David, I'm inclined to agree--it might take new construction techniques, but I'd bet that if the motivation, market and rules support were there even a pack of armed rowboats on a base could be done. (Heck, I've all but spoon-fed HOW to do it: one-piece mold using a modified base insert, then just paint the sections that represent each individual boat.)

If I had to guess, I'd say they're playing cautious right now--they got burned with the mast problem on Wave 2, and are gonna be kinda shy about any other real big ventures outside "terra firma" for a bit because of it, or at least that's my suspicion. Maybe even a "wait and see" because of the drubbing from the critics; Roberto once observed something re my long-range exercises to the effect of "let's wait and see how things go with Victory, Constitution and the Wave 1 reprint before we discuss any future Special Packs or reprints"--my guess is that how V&C do will decide if Santissima Trinidad or any other future SP's happen, and similarly Wave 1A+ and Wave 3 sales will determine if there's a Wave 4 or any new reprint waves.

AND with the talk about possibly having to THROTTLE DOWN on everything they've got in the pipeline penciled for 2015 between WGF, WGS and SGN to make sure they don't overtax customer wallets...