Let's see when Keith wil list them in the Anchorage store.
I can't order before Oct. 15th. after the credit card bill, anyways. :moneygone:
I think before this happens, we see Mr. Manleys gunboat campaign with SoG models. :wink:
Printable View
There is a Spanish frigate planned for Wave 4. More than that I cannot say about future releases at this time... but it was a right nasty bugger of a time finding a design family with enough similar ships to slide in, especially since so few Spanish resources have been translated. (Compare the English- and Spanish-language versions of the "List of Spanish SOLs" and "List of Spanish sail frigates" pages... the latter have much more info than the former, but my Spanish is approximately at Village Idiot level.)
In a couple of places they say "hitting the stores in November"--maybe that's parsing the words too closely, but Ares seems to try to control the release date pretty firmly, so I read this as when they think it will actually be in the hands of retailers.
Of course, past experience makes me hesitant to contradict Mr. Manley's insinuation that what we are talking about is November 2017 :happy:
I'm keeping my eyes open for the online stores to start offering preorders, but I haven't spotted anything yet...
Never mind DB. We are very Grateful for what you have been doing behind the scenes on our behalf, and with another Spanish Frigate and clones in the bag, all we then need is the ST to have a half decent Squadron to field.
Th think all this could be ours within the next two years.
Rob.
Thank Jose Manuel--we don't hear much from him, but he's been the real prime-mover in coming up with data to help make the Armada happen. :)
Based on his technical commentaries, in the absence of design draughts to refer to at this point I would greenlight SGN112 for...
As 74-gunners:
1766 San Juan Nepomuceno, San Pascual Bailón
1767 San Francisco de Asís
1768 San Lorenzo, San Agustín (Port. briefly in '77, later uprated to 80)
1769 Santo Domingo
1770 San Pedro Apóstol
1771 San Pablo->1814 Soberano
1772 San Gabriel
1784 Bahama (post-rebuild)
As San Pedro Alcantara 64-gunners:
1771 San Pedro de Alcántara
1784 Bahama (pre-rebuild)
Compare:
English https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o..._line_of_Spain
Spanish https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anexo:..._Espa%C3%B1ola
And the frigate counterparts...
English https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o..._sail_frigates
Spanish https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anexo:..._Espa%C3%B1ola
Some sources say there was a third San Pedro Alcantara-class IIRC, but I've yet to find any leads on it.
So we got a few repaints to look at from the 74 sculpt eh.
Thanks for the gen and I will take a look at the frigate links you posted, cheers DB
This little lot will certainly give me as many Spanish as I could ever need, baring in mind that the only time I could put on a gig battle would be at a show where other people would also contribute some ships. For games at home, a dozen a side would be the max I could fit in.
Rob.