first scenario of GW's dreadfleet

[petercooman]

Good evening gentlemen,

With gaming pretty much on the backburner lately, while getting the house in better shape (used my annual vacation to do A LOT of garden work, and just had a completely new timber and roof done), it was time to make a comeback to celebrate the end of the house-jobs (for now that is) !

So i picked up my copy of dreadfleet, wich has been painted for a while now,but never saw the light of day afterwards.

Tried the first scenario to get the hang of it, and hope to do another tomorrow. If all goes well, i'll see if we can get it played by our group as well.

Will not do a complete report, as i was too busy getting the rules right, but took some piccies for the ' atmosphere'. There are a lot of negative critiques about this game, but all that aside, it looks awesome! (i think the game is good fun by the way, as long as you don't expect a historical simulation of naval battles)

First scenario just puts two ships on the table, first one to get destroyed or have 8 damage cards to their ship loses)

Starting at opposite sides, the ships must navigate the obstacles to get to each other, So i dropped anchor in the midst with the 'Heldenhammer' (red sails) to force the enemy to take risk to get to me.The red mini in front of the other ship is a cog with an assasin on board sent out by the 'Heldenhammer'. (wich got shot point blank next turn after falling short by half an inch   ) A cog loaded with gunpowder had slammed into the 'Heldenhammer' just moments earlier, damaging the ship at the waterline, while killing the first mate and causing a chain reaction in one of the ships powder rooms. this meant that at the start of the turn on a D6 roll of 1 or 2, the ship would take an extra damage card untill repaired, the first mate was no longer available to take over when the captain got killed, and the broadside value suffered a -2 modifier.That lucky cog  had dealt me 4 damage cards. (well, as lucky as you can call a small boat packed with gunpowder on a kamikaze mission   )



After a few broadsides by both ships, the 'Heldenhammer' rams the 'reaver', only to score one hit out of D6-1 hits. It loses the boarding action, only to be attacked  by a leech wyrm afterwards, taking away it's last hull point. Victory to the undead 'reaver'


The decisive attack that won it for the 'reaver'



All in all an enjoyable game, look forward to playing out the next scenario!!

[nikharwood]

Coolio - one of those spot-releases from GW that I wish I'd bought...

Will be interesting to see how you get on with it with more gameplay

[petercooman]

Coolio - one of those spot-releases from GW that I wish I'd bought...

Will be interesting to see how you get on with it with more gameplay

Yeah shame they didn't keep it around for longer, it's not a bad game and the minis are awesome!

Although it cost me 90€, i'm still happy i got it! When i picked it up at my local game store, i stood there with this in one hand and space hulk in the other. Space hulk had the better reviews, but my wife said i should take dreadfleet because it looked better, while space hulk loooked like all my other stuff i already had. So i put back space hulk and took this one home.

Really happy i choose this one!

[petercooman]

By the way, if you want to see the complete set, i posted pictures in a separate threas a long time ago:

http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php/topic,11418.0.html

[paulr]

...When i picked it up at my local game store, i stood there with this in one hand and space hulk in the other. Space hulk had the better reviews, but my wife said i should take dreadfleet because it looked better, while space hulk loooked like all my other stuff i already had. So i put back space hulk and took this one home.

You let your wife come with you to your local game store

[Techno]

Looks great fun, Peter !

Cheers - Phil

[petercooman]

You let your wife come with you to your local game store

Why not? It's in the middle of town, so she can do some shopping and i get to look at the games and see if i fancy anything.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Good looking game!

[nikharwood]

Why not? It's in the middle of town, so she can do some shopping and i get to look at the games and see if i fancy anything.

Because you've given her the power of veto. If you'd been on your own with Dreadfleet in one hand & Space Hulk in the other, chances are you'd have come home with both 

[petercooman]

Because you've given her the power of veto. If you'd been on your own with Dreadfleet in one hand & Space Hulk in the other, chances are you'd have come home with both 

No i wouldn't, because i remember her paying for it 

[nikharwood]

No i wouldn't, because i remember her paying for it 

Yes you would - you could have paid for the other 

[petercooman]

I never make such big spends togheter actually. Start with one big box and then maybe get another. If i start buying everything togheter, i have too much to paint at once.(when games have a finite number of components, i tend to try and get them all painted before i play to gt the 'full' experience')

i must admit, i don't actually care that i don't have space hulk, it was nothing as unique as this one. There are enough similar games around that are good. Only thing remotely like dreadfleet is uncharted sees i guess, and that plays WAY different.