Hi All,
I have had a couple of enjoyable ACW Naval games using Peter pigs "Hammerin Iron Rules" and have occasionally thought about getting some models for it. Stupidly I looked at Pitheads New range of 1:1200 models for this period, and they are really nice.
Before I go and spend money buying stuff that I know little about I thought I would ask the esteemed mebers of the Forum to recommend some suitable non-fiction books about the two navies. I am not looking for highly detaile stuff, just a description of actions and some Idea of the various ships and their armour (armor for out colonial cousins) and their armaments
Cheers
Mark
If you can get hold of a copy "Conway's Fighting Ships 1860-1906" is very useful, although giving cover to a much wider area. I suspect it might be rather expensive though.
Cheers
IanS
If you are stuck, there;s always Osprey which has loads of titles, e.g.,"Confederate Ironclad vs Union Ironclad" (have that one & liked it), "CSS Alabama vs USS Kearsage," "Union River Ironclad 1861-65," etc.
Quote from: ianrs54 on 11 January 2018, 02:33:38 PM
If you can get hold of a copy "Conway's Fighting Ships 1860-1906" is very useful, although giving cover to a much wider area. I suspect it might be rather expensive though.
Cheers
IanS
DOH !!!! I have that, thanks for reminding me - Just had a peek and it looks like a good basic guide. I also mamaged to download a Kindle copy of "Naval Strategy During The American Civil War " By David Murphy for 88p so betwee the two I have something to work with.
Tumbling Dice have lots of nice stuff for that era too!
Quote from: mad lemmey on 11 January 2018, 06:16:09 PM
Tumbling Dice have lots of nice stuff for that era too!
... as do Navwar
http://www.navwar.co.uk/nav/default.asp?MMID=80
I think you should first of all decide what kind of games you want to concentrate on; river wars with steamers and iron clads, blockading Southern ports with all sorts of ships of the line as well as ironclads and blockade runners or naval battles at open sea with privateers and Yankee gunboats like the CSS Alabama and the USS Kearsarge. That will more or less decide what kind of ships you're looking for.
I have several books on ACW naval history/battles so if you have any specific questions please let me know and I'll try and look it up for you.
Cheers,
Rob