BRS goes naval
Project day!
So after loving the basic game since launch, my local meta have been hungering for some new missions and specifically ones that make use of the beautiful bombers we've all been painting and assembling.
To that end, I got to looking about for some and found a mission pack on the facebook group: Blood Red Skies: Ready Room (which is an excellent community and great resource for inspiration and general game-related chatter).
Heroes of the pacific
It is built around the idea of starting off with a squadron of fairly rookie pilots and allows them time to rank up as they complete missions but the bit that interested me most was the rules for torpedo runs, dive bombing and general ground attack.
It instantly got me jazzed up and the guys on the facebook group pointed me in the general direction of some model ships and I ended up ordering a decent haul!
As you may/may not know, the planes in BRS are 1:200 scale which at the model ship level is fricking huuuuuge!
When BRS was launched, the team ran demos on a huge board at a big conference with a 1:200 scale aircraft carrier which looked amazing!!
However, I don't have room for a 5" long model ship nor the £300 it costs so I had to look at alternatives.
I went with 1:700 scale as there's a much more comprehensive range available than other scales and its cheap as chips. For gaming pieces, you don't want to be spending tons on terrain and its much easier to pack away if its compact. It also scales pretty well, fitting with the idea that the 1:200 planes are at altitude above the 1:700 ships without them looking ridiculously tiny.
If you are getting into shipping for the game, you want waterline models, not full-hull. waterline have the underside cut flat for sitting onto a diorama of the sea for display and work well for us, full-hull are exactly as it sounds and have props/shafts etc on show and are for display on a proper wooden stand.
I bought a pair of submarines, a pair of destroyers, an escort carrier and a battle cruiser.
Being honest with you, they're an absolute bastard to put together. Becuase they're rife with fiddly bits of bendy and easily lost plastic (lost more than a few machine guns off the decks!) I actually left stacks of them off as they're only gonna end up breaking with use anyway and kept the build simple.
I kept the painting quick too: A spray of grey, slapped some black wash on them and a quick decal to break up the surfaces up and the battle ship got a splash of colour on the hull to make it "pop" too.
So no prizes for guessing what the next batrep is gonna be on! I've got a sea mat out for delivery tomorrow so will be running a fleet attack mission on sunday for a write up!
So after loving the basic game since launch, my local meta have been hungering for some new missions and specifically ones that make use of the beautiful bombers we've all been painting and assembling.
To that end, I got to looking about for some and found a mission pack on the facebook group: Blood Red Skies: Ready Room (which is an excellent community and great resource for inspiration and general game-related chatter).
Heroes of the pacific
It is built around the idea of starting off with a squadron of fairly rookie pilots and allows them time to rank up as they complete missions but the bit that interested me most was the rules for torpedo runs, dive bombing and general ground attack.
It instantly got me jazzed up and the guys on the facebook group pointed me in the general direction of some model ships and I ended up ordering a decent haul!
When BRS was launched, the team ran demos on a huge board at a big conference with a 1:200 scale aircraft carrier which looked amazing!!
I went with 1:700 scale as there's a much more comprehensive range available than other scales and its cheap as chips. For gaming pieces, you don't want to be spending tons on terrain and its much easier to pack away if its compact. It also scales pretty well, fitting with the idea that the 1:200 planes are at altitude above the 1:700 ships without them looking ridiculously tiny.
If you are getting into shipping for the game, you want waterline models, not full-hull. waterline have the underside cut flat for sitting onto a diorama of the sea for display and work well for us, full-hull are exactly as it sounds and have props/shafts etc on show and are for display on a proper wooden stand.
I bought a pair of submarines, a pair of destroyers, an escort carrier and a battle cruiser.
Being honest with you, they're an absolute bastard to put together. Becuase they're rife with fiddly bits of bendy and easily lost plastic (lost more than a few machine guns off the decks!) I actually left stacks of them off as they're only gonna end up breaking with use anyway and kept the build simple.
I kept the painting quick too: A spray of grey, slapped some black wash on them and a quick decal to break up the surfaces up and the battle ship got a splash of colour on the hull to make it "pop" too.
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| Destroyer and Battlecruiser |
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| Got another destroyer and the aircraft carrier to finish |
So no prizes for guessing what the next batrep is gonna be on! I've got a sea mat out for delivery tomorrow so will be running a fleet attack mission on sunday for a write up!
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