Thursday, 22 May 2025

The Dinger of Hums

The grand finale has been fought and a victory secured. The game was enormous fun and oozed period ‘feel’ which is exactly what a good wargame should do!

As mentioned previously, the after action report will appear in Developing the Portable Ironclads Wargame: The American Civil War in due course, along with pictures of the resultant mayhem (of which there were plenty!).

As a teaser though, here are a couple of pictures of the carnage - the great ‘Dinger of Hums!’


The inexorable advance of the Union


“Around the rugged rock the ragged rascals ran…..!”


The naval equivalent of the M25 during the rush hour - come to think of it, this was probably worse….

That is all for now - a full report with pictures will appear in the book when published so best I get busy with the keyboard!


6 comments:

Peter Douglas said...

My hummer eagerly awaits dinging!

David Crook said...

Hi Peter,

Shouldn’t be too long (I hope!) and then your hummer can be dinged to its hearts delight!

All the best,

DC

Ray Rousell said...

Looking fab, Dave!

David Crook said...

Thank you kindly Raymondo! Now that most of the models are built I can think about organising the terrain to look a little more appropriate but, as they say, is for another day….

All the best,

DC

Archduke Piccolo said...

If the book has the same production values as the pics shown here, methinks I might be forced to purchase a copy! Mayhap my long neglected ACW fleets will after all see action again!
Cheers,
Ion

David Crook said...

Hi Ion,

There will be plenty of things to look at in the book so I hope you will enjoy it - and will also get the ACW fleets out. There is a certain anarchic satisfaction at seeing ships in what could be best described as the naval equivalent of a dogfight only slower….

All the best,

DC