Dark Ops Set Sail With New Ships For Fantasy & Historical Games

June 11, 2016 by brennon

Dark Ops have added some new sets to their range allowing you to take to the high seas. They have focused on both the Dark Ages and the Golden Age of Sail with their ships this time around. We kick things off with their Large Sail Ship...

This ship is in 28mm scale and comes with two masts which you can rig up with some sails. It also has room for room for twelve cannons below deck and six cannons up top.

You can also get a Fantasy Boat which is a lot smaller than this one with a stunning and highly detailed rear. This could be good for your frozen rivers in Frostgrave and when you're heading to see in Man O' War (if you're still into the classics).

As well as the ship we also turn towards the Dark Ages with this Viking Longboat complete with a stunning Dragon Head at the prow of the ship.

As you can see it's quite the amazing looking piece complete with plenty of oars, shields on the sides and bunched up sails. It certainly looks the part as a raiding vessel.

The Dragon Head I mentioned atop the prow is fantastic. I like the roaring design and the way the design has been cut into the wood makes it look like how it would have been at the time.

What do you think?

"It certainly looks the part as a raiding vessel..."

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Model: Terrain Period: Dark Ages Period: Medieval Scale: 28mm

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limburger

I wonder if they’re compatible with the ships from the Blood&Plunder kickstarter, because as we know ’28mm’ isn’t a reliable indicator of scale. 🙁
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/firelockgames/blood-and-plunder/description

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angelicdespot

I haven’t seen any of the Blood & Plunder ships to be able to compare, but the guys at Dark Ops said (at the UK Games Expo) that they were inspired to make these ships by that Kickstarter. So to answer very unhelpfully answer your question: I don’t know, although it’s possible…

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commodorerob

Dark Op’s do some amazing stuff, I really like these, may just get some for the sheer hell of it:-)

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cpauls1

Agreed. I just went through their website. Fabulous stuff. 🙂

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orlandothetechnicoloured

that raider looks ideal for Mierce Darklands, or for Saga

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dags

These are extremely cool, once they are painted think my Vikings will be get a ship 🙂

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mecha82

Those are really nice.

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noyjatat

I really like those but wish they had put something in the picture to help put their scale into perspective.

There are a few shots of the ship with a minis (one is a sigmarine) for scale on their website.
It’s far from ideal perspective though.

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huscarle

£15 for a Longship. I could have a fleet. Sea battles are now a real possibility.

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chrisg

Longboat smart looking the dragon to me though does look a little too ornate and a little oriental. My only other thing is would be good if you could put it on the stern or where it is. Often the beast overlooked the crew protecting them. But as it goes I am nit picking play mates and it rather good go with my saga story.

You can always swap out the head. Reaper sells metal dragon heads separately, and they are reasonably cheap. A little putty and paint, and you’ve got a proper prow.

Huscarrle,
we must have mead some time.

or two 🙂

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oathsworn

Dark Ops do beautiful work – I was looking at their stuff at the UK Games Expo, and some of the things they can do with MDF have to be seen to be believed. They’re wizards with a laser cutter…