This fleet action is based on the Triple Alliance naval convention of 1913, as described in “The Great War at Sea” by Sondhaus. The plan was for the Italian and Austro-Hungarian fleets and any German ships in the Mediterranean to engage the French Fleet and block the Algerian troop transports. This scenario assumes that the war starts in February 1914, and that the British Mediterranean squadron joins the French.
Due to the generally longer ranges of the Triple Alliance guns, the French and British ships were under fire and unable to respond for the first few turns. Both sides had difficulty forming coherent battle lines due to the wide variation in ship speeds and capabilities. The Goeben and Dante Alighieri eventually destroyed the three British battlecruisers. Based on the situation when we quit, the French Algerian troops could be very late arriving in France.
Scale: 1/6000 miniatures, 500 yards/in ground scale.
Rules: Computer code in development.
Visibility 24,000 yards. Wind northwesterly at 6 knots. Seastate 2.
Status at the end of the game: Alg status
Damage output file: Alg-out
Plot of ship movements: Alg-plot
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