Barbette and Battery

 

I had a message from David Manley, of Long Face Games, yesterday,  asking if I'd be interested in looking at some rules he's developing based on Dahlgren and Columbiad, for the transitional ironclad period c1880 to 1890 in which all sorts of experiments were made ending up with the pre-dreadnought. This has been an interest of mine for years and I've done some of my own tweaks to Broadside and Ram to try to model things like barbette mounts, disappearing guns and central battery armament combined with fore and aft firing guns, not to mention turret ships as opposed to monitors. I'll be very interested to find out what David has come up with!