The Battle of Dorking
Inspiration
The Battle of Dorking was written in the 1870s by army officer George Chesney. After the Franco Prussian war he felt Britain could fall to invasion just as easily as France. His tale was designed to be a wake up call to British complacency in relying too much on the navy. The book is written from the point of view of a militia soldier on the front lines as the unnamed enemy who speak German and wear spiky helmets stomp across the countryside. The navy are destroyed by some secret weapon that is never explained to get them out of the way. With E gland conquered its empire is lost. Shocking. I'm looking to use the men who would be kings to create two small forces from the time period with no steam punk just armies from the time. The perry box sets for the Franco prussisn war are perfect along side the home service head options on the Zulu war British 
The perries had a big dorking table at partizan this year which was good inspiration 
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