Mini Ship Gaming

After a long delay, here are some pics of another vessel from Leviathans, the French light cruiser Pontbriand:





Another nice looking model for the Leviathans game.

Here are some pics of the British light cruiser for Leviathans, HML Hertfordshire:





The models for Leviathans are 1/1200 scale.  They are 'lightly' pre-painted in the colors you see in these pics, but I believe they come unassembled.

At the recently concluded PAX Prime convention, I had the rare opportunity to see a great new game just before launch - Leviathans, by Catalyst Game Labs.  We had next to no spare time as we were on our way to another presentation, but I had a brief chat with Randall Bills, mastermind of Leviathans, and as a token of appreciation (we were among the early playtesters - a few years ago - for the game) Mr. Bills gave us these:


A French light cruiser on the left, and a British light cruiser on the right.  These are nice models, and I will have more pics later!

Catalyst Game Labs has announced a new entry in the VSF aerial fleet genre - Leviathans.

So far, the Leviathans blog has some information on the background for the game, and some interesting artwork. I am not sure how this new game would affect the already established Aeronef; it might be complimentary as the two games are based in slightly different time references. Aeronef seems (I am not quite certain as I have yet to purchase it) to have its ship architecture based in approximately 1890, while Leviathans is in 1910. That might not seem like much, but naval architecture was rapidly changing in the turn of the previous century.

My biggest hope for Leviathans is the commisioning of new minis!