"Roman Seas questions" Topic

Lately I have been checking out the game Roman Seas and it looks like some thing I might wish to get into. I have two questions for players of the game?

1. In Roman vs Carthage naval fleet battles, how many of each different ship type (6 for Rome & 5 for Carthage) do you have in your fleets?

2. The ship look thick so I assume they are either printed on card stock or printed on label paper and then stuck onto card stock before assembly?

Who am I kidding. I have bad eyes and shaking hands due to old age now and I would never be able to assemble these ships. Any one know of some one that has pre-built Roman & Carthage ships they are selling off? Or is there a service that assembles the ships for you? I look forward to your replies either here in this thread or PM me or email me at missykty@aol.com if you have ships to sell.

Green Beanie
I have the ships. You print them out on 60 lb card stock. I have bad eyes so I use a lamp magnifier to cut out and assemble the ships. As to your request for anybody that assembles I have not heard of anyone. The 5s and 6s was the main warship of both side during that period. 3s were used for scouting and anti pirate work.

6's were Roman flagships, so 1 per squadron max. Mostly 5's in later wars but earlier Carthage had a lot of 4's.

3's were used by both sides but not just for scouting. Escorting merchants, raiding, defensive squadrons on more remote stations figured in the jobs they did too.

Don't spend money paying someone online if you can't build the paper models yourself (although you should give it a try).

Hire some kid, or your own kid to assemble them for you. I'd find a high school kid. Expect some wastage as it takes 1-2 ships before you figure out how to build them right, but since they're on cardstock, you just print a few more.

If you can't paint the 6mm minis required for troops, I suggest you go buy 1/2" colored tile bits used for mosaics from an art store like Michaels and use them as counters. I think I bought two bags for around $7.00 USD and they work fine.

In the Roman seas on Yahoo groups there are card stock figures you can print off. You find them in the files section.

Belisarius, I tried to see the figures but could not get into the files section. Any way you could show them here so we could see them?