Iron and Fire: Naval Rules for the American Civil War and Ironclad Period 1850-1880

Summary of Contents

• INTRODUCTION: Scales; Dice and Die Rolling Conventions; Structure Points and Buoyancy Points; Size; Gun Descriptions; Armour; Ship Design Examples; Command Quality; Crew Quality
• TERRAIN, CURRENT, WIND AND VISIBILITY: Shallows; Currents; Wind; Visibility; Lines of Sight
• ORDER OF PLAY AND INITIATIVE: Initiative for small actions; Initiative for Fleet actions
• MOVEMENT: Turning; Collisions ; Forcing the Engines; Slowing down in an Emergency; Sail Assisted Steam; Fallen Masts; Anchoring
• FIRING: The Basics; Hitting the Target; Hit Location; Penetration and Hit Location; Critical Hits; Effects of SP and BP Reduction; Steaming Hits; Fire; Flood; Effects of Damage on Speed and Gunnery; Damage to Paddle Wheels; Howitzers
• GUNNERY ARCS
• RAMMING AND COLLISIONS: Contact; After-effects of Rams and Collisions; Damage from Rams and Collisions; Locking; Ramming Special Effects; Spar Torpedoes
• OPTIONAL RULES: Static Torpedoes (Mines); Mobile Torpedoes; Grounding; Shore Batteries; Mortars; Obstacles (Log Booms etc.); Machine Guns and Snipers; Morale; Boarding; Illumination (Searchlights and Flares); Submarines; Temporary Armour; Ships Alongside; Grapeshot; Turret Traverse; Towing; Forts and Fortresses; Movement under Sail (optional)
• SCENARIOS: The Battle of Hampton Roads; The Battle of Iquiqui; The Battle of Angamos; Somewhere on the Yazoo River, 1863
• REFERENCES
• SHIP DATA TABLES: Union Ironclads; Union Seagoing Warships and Gunboats; Confederate Ironclads; Confederate Gunboats, Commerce raiders and Blockade Runners; Danish Vessels; Chilean Vessels; Peruvian Vessels; Austrian Vessels; Italian Vessels; British Vessels; French Vessels; Russian Vessels; Turkish Vessels; Generic Vessels
• SHIP RECORD CARDS
• SUGGESTED POINTS VALUE CALCULATION
• FIRING ARC AND SAILING CIRCLE TEMPLATE
• SALVO GUN FIRE TABLES

• Iron & Fire: Naval Rules for the American Civil War & Ironclad Period 1850-1880