What minis are you going to use?

[Lord David the Denied]

Yeah, that'd be the one. Couldn't remember the weird German name...

 

[BuShips]

There's a GHQ model for one of the German "what-if" battleships, forget which one, but none of the British G3 or N3 designs. There's also a modernised pre-Dreadnought for the Kriegsmarine...

I think that might be the Schleswig-Holstein of the old Deutschland class.
That ship fired the first few shots of WW2 - on a Polish port where it was berth.
I've got a lot of footage of that incident. It's a very disturbing sequence where the old BB is firing at the harbour, the city and the surrounding hills/countryside.

tee out

Yup, the first shots of WW2 came from that old ship. I'll bet they never get invited to that port again. Such manners! :lol:

"Die Schiff Tour schließt in fünf Minuten. Einen schönen Tag haben."

("The ship tour will close in five minutes. Have a nice day.") :lol:

 

[DM]

I visited the Westerplatte (the scene of the opening shots of WW2) during an NWS holiday to Northern Europe in 1996 (or was it 97? 96 may have been Scapa Flow). Anyway, it was a very evocative, atmospheric place and I'd recomment it to anyone. There are even bits of the old Schleswig-Holstein there, used as sculptures!

 

[BuShips]

I visited the Westerplatte (the scene of the opening shots of WW2) during an NWS holiday to Northern Europe in 1996 (or was it 97? 96 may have been Scapa Flow). Anyway, it was a very evocative, atmospheric place and I'd recomment it to anyone. There are even bits of the old Schleswig-Holstein there, used as sculptures!

One of my dreams I've had for years would be to visit all of the battleship memorials and wreck sites in the world. It would be something that would take years to complete, as with the research there is quite a few bits laying about. For example, "Roosevelt's Bulldog" (that's Teddy Roosevelt), the old coastal battleship BB-3 USS Oregon of Spanish-American War fame, was partly dismantled in early WW2 10 miles from where I live, in a very tiny port on the Columbia River. It was going to be a museum ship, but instead became a victim of war propaganda because of the steel shortage. They didn't even scrap her out, but removed instead most of the upperworks and then towed the hulk out to Pacific atolls to be used for storage of explosives. Some of the superstructure is still at a waterside park in Portland, Oregon where she was to be a museum ship. A flagpole and a few other bits are all that's there now. A local chinese restaurant that I've been eating at over most of my life has a brass porthole mounted on a wall with a nameplate stating "From the United States Battleship Oregon" :shock: . I always give it an affectionate glance when I go there for dinner :wink: . There are several complete battleships in the US, with the North Carolina, Texas, Alabama and of course the Arizona memorial and next to it the Missouri. I'd like to visit the Mikasa in Japan, and well all of 'em I could of course.

 

[Agis]

Since DM mentioned some "What If" designs and specifically the Z-Plan ships, and I am the one who wrote the Z-Plan list, I want to add something...
All the playtesters were very eager to jump at specific projects to support VaS.
Smaller coastal crafts, the Russian list, some more Italian ships and -from me- the Z-Plan list.
All of the above mentioned lists are more or less done, but it is totally open if some of it or all of it will appear in S&P or a later supplement.

In the initial Z-Plan list I covered:
Priority Level: Skirmish
M-Class Cruiser
“Spähkreuzer” - Recon Cruiser
Priority Level: Raid
P-Class Cruiser
Priority Level: Battle
O, P, Q-Class Battlecruiser
Priority Level: War
H-39-Class Battleship

In rough shape right now are all the other H designs (up to H-44) and the carrier projects. In the case of a "no appearance" in any official Moongoose product I will post them on my website. :wink:

 

[Jellicoe]

Interesting, thanks - look forward to it.

 

[DM]

One of my dreams I've had for years would be to visit all of the battleship memorials and wreck sites in the world.

There's also a bit of the Tirpitz at the "Explosion" museum in Gosport, UK.

 

[Mark A. Siefert]

And why would you want a collapsing table? I'd want mine to be stable and sturdy and not fall down... :lol:

We've got a nice 7' long pool table in the front room that would be great for gaming if it had a flat surface. That's why my mother and I have been building a cover that would go over the top of the table. We're going to most likely going to paint the cover-top green or tack down yellow and use mats when the situation calls for it.

I'll post some pics when it's done.