[Commercial] Oak & Iron 1/600 Scale Naval Battles 1650-1750 - Two More Videos!

[SteveBurt]

As it happens, I have a small collection of 1:600 scratch built Napoleonic ships made of balsa, card and wire (2 x 1st rates, 4 x 3rd rates and a couple of frigates), so this KS is most welcome as I could use those big ships with the smaller ones being produced by Firelock games.

[El Frantico]

Cool. Would like to see it.

With this scale for maneuvers you need a big table it seems. But in naval thats not a huge problem. (blue tablecloth)

Scale is abstracted. 3-5 ships per side is playable on a 3'x3' table. You will need at least a 6'x3' to play fleet actions though.

[Antonio J Carrasco]

Sadly, I have cancelled my contribution. Not for anything wrong by Firelock, mind you. Just life happening (my job is at risk right now and I can't afford extra expenses until things clear up a bit)

[Captain Bones]

Great in depth play through and review of the game from mini wargaming  https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=_jfNG_aWOJ4

[Captain Bones]

Here is the kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/firelockgames/oak-and-iron

[Jan]

Man, i want to play it now! 

Please note that the event cards where missing in this excellent playthrough. Every round one card is drawn. Things that could happen are for example wind direction change; messing up initiative cards; etc.

Sidenote:
The ship bases will not be acrylic ones. They will be made out of plastic.


Sadly for the people with excisting ship miniatures they will not provide the rules and stuff without the models. Maybe in the future.

Greets,
Jan

[racm32]

Sadly for the people with excisting ship miniatures they will not provide the rules and stuff without the models. Maybe in the future.

will we need a stat card for each separate ship in your fleet or just one per type of ship?

[robh]

will we need a stat card for each separate ship in your fleet or just one per type of ship?

My understanding from comments and the demo videos is that instead of docking the damage chits on the card you can track damage etc on a simple roster, so 1 card per ship class would be enough in the basic game.

I believe there will be special characters and unique ship configurations that will require specific cards (or at least a more comprehensive style of roster) later though.

[El Frantico]

will we need a stat card for each separate ship in your fleet or just one per type of ship?

It's ideal to have a card for each ship, but not required. Noting upgrades and damage for each ship can be done on piece of paper instead. We have no problem with people playing with their own ships, we just don't currently have the logistical flexibility to offer in the kickstarter at present. Very likely that we will have something after the Kickstarter though.

[El Frantico]

New basics of gameplay video up for those that don't want to watch the one hour+ video. Enjoy!

[El Frantico]

Yet another gameplay video! English Commerce Raiders vs. Dutch Merchants



Enjoy

[Jan]

Congratulations, guys. Great success.

Can’t wait for the game to rise and see the progress.

Hopefully i will recruit some sailors here (in Berlin, Germany) with some games in clubs/stores, but i don’t worry, cause it’s a good game to get people in the hobby, or even just play a game with boardgamers.

 

Greetings,
Jan

[El Frantico]

Congratulations, guys. Great success.

Can’t wait for the game to rise and see the progress.

Hopefully i will recruit some sailors here (in Berlin, Germany) with some games in clubs/stores, but i don’t worry, cause it’s a good game to get people in the hobby, or even just play a game with boardgamers.

 

Greetings,
Jan

Thanks! and thanks to all of the other backers and even interested parties here.

[Jan]

Shipping is estimated on December now. I am realy looking forward to this.

They just showed us the test prints from china (not the final colors):
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/firelockgames/oak-and-iron/posts/2636126?ref=ksr_email_backer_project_update_registered_users


For example:






Very good gaming miniatures, it seems. I hope the best.

New Batreps on Beatsofwar / OnTabletop (Youtube) incoming in a few days.

Greets,
Jan

[DeRuyter]

They also did confirm on the KS page that the bases will be clear.

Looking at those ship of the line models I wish I had gotten some as well as the smaller ships!