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So two more Sabres and a Sky Pirate Battleship join the fleets

I liked the elves because a basic paint job looks pretty effective on them....and strong colours and tones fit reasonably well.

Still finding more ships. With the war dragon, the Elven flagship, pair of heavy cruisers and three destroyers my elf fleet aims are essentially fulfilled.

Cannot get the photo to rotate, but here's a Thaniras Elf War Dragon

Last up, my Sky Pirate mercenaries - Ok technically my smallest fleet but Im using them as swing/filler vessels...a pair of Sabres

Imperial humans, my smallest fleet got an extra regular cruiser, a pair of two deck Heavy Cruisers and a triplet of Kestrel destroyers!

Iron dwarves sail in a Bellows Airship (again, came painted so a little touch up on colour and metals to suit my taste) and a pair of Foundry class Heavy Cruisers.

The Dragonlords netted an Elder Dragon that came painted getting the barest touchup and varnish on my part and a pair of Invokers.

Next the Shroud Mages get 3 Adept Destroyers, a brace of Darkness cruisers sporting a weird purple/green wash, a Ripper sub that came painted and has only a copper retouching in places, plus a Beacon class floating Platform. So I have at least one of all their ships now

So, painting has progressed and my fleets have reinforcements. First up, Orc Raiders get a Pounder Towership, a Massacre Troll-ship and six Pyre frigates

So I got my Ralgard to the table for the first time in earnest - so a starter fleet including a Master tactician, plus one Balloon with tugs and two heavy cruisers with drilled crews vs an Elven starter fleet with 4 destroyers (proxied by assault ships) and a pair of SkyPirate Sabre mercenaries. Went badly for the elves as they turned away too early giving the Ralgard a chance to turn as well....the elven battleship took out frigates and the heavy cruisers but they took out the elven cruisers in the process and elven frigates, even in numbers cannot take on Ralgard battleships as was attempted. Elven destroyers are however a messy thing to deal with. The aerial duel was quite quiet. Carnage is present all over but victory went to the Ralgard….but the points weren't as far apart as might be thought because despite losing more ships they captured two heavy cruisers and a couple of frigates. There is a first look at my first SkyPirate ships here too.

Well there will be more pictures soon I hope - I've eBayed up me an Elder Dragon, 2 invokers, a Beacon Platform, a Ripper Sub, 2 darkness cruisers, 3 adept destroyers,, a Pounder Tower, a Massacre Trollship, 6 Pyre frigates, 2 Foundry Heavy Cruisers, Bellows airship, 2 Vulture heavy cruisers and 2 sabre Sky Pirate attackships.... Some came painted - a couple I have touched up a little to suit my paint schemes but most have to be painted and woe is me- I just ran out of black spray....typical. I think Im becoming an eBay and Webshops in strange places junkie.....

Also the Platform has a flying base but the card listed in MBS doesn't say Flying but does allow the platform to move over other surface vessels....so its a low level floater, rather than a true flyer - as per the Sky Pirate Battleships.

I got an answer from the Uncharted Seas Facebook group - someone posted and image of the second card from a blister. In short, if Fire Ships conduct Rams and do damage, then the target of the Ram gets a Raging Fire.

Hmmm Fire Ship and Pack Ram on the orc Pyre frigates.....assume Pack Ram is the same as the Bone Griffon Orcus' but Im a bit flummoxed on where to find Fire Ship as an MAR or Special rules - is it a misprint for Flame Weapon? Rest is all handy to know! Thanks.