Fatal Choices

What is Fatal Choices

Fatal Choices: Wargames, Decisions and Destiny in the 1914 Battles of Coronel and Falklands is an experimental history using authentic naval wargames to examine choices made in the World War I battles of Coronel and Falklands

“And now began the saddest naval action of the war (Coronel). Of the officers and men in both the squadrons that faced each other in these stormy seas far from home, nine of ten were doomed to perish.”

-- Winston Churchill

This autumn marks the centennial of The Great War. Among the most dramatic sagas in a dramatic season was that of the German East Asia Squadron under Rear Adm. Maximilian Graf von Spee. Stranded by the sudden outbreak of war on the other side of the world, Spee’s squadron evaded enemy forces for months. Dispatched the raider Emden to harry British trade in the Indian Ocean and then handed the Royal Navy its first defeat in battle in 99 years off the shore of Chile near Cape Coronel. That devastating defeat sent two British armored cruisers to the depths with their entire crews at trifling cost to Spee’s squadron.

Game details

Players

1–14

Age

+12

Duration

60 min

Difficulty

—

Type

Expansion

Year

2014

Mechanics

Dice Rolling · Simulation

Categories

Book · Miniatures · Nautical

Designer

Larry Bond · Gary Graber

Publisher

Norwich Rose