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Would be fun indeed. The boat traffic in the Irish Sea and the Hebrides I think the most important area of total ignorance. Movement of heavy goods was by sea, roads were mere tracks. Logistics and communication had to be by boat. Good logistics can't make you win, but bad logistics can sure make you lose!

For the serious purpose of study one could take rides on local boats with camera, notebooks, and GPS, stopping so as to mentally reconstruct the societies lost in the Clearances, walk the hills and old paths for signs of our period, and check out the local whiskey, very important anthropology and archeology in that effort!

British Navy operations in those waters 1615-1660 would be interesting.

The "aulde Alliance" of Scots with France (and certainly with the Dutch in this one) may be fertile ground. I suspect that Montrose was killed about five years before the Dutch would have been ready to support him fully. If he had lived and engineered a full cooperation between Spain and France (fat chance!!), and French and Spanish troops were in Ireland and Scotland making holding actions like Kinsale, then the English troops would have been committed many miles from London.

Now a landing about Harwitch (East Essex) and making for Ipswitch, where London is seventy miles SW on a good road. Horse troops there in 48 hours, heavy foot in five days, siege train in nine days (a good road, remember.) Occupy, fortify, try to catch the big wigs before they escape. Resupply through the Thames.

Boy-O-Boy, old Oliver would have been P.O.d!!!!

Do not try this kind of thinking on your own without guidance of a skilled practitioner. The mind can easily become so boggled that normal life is forever lost. Imaginary history can become like real history on acid and you will start to believe you know THE TRUTH, and such certainty while absurdly ignorant defines the a Liberal. Better to hang yourself than to join the Undead. Dangerous ground indeed!

Further disclaimer: This is all done from maps. You want a disaster, run a military operation from maps, not reconaissance.