Hobby | A Graveyard of Splinters

Closing out the last bit of Dreadfleet for now before my focus shifts elsewhere, I've completed three of these neat little shipwrecks that'll make for some excellent scatter terrain in Black Seas. There's quite a few islands and wrecks included in the game, but these three are perhaps the easiest to pass as historical. 

Hobby | Mechanical Horrors of the Deep

With the ghost ship now painted and completed, I had one more major piece of nautical folklore to add to Black Seas. The kraken is such a famous bit of lore, so much so that I'd be remiss if I didn't include one. Luckily, Dreadfleet also has a kraken model, albeit of a mechanical variety. Very 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea-esque. One could almost see Captain Nemo piloting this about. 

Hobby | The Dead Ships with their Skeleton Crews

Dreadfleet is a game that to many was a disappointment. Instead of heralding the return of Man O' War, a game in which I am too young to have formed nostalgia towards, it was this odd little narrative boardgame/wargame hybrid. I've never played it, and to be honest it doesn't seem like a lot of people ever did, because I picked up a copy dirt cheap a few years ago. There is one place that the game excels in that I  think most people can agree on: the models (and the game mat I guess, it is pretty cool...). Surprisingly, these models are fairly in scale with the 1/700 Black Seas models. While Black Seas is a historical game, they do have rules for some of the "standard" fantasy elements of maritime folklore, like sea serpents and krakens. The focus of today is on the Shadewraith, perhaps the best miniature rendition of a ghost ship that I've seen.