US 2100t monitor: 20 months, $700 000, New York.
US 1300t monitor: 16 months, $360 000, New York.
CS 1100t ironclad: 18 months, $325 000, Havana (European-built ironclad).
CS 1600t ironclad: 16 months, $350 000, New Orleans and Mobile.
Cost and construction time is calculated as the average of all the ships of the same type or class. We collected information on the cost and time of construction of various historical
sources. Union monitors were minimal differences of these values. Confederate ironclads were very different as the built in very different conditions. It should be noted that we use the
time required to complete readiness of the ship and crew, and not just the ship (commissioned and not launched).
All ships and structures are paid once at the beginning of construction. This means that you must first save the full cost of construction and only then you can order it. In reality, the
Congress of the Union and the Confederacy initially allocated the full amount of money for shipbuilding and only then start building. So when your blockaders intercept blockade
runner, you are depriving the enemy of money for new ships but you cann't stop to finish already started.
All objects are built and operate in exactly the description of the game and a manual. Initial balance of power has changed in favor of the Confederation of exactly two corvettes.
These ships could in fact strengthen the South, but it never happened. All other resources in the game are calculated on the basis of forces on both sides of the capture of New
Orleans until the capture of Mobile. New Orleans is the second largest city in the United States in 1860. New Orleans is a rich city, which was a military industry and shipbuilding.
We used the data actually involved in the Gulf of Mexico forces (including New Orleans) . Financial and industrial power of the Union was much greater than the capacity of the
Confederation, but the main forces were concentrated near Charleston.
