"The Goeben" Topic

The new release by S&T has me wondering if this is a good vehicle for scenario generating. I wanted to know if anyone has any thought on using the SPI Flight of the Goeben for such a campaign.

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Jon
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Ran a Goeben campaign quite a few years ago. Some interesting results and incidents in the game. One player whose orders were to guard the Straits of Otranto promptly went and set up his patrol at the Straits of Messina. The German player convinced the Austrians to sail into the Med and join with him. They promptly sailed to the North African coast and got trapped by the combined British/French fleets. That was the end of the Goeben!

I've run afew Goeben campaigns, always great fun. I've not used the old S&T / SPI game as it costs and arm and a leg if you can even find a copy. If they've done a new one I could be tempted…..

Skeets – Seems the Austrians went a little to far. Not sure how the Austrians were going to get back home without a fleet of colliers.

Yeah I know-it was very hard not to say something, but everyone has to make their own mistakes!

Flight of the Goeben (from the original S&T magazine issue #21) is an excellent basis for a WWI Mediterranean campaign. I have several copies of the original which I have used over the years, and I plan to use it for my 100th anniversary WWI naval campaign, using Figurehead 1/6000 ships. I have even made atmospheric decorations for the playing area, such as posters of the major ports (see image below for example).

For those who don't have the hard-to-find OOP original, all elements of the game are available as downloads on the Yahoo General Quarters site, in the "files" section. You would have to print them out / mount them yourself, of course.

MH

I remember Flight of the Goeben as a SPI flat pack. Will have to keep an eye out for the magazine version. Were there any major differences?

Don't know, but the PDFs available from the General Quarters Yahoo group look like the material which came with Issue #21 (i.e. the magazine version). The game rules were an "article" in the magazine, and the map and counter sheets were separate inserts. The counters were not mounted in the magazine version, but were printed sheets of paper which needed to be mounted on cardboard and cut out with an hobby knife.

Mark