War Galley

This is a scratch-built galley I have been working on for a while. It is for a game I'm planning on that will hopefully include lots of different factions each with a ship, kind of like what you'd find in a Warhammer Ahoy! game. Kinda.

Although modeled on a small Roman Liburna, the model is not meant to depict an actual historical warship. It just has to look the part of an ancient galley. It is made primarily from foamboard, balsa and mdf. Scaled for 28mm, it is nearly 15" long and 3"wide. It is of course still a WIP.

From bow to stern she measures near 15"

Cross section of the bow and ram

Cross section of the layered foamboard

The deck is scored balsa wood

The mast is removable

The stern is made from an mdf letter "J"

The boarding ramp (corvus) made from parts from a Warbases balcony

The ramp can be lowered

And can support the weight of miniatures on it

The corvus is removable to make way for...

...war machines - Warbases scorpions

Warbases ballista

Warbases onager

A Skirmish on the NWF

Had a good game of Triumph & Tragedy set in the NWF, loosely based on the TSATF scenario "the Patrol" and inspired by this Last Stand Dan post. The idea is that a British patrol must repair a sabotaged telegraph cable within a small village while the dastardly Pathans come down from the hills and cause them havoc. Unfortunately I had to guess on the exact numbers of Pathans compared to British and rightly ballsed it up! The Brits made short work of the Pathans and were never truly threatened. To add injury to insult the Bengal cavalry reinforcements arrived on turn 1, the ancient Pathan cannon exploded on the first shot and when a furious mob of tribesmen finally did swarm the British screw gun, the wily Lieutenant chose to detonate the explosives he had hidden there, denying them the satisfaction. All in all a fun game with need of some tweaks to make it playable.