Monday 20 August 2018

1864 Prussian Ships for Dahlgren and Columbiad


I've worked out the Dahlgren and Columbiad ship stats for the Prussian warships involved in the Second Schleswig War, including both the Battle of Rugen / Jasmund and the Battle of Heligoland. The number are based on some background research online and various books, together with a bit of cross referencing with the Iron and Fire supplement Blue Steel, Grey Thunder. I have uprated the manoeuvre class for SMS Lorelei and considered downrating it for the Camaleon class gunboats, which were notoriously sluggish and rolled badly, but decided to keep them as High manoeuvre so they can operate with the rest of the gunboat flotilla. I have also rounded down when calculating maximum speeds.


SMS Arcona

Screw Frigate
DF3
Maximum Speed 6''
Medium Manoeuvre
Unarmoured, AF +0
3 x 68pdr SB plus 10 x 36pdr SB on each broadside, Port and Starboard Arcs, GF 4 / PF +1


SMS Nymphe

Screw Corvette
DF3
Maximum Speed 6''
Medium Manoeuvre
Unarmoured, AF +0
5 x 36pdr SB plus 3 x 12pdr SB on each broadside, Port and Starboard Arcs, GF 2 / PF +1


SMS Lorelei

Paddle Aviso
Maximum Speed 5''
DF3
High Manoeuvre (uprated)
Unarmoured, AF +0
1 x 12pdr rifle on each broadside, Port and Starboard Arcs, GF 1 / PF +1


Camaleon Class Gunboats (1st Class)

Screw Gunboat
DF2
Maximum Speed 4''
High Manoeuvre
Unarmoured, AF +0
1 x 24pdr rifle on centreline pivot, Port or Starboard Arc, GF 1 / PF +2
1 x 12pdr rifle on each broadside, Port and Starboard Arcs, GF 1 / PF +1


2nd Class Gunboats

Screw Gunboat
DF2
Maximum Speed 4''
High Manoeuvre
Unarmoured, AF +0
1 x 12pdr rifle on each broadside, Port and Starboard Arcs, GF 1 / PF +1


SMS Preussischer Adler

Paddle Aviso
DF3
Maximum Speed 5''
Medium Manoeuvre
Unarmoured, AF +0
2 x 24pdr SB on each broadside, Port and Starboard Arcs, GF 1 / PF +0
                                                        or
2 x 36pdr SB on each broadside, Port and Starboard Arcs, GF 1 / PF +1

This website has been particularly useful and contains a lot of relevant information on the Prussian and Imperial German Navy, although it is in German and you will need to do a bit of translating:

http://www.kaiserliche-marine.de/

4 comments:

  1. Have you got the ships for all of these already?

    ReplyDelete
  2. Yes, although they're all proxy ones from the Tumbling Dice range.

    ReplyDelete
  3. I've now realised that I should have combined the GF/PF factors so that there is only one rating per firing arc, so I need to go back to the drawing board for the frigates and corvettes!

    ReplyDelete
  4. I've now amended the GF and PF ratings for both Arcona and Nymphe

