Great Britain Vs Prussia circa 1875?

[xeoran]

As its VSF why not have a fiendish German invasion/raid via Zeppelin (perhaps to capture Queen Vic)?

[Malamute]

Thanks alot guys, some superb suggestions there.
 You have galvanised my ideas and nows its off to finish painting the steam tanks and plough on through with the Prussian forces. I already have enough Brits and anyway you only need a few to form a thin red line ::
Bullshot - for your reference I am using Foundry Prussians. But you could look at Parroom Station, they have Prussians in both normal uniforms and suitable VSF ones. There is always Eureka Minaitures. I think they have some as well.

[Bullshott]

Bullshot - for your reference I am using Foundry Prussians. But you could look at Parroom Station, they have Prussians in both normal uniforms and suitable VSF ones. There is always Eureka Minaitures.

Eureka do some nice ones with rocket packs and clockwork helicopter packs - I have the helicopters and will replace clockwork mechanisms with steam generators..

Other manufacturersworth looking out for are:

Baker Company (1866 Prussians) - these work out at 1 GBP each

Warrior Miniatures (Over the Wire Games/England Invaded VSF Germans) - these include good prussian types in armoured face masks. Not shown on the website are the new cavalry figures (German Lancers with torpedo lances, face masks and horses wearing gasmasks)

[Aaron]

I thought it all started when one S. Holmes failed to stop the plans for the Bruce Partington submarine from being smuggled out of old Blighty. Or was it when he again fumbled and allowed the details of the naval treaty to slip out?

[Hammers]

I get a kick out of these Eureka Bavarian Wind-up Merchants

[TadPortly]

The Congress of Vienna in 1815 created an defined Belgian state.  In 1839 the Treaty of London further guaranteed Belgian independance. British foreign policy assumed that Belgium must remain independant as a bulwark against the invasion of England.  Even up until 1914 the independance of Belgium was key foreign policy.

If Prussia threatened to annexe those areas of Belgium that were German speaking, Britain would intervene.  Therefore, a pre-emptive strike by Prussia might be considered as a fictional campaign.  Another possibility would be Prussian support in Ireland for insurrection keeping the British eye off the ball in Europe and events in Belgium.  I.E. we stop supplying support to Fenian nationalists in Ireland if you allow our intervention in Belgium.

[Chairface]

Warrior Miniatures (Over the Wire Games/England Invaded VSF Germans) - these include good prussian types in armoured face masks. Not shown on the website are the new cavalry figures (German Lancers with torpedo lances, face masks and horses wearing gasmasks)

I wish that they had more pictures of this range up. They sound interesting, but I hesitate to buy without seeing more.

[Bullshott]

I wish that they had more pictures of this range up.

Chairface, I assume you mean the Warrior figures:

http://www.warrioronline.demon.co.uk/OTWGames/miniatures.htm

Most of the figures are compatible with Westwind, Foundry, etc. However, at one stage they changed sculptor and produced some really crap skinny figures.

The newer cavalry (not on the website) are in the same style as the original range. This is the British lancer (German is same but with pickelhaube):




I will be slightly converting the British lancers' tunics for use in my VSF Russian army (Siberian Torpedo Lancer Regiment).

[Chairface]

Thank you!