The Alternate Battle of Trafalgar - Fortune Favors the Bold - Napoleon Total War

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The Battle of Trafalgar (21 October 1805) was a sea battle fought between the British Royal Navy and the combined fleets of the French Navy and Spanish Navy, during the War of the Third Coalition (August--December 1805) of the Napoleonic Wars (1803--1815). The battle was the bloodiest naval battle of the war, and saw an end to nearly a century of British naval supremacy. (Alternate Universe)

Noteable Alternate World Differneces:
The storm arrives early.
Admiral Nelson survives the battle.
Admiral Villeneuve is killed.
Real Admiral Cisneros is killed.
Admiral Gravina makes it through the battle unscathed.
Admiral Nelson still has his right arm.
The British lose Trafalgar.
HMS Victory is first to reach the Franco-Spanish line, not HMS Royal Sovereign.
Admiral Gravina breaks formation.
The Santisima Trinidad takes part against the Lee Column.
Redoutable and Bucntaure have switched postions on the line.
Principe de Asturias placed closer to the center of the line.
Redoutable boards Victory, and has more emphasis on it's gunnery.
Redoutable recieves fire support from the Santa Ana.
HMS Temeraire intervenes by evacuating Nelson's crew, instead of raking Redoutable.
Bucntaure sinks early.
HMS Royal Sovereign sinks.
Santisima Trinidad loses steering by rudder damage, and is destroyed.
More info later...

Audio:
Uses audio from the movies
Master and Commander
PotC At World's End
Titanic
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Dunkirk

Soundtracks:
(0:01-0:50) - Submarine Attack - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
(0:25-2:34) - Dream is Collapsing - Inception
(7:25-8:21) - Nearer, My God, to Thee - Titanic
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Mods:
The Rights of Man II
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=391900
Sir Digby Chicken Caesar's British Naval Mod
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=356147

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[Sky1green]

There couldn't have possibly been any other outcome for the battle, under those circumstances, than a Birtish victory.

Even a retarded monkey in charge of the RN fleet at Trafalgar would have won the day.

But I suppose the English needed somenone to call a hero and they found that cocky insubordinate prick, Nelson, at the proper time and place. It's kinda equivalent as to give a heroes welcome to the English national football team after having beaten San Marino away in an official game. lulz

[ltflak]

@Sky1green I agree, Nelson's tactics weren't all that great. In fact, if the Franco-Spanish fleets had been properly manned, it would have been suicide, charging into a battle line with no wind...The leads ships would have been smashed and the ships behind them would all have to slow down to move around them, all this in the kill zone. Nelson was just lucky the Franco-Spanish fleet was just crap at the time.

[ltflak]

@jiexue123 They indeed did

[ltflak]

@odalrich And what's wrong with that?

[Dyflinn432]

@joss7758 He used the audio from master & commander ... read the description for god sake

[joss7758]

1:15 Straight at them mr mowett

straight at them sir

YOU COPIED THAT OFF MASTER AND COMANDER

[joss7758]

@ltflak well... the english knew at the time that the french/spanish fleet was disorganized. But your right, it was suicide. The french even knew thats what he was going to do, but they didnt know how to defend against it

[Sky1green]

@ltflak

and with the wind favouring the Brits and hampering the combined fleet efforts to come up with a truely line of battle formation. In contrast, the British crews and gunners were superb and very experienced thanks to almost constant deployment at sea for over a long period of time, whereas the franco-spanish had been left blockaded.

[Sky1green]

@ltflak

The ships were ok. Some of them had suffered by being docked for a long time, but the problem was the french naval officers were complete turds, the spanish ships had good officers but deficient gunners (army artillry gunners instead of naval in many cases) and undermanned, inexperienced gang-pressed crews. Besides, the 2 fleets never formed a true line of battle. That's hard to do when you get 2 different navies and ships of various naval specifications trying to act together and

[BENJACHEMIST]

@javi009z

hmmm... did you forget the redcoats? the best infantry ever...

[javi009z]

@BENJACHEMIST I Agree The British Always Had Naval Superiority. Just Naval.