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Victory at Sea
« on: March 08, 2020, 07:37:53 pm »
1:1800 sounds a rather large scale.  Is this a new product or a recycled one?  I thought something like this came and disappeared a few years ago.

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Re: Victory at Sea
« Reply #1 on: March 11, 2020, 12:46:06 pm »
Warlord has been trying to push Naval warfare pretty hard lately.  I look forward to when a modern naval warfare game comes out!   

I didn't think there was enough of us Naval types around to make it worth it!
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Re: Victory at Sea
« Reply #2 on: March 13, 2020, 09:12:22 pm »
I *think* this is a new product. I've heard a little grumbling on the interwebz about the scale...apparently it's 1/1800 which is out of scale for a lot of WW2 naval miniatures (although I think AA War at Sea is 1/1800).

Easy E, yeah, bit of a tidal wave (pun intended!) of naval games here recently. Cruel Seas, Black Seas, Oak and Iron, now this Victory at Sea on the horizon...not a bad time to be a naval wargamer!
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Re: Victory at Sea
« Reply #3 on: March 15, 2020, 01:32:17 pm »
They have it on their website in full glory now.
https://store.warlordgames.com/collections/victory-at-sea

Should anyone be getting a copy no doubt readers will be interested in the subsequent observations. 
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Re: Victory at Sea
« Reply #4 on: March 23, 2020, 04:11:02 pm »
Looks very interesting
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Re: Victory at Sea
« Reply #5 on: March 23, 2020, 06:38:26 pm »
Are the ships name on the model?
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Re: Victory at Sea
« Reply #6 on: March 28, 2020, 10:00:13 pm »
Based on what I can see in the pre-order pics on Warlord's website, I think the names are on the base of each ship. No idea if they're on both sides, but they appear to be on at least one long edge.
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Re: Victory at Sea
« Reply #7 on: March 30, 2020, 03:11:55 pm »
Seems very specific! On one hand it saves the player from doing it but I guess if you want to field a sister ship you might need to file the name down or wait and hope for an alternate model.
The destroyers aren’t so unique
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Re: Victory at Sea
« Reply #8 on: March 31, 2020, 11:57:00 pm »
That's a really good point...I can only assume the folks at Warlord have thought about that. You're talking about fielding a few ships from the same class, right? Looks like for the destroyers they just have the class name on the side. In the starter box, the U.S. destroyers just say "Fletcher-Class Destroyer" on the side, not individual ship names. The larger ships have names though. Go to the Warlord store and select the starter box, mouse over the picture for close-ups and you'll see what I mean.
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Re: Victory at Sea
« Reply #9 on: April 03, 2020, 02:45:41 pm »
The German fleet set has three cruisers of the hipper class: each model is individually named.

Also this scouting rule is interesting: https://www.warlordgames.com/victory-at-sea-scouting-intelligence
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Re: Victory at Sea
« Reply #10 on: July 01, 2020, 11:42:38 am »
Warlord just posted an update on their website:

https://www.warlordgames.com/warships-sighted-ready-torpedoes/

Looks like the release is getting pushed back to August due to COVID disruptions.

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Re: Victory at Sea
« Reply #11 on: July 06, 2020, 09:25:33 am »
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Re: Victory at Sea
« Reply #12 on: July 06, 2020, 12:16:34 pm »
Looks like he’s working on models from the old range. I’m looking forward to what he does with the new models when they ship next month!

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Re: Victory at Sea
« Reply #13 on: August 07, 2020, 07:29:51 am »
Been looking at this since read article, looks good but torn between British and Japanese ships. Funny enough this also day i went to japan on hoilday three years ago and when to that sea museam and meet that guy had great grand father on yamato XD
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Re: Victory at Sea
« Reply #14 on: August 27, 2020, 10:56:51 pm »
The game is shipping! My pre-order arrived at the house yesterday. I'll have some pics posted soon in the shipyard :).