    ReplyDelete

Labels

Bag The Hun (746) AK47 (488) Books (480) Ironclads (474) Wings at War (392) Back of Beyond (234) Pre-Dreadnoughts (228) Coastal Warfare (225) Britain's Small Wars (199) Bolt Action (175) What a Tanker (170) Target Locked On (162) Victory at Sea (155) MiG Alley (150) Knights of the Sky (149) Old West (146) Chain of Command (145) Napoleonic Naval (144) Find Fix and Strike (137) Sandbox Skirmish (119) Naval Command (118) Bag The MiG (117) Naval Thunder (117) Pirates (116) Indo China / Vietnam (114) Air War Over Khalkhin Gol (108) Fistful of Lead (108) 15mm Sci-Fi / Near Future (95) Darkest Africa (91) VBCW (89) Strength and Honour (84) Shows (79) Ancients (78) ACW (77) The Football War (75) France's Small Wars (67) Boardgames (66) Corsairs and Cavaliers (66) Shipwreck! (66) BKC (65) Rapid Fire (63) Saurian Safari (61) Cruel Seas (60) Saga (60) Air War C21 (58) Journals (57) The Men Who Would Be Kings (57) Nimitz (55) Flashpoint Alto Cenepa (53) IABSM (53) Flashpoint Taiwan (50) Finest Hour (49) Gladiators (48) International Naval Wargaming Day (47) Red Actions! (47) Scramble for Britain (44) Flashpoint Baltic (42) Fortifications (41) Cold War (39) Duel of Aces (36) SCW (36) Thud Ridge (36) Desert Spitfires (34) Flames above the Falklands (34) RCW (34) War of the Pacific (34) Death in the Dark Continent (32) Atlantic Wall (31) Post Apocalypse (31) Iron Cow (30) Lion Rampant (30) Bag the Springbok (29) English Civil War / Anglo Dutch War Naval (29) Algernon Pulls It Off (28) Mexican Revolution (28) Normandy Firefight (28) Full Thrust (27) It Rolls For Ivan (26) Bulldogs Away! (24) One Hour Wargames (24) Samurai (24) Jet Knights of the Sky (23) 28mm English Civil War (22) Imaginations (22) Achtung Kommando! (21) Flashpoint PVO (21) PITS (20) Galactic Heroes (19) Steamer Wars (19) Strontium Dog (19) Ancient Naval (18) Iron Cross (18) Winter War (16) Aeronef (15) Aircraft (15) Imperial Commander (15) Rate of Fire (15) 2mm English Civil War (14) Aliens (14) Dragon Rampant (14) Mad for War (14) Arctic Eagles (13) Black Ops (13) CY6 Jet Age (13) Congo (13) Impetus (12) Wars of Insurgency (12) Zulus! (12) Flashpoint Fleet Air Arm (11) Gaslands (11) 633 Squadron (10) Franco Thai Air War (10) Jungle Green (10) Sharp Practice (10) 28mm Future Wars (9) Bohica (9) Dux Britanniarum (9) Merry Xmas Mr Sankara (9) Adventures in Jimland (8) Cry Havoc (8) Dreadnoughts (8) French Indian Wars (8) HYW (8) Renaissance Naval (8) Star Wars Legion (8) Sword and Spear (8) Through The Mud and Blood (8) Frostgrave (7) Target for Tonight (7) Five Parsecs From Home (6) French Resistance (6) A Mighty Fortress (5) Air War Angola (5) AirWar:1918 (5) Bombers over Germany (5) Check Your Six! (5) Five Men at Kursk (5) Fivecore Skirmish (5) Maurice (5) Seven Days to the River Rhine (5) Three Musketeers (5) Arab Revolt (4) Continuation War (4) Corvette Command (4) In Her Majesty's Name (4) Infamy Infamy (4) Medieval Naval (4) Never Mind The Billhooks (4) What a Cowboy (4) Battletech (3) Gangsters (3) HOTT (3) Hind Commander (3) Lord of the Sea (3) Luft 46 (3) Mourir Pour l'Indochine (3) Sturmovik Commander (3) Wings Over Suez (3) Blood Red Skies (2) Chincha Islands War (2) Crom (2) Disposable Heroes (2) Fire and Steel (2) Fivecore Company Command (2) Iron Stars (2) Judge Dredd (2) Lethal Skies (2) NUTS! (2) No Go Zone (2) Pulp! (2) Starfighters! (2) War in El Dorado (2) Whispering Death (2) A Billion Suns (1) Air War 1940 (1) Battlegroup (1) Black Powder (1) Dropzone Commander (1) Falklands War (1) Harpoon (1) Load and Return (1) Missile Threat (1) Missiles at Sea (1) Naval Wargames Society (1) Norway 1940 (1) Spanish American War (1) Sunray is Down (1) Ultracombat Normandy (1) Xenos Rampant (1)