Lacustrine (lake based) combat...

If you search for Lacustrine on the board, about half of the hits in regards to a war between the US and (UK/Canada) in the 19th Century.

I'm trying to think of other places on the planet where the idea of Lacustrine combat is likely to show in Alternate Histories.

Lake Ladoga seems reasonable in any combat between a Russian and Scandanavian power.

The Caspian is possible, and it certainly is possible for an ATL to treat that more fully as a lake, but in the case of the Caspian, going around it seems easier for a lot of combat.

The African Great Lakes (Victoria/Tanganyika/Malawi) had some in OTL WWI, but I'm not sure what an ATL looks like where you have combat at nearly the level of a possible North American Combat.
 
Riverine and lacustrine combat happened very frequently in Chinese history, and there could be even more lake battles in a TL where the Central Plain lakes don't get filled up with silt or otherwise are eliminated.
 
There's also the Aral sea that could have a lot of lacustrine combat. As for the African great lakes, you could have secret fortified islands complete with castles and forts from which rulers hide out from the mainland if things go south or from where they launch campaigns. Given the right POD, I can definitely see "great game" level political machinations where an ambitious kingdom wishes to control the entire cluster of Great Lakes.
 
It would be cool to see Russia fighting a British protectorate of Persia on the Caspian sea.

I've always thought lake based naval combat was cool and wish there were more examples of it in history.
 
Ultimate Great Lakes

If you really want to go crazy with Lake combat, Avalanche Press's War Plan Crimson goes completely wild...
http://www.avalanchepress.com/gamePlanCrimson.php

Great Lakes Battleships--MANY Great Lakes Battleships. (Over the covered timeline, the USA builds a total of 33, and 4 monitors, Canada, Canada, 30 plus 2 monitors)

Although it's over an extended time, as some become obsolescent, it still strikes me as a lot of heavy metal to be built inland bu the 1920's.

But, there's a LOT of lake combat, with no outlet to the ocean.

I don't have the game, but would be interested in how it plays...
 

TFSmith121

Banned
Bolivia vs. Peru

If you search for Lacustrine on the board, about half of the hits in regards to a war between the US and (UK/Canada) in the 19th Century. I'm trying to think of other places on the planet where the idea of Lacustrine combat is likely to show in Alternate Histories. Lake Ladoga seems reasonable in any combat between a Russian and Scandanavian power. The Caspian is possible, and it certainly is possible for an ATL to treat that more fully as a lake, but in the case of the Caspian, going around it seems easier for a lot of combat. The African Great Lakes (Victoria/Tanganyika/Malawi) had some in OTL WWI, but I'm not sure what an ATL looks like where you have combat at nearly the level of a possible North American Combat.

Bolivia vs. Peru (Titicaca)
Switzerland vs. all of its neighbors, potentially, on various lakes;
Azerbaijan, Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Iran and/or various incarnations of various empires etc. (Caspian);
Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan (Aral).

Best,
 

Driftless

Donor
Masurian Lakes - Involving some combo of Prussian, Poles, Russians, other powers (depending on POD)
 
If you search for Lacustrine on the board, about half of the hits in regards to a war between the US and (UK/Canada) in the 19th Century.

I'm trying to think of other places on the planet where the idea of Lacustrine combat is likely to show in Alternate Histories.

Lake Ladoga seems reasonable in any combat between a Russian and Scandanavian power.

The Caspian is possible, and it certainly is possible for an ATL to treat that more fully as a lake, but in the case of the Caspian, going around it seems easier for a lot of combat.

The African Great Lakes (Victoria/Tanganyika/Malawi) had some in OTL WWI, but I'm not sure what an ATL looks like where you have combat at nearly the level of a possible North American Combat.

Medival Russian pirates did River battles. The Frisians battled on Rivers, too.
 
The American Civil War had plenty of this. But I could see Nile warfare in an Egyptian Civil War, colonial combat on the lakes of Africa, maybe French/Indians versus British on the Ganges?
 

TFSmith121

Banned
Riverine, true...

The American Civil War had plenty of this. But I could see Nile warfare in an Egyptian Civil War, colonial combat on the lakes of Africa, maybe French/Indians versus British on the Ganges?

Riverine, true... not really lacustrine, since even most of the "yazoo" type lakes are basically old river channels.

Best,
 
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