I’m skipping through the habitual Osprey, this time on the destroyer actions at Narvik in April 1940, with a view to some naval wargaming in 2020. I like the idea of destroyer scenarios but with a ‚What if?‘ twist, in this case transferring the Narvik events back in time to an earlier period, perhaps a pre-dreadnought or later Victorian  ironclad setting. 

I can re-imagine a Japanese torpedo boat raid against Russian torpedo boats and troopships during the Russo Japanese War, for example, or a similar fictitious scenario involving French and torpedo boats and British Torpedo Boat Destoyers in the 1890’s, albeit in a different location. Added to that, there’s scope for a change of scale to 1/300, so that destroyers are translated into MGB’s and MTB’s against R-boats, S-boats and VP boats…

…or I could just stick to 1/3000 scale and keep it as a historical refight?