Back to the Missenhitti (Again!)

One of my favourite books on naval wargames

The Missenhitti River is of course the fictional waterway used by Bob Cordery in his excellent book, Gridded Naval Wargames, and that I then ‘borrowed’ to use in The Portable Ironclads Wargame and then Developing the Portable Ironclads Wargame: The American Civil War. 

Although I have been less than productive on the writing front for the new book over recent weeks - aerial shenanigans have been the order of the day - I have been getting slowly back into the groove with it. So much so that I plan to fight an ACW action tomorrow. 

The Peter Pig Hammerin’ Iron gaming mat - as used for an earlier action

The game will be limited in scope - one ship a side - and so I thought it would be nice to refight the action from Bob’s book using my scratch built ships and the Hammerin’ Iron gaming mat. I will even use the same ship names - the monitor U.S.S. Admonisher and the casemate ironclad the C.S.S. Missenhitti.

I shall be using the definitive version of the firing arcs and at this stage the only decision I need to make is what actual ships to base the two protagonists on. Methinks a quick dive into my ACW library will be in order - I can think of worse ways to spend an couple of hours!