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!
Welcome to my blog. I have upwards of 100 projects in various stages of incompletion or total abandonment, so you may well find something of interest if you rummage about a bit. I concentrate on solo air and naval wargaming but other 'skirmishy' things quite often pop up out of nowhere, only to disappear again after something else grabs my attention. I even finish the occasional project now and again!
Thursday, 26 October 2023
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ReplyDeleteIt's a fascinating stage in naval development but really tricky to wargame due to the range of different ideas.
ReplyDeleteI like transitions - they disrupt our neat compartments we give history especially military history.
ReplyDeleteMe too.
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