Baltic blockade ?

[kirk23_MatrixForum]

I was wondering if it might be possible as an option, to have any country that is at war with Britain,that has a fleet France,Spain or even Russia, to be able to blockade the baltic,and so deprive Britain of her historical vital supplies off wood,with the result that if the blockade was successful, then Britain would be unable to build any more ships until the blockade was lifted?

This was indeed a real danger for Britain, as she depended on this wood for masts etc,and any reduction of supply would have serious consequence on her ship building programmes,if a rule could be introduced this may help create a more involved naval game,with Britain needing to ensure that the baltic remained free of any hostile fleets.

[bresh]

ORIGINAL: hellfirejet

I was wondering if it might be possible as an option, to have any country that is at war with Britain,that has a fleet France,Spain or even Russia, to be able to blockade the baltic,and so deprive Britain of her historical vital supplies off wood,with the result that if the blockade was successful, then Britain would be unable to build any more ships until the blockade was lifted?

This was indeed a real danger for Britain, as she depended on this wood for masts etc,and any reduction of supply would have serious consequence on her ship building programmes,if a rule could be introduced this may help create a more involved naval game,with Britain needing to ensure that the baltic remained free of any hostile fleets.

war with Britain,that has a fleet France,Spain or even Russia, to be able to blockade the baltic,and so deprive Britain of her historical vital supplies off wood,with the result that if the blockade was successful, then Britain would be unable to build any more ships until the blockade was lifted?

This was indeed a real danger for Britain, as she depended on this wood for masts etc,and any reduction of supply would have serious consequence on her ship building programmes,if a rule could be introduced this may help create a more involved naval game,with Britain needing to ensure that the baltic remained free of any hostile fleets.

Well, other minors could be supplying the wood in this game.
But i think if you want to micromanage wood and steel to, it comes to close to crown of glory.

Regards
Bresh

[kirk23_MatrixForum]

ORIGINAL: bresh

ORIGINAL: hellfirejet

I was wondering if it might be possible as an option, to have any country that is at war with Britain,that has a fleet France,Spain or even Russia, to be able to blockade the baltic,and so deprive Britain of her historical vital supplies off wood,with the result that if the blockade was successful, then Britain would be unable to build any more ships until the blockade was lifted?

This was indeed a real danger for Britain, as she depended on this wood for masts etc,and any reduction of supply would have serious consequence on her ship building programmes,if a rule could be introduced this may help create a more involved naval game,with Britain needing to ensure that the baltic remained free of any hostile fleets.

war with Britain,that has a fleet France,Spain or even Russia, to be able to blockade the baltic,and so deprive Britain of her historical vital supplies off wood,with the result that if the blockade was successful, then Britain would be unable to build any more ships until the blockade was lifted?

This was indeed a real danger for Britain, as she depended on this wood for masts etc,and any reduction of supply would have serious consequence on her ship building programmes,if a rule could be introduced this may help create a more involved naval game,with Britain needing to ensure that the baltic remained free of any hostile fleets.

Well, other minors could be supplying the wood in this game.
But i think if you want to micromanage wood and steel to, it comes to close to crown of glory.

Regards
Bresh

Hi Bresh,I don't want it to be a case of micromanagement for wood, think of it more as a trade penalty for Britain if baltic has hostile fleet present!

[Ted1066]

Most of Britain's wood came from Canada during this period (Newfoundland, specifically - huge naval shipbuilding yard in St. Johns and Halifax in Nova Scotia)

Cheers,

Ted

[kirk23_MatrixForum]

I agree from 1809 - 1820 most of Britains wood was indeed supplied from Canada, roughly in the region off 27,000 tons - 90,0000 tons,but the reason for this was a massive levy placed on the wood from the baltic, of in the region of 275%,so Britain decided to transport across the Atlantic,but for well over 150 years the vast majority of wood was supplied from either Home grown or the baltic,up untill 1807 - 1809.

In 1806, Britain persuaded Prussia to fight Napoleon, but it was defeated at Jena and Auerstädt. Russia belatedly re-entered the war, leading the French armies into modern Poland and Lithuania in the winter of 1807, where inconclusive but costly battles were fought at Eylau and Friedland, which brought Napoleon and Emperor Alexander I to peace talks at Tilsit, on a raft on the River Niemen in June 1807. They got on well personally, and agreed to divide Europe into “spheres of influence”. Prussia was reduced to a small state and forced into alliance with France, its Polish territories used to create the Grand Duchy of Warsaw, a partial revival of the Kingdom of Poland that won Napoleon intense loyalty and military support. More Prussian territory and all that of its small ally, Hesse-Kassel, was used to create Westphalia for Jérôme; Napoleon hoped to turn this into his “model kingdom”, giving it the French Code and administrative system. Jérôme failed to realize this, faced with opposition from the feudal nobility, whose support he came to need for the war effort.

Only Britain remained at war with Napoleon, and with the Berlin Decree of November 21, 1806, he consolidated a continental-wide blockade against British commerce that would do more than anything else to undermine his hegemony. He linked this to a more complex economic strategy, the Continental System, aimed at reorienting the economies of his vassal states to French advantage, a “one-way common market”. This essentially selfish system, whereby other states were forced to trade with France on unequal terms, and to run down their own industries to provide France with raw materials and food, created deep resentment.