Greetings, I'm anther newby.
I'll lay my cards firmly on the table right at the start, I'm a wargamer, so the What Ifs? I'm really interested in are the ones that lead to interesting battles.
Having a armies for the Second Afghan War and the Zulu War currently unemployed I'm intersted in what would have happened if Disraelis diplomacy at the 1878 Congress of Berlin had been less than dazzling and a war had broken out between The British and Russian Empires.
What seems fairly clear is that a Particular Service Squadron of ironclads would have had a crack at the Kronstadt forts, Admiral Hornby's squadron would have had to have tried to keep the Russians out of Constantinople and Sam Brown's force invading Afghanistan would have had to deal with Russian Cossacks at some point, possibly at Maiwand.
Sir Garnet Wolseley and his division on Indians would have had to have been lnded somewhere and, seeing as how Hornby wouldn't want to get stuck in the Sea of Marmara, it might have been Gallipoli. No Mel Gibson, but I guess the result could have been similar.
I also specualte whether the Zulu War would have broken out anyway and if it had how Chelmsford would have got on without any reinforcements if it all went wrong?
What do other people think?
I'll lay my cards firmly on the table right at the start, I'm a wargamer, so the What Ifs? I'm really interested in are the ones that lead to interesting battles.
Having a armies for the Second Afghan War and the Zulu War currently unemployed I'm intersted in what would have happened if Disraelis diplomacy at the 1878 Congress of Berlin had been less than dazzling and a war had broken out between The British and Russian Empires.
What seems fairly clear is that a Particular Service Squadron of ironclads would have had a crack at the Kronstadt forts, Admiral Hornby's squadron would have had to have tried to keep the Russians out of Constantinople and Sam Brown's force invading Afghanistan would have had to deal with Russian Cossacks at some point, possibly at Maiwand.
Sir Garnet Wolseley and his division on Indians would have had to have been lnded somewhere and, seeing as how Hornby wouldn't want to get stuck in the Sea of Marmara, it might have been Gallipoli. No Mel Gibson, but I guess the result could have been similar.
I also specualte whether the Zulu War would have broken out anyway and if it had how Chelmsford would have got on without any reinforcements if it all went wrong?
What do other people think?