I’ve been working on a Broadside and Ram scenario for INWARD 2019, which I missed earlier in the month as I was away on holiday. This will involve a patrolling flotilla of the box battery ram HMS Pallas and the steam sloop HMS Rapid intercepting a rescue attempt by the steam paddle frigate Mogador, which has taken the ironclad monitor Onondaga in tow after her engines have broken down somewhere off Toulon.

The challenge for the French will be to tow the unpowered monitor to safety, whilst the crew try to get up enough steam to operate the turrets, with the Royal Navy aiming to batter the Mogador into matchwood before she can succeed and before the immobile Onondaga gets her powerful armament back on line. I’ll work out the details later but I’ve sorted the record sheets for the scenario already. I haven’t played a game of Broadside and Ram for ages, so this should be fun.