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The advance of the undead fleet is forewarned by the ominous gigantic shape of the Drifting Mausoleum, a sight that can stop the heart of even the most seasoned sailors, as the motionless sails of the derelict Corpseships act as eerie mementos of ships sunk long ago along with their drowned crews.

Organic looking Bonerammers float silently in ordinate squadrons, as the necromantic magic that has created these vessels from ancient dead bones still fuels their motion.

The accompanying Dreadships are more mundane but nonetheless a lethal threat, as their huge catapults manned by living corpses, are capable of crippling even the most powerful warships with a single hit
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The GRAVETIDES Kickstarter for an undead fleet for naval fantasy wargaming is now live.

The Kickstarer offers an undead fleet to be used with any in-print or out-of-print rules, composed by and admiral warship, a couple of indipendent vessels and two squadrons, each with a different kind of support ship.

Add-ons of single ships or squadrons are possible, and a couple of Flying Monsters models are unlockable during the course of the campaign.

The models offered are all carefully handcrafted like the old school miniatures whose memory they seek to recall, and will be finely cast in gray resin by a professional printer.

If this Kickstarter is a success, we plan to develop further our Gravetides project, creating more fleets, and actually try to publish (in a form or another) our core rules, now in advanced development.

Among the fleets we’re thinking about, besides the classical Dwarfs, Elves and Orcs, are the vessels of Frostbare, a nation of undead from the northern ice plains, the warships of the quadrumvirate of the alchemical Liches, and the vampire realm of the degenerate Blood Sycophants.

Help us creating a new world!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/weirdocollector/gravetides-an-undead-fleet-for-naval-fantasy-warga
   
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Interesting take, and we do love ship games in this corner of the world. Scale shot?
   
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Hi everybody!

We've at the first half of our journey, and thanks to the generosity and attention of our backers we've almost reached our goal !

Keep spreading the word, and persuading (without recurring to disreputable means ), everybody who could be interested in our fleet and in naval fantasy wargaming in general.

Meanwhile, work on the Flying Monsters proceeds, as the DracoMort and the Revenant gain details.





These models will continue to be worked on over the week end during our stay at the Modena Play gaming fair .

After eating some tortellini, come to see our fleet and some live sculpting at the Legends Lounge stand in Hall B.

Have a nice weekend !



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 kestral wrote:
Interesting take, and we do love ship games in this corner of the world. Scale shot?

Hi, and sorry for being so late in responding !

The scale of miniatures fits the old Man O' War models, as the ships have been thought to be used as proxies for the undead fleet that was never released for that venerable game.

Hope this helps!

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Really like the designs, I think id need to see a 2nd faction + well designed ruleset for me to get behind this one though.
   
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Hi !

here are some photos of the WIP on the Revenant and the DracoMort, the two flying monsters of our undead naval fleet.











We're finally into the last week of our Kickstarter campaign, and we've decided, looking at the evolution on the sculpting of these add-on and the progress of the campaign, to unlock the two models, as an acknowledgment to our backers, because we’re far from reaching our optimistic unlock goals, and because we’re confident to have them ready to be shipped with the rest of the fleet in the timeframe set for the project.

Feel free to add them to your pledges!

Again, the campaign is his very last days and very very near to its final goal, help us making it !

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/weirdocollector/gravetides-an-undead-fleet-for-naval-fantasy-warga


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anab0lic wrote:
Really like the designs, I think id need to see a 2nd faction + well designed ruleset for me to get behind this one though.


Hi !

That's exactly our plan, as we're already planning another fleet, this time with a vampiric theme.

As far as rules are regarding, we're also developing a dedicated GRAVETIDES ruleset, and in the next updates of our KS page we'll give a glimpse of some of some of their major mechanism.

Thanks a lot for your positive comment !

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