Warlord Craft Your Sails & Ratlines For Mighty Black Seas Ships
October 16, 2019 by brennon
Warlord Games has come up with some cool options for those looking to add rigging and sails to their Black Seas ships. Rather than struggle with fabric and tiny ropes they have designed some laminated Sails and acetate Ratlines for the different ships available to you in the game.
The set of sails have been pre-cut and labelled so you (hopefully) don't get it wrong when you're applying them. You have options for 1st Rate, 3rd Rate and Frigate/Brig Ships and the way they have been illustrated makes them look like good, well-used sails.
On the other side of things, you have the Ratlines which are also designed to fit the three different options of ship.
This is the mess of ropes and netting that you'll be applying to the sides of the ship so that your crew can clamber up to fix any problems. This is a pretty nice little addition into the mix from Warlord Games and they have mentioned how it is very easy to apply these when building your ships.
Maybe we should work on a little video showing off how to do this; what do you think?
"...they have mentioned how it is very easy to apply these when building your ships"
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yes, videos are always good 😉 Plus see if they fit on other ship systems maybe?
other ships with rigging @john lyons? is that a thing?
rig all the ships! and planes! and spaceships!
Warlord’s ships have their bottom sails furled. Is that tactical? To stop them getting shot maybe?
(Also is “furled” the term? I’m under no illusions that bottom sails is.)
“Furl” is indeed the correct term Sir.
furl is what @john lyons would do to the rigging
I learned a song in bars when I was a young lad, about what you could do in the rigging…… I don’t think it would be possible if it was “furled” 😉
Yep, a video would be great. Got my “Master & Commander Starter Set” coming soon and would like to see how to do the ratline before I decide to order some.
I can’t wait to see how @john lyons does it
Great new details for ships but may get in the way playing games.
A video on doing up the rigging, sails and ratlines. Sounds good to me! 🙂
yes @john lyons should do a terrific job of rigging the ships
You just want John to hate me and he doesnt even know me yet. 🙂
I see a great competition pitting @John and @avernos against each other to see who can foul their rigging fastest. 😀 😛
I can’t compete because I’ve accidentally broken my fingers as soon as I find a hammer
At least you have the bandages on when in the office!
Do we know if the Ratlines are precut as well (it’s going to be a nightmare if they aren’t). Granted the sales and ratlines aren’t the “full” rigging, but it’s most of the way there and DOES make the wee plastic ships look at lot better 🙂