Quote from: MengJiao on Today at 12:07:57 PMQuote from: ArizonaTank on Today at 08:57:49 AMSo what do you think of the rules? I am kind of interested in finding something like Yaquinto's old Ironclads...a game I truly enjoyed. GMT's Iron and Oak left me a little cold.
The guns and armor seem to work reasonably well and have a more satisfying level of detail for penetration and damage and so on than in Oak and Iron.
Quote from: MengJiao on May 06, 2024, 06:18:00 PMQuote from: MengJiao on May 06, 2024, 06:09:39 PMHistorically, the French armored corvette Thetis did some reconnaissance of the German coast during the Franco-Prussian war. In this Scenario, a fast German Ironclad tries to run down the somewhat sluggish Thetis. The French Ironclad Ocean (of End of the Samurai fame) intervenes.
In ten minutes of steaming and firing, a few things happen: mostly at ranges of around seven or eight hundred yards, most shots miss. One French 10-inch rifled breech-loader blows up but one French 10.8-inch shot penetrates the German Ironclad in the main battery amidships. A big explosion and fire results: a gun battery of 8.2-inch Krupps is wrecked and the armor blown away with significant hull damage and crew suppression.
Which is a surprise, though I guess the 8.2 Krupps was always an ill-fated caliber:
Ill-fated maybe, but these ships have pretty bad turning radiuses and Carl was able to escape while Ocean was trying to get back around and attack again.
Quote from: ArizonaTank on Today at 08:57:49 AMSo what do you think of the rules? I am kind of interested in finding something like Yaquinto's old Ironclads...a game I truly enjoyed. GMT's Iron and Oak left me a little cold.
Quote from: MengJiao on Today at 06:47:01 AMHMS Scorpion and HMS Wyvern were originally built for the Confederacy (and they show up in
Fall of the Samurai). After the mess with CSS Alabama , they were bought by the Royal Navy (after briefly being Egyptian and making a big profit for the middlemen involved)
Anyway, here we suppose an alternative world where the Confederacy saves Mexico from the rapacious French using those Ironclade turret ships versus the more conventional French Ironclads Thetis and Joan d'Arc. Of course in 1870 the Spartan beauty pageant poems where Thetis rules the seas had not been found and Joan wasn't yet canonized to full sainthood so North Carolina II and Mississippi II should have some metaphysics on their side:
Quote from: MengJiao on May 06, 2024, 06:09:39 PMHistorically, the French armored corvette Thetis did some reconnaissance of the German coast during the Franco-Prussian war. In this Scenario, a fast German Ironclad tries to run down the somewhat sluggish Thetis. The French Ironclad Ocean (of End of the Samurai fame) intervenes.
In ten minutes of steaming and firing, a few things happen: mostly at ranges of around seven or eight hundred yards, most shots miss. One French 10-inch rifled breech-loader blows up but one French 10.8-inch shot penetrates the German Ironclad in the main battery amidships. A big explosion and fire results: a gun battery of 8.2-inch Krupps is wrecked and the armor blown away with significant hull damage and crew suppression.
Which is a surprise, though I guess the 8.2 Krupps was always an ill-fated caliber: