This was scrapped when our counter count (that sounds ridiculous if you say it out loud) was too high and cuts had to be made. We had a set of Vichy counters (they were black and really attractive) and replaced the Free French ships in the game with the historical losses. We tried to go gamey and have die rolls for units to go Vichy or go French. How do you handle that mess in a game?Ĭhuck, Neal, & I tried a few tact’s. In the later portion of the war, some French units came back into action and participated with the Allies. Finally in late 1942, with an Allied hammer on one side and German anvil on the other, the remaining Vichy fleet was either destroyed bravely or scuttled in place. Some ships remained active as Free French but most just disappeared from the seas for various reasons, supply not being the least. At this point most of their Vichy fleet greatly reduced activities. When France fell to the Germans in 1940, historically their ships were either interned where they docked or switched to the command of the Vichy government. French concerns across the globe allowed the French to have the same global reach as the British. At the start of the war, the French fleet was large and impressive, new, and strong. Not because they weren’t important or even crucial to the conflict, but because the game didn’t support or reflect them, at least in the manner we were presenting them. Refueling, seaborne invasions, some ports, and a few other things did not make the game. That’s why some ocean-going activities have not been covered. If the history made the game bad, we worked to change focal points of the game so that the history had less to do with the game’s outcome. Always remember that in Seas of Thunder, our first nod was always to history, but only if it maintained an interesting game. The most challenging and I’m sure the most controversial choice in Seas of Thunder was what to do with the French Fleet.
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