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 lord_blackfang wrote:
Distinctive? We haven't seen a ship yet that doesn't look like it came straight from Dreadfleet

Maybe he meant distinctive from current naval games rather than OOP?

guess than I am the only one here to remember Man'O'War?

PS:

That's not bad.

Some of those look really cool. Shame the undead one really does look lifted directly from Dreadfleet, specifically The Curse of Zandri. That was my least favorite ship of an otherwise excellent crop of models. They were fun to paint and look at, even if the game was utter crap

Though a fun side note: my son (8) and I took it off the shelf a few weeks ago, and played a few scenarios. Even if it was rough for me (such a bad game!), he loved it and we had fun. We played it as a coop game, where we each got a ship (he was partial to the elf ship with its dragon) and battled "the bad guys". I didn't play with wind rules at all, and just did the most logical / reasonable move for the enemy ships when it was their turn.

I for one can't wait, as Man O'war is one of my favourite games. The hours I spent on it and the little tiny ships.

I hope there's a solid game around this one.

I love the Dreadfleet ships, so this is good news for me!

I really don't know why everyone is so triggered by Dreadfleet. I thought it was a perfectly fine light board game, if a bit high on RNG, and 90% of its randomness was concentrated in like 6 event cards that could easily be removed.

 kodos wrote:
guess than I am the only one here to remember Man'O'War?

You're not the only one, but I'm waiting to know more about this game before saying which game is the closest to this one.


About the ships revealed so far, what I meant is the miniatures seem a bit overcharged in design, but maybe it's because of the scale involved ?

 mattjgilbert wrote:
There is no metal on any of the ships.

Mantic jumping on the Siocast bandwagon?


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 lord_blackfang wrote:
I really don't know why everyone is so triggered by Dreadfleet. I thought it was a perfectly fine light board game, if a bit high on RNG, and 90% of its randomness was concentrated in like 6 event cards that could easily be removed.

Same. Dreadfleet is really cool, it's just not Man O War. Because it's not Man O War, it got a lot of hate from people who have no idea what the game is

WholeHazelNuts wrote:
I for one can't wait, as Man O'war is one of my favourite games. The hours I spent on it and the little tiny ships.

I hope there's a solid game around this one.

Same.

 judgedoug wrote:

Same. Dreadfleet is really cool, it's just not Man O War. Because it's not Man O War, it got a lot of hate from people who have no idea what the game is

Spartan gets mocked about because making Uncharted Seas and leave it without much support until it was dead

Yet GW made a one time thing with one ship per faction without any support and no afford in the rules to have an excuse to sell plastic display ships

of course with collectors plastic ships only, less people would have bought it because those who hoped for a real game would have been out from the beginning

so no reason to be more friendly to Dreadfleet than to Uncharted Seas (actually the later should see more love as it was at least Spartan tried to make a game and not just sell models)


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Sarouan wrote:

About the ships revealed so far, what I meant is the miniatures seem a bit overcharged in design, but maybe it's because of the scale involved ?

might be, the smaller the ships, the more overcharged they need to be to still have iconic features on the table (for historical games, large flags and bases with ship names are used to overcome this problem)

but the ship models shown look less overcharged than the drawings from the Newspaper
so maybe only the flagship of each nation goes that direction

for the game itself, I hope to get a small fleet game with 4-8 ships per side
and a scale that matches the historical models (1/1200 or 1/700) so it would be easier to get gaming material

 judgedoug wrote:


Mantic jumping on the Siocast bandwagon?

Nope.

Firestorm Game has leaked the content of the new Starter Set (former Summer Campaign Set)

40 BRAND NEW Goblin Infantry, 40 BRAND NEW Ratkin Infantry, Exclusive Goblin Wiz, Exclusive Ratkin Warlock, 3 Goblin Trolls, 1 Ratkin Night Terror, Gamer's Edition Rulebook. Getting started guide.

and we have a picture of the Campaign Book:

Wayland have the new stuff for preorder as well. £74.99 (pre discount) for the stater set

https://www.waylandgames.co.uk/2175-mantic-entertainment

They just said on Facebook they will reveal the game in full details tomorrow. And apparently we will have Ronnie dressing up for the occasion.

Official name is KoW Armada

Trailer tomorrow at 12 BST

EDIT video link has been removed from youtube

Man that dwarf boat... the word Flanderized comes to mind.

With the ogre kits on pre-release, does anyone know if the siegebreaker resin upgrade kit will work with the shooter/boomer models or just warriors?

Sarouan wrote:
They just said on Facebook they will reveal the game in full details tomorrow. And apparently we will have Ronnie dressing up for the occasion.

This is during Covid. Could just mean he's putting pants on.

That's still an improvement. Unless you want to see his naughty bits.

 .Mikes. wrote:

Sarouan wrote:
They just said on Facebook they will reveal the game in full details tomorrow. And apparently we will have Ronnie dressing up for the occasion.

This is during Covid. Could just mean he's putting pants on.

Well, it’s Mantic, so you just have to hope everything straightens out with some warm water.

Oh man, that dwarf ship is a bummer.... Ugh

I don’t get the complaints. That Dwarfian Bulk Lander looks great.

Yeah I am intrigued enough to want to see mroe.

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Man that dwarf boat... the word Flanderized comes to mind.

Yeah, "flanderized" is overused and inappropriately applied quite frequently, so being on the front of the mind makes sense.

So, it has come to this




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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkQ-Tk2cmUc

All resin, 4 fleets at launch. Of the 3 shown Basilenas look nice, Orcs have pants-on-head-stupid melee attachments and Dwarfs seem to be stuck in Uncharted Seas 1.0 clothing irons stage.

This isn't even at Almost.

Available November. 4 fleets at launch preorder This Friday

https://www.manticgames.com/news/kings-of-war-armada-the-game-of-epic-naval-warfare/

https://www.manticgames.com/news/armada-your-questions-answered/

Is....is Ronnie turning in3ti Guy Fieri?

Not too bad so far - interested to see what the rules are like