I’ve done a bit more work on the scenario for Broadside and Ram, based on a ‚What If?‘ raid by USN monitors on the Royal Navy anchorage at Spithead. I still have to work out the details but it’s shaping up nicely, as you can see from the scenario layout that I’ve bodged together in my usual MS Paint format. The monitors will be attacking at night in the fog, so the Royal Navy picket boats patrolling the Solent will have to detect them before they get within range of the anchored ironclads. I haven’t worked out where or how the picket boats and harbour defence ironclads will deploy but they will be the key factor in preventing the monitors from penetrating the anchorage and blasting away at the (relatively) defenceless ironclad warships.