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The Last Raiders is a solitaire game about the last three German raiders of World War I: Emden, Karlshule, and Konigsberg. These ships sought to disrupt the Allied (Entente) commerce and logistics by hunting and sinking merchant ships, bombing ports and coastal facilities, conducting raids, and gathering intelligence. Their success attracted and tied down dozens of Allied ships in defending commerce lanes, ports, and hunting the raiders. As these raiders continued their missions, it became riskier as their growing reputation made them the targets of Allied warships.

The area maps cover the regions each raider operated in. Mission cards are drawn to determine what the raider must accomplish. The player manages the raiders coal storage, consumption and resupply at ports and with colliers. Each turn, the player plans the raiders’ actions for the next several days by allocating coal to actions, then executes the actions, resolving combat when merchants and enemy ships are encountered. Increasing mission success and tonnage sunk leads to increasing encounters with Allied/Entente ships seeking to damage or sink the raider. Success scores Prestige points as does tonnage sunk, failure scores Infamy points – these translate into victory points at the end of the game. Some damage can be repaired and limited opportunities for repairs in neutral ports help keep the raider in the game. This will be published in a Deluxe format with mounted maps, cards for missions and collier management, large counters for ships, Euro-style pieces for coal, damage, captured crews.