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The Snowdonia Opening
Power: England Group: Splits openings When: Spring 1901 Target SCs: Norway, Brest, Belgium Aggressive towards: France, Russia Orders: F Edi-NWG, F Lon-ENG, A Lpl-Wal With the Snowdonia Opening, England’s army moves to Wales. It’s called the Snowdonia Opening in honour of the Snowdonia Mountains, in northwest Wales. Here, then, England is sending a very clear…
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The Pennine Opening
Power: England Group: Splits openings When: Spring 1901 Target SC: Norway Aggressive towards: France, Russia Orders: F Edi-NWG, F Lon-ENG, A Lpl-Yor The Pennine Opening is named after the range of hills (they’re not really mountains) known as the Spine of England: they form the border between Lancashire and Yorkshire (the historical county of Yorkshire…
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The Grampian Opening
Power: England Group: Splits openings When: Spring 1901 Target SC: Norway Aggressive towards: France, Russia Orders: F Edi-NWG, F Lon-ENG, A Lpl-Edi The Grampian Opening is one of three Splits openings. They’re called the Splits because the fleets separate from each other and leave the North Sea empty: F Edi-NWG, F Lon-ENG. In the Grampian…
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The Severn Opening
Power: England Group: Southern openings When: Spring 1901 Target SCs: Norway, Brest, Belgium Aggressive towards: France Orders: F Edi-NTH, F Lon-ENG, A Lpl-Wal This Southern opening is named after the River Severn, which rises in Wales (it flows into England and meets the sea at the Bristol Channel). Here, A Lpl-Wal is the order in…
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The Ouse Opening
Power: England Group: Southern openings When: Spring 1901 Target SC: Norway, Brest, Belgium Aggressive towards: France, Russia, Germany Orders: F Edi-NTH, F Lon-ENG, A Lpl-Yor This Southern opening is named after the river that flows through York, the Ouse (or Great Ouse – I wasn’t calling it the Great Ouse Opening, though, because, well, it…
