AW: [DL] Re: European Sourcebooks

["Markus Finster" <markus.finster@chello.at>]

> One plea though, try NOT to use the Germans as the bad
> guys. This has been done to death and is imposing the
> 20th century on the 19th. I would use the French
> instead, maybe the Russians. Remember that Britain's
> closeness to France is a modern (roughly post
> 1900)development, they might just as well have allied
> with Germany (they nearly did first, but the Germans
> did not think they were serious). Anglo-German naval
> rivalry (battleship envy?) came about because the
> Kaiser was an honorary British admiral, and he became
> jealous of his granny's fleet.
>

French as the bad guys would be very fitting - sonsidering that they are
behind Maximillian in Mexico and that they lost a War against Germany in
1870/71.

Markus