They Come Unseen ― A Game of Submarines and Subterfuge in the Cold War

Submarines and surface fleets battle for dominance of the seas! One team must use submarines to sneak troops into enemy ports and destroy vital strategic targets, while the other team deploys a surface fleet to hunt down the subs and protect their crucial supply lines.

Designed by retired Royal Navy Officer and submarine commander, Andrew Benford, and developed deep beneath the waves, They Come Unseen is an asymmetrical strategy game of bluff and deception that uses two boards, one for action on the surface, seen by both players, and one for movement underwater, only seen by the submarine commanders. The game also comes with specially designed control panels for each of the 2 to 4 players to help keep track of vital information such as fuel, ammunition and current cruising depth.

Andy Benford is a retired Commander, Royal Navy, having completed a submarine career that spanned twenty-one years and six of the seven seas. He saw service in diesel-electric conventional submarines, a nuclear powered hunter-killer submarine and a nuclear powered Polaris ballistic missile boat. In 1980 he passed the Submarine Commanding Officers' Qualifying Course, affectionately known as the "Perisher", and qualified as a submarine commanding officer. He went on to command an Australian conventional submarine, HMAS Oxley, during a two year exchange service appointment, and to be the second-in-command of the Polaris submarine HMSRevenge. Cmdr. Benford retired from the Royal Navy in 1993 after the end of the Cold War.They Come Unseen is his first board game.