Something old, very old; Some GW Man O War ships

 

Actually, a mix of Man O War and some of the ships from Mighty Empires.

I was inspired to dig these out of storage after watching a game of Galleys & Galleons run by a fellow named Morgan at a recent OMG meeting. The game looked fun enough(more interesting than I thought it would be) and digging these out was no problem. 

The game is by Nic Wright author of many, many games, most notably (to me at least) Fantastic Battles. GG does look to be more versatile than most other naval/fantasy naval games that I have encountered before. Like Fantastic Battles, GG allows you to customize your ships any way you se fit, but it does include sample ships to help you to understand what you are designing. Anyways more talk about the game after I have tried it out. 

The picture above shows nine pirate ships from Mighty Empires and some Empire ships from MoW. I am missing one of the Wolf ship hulls, but I do have the aft deck should it show up.

More Empire ships from the original boxed game. Amazingly I still have the masts and yardarms and the sheet of sails. 

I also located my Dwarven fleet. This fleet consists of three submersibles, six Monitors, three ironclads and one Battleship. Not seen since the 90's it really is scary what stuff I hold onto. The worst part of it is that I plan to make use of them, so it re-enforces my hoarder mentality.

Last but not least some merchants ships or very lightly armed vessels, once again courtesy of Mighty Empires. These are just a sample of this type of ship, there are many more that came with Mighty Empires.

So, as can be seen I have based them all, up next is attaching the masts, priming, painting and attaching the sails. Nothing really. I mean after all they have only been sitting around maybe 35 years, I am sure this time I will get them done.