New Ships for Victory at Sea

[MongooseMatt]

Any naval wargamers here?


Got some Victory at Sea news...

We are very proud to be able to show off the first of the new 1/1800 Victory at Sea ships – HMS Exeter!

These models are the product of Sandrine Thirache, who has been toiling for more than 18 months now, researching the warships of World War II (with the ever-present help of our Official Naval Boffins), locating accurate deck plans, and then using all of that to build lovely 3D models of each vessel.

We are just beginning to ramp up production of the Victory at Sea line, though if you are attending SELWG this month, we will likely have a small number of Exeters, Achilles, and Graf Spees waiting for you. More ships are being prototyped right now, and it will not be long before you can have a full-raging sea battle between these great looking ships.

Planet Mongoose has the full story at http://blog.mongoosepublishing.co.uk/?p=413

[Agis]

Why not show any pics directly?

[Arrigo]

While I hope the line will be a success I really do not see any appeal of 1/1800 (except the tie in with the WaS ones). The HMS Exeter is nice but 1/1800 is a weird scale (too big for any decent size battle except with massive range distortion and big tables). I am pretty happy with my 1/6000 and the 3d printed 1/4800 stuff from Roe Tengco. Still I can buy a couple as gift for friends.

Arrigo

[Agis]

Same for me, I will stick to 1/2400.
I can understand Mongoose however, using a unique (more or less) scale will help sell their minis.
But I fully expect that most naval gamers will stick to their fleets and scale.

[MongooseMatt]

Why not show any pics directly?

Umm, hang on, let me see...

[itchy]

I will probably buy some I recently lost all my 1/2400 scale stuff and the battle packs seem good value ,but can see they wont be popular with people that already have ships .

[fastolfrus]

Very attractive, but I opted for 1/1200.
Yes the playing area needs to be huge, but hey ho.

[King Tiger]

Glad this scale is being used, I hate some companies that make ships so small a yamato is about 1" long, stupid, I won't have much need for these too much though, as I have a fleet for every nation from war at sea (japan almost 1-1 ship wise) so I'm looking forward mostly to New rules (maybe finally fixing the broken radar rule that history believes only the yanks and limeys possessed)