The game is based on the German East Asiatic Squadron’s attempt to return home from China to Germany during the early days of the First World War, along with the related anti-commerce missions undertaken by German cruisers. Spee led his squadron to one victory at Coronel, off the coast of Chile, and then rounded South America. For some reason — perhaps driven by knowledge he could not actually make it back home — he decided to attack the British colony of the Falkland Islands. There he found much more powerful British forces, and all of his ships went down