Over the weekend I ran a demo game for Dawn of Iron to test things out ahead of sending the book to the publishers next week. I threw together all the ships that I had, some terrain, and headed to my semi-local club. I wasn't sure how many players there would be and I only had one sea mat to use as well, so I hit on an idea to run a Capture the Flag style game. It was fun and I highly recommend it if you want to run your own demo as it forces the players to get moving and tak

Today, 160 years ago, the CSS Virginia and USS Monitor clashed in the first battle between ironclads. The amazing people at Little Wars TV pulled together a great video to mark the occasion, even going so far to play wargames...on the replica deck of the USS Monitor at the Mariner's Museum , in Newport News, Virginia. So cool! I feel really honored to have played a small supporting role. A special shout out to Patrick Woodard (3D sculptor extraordinaire from East Coast Ir

I ran through a couple of playtests of Ironclads a few weeks ago to test out a few game features, but also to try out some simple coastline bits that I made. My recent building run was to complete the ironclads involved in the First Battle of Charleston Bay fought in early April 1863. I also made the iconic Fort Sumter, which has a funny story of its own that one day I'll document. The short version is that I radically under-scaled the fort and didn't catch it until it was a