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 It is 1914, and Europe has been plunged into the greatest war yet known to man. Across France and Belgium, men are fighting and dying in their millions. This is the war that will imprint the image of Trench warfare upon the hearts and minds of future generations – Futile charges, gas attacks, relentless shelling and tanks. These are how we think of the Great War. But that is not the only story, both sides had two great fleets, the Royal Navy was the pride of the nation, and part of the tension that lead to the war stemmed from the fact that the Kiaser wished Germany to have a fleet to match Britain. The naval arms race had been going on for over a decade, and both sides had the new Dreadnaughts, but the key to the war was the British Naval blockade – it, along with the war on two fronts was what caused starvation and ruin to Germany and her Austria-Hungarian allies. We are going to fight out that war. What is Steam and Iron? Steam and Iron is Naval Warfare's naval war simulator. I'm going to come clean here, its not pretty – its damned near basic.  Here is the British Fleet sailing out to meet the enemy. Now these are proper 1990's graphics, but lets face it, most of the time you're not going to be in this close - as Admiral of the fleet, you're going to be looking at this view.  Here is the same fleet, zoomed out – here you can see the Battleships are steaming south to form up with its escorts. But even that can be small.  This is the entire North Sea – the Area of Operation – the whole world is “modelled” but this is the only part we have to worry about. So, why use this over Jutland? Well, partly I have already done Jutland, and while it has a a Campaign and 3D models, it has the worst interface known to man, and I'm just not willing to put myself through that again. While this game works in 1 min turns. (Don't worry, you can set it to run and process those turns at a very high rate.) This means I can have better control over this ships and the reporting of the battles. The Campaign has you setting the missions for the fleets and reacting to enemy movements. Turns are 1,2 or 4 weeks. During which there is one scenario generated – I'll be using 2 week turns, as 1 week would take forever and 4 weeks leads to to large battles. Choice time! There are several ways I can run this LP, and of course, I'm going to give you the option to decide. Choice 1 – Which side do we want to play? The mighty British fleet, has a large number of ships that will prove to have a few technical issues. Jellico at Jutland is recorded as saying “There is something wrong with our bloody ships today” after the third capital ship exploded to a flash fire. The German High Seas Fleet is smaller in number, but the ships are better built. The British must blockade Germany and sink her transports, while Germany must at some point challenge the might of the British Navy, a battle that she may not be able to win. Choice 2 This is the big one – how do we run this? Option 1 is Me being in complete control. - I'll run this like a normal LP. Option 2 is putting you lot in command. While I will still be the Sea Lord (Actual title BTW), I will be handing the ships over to you lot and letting you sail them to destruction. If we go for Option 2, then it will not be complete control – I will do the boring things of sailing ships to bombard shore locations and the like, just to speed the LP up. Only once contact is made with an enemy ship will you lot be called in. As this LP may well go on for a while, I won't be allocating squadrons – so if you shout out now, I'm just going to ignore you. Ships will be allocated when they get into action. Although if you have commanded a squadron before, you get first dibs on it after that of course! So, let me know what you guys want to do, and we'll get to it! TO DAVY JONE'S LOCKER!
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Feb 9, 2015 08:47
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German, Option 2 Let's sink the Royal Navy with skill and steel, not incompetance!
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Feb 9, 2015 09:26
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British, Option 1 You don't get off that easily Jellicoe old chap!
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Feb 9, 2015 09:30
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German, Option 1.
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Feb 9, 2015 09:32
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Rogue0071 posted:German, Option 1. This seems about right.
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Feb 9, 2015 09:36
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Feb 9, 2015 09:40
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Grey Hunter posted:The Campaign has you setting the missions for the fleets and reacting to enemy movements. Turns are 1,2 or 4 weeks. During which there is one scenario generated – I'll be using 2 week turns, as 1 week would take forever and 4 weeks leads to to large battles. We don't want this?  Also, it was Beatty who said that.  British, Option 1.
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Feb 9, 2015 09:41
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German, Option 1 please.
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Feb 9, 2015 09:49
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German, Option 1.
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Feb 9, 2015 09:57
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German, Option 2 Let's show the Brits once again why their whining about the German Naval Build Up was a hilarious, if deadly, overreaction!
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Feb 9, 2015 10:01
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British, Option 1.
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Feb 9, 2015 10:03
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Feb 9, 2015 10:10
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Feb 9, 2015 10:13
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Feb 9, 2015 10:23
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German, option 2.
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Feb 9, 2015 10:28
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Feb 9, 2015 10:39
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Oh Grey, Where do you find these games?  British, 2.
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Feb 9, 2015 10:41
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Since your skills lie in the area of sinking the British fleet, you may as well have that work in your favour: German, Option 2
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Feb 9, 2015 10:52
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German, Option 1
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Feb 9, 2015 10:52
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German, 1. If this goes well I'd love to see an LP in the Tsushima expansion.
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Feb 9, 2015 11:29
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British, Option 2 I very much would like to challenge the notion that one could do better than Beatty given historical hindsight.
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Feb 9, 2015 12:41
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V for Vegas posted:German, 1. Actually, their next game is called "Rule the waves" and has you taking control of a early 20th century nation as it enters the dreadnaught era. You research tech and design ships, then respond to random arms treaties, colonial war and possibly even the big one. If you don't think watching me try to do battle with a bunch of ships designed by comittie (spp mstk) won't be fun, then I don't want to know you.
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Feb 9, 2015 12:45
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Feb 9, 2015 13:09
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Cartoon posted:British, Option 1 There's a better chance of you sinking the RN this way...
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Feb 9, 2015 14:14
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Pickled Tink posted:Since your skills lie in the area of sinking the British fleet, you may as well have that work in your favour: British, option 2 The strategic challenge of how to use the Royal Navy's superiority is, for me, more interesting than the rather fewer options you have when commanding the HSF.
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Feb 9, 2015 14:15
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British, Option 1. Moral Victory: Don't gently caress up at Jutland.
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Feb 9, 2015 15:07
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Any country, option 2.
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Feb 9, 2015 15:10
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Feb 9, 2015 15:27
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Feb 9, 2015 15:58
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Feb 9, 2015 16:10
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German, Option 1. Is submarine warfare not a thing in this game? Seems like it would have been mentioned in the OP.
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Feb 9, 2015 16:27
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Feb 9, 2015 16:28
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German, Option 1 I have always wanted to see how this game actually plays.
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Feb 9, 2015 17:40
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This looks like a computerized version of the old Jutland board game. As in the ships look like scans of the counters from it. Are destroyers and cruisers done as flotilla's?
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Feb 9, 2015 17:45
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Feb 9, 2015 17:48
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German, 1 because I enjoy watching Grey suffer.
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Feb 9, 2015 17:57
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Feb 9, 2015 18:31
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Feb 9, 2015 18:53
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British, Option 2 Some would say that the Royal Navy isn't just going to sink itself. I would like to challenge that assertion.
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Feb 9, 2015 19:00
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German, Option 2 I tend to prefer the underdog. Besides, potentially upending the historical order of things is more fun, and what better way to make sure that 
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