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| HMS Edinburgh...an Ironclad or a Battleship? |
I've been swamped with decorating jobs over the last couple of days, so haven't had time to get any painting done on the Prussian ships and gunboats, which means I'm unlikely to get them finished before we head off to France. I have, however, sorted out and packed up some Tumbling Dice 1/2400th scale later British ironclads to assemble and base over the holidays. These are all from the 1880's, so half way between broadside or turret ironclads and actual pre-dreadnoughts, which raises some very interesting questions about which rules to use with them? I have decided not to take my proper British pre-dreadnoughts with me, however, as they are a bit too fragile once assembled to survive the journey back again. I'll tackle those when I get back home but, in the meantime, I should have two new later ironclad squadrons to add to my earlier French and British fleets.
Technically I'd say they're ironclads, in that they have iron rather than steel armour. In terms of rules though they tend to have so much armour that the factors get a bit out of hand for the ironclad era. I'd suggest Pre-Dread rules, with some special exceptions to allow for the unusual gun layouts.
ReplyDeleteI think I'll try Broadside and Ram first, with some tweaks for the barbette ships, then see if it works. A good point about the armour. I'll have to find a set of fleet level pre-dred rules that works.
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