I had a tip-off via the Naval Wargaming (Historical) Facebook group that the Russo-Turkish War supplement for the Long Face Games ironclad rules series has a section on spar and locomotive torpedoes in Broadside and Ram.
This is great, as I now have rules that I can use for my Victorian 'What If?' naval games, as well as making it possible to deploy the French torpedo boats that I have based up for the later Victorian naval project, which covers the 1880's when the 'Jeune Ecole' was in the ascendant.
The rules are elegantly straightforward and I can see them being the focus of a few scenarios, with French sallies from the blockaded ports of Brest, Lorient and La Rochelle against the Royal Navy ironclads on inshore picket duty, amongst other things.
It also opens up some possibilities for other scenarios involving lesser powers, which did not have the naval capabilities of the great power nations so resorted to the use of small, lightly armed craft with torpedoes as their main offensive weapons. The Imperial Chinese and Vietnamese are an obvious example but there are also others that could make for some interesting games.
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