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So the daughter of Manananam (do do do do do) cuts off her tail

Bet she must have been really gutted when she was cast out to do something like that.

I reckon they were struggling for some background so they dreamt this yarn up just to fill it out.

You'd have to be pretty fethed up if you are cast out by the Norse, who pretty much venerate people with mutations.

Thought Mannanan was a Celtic diety?

- Edited by insaniak. Evidently I wasn't clear enough. If you wish to pursue this further, take it to PM instead of further de-railing the thread. -

Thanks, RiTides! May have been blocked by my work filter, I'll do a more thorough search.

He's one of the old gods so to say, from before Sigmar was around. Chances are that when she was cast out by the vikings she went to Sartosa, claimed that her mutations are a gift from the fishy god and that's the reason why?

edit.

Oh and thanks, now I got that tune in my head again.

Dan: The Swordfysh is one of my favourite ships in the game and there are few characters in Warhammer as bizarre as Aranessa - she cut off her own mutated fish tail and replaced it with peg legs made from swordfish blades. You can't get much more Warhammer than that.

I think this gives weight to the mermaid argument

The fluff looks interesting, the art seems great, the boats are cool, but I don't even have time to build/paint/play with my 40k minis so I will not get it. The few abilities they've shown on the GW website point to a fun game alltogether. In my opinion anyway.

And the price? Eh, I'd say it's worth it.

N'Ferno wrote:

Dan: The Swordfysh is one of my favourite ships in the game and there are few characters in Warhammer as bizarre as Aranessa - she cut off her own mutated fish tail and replaced it with peg legs made from swordfish blades. You can't get much more Warhammer than that.

I think this gives weight to the mermaid argument

The fluff looks interesting, the art seems great, the boats are cool, but I don't even have time to build/paint/play with my 40k minis so I will not get it. The few abilities they've shown on the GW website point to a fun game alltogether. In my opinion anyway.

And the price? Eh, I'd say it's worth it.

Missed that bit on the site then, WD didn't mention it like that. Sucks to be her then.

You are welcome
wait what tune?

I thank you for reminding me I have had a book in my Amazon shopping basket for ages
"Gods and Myths of Northern Europe" byHilda Ellis-Davidson!


ps no one got the joke

Arg....in recognishin of da Dreadfleet release, I'se be haulin' off me old theme and makin' da rest of me theme for Septermbar a fittin' pirate theme!

Arg.

Ah that! sorry

Would it help if I said swab the deck ye currs
Let's see those, arrr - a - g - g - m - o - p - p RAGMOPS

You can't get much more Warhammer than that.

Damn it, you're not supposed to be proud of this!

Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:Ah that! sorry

Would it help if I said swab the deck ye currs
Let's see those are a g g m o p p RAGMOPS

Arg....yeese bettar swab dat deck nicely, or you'lls be doin' da hempen jig.

Arg.

I will stop now before I get keel hauled!

AlexHolker wrote:

You can't get much more Warhammer than that.

Damn it, you're not supposed to be proud of this!

Why?

Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:I will stop now before I get keel hauled!

Arg....ya bettar also get rid o that thar flyin' cat. It scares me right to da grip of Davy Jones...

His Master's Voice wrote:

AlexHolker wrote:

You can't get much more Warhammer than that.

Damn it, you're not supposed to be proud of this!

Why?

Because a pirate with two peg legs is the kind of idea other people make fun of. Having a mermaid cut herself in half so that she can hop around as some kind of living farce is not the mark of a setting I can appreciate.

BrookM wrote:Clan Skurvy

Oh, dear.

This is established fluff, isn't it...

htj, maybe I imagined it... I searched back to page 15 and all I found was this comment:

Kroothawk wrote:That said, the gaming mat is usable for Spartan games AND Man'o'War, the ships and terrain seem to be same scale as Spartan Games.
So now you have a better Man'o'War (Spartan) AND a boxed game with terrain in the same scale. That seems better than what you prosposed.

There's also this scale shot:


But we'll probably need to wait until someone has the ships in-hand to get a real scale shot comparison between these and Spartan Games ships.

Wow, that freehand work on the sails is wicked

I saw those two on my second run through and they pretty much answered my question near as we're gonna get, I think. I reckon they'll be a little smaller than Spartan stuff but just in a way that they'll look like small ships. I've ordered this because I like the models, so I'll put up some comparison shots when they come but I've only got DW stuff, so it may not be all that useful.

wyomingfox wrote:Wow, that freehand work on the sails is wicked

They do help you a bit however with having the designs etched onto the plastic.

That's a relief

/rimshot

lord_blackfang wrote:

BrookM wrote:Clan Skurvy

Oh, dear.

This is established fluff, isn't it...

Had the exact same reaction...

htj wrote:I saw those two on my second run through and they pretty much answered my question near as we're gonna get, I think. I reckon they'll be a little smaller than Spartan stuff but just in a way that they'll look like small ships. I've ordered this because I like the models, so I'll put up some comparison shots when they come but I've only got DW stuff, so it may not be all that useful.

I'd love to see a comparison shot, when you get them!

I posted this on page 25:

Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:That's a relief

AlexHolker wrote:
Because a pirate with two peg legs is the kind of idea other people make fun of. Having a mermaid cut herself in half so that she can hop around as some kind of living farce is not the mark of a setting I can appreciate.

Hm... a pirate with 2 peg legs? Where have I seen this before?

Oh, wait:



Please tell me that one of the pirates is completely blind, too? It would completely explain how ridiculous Dreadfleets is.