Riverine combat and monitors?

[Ahnassi]

With ironclads being their own ships class (currently only Monitor and Virginia), are there any plans of adding river combat (some navigable rivers in the campaign (Missisippi, Yagnze, Rhine, Volga, Danue etc)?

Are coastal guns planed like in Rule the Waves?

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I'd love it if this game could include Monitors - my DAd served on one in WW2 (HMS Abercrombie at the landings off Salerno in 1943, it struck a mine and nearly sank)

[MasterFool]

Those kind of monitors are the turret ships. They are pretty close, if not an exact match for the coastal monitors that existed into early WW2.

River combat is an entirely different beast than what UAD mechanics do. You can fight delta region combats as ships can pull into some of the larger deltas, but going up river in large ships is not suggested even today as you have no maneuverability. The fjords in Norway tended to rack up quite a fair amount of dead ships in combat because of the limited maneuverability.

The US Civil War river monitors were in a very limited zone of history and were really small, under-powered, over armored, and not all that sea worthy. They were, along with counterparts around the globe (river and ocean going) at that time, stepping stones into the future, but not the future itself. I think some US Civil War games do the river style of combat.