I've had a very busy weekend, driving down to Plymouth to drop off number one son at university, but I'm back at the workbench this week to make up some time.
I've been thinking a bit more about scenario for my War of the Pacific 1/2400th scale ironclads, as I paint up the extra ships for the Battle of Arica. One naval skirmish that would make a good little game is the Battle of Chipana on 12th April 1879.
This involved the Chilean gunboat Magallanes trying to escape from an ambush by the Peruvian corvette Union and gunboat Pilcomayo. Despite being outnumbered, outgunned and outpaced, the Magallanes managed to get away and inflicted a serious hit on the Union. The only downside was that the commander of the Chilean gunboat lost his cool and burned the secret orders he was supposed to be delivering to Iquique!
I already have all three ships and enough coastal terrain to run this scenario with Dahlgren and Columbiad, so I am going to try to find the time this week to try it out. The objectives are simple for the Chileans, to get from one end of the table to the other, while the Peruvians just have to stop them.
What could possibly go wrong?
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