 Murphy  | 30 Oct 2009 6:54 p.m. PST |
So I was looking at the ships for Uncharted Seas today at my LGS, and looking at the Human Imperial Battleship, the first thing that popped into my mind was…"It looks like a naval version of Battlefleet Gothic"… So am I the only one that thinks this? |
 Virtualscratchbuilder   | 30 Oct 2009 6:58 p.m. PST |
You are not. That was my first impression. |
| Mutant Q | 30 Oct 2009 7:13 p.m. PST |
The damage system is very reminiscent of Full Thrust. |
| nazrat | 30 Oct 2009 7:56 p.m. PST |
I played a game not long ago, and though it was fun it doesn't hold a candle to Man o' War OR BFG. |
| nazrat | 30 Oct 2009 7:57 p.m. PST |
And I don't like the models nearly as well, either. They are very nice but just not as much my cup of tea as the MoW ones. |
| Virtualscratchbuilder | 30 Oct 2009 8:27 p.m. PST |
Seriously. If I want a fantasy naval game, it will be something like build your own predread fleet. I liked Ironclads and Etherflyers myself. |
| GarnhamGhast | 30 Oct 2009 8:33 p.m. PST |
"The damage system is very reminiscent of Full Thrust." Full Thrust is very reminiscent of Sea Strike! |
| darthfozzywig | 30 Oct 2009 11:13 p.m. PST |
Well, Sea Strike is very reminiscent of War at Sea!
Ok, it's not, but I wanted to keep that roll going.
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| Goober | 31 Oct 2009 2:51 a.m. PST |
The shooting and hitting is like Full Thrust (but then hit on a 4 or 5, double on a 6 and chance for re-roll is hardly unique to that), but the damage is not. I like some of the fleets, the shroud mages, the undead Orcas for the bone griffons and the Orcs, but others leave me cold. G. |
| jpattern2 | 31 Oct 2009 9:56 a.m. PST |
I'm with Nazrat, the game doesn't hold a candle to MoW. I admit I have a huge bias towards MoW (I'm one of the mods for The Sea of Claws Yahoo! group), but I *really* wanted to like Uncharted Seas.
As for the fleets, there are a few inidividual "ships" that I like – as Goober says, the undead orcas/whales are very cool – but most leave me cold.
And I'm still not happy with the decision to go with 1/600 scale for the ships, roughly twice the size of MoW ships. Unnecessary, and it makes the ships *way* more expensive than they should be. |
| ajbartman | 31 Oct 2009 8:13 p.m. PST |
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| CmdrKiley | 02 Nov 2009 12:40 p.m. PST |
We've had fun with it. Not really played those other games, we sort of thought it was like B5 ACTA, but felt ACTA was more fun. |
