height of the U-boat threat - 1942 to early 1943.
Atlantic Sentinels provides players with a host of decisions as he is assigned to protect merchant convoys, typically ranging from 40 to 60 ships. The placement of escorts to offer front, rear, and flank protection to the convoy is complicated by the size of the convoy and available assets. Additional decisions must be made on where to place the escorts, which are equipped with Type 271 radars, the key to your defense.
As the game progresses, a player's Escort Group may receive upgrades in the form of additional radars, HF/DF (High-Frequency Direction Finding) equipment, and possibly additional ships. Air support can be key, but until the CVE "jeep carriers" arrive, the "Black Pit" in the center of the Atlantic remains a high threat area.
Players will find it highly challenging to minimize convoy losses and keep them to an acceptable level.
Players may choose any of 9 historical Escort Groups (five British, four Canadian) armed with historical destroyers and corvettes.
These ships include:
B/C/D/E Classes DE
F Class DE
H Class DE
V&W Class DE
Town Class DE (American Lend Lease)
River Class FF
Flower Class Corvettes
Gameplay moves quickly, following a set sequence of events that are repeated until the end of the game. Once your initial Escort Group is set up, play proceeds by rolling for a convoy and escorting it across the Atlantic. Enemy forces range from single U-boats (typically a type VII, but possibly a Type IX) to entire wolfpacks. Wolfpacks increase in size (as they did historically) and will be your primary challenge. Encounters are randomly generated, ensuring no two careers will ever be the same. Weather can impact operations, as well as air support and crew upgrades due to experience. A logical but reasonably simple set of instructions bring the U-boats in to attack you from random directions, making your initial defensive array very important.
Of particular note is the game is designed to integrate with The Hunters if players wish to combine the games.
Atlantic Sentinels: North Atlantic Convoy Escorts, 1942-43 is meant to be a highly playable and interesting solitaire game covering the actions an Escort Group would have to deal with in fighting the U-boat peril during convoy escort.

[@jturie]

Nice playthrough...kind of wonder how often a U-boat sent 4 torps at a small freighter though....I'm reading Silent Victory and not seeing it.

[@LegendaryTactics]

Well, I think it also might be a matter of opportunity reflected in the abstractions of the game - perhaps the small freighter was right in front when they looked through the periscope, and they thought it would be better to get something than nothing?

[@jturie]

@@LegendaryTactics true, and then the Kapitan can inflate the tonnage and report back to HQ!!!

[@corkydziadosz5898]

Looks like a good 1 player game, like my B-17 gueen of the sky A.H. game

[@LegendaryTactics]

Yes, it is a similar game experience to that. It has some really neat aspects to it, as you are the escorts of the convoy, not the U-Boat trying to sink it

[@chrisschall5834]

Nice video, but you don’t get air support from the liberators until later on and when you roll for it. Early on, it’s just the cam ships and they’re only good for warning off condors

[@chrisschall5834]

. And don’t forget to roll for duds with any of the torpedo hits.

[@pauldj6]

Narrated like this, the game appears quite enjoyable. But having to learn it ... ?!?

[@LegendaryTactics]

The rulebook is ok, but there will be lots of rules checking and chart checking, which I cut out of the video to spare viewers their sanity. But it is a neat game, and quite interesting as a procedural game.