Author Topic: 14th November 1881 We are at war! (Read 14536 times)

Hammers · « **Reply #15 on:** November 14, 2007, 09:06:29 PM »

Quote from: "Malamute"

At 5pm today Her Majesty Queen Victoria, Empress of India (Gaud bless 'Er) declared war on Prussia............

That is lovely, Malamute

Plynkes · « **Reply #16 on:** November 14, 2007, 09:53:20 PM »

Do the Brits hope that by only declaring war on Prussia, they won't have to fight the other states of the Deutsches Kaiserreich?

Good luck with that! :wink:

Driscoles · « **Reply #17 on:** November 15, 2007, 07:29:05 AM »

LOL...
Plynkes is right

Malamute · « **Reply #18 on:** November 15, 2007, 08:44:39 AM »

Quote from: "Plynkes"

Do the Brits hope that by only declaring war on Prussia, they won't have to fight the other states of the Deutsches Kaiserreich?

Good luck with that! :wink:

Of course not, we will take them all on, thats why the fighting will end up in Picadilly circus. Thanks Driscoles :

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When I get around to painting the Bavarians, Westaphalians etc the might of the German confederation will become too much for the British Empire and the fortress isle of Britain will be breached

Poliorketes · « **Reply #19 on:** November 15, 2007, 10:00:33 AM »

Errm, we Westphalians have been prussians since 1815, in parts since 1614 (when Prussia still was called Brandenburg). In the better parts, of course

Throwing us together with bavarians is like calling a scotsman a Cockney.

Malamute · « **Reply #20 on:** November 15, 2007, 10:16:50 AM »

Quote from: "Poliorketes"

Errm, we Westphalians have been prussians since 1815, in parts since 1614 (when Prussia still was called Brandenburg). In the better parts, of course

Throwing us together with bavarians is like calling a scotsman a Cockney.

Ok so that will teach me for not doing my homework, however my defence is this is Victorian Science Fiction - so anything is possible :

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Plynkes · « **Reply #21 on:** November 15, 2007, 10:44:08 AM »

A real-life 1881 war is an interesting proposition, and it's hard to see how it would be fought. There's no way the tiny British Army could face Germany on the continent on its own, and at that stage the German Navy would have no chance against the RN, so they wouldn't be able to invade England. If either side tries to venture into the other's dominant sphere (land or sea) there's going to be something of a disaster in store for somebody.

Also the Germans didn't really have any overseas possessions yet, so there wouldn't be a colonial proxy war either.

It would all revert to them pulling rude faces at one another across the North Sea!

Great idea for a VSF campaign, though.

I always thought a Westfalia was a camper van!

Malamute · « **Reply #22 on:** November 15, 2007, 10:53:42 AM »

Quote from: "Plynkes"

A real-life 1881 war is an interesting proposition, and it's hard to see how it would be fought. There's no way the tiny British Army could face Germany on the continent on its own, and at that stage the German Navy would have no chance against the RN, so they wouldn't be able to invade England. If either side tries to venture into the other's dominant sphere (land or sea) there's going to be something of a disaster in store for somebody.

Also the Germans didn't really have any overseas possessions yet, so there wouldn't be a colonial proxy war either.

It would all revert to them pulling rude faces at one another across the North Sea!

Great idea for a VSF campaign, though.

The Dastardly Prussians will use flying machines and that tunnel they have been digging under the channel since the end of the Franco/Prussian war. :wink:

Poliorketes · « **Reply #23 on:** November 15, 2007, 01:43:35 PM »

Quote from: "Plynkes"

A real-life 1881 war is an interesting proposition, and it's hard to see how it would be fought. There's no way the tiny British Army could face Germany on the continent on its own, and at that stage the German Navy would have no chance against the RN, so they wouldn't be able to invade England. If either side tries to venture into the other's dominant sphere (land or sea) there's going to be something of a disaster in store for somebody.

Also the Germans didn't really have any overseas possessions yet, so there wouldn't be a colonial proxy war either.

It would all revert to them pulling rude faces at one another across the North Sea!

Great idea for a VSF campaign, though.

I always thought a Westfalia was a camper van!

Yes, and the factory has been around 25km from here.

You're right, of course, with the problems of a would-be-war in 1881. It would have ended in a sea blockade, and perhaps an british attempt on Hamburg. On the other hand the frenchies wouldn't have missed the possibility. I guess it woould have ended in WW1 with different frontlines - the three Emperors against France, Britain and the turks, perhabs the austrians switching sides.

Aaron · « **Reply #24 on:** November 15, 2007, 01:54:16 PM »

That's a great picture there, very inspiring. Now knock it off, I have enough on my plate already!

Is Mr. Brown is from Crusader's "furriner" cowboy pack?

Malamute · « **Reply #25 on:** November 15, 2007, 02:18:46 PM »

Quote from: "Aaron"

That's a great picture there, very inspiring. Now knock it off, I have enough on my plate already!

Is Mr. Brown is from Crusader's "furriner" cowboy pack?

Yes, with a little conversion done to the beard and hair to make him look more like Billy Connelly

Aaron · « **Reply #26 on:** November 15, 2007, 03:37:47 PM »

Nice job. I really like the bushy beard and the paint job you did on him.

soapy · « **Reply #27 on:** November 15, 2007, 06:47:11 PM »

Is that a certain time traveling physician observing events in the right foreground?

Rule Brittania,
Soaps.

Vanvlak · « **Reply #28 on:** November 15, 2007, 06:49:38 PM »

Quote from: "soapy"

Is that a certain time traveling physician observing events in the right foreground?

Rule Brittania,
Soaps.

Good grief, you're right

Chairface · « **Reply #29 on:** November 15, 2007, 07:12:46 PM »

Even better! I hadn't noticed him. Big fan of that model.

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