Anatoli's Dreadfleet project 30/3/13

[Anatoli]

The Skabrus looks especially mean! Love the Grimnir's Thunder too, don't suppose you could get a ruler out and post her dimensions? Thinking about putting together a Dwarf fleet for Man O War and she'd be an awesome flagship.

The dimensions of the dwarf ship (the hull itself) are 3.2cmx6.8cm, with the base it is roughly 3.5x7cm.





The Flaming Scimitar is the Araby ship captained by the "Golden Magus". The ship on its own and the captain is very bad. To balance things up the Flaming Scimitar has access to various elementals that can summoned at the start of the turn, such as the Wind Elemental to increase the movement rate of the ship and which also alters the wind direction. The Fire Elemental that counts as an additional flaming attack that can set enemy ships on fire. And then there are the Water elementals that help patch up damage to the hull.

More pictures on my blog:

http://anatolisgameroom.blogspot.se/2012/11/the-flaming-scimitar-dreadfleet.html

[stone-cold-lead]

Smashing stuff 

Makes me want to paint my Dreadfleet stuff up!

[Anatoli]

The Tomb Kings ship, "Curse of Zandri" painted up and ready for play. A rather small ship compared to the others in the box, basically a floating sarcophagus. Armed with bolt throwers, catapults and some kind of crystal that can fire incinerating beams - making this ship the only bad guy able to set enemy ships ablaze with a special attack.

The undead captain of this ship also has a really good swashbuckling value making him a dangerous opponent in captain duels during boarding actions.

More pictures on my blog:

http://anatolisgameroom.blogspot.se/2012/12/curse-of-zandri-dreadfleet.html

[Hammers]

HAve GW released more ships than what's included in the box?

[FramFramson]

Do any factions have more than one ship, or is it all 1v1 flagships?

[Anatoli]

There are no other ships than what you get in the box, 5 for each side (good / bad guys) and only 1 of each kind.

The game is basically a band of hero ships vs another band of hero ships, so no regular fleets. Most of the ships have small auxiliary vessels but the game is really about these huge ships battling it out through the scenarios of the campaign.

As far as I know GW has killed off this game since it didn't sell well enough (most likely because of the insane pricetag it had on release). I heard GW destroyed all copies that were left unsold in their own stores, so you can only get it from independent retailers if there are any left in stock.

[Tacgnol]

The dimensions of the dwarf ship (the hull itself) are 3.2cmx6.8cm, with the base it is roughly 3.5x7cm.

Cheers!

I heard GW destroyed all copies that were left unsold in their own stores, so you can only get it from independent retailers if there are any left in stock.

Despite having never played the game this makes me sad.

[Donpimpom]

HAve GW released more ships than what's included in the box?

Nope, as far as I know it was released on the concept "limited edition one-box game" like Space Hulk of a couple of years ago, no expansions, no additions, no anything, no extended range, release-sell and goodbye.
The problem is the game had a bad reputation even before to be on the store shelves.
Sadly I think this bad experience will kill any other GW project to release one-box game for the next 20 years, so lets say goodbye to the gossip about a re-release of Warhammer Quest, a deluxe Blood Bowl and other similar rumours around the net.

If you want more ships you should look for the old ManOWar stuff

[Anatoli]

After a long break I more or less forced myself to finish the remainder of my Dreadfleet collection, I only had 2 ships and some doodads left to paint (well OK - the terrain needs to get painted as well). So I thought it would be a nice break from the French & Indian War themed content that have dominated the blog recently.

The reason for my long break was that my brushes had become really worn out towards the end of painting the last couple of ships a few months ago. I also grew increasingly frustrated painting the Dreadfleet stuff, I love the models and the end result - but I absolutely hate painting them!

More pictures of "Swordfysh" over at my blog:

http://anatolisgameroom.blogspot.se/2013/03/swordfysh-dreadfleet.html

[einarolafson]

Impressive and detailed painting job.

I love the models and the end result - but I absolutely hate painting them!

I know that feeling, It's hard when you really like the miniature but can't face the painting work. That's usually the death of very promissing projects

[Anatoli]

Thanks, too true. It's one of the reasons I will never get into Napoleonics. I would love to play it but painting stuff up would kill me. For Dreadfleet I "only" have the terrain and some mini-ships left to paint. Hopefully they will not be as tough to get through as the larger ships.

[Painting Princess]

Wow, these look great! Especially the Heldenhammer and the High Elf ships

Are the banners done freehand?

The water looks really good too.

[Anatoli]

Thanks, the artwork on the sails is sculpted (fortunately) so one only has to paint it 

The Black Kraken, my last ship from the Dreadfleet box painted up. More pictures on my blog:

http://anatolisgameroom.blogspot.se/2013/03/the-black-kraken-dreadfleet.html

[Anatoli]

The tiny Auxiliary vessels, (cogs, dirigible and dragon) are all painted up. I tried painting the sails and hulls of the tiny ships to make them resemble their parent ship as much as possible for easy identification on the table. They took a bit more time to paint than anticipated, despite their microscopic size and rough details they required some work to look decent. Probably most happy with the dragon which wasn't that exciting and I feared that my lack of enthusiasm would affect the paintjob.

You can see pictures of the rest of the auxiliary vessels over at my blog:

http://anatolisgameroom.blogspot.se/2013/03/dreadfleet-auxiliary-vessels-finished.html

[Anatoli]

To celebrate that all the ships are at long last finished (and that I only have the terrain left to paint) I took some group pictures to show the collection. Not the best quality pictures but it's hard to take these kind of photos and get the light and sharpness right with my camera - which works better for closeups. But at least you get the idea of how things may look.

More pictures of both fleets can be found on my blog:
http://anatolisgameroom.blogspot.se/2013/03/dreadfleet-all-ships-finished-group.html