I haven't neglected my late Victorian ironclads despite all the recent ACW scratch building, with a flotilla of torpedo boats a la Jeune Ecole. These are Tumbling Dice models of Le Normand Torpilleur De Haut Mer or ocean going torpedo boats of the mid-1800's, so ideal for patrols in the Mediterranean or La Manche against the perfidious British. I ended up with eleven of these for some reason so I rounded out the force with a flotilla leader, in the form of Bombe, a torpedo gunboat.
I have no idea if the French were using flotilla leaders at this stage but it seemed like a good way to avoid an odd number of boats. The torpedo boats are actually really lovely little models and have an integral sea base, which should make painting them a piece of cake. I'll be using them for Dahlgren and Columbiad rather than Broadside and Ram, unless I can come up with some simple rules for locomotive torpedoes for the latter?
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