David Manley's "Greek Fire and Roman Fury"

[Ithoriel]

Thanks for the links.

The painted versions look rather spiffy ... were ancient galleys really that colourful?

I'm now thinking 3 per base with a squadron commander indicated by a hexereme and two quinquiremes or by a quinquireme and two triremes depending on the squadron. Maybe two Hexeres for the Fleet commander.

A pack of ships would give enough for 8 bases and a spare. 8 bases is the maximum for a squadron. The largest naval battle of the 1st Punic War, Ecnomus, would need 6 squadrons and some merchantmen for the Romans. Paint each pack as a squadron with different colours of hull and oars for each squadron and the whole Roman fleet is twenty quid. It's overkill, because Roman squadrons seem rarely to be much more than 50-60 ships (5-6 bases) but at that price do I care? Fantasy Punic Wars here I come, maybe

I think I'll start rather smaller though, one pack each of Triremes, Hexeremes and Merchantmen plus a couple of packs each of quinquiremes with (Roman) and without (Carthaginian) corvus - enough for Mylae which would see 9 Roman bases take on 13 Carthaginian ones.

And Minibits has a sale on bases!

[paulr]

One of them did mention Hollywood in relation to paint schemes but they look good and it would be hard to prove you wrong

I'm looking forward to seeing these painted and based and also seeing some AAR

I am hoping to organise a test game in a couple of months using some printed pictures and order after that...
Plenty in my painting queue at the monment, not to mention trenches

My order will need to be larger than yours or the postage will be more than the models

[Ithoriel]

Project will be slightly delayed by dint of the money earmarked for it just having been spent on things in Ironclad's January sale

We may now be looking at similar timescales!

[paulr]

Has anyone had any recent dealings with Outpost Wargame Services or know if they are still trading?

I have sent them a couple of emails and got no response

Their home page was last updated in December last year

I'm interested in their ancient galleys but may have to go to Navwar if Outpost have stopped trading.