http://exmouthwargames.blogspot.co.uk/2012_04_01_archive.html

Here's a link to my BP mods for 1859-1871.

"It could be seen as the first acts in a 7-year conflict around the rise of Germany couldn't it?"

I think that is better ascribed to 1866, which brought many of the smaller german states within Prussian influence after their defeat: eg Bavaria, Baden, Wurttemburg

Chad