"Looking for Rules for ACW / colonial era steam riverboats?" Topic
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| huevans011 | 25 May 2025 3:32 p.m. PST |
Does anyone know of a decent set of rules for low level riverboat skirmishing? Looking for ideas and rules about speed, currents, damage calculation, casualties to deck crew, grounding on shoals and sandbars, boarding etc??? Anyone know of a ruleset? |
| Sydney Gamer | 25 May 2025 8:20 p.m. PST |
Good question, I'd also like to know! |
korsun0  | 25 May 2025 8:32 p.m. PST |
David Manley has a selection on wargames Vault that cover sea, rivers, lakes for older ships. |
| DisasterWargamer | 25 May 2025 10:28 p.m. PST |
Might check out Boilers and Breechloaders on The Virtual Armchair General "The new 5th Edition has expanded to 72 pages of rules and Ship Logs for all three Hull Types, and Native Craft. Rules for Torpedoes, Rockets, and all manner of Cannon, Machine Guns, and "Pom-pom's" are still provided, and new weapons have been added, too!
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"B&B 5th is now even more than before the complete game for Riverine and Coastal actions in amphibious operations and between Gunboats and Native Craft in the Age of Imperialism.
Fully integrated with The Sword and The Flame and the Campaign Game, The Sun Never Sets (TSNS), the game allows for 25mm or 15mm Gunboat models to fight each other, side-by-side with your with miniatures land games." |
| Consul Paulus | 26 May 2025 2:05 a.m. PST |
I have enjoyed games with "Hammerin' Iron", the rules for 1/600 scale ACW riverine actions by Peter Pig. |
| bobspruster | 26 May 2025 7:24 a.m. PST |
huevans011, thanks for asking!
Disaster Wargamer, thanks for the tip! I just ordered my copy if B & B. |
| khanscom | 26 May 2025 5:22 p.m. PST |
Old school rules: "Ironclad" by Wham and Lowry, or a lightly modified version as "Ironclad Gunboat" from the Jackson Gamers. I've played these in scenarios from the Austro- Prussian War and the War of the Triple Alliance-- lots of fun and not too complicated. |
| HMS Exeter | 26 May 2025 8:06 p.m. PST |
A lot depends on which period you're planning to game. Things changed quite significantly as technology progressed. Wood remained wood and steam remained steam, but machine guns, repeating firearms and advanced breach loading contact fuzed explosive shells ushered in a very different geography to warfare wet. |
| 138SquadronRAF | 29 May 2025 12:30 p.m. PST |
You might be able to adapt these rules: link |
| scouts19508a | 14 Jun 2025 10:53 a.m. PST |
Last stand dan used to sell a set of rules called Gunboat & Dhow based on the sword and the flame. And he sells/makes the boats to go with them. Jim link |
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