I never realised it was the Kaiser's 'Death Star'!
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It would, I suspect it will share a hull with the Trinidad which would be released as a special ship later.
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The Trinidad is a lot heavier, but if they add a piece to the hull to close the waist into a 4th gun deck it might work.
That is a real floating fortress if ever I saw one. Just what we need to set the seal on our Spanish Fleet when it materializes.
Rob.
agree, a first rate Spanish ship is needed to deploy a Spanish squadron without French help! Much needed! :minis:
That is the Santa Ana, one of the 112 gun class that will be out in Wave 3. The Santisma Trinidad also started as a 112 gun ship before the expansion to merge the quarter deck and forecastle into a 4th gun deck. I suspect for the Trinidad they could use the same hull and then add the 4th deck pieces to the top. It was how they did it!
I am glad for the Santa Ana, its not as well known as the Santissima Trinidad, so we might get 2 versions out of her!
With a conversion to Santissima as well that could be three biggies then.:pray:
Rob.
And then, when they bring out the real Santissima model, will I be the only one buying it?:question:
I suspect so too, I doubt many of us are keen and capable enough for such conversion work. I myself see little point in my risking messing up a perfectly good warship to make a model we are assured is being released in a years time! I don't get enough games to warrant it! :drinks:
I have a lovely one in 1/1200 already, I can wait for a 1/1000 example :)
I will buy it anyway because the real thing is always a draw.
Rob.
While I knew something of the Santisima Trinidad prior to joining up here I learned much more through the comments and links shared by our members. Santa Ana has become a favorite of mine not only because of how she fought at Trafalgar against HMS Royal Sovereign, but because she was captured and then recaptured by the Spanish and taken back to Cadiz.
Some wonderful paintings of Spanish First Rates and other Age of Sail ships here:
http://carlosparrillapenagos.es/pintura-naval/
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I don't have inside info that Santa Ana is one of the named ships, but she is the first and most famous of the los Meregildos 112 gunners mentioned as Wave 3. She was Alava's flagship at Trafalgar.
There are 8 ships in the Santa Ana class, including Mejicano, Conde de Regla, Salvador del Mundo, Real Carlos, San Hermenegildo, Reina María Luisa and Príncipe de Asturias so they could make 4 double sided packs out of that mold. And Santa Ana is not one of the two that sank each other.
Well that could lead a little excitement to the whole Spanish question AB.
Rob.
I won't hold my breath for the S.T. I was told way, way back by Ares that Russians will be coming hopefully by 2016. I don't have the lung capacity to hold my breath much longer.:sleep::beer:
Well that's news to me as well.
Rob.
I am surprised, I honestly do not think a lot of people would be rushin' to buy them! :hmmm:
I would like something different too, really, it would make doing a campaign easier!...or at least more interesting! :minis:
More like an even dozen, actually...
As for the Russians, frigates might be some doing but SOL's they can get off easy by just reprinting SGN108 as the Ches'mas and SGN104 as the Triokh Sviatiteleis (near-copy of 1798 Ajax, basically a Bellona on steroids and with bigger UD guns).
*tosses fart-jar at French*
Sadly our local game shops have all stopped carrying WOG and SOG, so no local sales point nor place to play the games, : ( Good thing many of us are into solo games and collecting . . .
I appear to have begun the Pun-nic wars again, with not a Carthaginian in sight! :happy:
FWIW, I live in a smallish town on the California coast (where wargaming is most decidedly a very niche thing) and we've never had SoG carried in one of the two local comic book / sorta game stores. Despite that I was still able to find, through the magic of the internet, like-minded people in town to play WoG / SoG and plenty of other games with. I suspect that if you were to checkout Meetup.com or a similar type of service, you might find there's more interest than you realize?