Man O'War: Pirate Fleet

These are the basic wargalleys you get from the base Man O'War game. Once again, they are sans sails. They painted up pretty fast (I had them done 2 weeks ago), but I tried something different with the bases. I plan to use them as Pirate auxiliaries for the various fleets. If anyone ever makes some Empire Wolfships I could 3d print, I might expand them into a small fleet (3 Lone Wolfs and 6 Wargalleys is around 500 points iirc).

The bases are painted to match the Dreadfleet seascape fabric, and they blend in pretty darn good when you place them on it. I took tissue paper and soaked it in glue and made mounds on top, then took a second tissue paper and placed it so it covered the entire base and coated it with a generous helping of white glue (and some water so it soaked throughout). Painting wise, I tried to match the old white dwarf guide (found in issue 382 ... which you can find pdf's of online ... mine was lost when I basement flooded awhile back). So I painted it cornflower semi-gloss blue, wash of Naggaroth Night, drybrush of Caledor Sky, Wash of Biel-Tan, Drybrush of Caledor Sky, drybrush of Lothern Blue, drybrush of white, Wash of Guilliman Blue, and a final drybrush of white.  That sounds like a lot but it goes pretty quick (although it added a week onto the time). I'm a little worried that the ships might not be attached as well, since it's not a completely flat bond, but so far I haven't seen an issue.

 

Man O'War: Merchant Vessels

Sails Ho!

The first set of Man O'War vessels that actually have sails. In case you don't recognize them, these are GW ships, just not Man O'War ships. They are tokens from the old Mighty Empires game. I have another 6 of these, but for some reason I don't have the masts/sails. There are 11 (unfortunately, since MoW groups things by 3), and I painted the sails so that they can be used in 3 groups of 3 (red/green/blue) with 2 extras (white/black). I'll use them as treasure ships that the fleets can fight over. I tried using post-it-notes to stencil the lines on the sails, but that proofed too fiddly so ended up free-handing most of them.

I like these, they were easy to paint and the sails came out pretty good.

 

August 2020 Totals

I have totally veered off my TODO list, but seem to be picking up painting speed. This month was mostly 2 Man O'War fleets, a project that wasn't even on my radar when I made the list.

I also got a game of Man O'War in with the Boy. He crushed my Dwarf fleet with his Skaven. Highlight of the game for me was my Monitor who only had 1 crew left and kept getting boarded, winning and counter boarding until he left a string of abandoned Deathburners and Warprunners behind him (the crew finally died when the Bell rolled double 5's and killed one crew on every enemy ship within range).

Last but not least, me and the Kids finished Shadows over Hammerhal. I got the final kill of the game, with my trusty Grudgeraker auto-shotgun! It was close, the Gryphhound almost sniped the kill again (like he did with the Gaunt Summoner) but couldn't seal the deal leaving the Chaos Sorcerer on one wound. I picked up Blackstone Fortress and so that's on my paint table now too (although I'm saddened by the fact that you can't get all of the expansions anymore...)

Totals for August 2020

• Skaven Man O'War fleet
• 2 Doombringers
• 9 Deathburners
• 15 Warprunners
• Chaos Dwarf Man O'War fleet
• 2 Great Leveller Battle Barges
• 2 Thunderfire Battle Barges
• 3 Thunder Rollers
• 6 Hull Destroyers
• 1 Great Taurus Rider

Total for August: 40!

Total for 2020: 115

Man O'War: Chaos Dwarf Fleet

Another Man O'War fleet. This time it's the dreaded Chaos Dwarfs.

In the Old World, Chaos Dwarfs are Dwarfs who've succumbed to the lure of Chaos (namely the God of Darkness Hashut ... who may or may not be an actual Chaos God).

These were an odd inclusion in Man O'War given that the Chaos Dwarfs are about as landlocked as you can get. They had a river that stretched the length of a continent that they needed to travel down to even get to the closest sea (across Orc and Goblin lands), then sail 1,000's of miles down and around and back up the Southlands, just to make it anywhere near the Old World where most of the action in the game happens. After doing all of that (in barges no less), their ships had a tendency to explode when they fired their main guns. But look at the size of those main guns! They are the shootiest faction in the game!

It was a fun fleet to paint! Lots of oranges and warm colors. The giant squid thing is from Dreadfleet.