Quote Originally Posted by Kraxis
A naval warfare sim in WWI would be better than any for WWII. No carriers worth mentioning, no radar, and plenty battleships to duke it out. I wonder why nobody big has ever tried it.
Probably 'cause there didn't actually happen too much on the seas. The German navy always had the dubious distinction of being pretty much by default against the single biggest, baddest sea power in the whole damn world (based right next door) and duly pretty much stuck to the Baltic like a good "brown water" navy.

It must've kind of rankled those old admirals that their entire arm of service had as its about sole real contribution the sneaky sinking of freighters with subs - hardly the stuff flag-waving hero stories are made of, that, although definitely grueling enough for the poor sods stuck in creaky tin cans underwater.

There were a few major naval engagements - when that one German task force "showing the flag" on the Pacific when the war started tried to fight its way to the Atlantic, and Helgoland - but for the most part the Germans didn't deign to leave the Baltic to get themselves pulverized by the British juggernaut which sort of kept the action down.

I don't think they bothered the Russian Baltic fleet too much either, although there may not have been much of one around to begin with given how long it takes to build a capital ship and the fact the previous ones had been mostly sunk by the Japanese a decade or so earlier.

...did anything interesting happen on the Mediterranean aside from the Gallipoli mess, anyway...?


As for the other fronts, Gallipoli pretty much turned into a modified version of West Front trench attrition almost from the beginning so that'd hardly be a good choice. The East Front was something of a shooting range for the Germans courtesy of appalling levels of unadultered incompetence among the Russian senior brass by what I know of it, and one suspects mowing down hapless peasant soldiers in greatcoats would get old a bit fast.

The Middle East front between the Brits and the Turks was AFAIK relatively fluid and things actually happened there (as in, something else than soldiers perishing by the thousands without meaningful changes in the situation), but given that the whole Israel-Palestine mess partly traces right back to those times one suspects it just might be a wee bit too sensitive a topic to cover.