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Joe_Dracos
Mongoose
You have the Athabaskan.... :?
Hopefully the Unlucky lady won't be that unlucky for you.
Hopefully the Unlucky lady won't be that unlucky for you.
Well I just started Victory at Sea. I came to this forum hoping for some kind of online community, but it seems dead to me. You can see some of the stuff I've been working on here (http://geekeguy.blogspot.com/search/label/Victory at Sea)
I'm using Panzerschiffe 1:2400 scale ships.
I'm using Panzerschiffe 1:2400 scale ships.
Cap'n Scott
Mongoose
I don't have an electronic camera but a few of us are about to start playing AOD here in Adelaide. Ships bought, based, undercoated in stylish black and a handful even painted 
Warlord_Soth
Mongoose
I hope it's not dead.
I just started playing it (after a demo last year)
Not a lot of pics yet, but here are my first ships :
Top to bottom :
KMS Deutschland/Lützow
KMS Graf Spee
HMS Exeter
HMS Ajax
HM(A?)S Achilles
I've had my Skytrex ships for about a week now,
And in addition to those above I've painted :
KMS Bismarck
KMS Scharnhorst
KMS Gneisenau
KMS Prinz Eugen
6 x Type VII sub
6 x Type IX sub
6 X Type XXI sub
HMS Hood
HMS Prince of Wales
HMS Renown
Working on
KMS Admiral Hipper
KMS Köln
KMS Leipzig
KMS Nürnberg
KMS Emden
I just started playing it (after a demo last year)
Not a lot of pics yet, but here are my first ships :
Top to bottom :
KMS Deutschland/Lützow
KMS Graf Spee
HMS Exeter
HMS Ajax
HM(A?)S Achilles
I've had my Skytrex ships for about a week now,
And in addition to those above I've painted :
KMS Bismarck
KMS Scharnhorst
KMS Gneisenau
KMS Prinz Eugen
6 x Type VII sub
6 x Type IX sub
6 X Type XXI sub
HMS Hood
HMS Prince of Wales
HMS Renown
Working on
KMS Admiral Hipper
KMS Köln
KMS Leipzig
KMS Nürnberg
KMS Emden
Far from dead, our mail order department says.
Little known fact: The fastest growing area for Victory at Sea is France. We've had a fair ton of orders from across the Channel over the past few months.
Can anyone tell us why?
Little known fact: The fastest growing area for Victory at Sea is France. We've had a fair ton of orders from across the Channel over the past few months.
Can anyone tell us why?
Nice models!Warlord_Soth said:
The top ship looks near enough identical to the second one apart from the paint job. If so, you would be better to call it the Admiral Scheer. The Lützow had different superstructure and an aircraft mounted foward of the funnel; the Scheer had the same superstructure as the Graf Spee and the aircraft aft of the funnel.
Achilles was a New Zealander, therefore HMNZS Achilles, but only after the Royal New Zealand Navy became an entity in its own right in 1941; before that it was the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy, and the ship was HMS Achilles. Its most famous action was probably the Battle of the River Plate, which it repeated when it played itself in the film.
I don't think so. While I don't know of anyone who plays it here in Baltimore MD, I personally plan to run a game either at Historicon or Fall-In. I'm collecting War at Sea minis too and I have a decent sized collection now for fighting around Guadalcanal, hunting the Bismark, and going against the Graf Spee (which incidentally gives me some British ships for actions during the Dutch Indies actions too! Gotta like that).
I like VaS's easy to learn system. It puts naval gaming into reach for guys like me who have only a passing interest in the subject. I just want a quick, fun game... I don't care whether or not turrent X is stuck in some odd postion!
Anyway, a game is only dead if people don't play it.
I like VaS's easy to learn system. It puts naval gaming into reach for guys like me who have only a passing interest in the subject. I just want a quick, fun game... I don't care whether or not turrent X is stuck in some odd postion!
Anyway, a game is only dead if people don't play it.
serene_muse
Mongoose
Great pics!
Historical games tend not to generate a lot of frenzy but can be steady stuff. I mean to get into this as soon as Real Life permits, as VaS looks like a very good combination of easy of play & presentation. Also a lot easier to get ahold of than obscure b&w pamphlets which is the typical historical miniatures game approach.
I'm more into WWI and before for naval stuff but I do like WW2's combined arms approach and watching/listening* to The Pacific has rekindled some interest in WW2 naval. Fortunately VaS can do all of that, not just WW2!
* rather like the audiobook and it includes a navy pilot character not in the tv miniseries
Historical games tend not to generate a lot of frenzy but can be steady stuff. I mean to get into this as soon as Real Life permits, as VaS looks like a very good combination of easy of play & presentation. Also a lot easier to get ahold of than obscure b&w pamphlets which is the typical historical miniatures game approach.
I'm more into WWI and before for naval stuff but I do like WW2's combined arms approach and watching/listening* to The Pacific has rekindled some interest in WW2 naval. Fortunately VaS can do all of that, not just WW2!
* rather like the audiobook and it includes a navy pilot character not in the tv miniseries
Sorry for got to say in my last post you guys have some nice minis painted there. As mentioned above I also use War at sea Minis which is probably obvious. Also allows for building custom ships. Cant wait to see more stuff. If your in Jacksonville Florida look me up for a game or go to Dragon Con this year, I always run VAS games.
Ray
Ray
