The seventh entry in Guidon Games’ “Wargaming With Minatures” line, Ironclad is a set of ACW naval rules meant for use with 1:1200 scale miniatures. At the time, these were available from Jack Scruby, and you will see references to his catalog numbers.
These are meant to be simple, playable rules, meant to play fast and bloodily at a sacrifice to realism. They were developed and written by Tom Wham (Awful Green Things From Outer Space, Kings & Things) and Don Lowry (Atlanta, Grand Army).
This is a replica of the original 1973 rules verbatim, though the charts and movement templates have been redone.
In addition to the miniatures, the rules expect that each ship and fort will have a small reference card where damage is checked off, which will need to be prepared by the players. Only six sided dice are used for all results, though the ramming table expects use of a red die and a green die.
Available on Wargame Vault.
