Two of my research sources - Paul Silverstone’s excellent book and the ship cards from Yaquinto’s Ironclads board game. These are really helpful for gun locations.
I am of course, referring to the ship specifications part of the new book - not the whole thing mind - more specifically, the Union ships for the American Civil War. Rather naively I fell into the trap of thinking that this would be quite straightforward - just a few tweaks to those already published in the Portable Ironclads Wargame - but not so. It has not been difficult to do but it has taken longer than I expected, mainly due to checking the artillery carried and in which direction it could fire. Bearing in mind I am using single hexes per model rather than two.
The Confederates are next, and they should be finished in a week or so. This is just as well, because once they are complete the plan is to try them out at the club once the Russo Japanese War has been signed off.
The Great War will then follow and once that has been covered it will be on to the main text. The rules snd ship specs needed to be prepared first for obvious reasons - it means that I can get in some meaningful testing. There will be three battle reports in the book so I should soon be a position to to start thinking about them.
It is moving along, steady as she goes….
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