Appendices for Jackson Gamers' ACW Naval rules
Turning Gauges
The size of the gauges can be ajusted to fit your playing space. There are some rules to consider when making ajustments.
- Gauge #1 should be twice the diameter of Gauge #3. Gauge #2 should be half-way in between.
- Mark your gauges out on paper or card stock and then make a "tick mark" every inch (25mm) around the outside edge. If you are going to play the game in centimeters, then ever 2.5 centimeters is close enough to an inch.
- Gauge #1 is for most southern ironclads. Maneuverable ones can use #2 but they were few and far in between.
- Union ironclads and most timber-clads or cotton-clads use #2.
- Side-wheel ships that have the ability to control their wheels independently use #1, they were very maneuverable if they opposed the direction of travel of their paddle wheels. Side wheelers that had thier paddle wheels on a single shaft use #2.
- Steam lauches may turn "on a dime" and need no gauge.
- You can always use a larger turning gauge than called for.
- Side-wheel ships that have the ability to control their wheels independently may turn in place if they move no more than 1" forward or backward in a turn.
- If you use the 1/1200 sized gauges for larger scale ships (1/600 perhaps) no one can fault you. This works well if you don't have much room.
Sewing and Fabric stores seol a product called Mix n Match Templates for Quilters product #JT-411. This consists of differing sizes of circles made of clear plastic. This may prove useful in smaller scales.
Gun Training Arcs
| 90 degree arc.
This is used for shore batteries or for pivot guns that can fire out of either side of an unarmored vessel. |
| 45 degree arc.
This is used for pivot guns firing out of the front or rear of casemate ironclads or wooden gunboats. |
| 30 degree arc.
This is used for pivot guns firing out of the sides of casemate ironclads or wooden gunboats. |
Notes: Monitors can, of course, fire 360 degrees except for:
- The first one (U.S.S. Monitor) which did not fire straight ahead because of the pilot house forward of the turret.
- The succeeding once which could not fire straight aft because of the smoke stack and ventilation stack aft of the turret.
- The dual turreted monitors which have a 30 degree arc aft that cannot be fired into by the front turret, and which have a 30 degree arc forward that cannot be fired into by the after turret.
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