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I saw the pictures of Dreadfleet ships and wonder that they are decorated with towers and roofs covered with tiles and still don't sink. And the Bloody Reaver carries a whole vampire castle! Do they float due to some nasty kind of magic, or are these castles and cathedrals simply made of wood?

Likely some kind of magic.

I mean, the Dark Elves have the Black Arks. It's an entire fortress that was ripped out of Ulthuan's soil and then held aloft by dark magics.
These Arks are what the Dark Elves use to maintain their raiding fleets when they operate away from land.

By the way, I got quite mad that the Beastmen didn't seem to have a ship, because I really love my BM army!

Farseer Petriel wrote:I saw the pictures of Dreadfleet ships and wonder that they are decorated with towers and roofs covered with tiles and still don't sink. And the Bloody Reaver carries a whole vampire castle! Do they float due to some nasty kind of magic, or are these castles and cathedrals simply made of wood?

And the flying ship, the ship propelled by a djinn and the medieval submarine are okay to you?
These ships are all extreme caricatures, maybe as contrast to the more believable Encharted Sea models.

Kroothawk wrote:

Farseer Petriel wrote:I saw the pictures of Dreadfleet ships and wonder that they are decorated with towers and roofs covered with tiles and still don't sink. And the Bloody Reaver carries a whole vampire castle! Do they float due to some nasty kind of magic, or are these castles and cathedrals simply made of wood?

And the flying ship, the ship propelled by a djinn and the medieval submarine are okay to you?
These ships are all extreme caricatures, maybe as contrast to the more believable Encharted Sea models.

The flying ship, Arabian djinn-ship, Druchii fortress and the medieval submarine are already fantastic so they are OK, but what is with the simple Imperial warship? What kind of magic makes it to float? Or is it the unbreakable faith in Sigmar?
Perhaps the most realistic model in Dreadfleet is the Black Pearl-like pirate ship. The others are the Tomb Kings arc and Dwarf steam-powered ship, but they are definitley from other epochs.

Well, ships from the Middle Ages and the early 17th century were basically designed as floating castles. Indeed, most of the terms for ship sections show this.


You would basically have what amounted to a Tower and both ends of the ship. the main deck would be used as a killing field.

Grey Templar wrote:Well, ships from the Middle Ages and the early 17th century were basically designed as floating castles. Indeed, most of the terms for ship sections show this.


You would basically have what amounted to a Tower and both ends of the ship. the main deck would be used as a killing field.

No, what

were have you seen the pics? can you drop a link pls

On GW site, and in N&R thread.

Anyone have the game yet? Seems like it could be a fun one-shot…

It's not out yet.

ph34r wrote:

Grey Templar wrote:Well, ships from the Middle Ages and the early 17th century were basically designed as floating castles. Indeed, most of the terms for ship sections show this.


You would basically have what amounted to a Tower and both ends of the ship. the main deck would be used as a killing field.

No, what

Yup

Hence F'o'csle from fore castle
If a ship was boarded it would have to be on the main deck
The archers in the towers would have a relatively clear line of sight down onto the boarders.

My personal fav would have to be the chaos dwarf robosquid.