"1870 Anglo-French Naval Campaign Ideas " Topic
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| Tango01 | 29 Oct 2018 12:01 p.m. PST |
"I've been having some tentative thoughts about a solo naval campaign using Broadside and Ram, loosely based on the campaign system used in different forms for the various Long Face Games supplements. The idea would be to set up a series of linked games for a fictitious but not entirely improbable conflict between the French and British navies, focussed on the English Channel and Western Approaches. This would be set in 1870, as an adjunct to the very real Franco Prussian War.
The cassus belli for this clash of naval forces would be an actual historical attempt by the French to destroy most of the Prussian navy at the start of the Franco Prussian War, which in reality failed dismally but in my counterfactual version of events, actually succeeded. This idea was inspired by a passage in the Broadside and Ram supplement for The Schleswig Holstein Question, which also includes the Franco Prussian War even though nothing very notable actually happened in nautical terms…."
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