Zeppelin Raider: Imperial German Naval Airships is a solitaire tactical level game placing you in command of one of several models of WWI Zeppelin dirigibles as part of the Imperial German Navy. Your mission is to destroy as much English war facilities as possible via bombing raids or to conduct reconnaissance over the North Sea...and still survive and come home. Zeppelin Raider is based on the popular Hunters game system by Gregory M. Smith that delivers a tense and nail-biting narrative throughout the course of play. "England shall be destroyed by fire!" line from a popular German children's song circa WW1. So hoped Germany after the initial successes of World War 1 turn into a quagmire and stalemate in the trenches...and now a new weapon arose capable of crossing the channel with impunity and bringing destruction to England. Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin's brainchild the lighter-than-air rigid airship came to the forefront of new weapons in this most brutal of wars. It took a certain amount of courage to go to war riding over a half million cubic feet of flammable gas but there were no shortage of volunteers. Despite the arguable effectiveness of the world's first strategic bombing campaign it without question tied up a huge amount of resources that England could barely afford and for that reason alone was worthwhile. One hundred and seventy seven Zeppelin sorties pummeled England during the war with high explosive and incendiary bombs which caused a strong British response. The Zeppelins finally lost the arms race to aircraft and explosive/incendiary bullets however and losses were grievous. Over half of the German Navy's airships were lost on combat missions most of those in flames. It was not a job for the faint of heart.