Clad in Iron System Requirements

1. Manage your fleet and army, hunt the enemy's fleet, hide your weak squadrons in protected ports until reinforcements arrive, blockade enemy trade routes, amphibious assaults and harbour sieges, struggle for dominance over the seas in turned-based strategic mode - all of these actions are possible in Clad in Iron: Gulf of Mexico 1864.

2. CLAD in IRON: Gulf of Mexico 1864 is a American Civil War alternate history naval game in which a turned-based wargame and a real-time strategy are combined.

3. Command a battle formation and experience the power of iron and steam in a turned-based maritime strategy mode while fighting battles with a tactical real time naval simulation game.

4. The real time tactical battle mode allows you to set up battles and squadron groups with their formations and management using realistic ship models and characteristics as well as advanced ballistics and weapon models.

5. The French intervention in Mexico, the Spanish power over Cuba, and the financial interests of the British Empire in Central America would have been under American threat.

6. By the summer of 1864, the city of Mobile remained the last major seaport of the Confederation in the Gulf of Mexico.

7. The fall of the Mobile would allow the United States to dominate the Gulf of Mexico.

8. These stories contain "what if" scenarios at crucial points in history and present outcomes other than those in the historical record.

9. The American naval forces, under the command of the legendary rear admiral David Farragut, were replenished with ironclads.

10. Alternate history is a genre of fiction consisting of stories in which historical events occur differently.

11. France, Britain and Spain have decided to deal a preemptive blow to the United States.