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Lovely models. Fascinating documentary about the Britannic.

UCII class is probably the best of the minelaying U-boats for game purposes, as they carried torpedoes as well as mines. IIRC, the UCI boats did not.

I've been doing some research on the UCII boats, as I'm building a board game focused on U-boats in the Great War. From my research, it seems their mines only accounted for a small percentage of their total tonnage. Many more fell victim to gunnery, scuttling and torpedoes. Commanders of UCII boats must have been very brave, as many seem to have risked their lives sending boarding parties to scuttle ships around the British Isles, which were very well patrolled by escorts.

The biggest problem I've found with making a game based on U-boats in the Great War has been the differences between careers around the British Isles and those set in the Mediterranean. It was almost a different war, as U-boats in the Med faced little opposition, while those in the North Sea had to deal with almost the full strength of the Royal Navy.