Return to the "Red/Blue Campaign" World

 Back in 2020 I had some fun fighting a short campaign using the map featured in SHAM-BATTLE by Dowdall & Gleason. 

The war was originally going to be named The SHAM Campaign but ended up being called The Red/Blue Campaign and the battles can be located using that label.

Here's the original Campaign Map (made simply in Excel) along side the SHAM-Battle version.

In the very first battle, Bluvian forces managed to destroy the bridge that linked Red City and Blueburg and, three years later, it has still not been rebuilt; relations between the Kingdom of Redina and the Bluvian Republic are still very poor.

This is the current map; I have added a couple of small towns to the original and marked where the newfangled railway lines have been constructed - the white heat of Steam Technology has arrived!

Recently the Government of Redina have been demanding the extradition of certain Radicals that had fled Rediton during the war. These revolutionary types have established themselves in the small town of Blueville and set about publishing pamphlets calling on the Redinan populace to rise up against the monarchy and declare a Republic. 

The Bluvian government refuse point blank to cooperate with their old enemy's demands and have put the military on high alert. Bluvian spies report a large build up of Redinan forces near the Eastern City of Redville suggesting that Red will attempt to march across the bog road and invade Blue via the East bridge.

In fact, the Eastern build up is a cunning ruse, a sham if you like. Early in the morning on the 19th August, Redinan Engineers built a pontoon bridge across the Boundary River somewhere West of Blueville (grid C4) and Red's troops, having rushed by train from Redville to Reding, are now marching into Bluvia...

(Why didn't they just jump across? - Ed.)

Redina's Ministers have warned the King that the country is not financially strong enough for a protracted war; the objective is therefore to capture and/or eliminate the Revolutionary cell in Blueville, and give the Bluvians a bloody nose.