Man O'War - a love story

[elThyge]

I have been playing Man O'War on and off since I bought the boxed set and two fleets back in 1994 beginning a love story that has lasted ever since. The last 10 years I have been collecting the miniatures from the game and now have almost the entire range.

It had therefore become time to begin painting the many fleets.



At present I have two fleets ready to play. A 1000 point High Elves fleet and...



a 1000 point Empire Fleet...



... including three Sea Monsters.

It is my goal over the next couple of years to restore all the fleets as faithfully as I can to the original game.

Each year starting this november I will bring my work to Horisont in Esbjerg, Denmark showing and playing Man O'War with those interested. My first intention was to make a sort of museum collection but why not make it a living, travelling museum.

I will post my progress here with lot of pictures. If you are interested in more I have a thread on powerfist.dk in danish but again with lot of pictures.You can find my main gallery here and ingame pictures here.

[beefcake]

Very cool. I love that little blast effect coming out of the gigantic cannon. Only played it a couple of times but it was quite cool.

[Thantsants]

Lovely work - just getting into Man O war myself with Dwarf, Dark Elf and Orc fleets before I nearly bankrupted myself on ebay with them!

Yet to play a game as I have a few other projects on the go at the moment, although I have vague plans of one day linking WFB games with Man O War and Mighty Empires to capture all aspects of a large campaign... 

Love the idea of a living, travelling museum - something a few of us in the UK are attempting with WFB 3rd ed. under the banner of Oldhammer.

[Hammers]

I always liked the look of this game. I, unfortunately, have never had the chance to play it.

[joroas]

I still have all the original fleets painted and boxed, even the Norse, and I used the ships from the original Mighty Empires as extra pirates and a merchant fleet.  Plague Fleet left me cold. They haven't seen action this century, sadly.

[robh]

Not a game that ever appealed to me to play, but I enjoyed painting some of the ships a few years ago for a client. Yours look really great, congratulations.

[maxxev]

Man o war was a really great game, I sill have a dwarf fleet boxed away somewhere (never actually owned the game but I have the PDFs that were online for a while).

[elThyge]

Thx to you all,





It's part of a nostalgia trip for me. This year at Horisont IV I'm also bringing a home made 3D Dungeon Bowl. You can read more about the Horisont event here in english and about how I made the dungeon here in danish.







I'll also bring my collection of old Games Workshop miniatures from 1991 and before. You can see my gallery with the growing collection here.

[Doomsdave]

I love the nostlagic paintjobs on those ships.  It makes me regret never having gotten into Man O War.  Good work.

[carlos marighela]

Very nice and quite unusual. You don't see many threads about man love on LAF. The thread that dare not speak its name?

[DeafNala]

Spending you're time doing something you love is a WONDERFUL experience; when it turns out as lovely as your project, it is even more WONDROUS. I, for one, am enjoying your efforts...keep up the FINE WORK. VERY WELL DONE!

[dijit]

Loving it and will be very much looking forwards to seeing it at Horizont!
Duncan

[rob_the_robgoblin]

I was lucky enough to pick up the boxed game and both expansions for pittance at a charity shop recently. I love the game, never got the opportunity to get it whilst it was out, but played it a lot when I was younger. My dwarfs were great, except I always forgot to get my submarines up for air, so they always drowned!!! 

I remember the big cannon ships, always loved how they would send the ship backwards. A shame dreadfleet was more than a stand-alone boxed game.

GW seems to be pretty good at getting naval games to be fun!

[elThyge]

I remember the big cannon ships, always loved how they would send the ship backwards.

The Helhammers have a recoil of 3". The gunsmoke is 2" long representing part of the recoil. Before the shot, the Hellhammer was as close as possible to the Eagleship.

[Tacgnol]

I got four games of Man O'War played today, introducing my mate to the game. So much fun! I was surprised at how much space for tactical thinking there was even with just six wargalleys a side.