Editing Dreadfleet (section)

== Gameplay ==

With a story like that, GW could have made an awesome [[campaign]] for a [[wargame]] of epic combat on the high seas. What they actually made was a two-player [[boardgame]], with one player running the heroes and one running the villains. Each major faction had a ship or two (or none, in the case of the [[Lizardmen]], Orcs And Goblins, [[Ogre Kingdoms]], [[Warriors of Chaos]], [[Beastmen]], [[Wood Elves]], [[Daemons]], and [[Dark Elves]] (seriously, the Dark Elves are the single biggest "pirate" race in the game for fucks sake!)). The ship and terrain were VERY nice with a fair amount of detail and great scale, but there are no expansions, no interactions with other game systems, and minimal ability to convert them into something other than that one specific ship. It's just not [[Man O' War]] and there was no real way to make it work with that game. In fact, in the Dreadfleet novella, the pride of the Sartosan fleet is a ship named the ''Man o' War'', and it gets attacked by the ''Black Kraken''; while it destroyed one tentacle of the submarine, it was eventually crushed.