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There's been a few wargames dealing with AH created as of late (probably because most real life conflicts have been covered to death) but none that realy centered on either Quebec or Australia, my 2 main fields of interest. I decided to start a project for the first (I'll probably try to come up with something for the second later).

Obviously, there are some geographical and historical reasons for the lack of good wargame POD and I don't want to change history too much before the conflict to the point that it would be pure invention and not extrapolation. Another thing I want to avoid is to simply ISOT a conflict from another country and assign various factions to local equivalents (i.e., having a Canadian Civil War basrd on the spanish one in the 1930s with the natives replacing the basques and the zouaves canadiens replacing the carlists).

One era I had developed before and that give an interesting POD is the Troubles of 1837-1839. It take place in an era between the napoleonic wars and the ACW so that technology would be a novel hybrid and while the OTL conflicts was fairly limited, it has enough potential to have a certain complexity by tweaking certain aspects.

Now, I don't want to go ASB (so no magic or gross anachronisms) but will allow myself (or others if anyone is interested) to stretch plausibility a tad if need be (in other words, something having low chances of happening is good enough if its inclusion is warranted).

For now I won't concern myself too much with specific rules or even whether the setting will be used with an existing or original set of rules but if people, especialy habitual wargamers, have suggestions about special units that could flesh out some factions, please share.
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