First Strike
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Price: 20.00 €
Publisher: Against the Odds
Reference: ATO-FirstStrike
Format: box
Period: First World War
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Paul Rohrbaugh with First Strike looks at, well, the "first strike" by British naval aircraft. This solitaire game examines the events of Christmas Day, 1914, when float planes were brought near the German port of Cuxhaven by the earliest "seaplane tenders" and turned loose. Formally an "air reconnaissance" by planes looking for Zeppelin sheds, they just also happened to be carrying bombs and the rest is history. By this action, the British naval command also hoped to lure out the German fleet for a more conventional sea battle, and game allows for this and the possibility of having the Royal Navy attacked by German airplanes!