From JamieM: Ghost Fleet for Kings of War armada (140 points)

Hi all, great to be back and painting through the winter and see what everyone else is up to!

I decided to start for once with something relatively simple so I could get an early post in. I then completely lost track of time over the festive period while I feverishly worked away at the painting table and missed the free fire posting period!

So I now present my first post, of a naval variety (to my minion’s great excitement I’m sure!)

This is a small fleet for Mantic’s Kings of War, which is a great fun little naval game based on Warlord’s Black Seas game.

Mantic recently started their “Vault” which is a website hosting STLs for their resin miniatures. They release them monthly mainly with their backlog of resin stuff. They’ve recently taken the opportunity to start releasing STLs that they’ve released physically and the ghost fleet was one of those. As one of the people at my local club has a resin printer I jumped at the opportunity to get some printed and painted up.

There are four larger ships and six tiddly ones. They’ve worked so well that I’ve ordered some more….

The game has various profiles based (no pun intended) on the base size of the ship in question. These two are the second largest. I’ve converted one with the pyramid whereas the other is just a large ship from the orc fleet that I’d also had printed previously which I decided could join the fleet too.

The next two are medium ships of the line.

These last are the smallest support ships and as another mate was extolling the virtues of the new fan written “warmaster navy” rules (based on the venerable GW man ‘o’ war rules) I picked up more ships than I’d need for armada and based them on bases needed for that game instead.

Nice and simple paint scheme with washes and drybrushing.

With regards points, scoring for naval stuff seems not quite as simple as for standard figures so I’ve worked on the basis of the black sails submission from yesterday for points meaning 20 each for the two larger (L) ships, 15 each for the two medium (M) ships and 5 each for the six smallest (T) ships to make 100 in total.

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"They’ve worked so well that I’ve ordered some more…"

So say we all - if only to ourselves.

Wonderful to see you back in the Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge once more Jamie! Not only is your brushwork fine as ever, but I see you are learning the habits of the true Challenge veterans - namely that of embarking on some silly naval project so you can grub some extra points...

In fact, according to my spreadsheet, which never is wrong, this lot is somehow worth 140 points! Ghost points! Such a clever opening gambit...who needs the "Free Fire Period" when you can just go naval...

But it does look excellent - and the idea of a fantasy version of "Black Seas" is pretty cool. I would also love to hear more about the "Warmaster" variant as well. Anything that makes you pick up more figures than you need holds promise!

Great stuff Jamie - looking forward to more! But just not more naval :)

GregB