This 19 June 2021 marks the long overdue first officially recognized Juneteenth. This holiday marks the end of slavery in the United...

One of the interesting little innovations of the US Navy during the Civil War was the mortar boats (sometimes called rafts). These were...

This week marks the 159th Anniversary of the Battle of Memphis, which took place on 6 June 1862. So I thought it would be fitting to post...

Adding flags and banners is a big part of making ships or rank-and-file troops look the part on the battlefield. Not only do these add...

Huge thank you to Mitch Reed at NDNG for hosting me on the HMGS Round Table and letting me drag on a bit about Ironclads...

I ran through a couple of playtests of Ironclads a few weeks ago to test out a few game features...

After the City-class ironclads, I moved on to the Ellet rams. These were a bit tricky to build. Owing to the civilian origins of Ellet's...

Admittedly, when I started working on Ironclads all I thought about were the coastal ironclads like USS Monitor and CSS Virginia....

SBS embarks on a new naval wargame project...