For King & Country

It is the year 1806.  Napoleon Bonaparte's armies march with impunity across the length and breadth of Europe.  The peerless general is fresh off his crushing victory at the Battle of Austerlitz, smashing the Third Coalition of Austria, Russia and Portugal.  Prussia is on its heels and its people are girding themselves for Napoleon's inevitable push into their country.  Rumors are circulating that French engineers have developed some kind of new super weapon that could sweep aside all remaining resistance.  A new coalition is desperately forming to try and forestall this final victory. 

An arms race has resulted from the theft and dissemination of Britain's secret technology, an incredible power source called 'Phlogiston'.  All of the major European powers have some degree of Phlogiston research in the works.  The pace of innovation has increased by a factor of 100.  It seems like new wonders are being introduced every day as new applications are found for captured Phlogiston energy.  Agents representing every flag spend every last ounce of resource and effort in a never-ending quest to purloin or inhibit the inventions of their rivals.

Many notable events of the Napoleonic Wars haven’t happened yet.  Napoleon’s ill-advised invasion of Russia hasn’t occurred; Waterloo remains to be fought.  Anything can happen at this juncture in history and depending upon how events unfold, the French Empire may go on to dominate for decades or it could be supplanted by another power.  It is up to the Game Master and the players to decide how the issue will be settled.

This is a fan-created work was written for the Savage Worlds role-playing system in 2010.