ResInAere: New Gravetides - Fantasy Naval Wargame Website

ResInAere: Hi! Some of you may remember when on March 2018 we launched our Gravetides Kickstarter campaign  for an undead fleet to be used with any naval fantasy wargaming rule set (and a venerable one in particular). After its successful founding we are now trying to invest this positive result to further develop our project, creating new fantasy fleets and finalizing a first draft of the wargaming rules that accompanies them.

With the final target to launch a new Kickstarter in the coming year, we have put online our Gravetides blog as both a development diary to publish descriptions, sketches and other stuff like background and narratives on new warships and fleets, and to disclose snippets of our naval wargaming rules with the intention of both spreading our work and gathering comments and hints from other hobbyists out there. If you are interested in what we have done, in what we are trying to do or are just curious aim your browser to www.gravetides.com and let us know what you  think! Thank you!

ResInAere: Gravetides - An Undead Fleet For Naval Fantasy Wargaming Kickstarter

ResInAere: We've finally had the time to work on the two flying monsters with appreciable results, and both the Revenant and the DracoMort are gradually getting their final form.

Looking at the evolution on the sculpting this models and the progress of the campaign, we’ve also decided to unlock the two flying monsters add-ons, first as an acknowledgment to our backers, and because we’re far from reaching our optimistic unlock goals. We’re confident to have them ready to be shipped with the rest of the fleet in the timeframe set for the project. Feel free to add them to your pledges! Again, the campaign is his very last days and very very near to its final goal, help us making it! Check the Kickstarter here

ResInAere: Gravetides - An Undead Fleet For Naval Fantasy Wargaming Kickstarter Update

ResInAere: We've at the first half of our journey, and thanks to the generosity and attention of our backers we've almost reached our goal! Check the Kickstarter here

Keep spreading the word, and persuading (without recurring to disreputable means), everybody who could be interested in our fleet and in naval fantasy wargaming in general, that being a niche genre may not be so widely known to the community. Meanwhile, work on the Flying Monsters proceeds, as the DracoMort and the Revenant gain details. These models will continue to be worked on over the week end during our stay at the Modena Play gaming fair .

ResInAere: Gravetides - An Undead Fleet For Naval Fantasy Wargaming Kickstarter

ResInAere: The advance of the undead fleet is forewarned by the ominous gigantic shape of the Drifting Mausoleum, a sight that can stop the heart of even the most seasoned sailors, as the motionless sails of the derelict Corpseships act as eerie mementos of ships sunk long ago along with their drowned crews.

Organic looking Bonerammers float silently in ordinate squadrons, as the necromantic magic that has created these vessels from ancient dead bones still fuels their motion. The accompanying Dreadships are more mundane but nonetheless a lethal threat, as their huge catapults manned by living corpses, are capable of crippling even the most powerful warships with a single hit. 

The Gravetides Kickstarter for an undead fleet for naval fantasy wargaming is now live. The Kickstarter offers an undead fleet to be used with any in-print or out-of-print rules, composed by and admiral warship, a couple of indipendent vessels and two squadrons, each with a different kind of support ship. Add-ons of single ships or squadrons are possible, and a couple of Flying Monsters models are unlockable during the course of the campaign. The models offered are all carefully handcrafted like the old school miniatures whose memory they seek to recall, and will be finely cast in gray resin by a professional printer. Check the Kickstarter here

If this Kickstarter is a success, we plan to develop further our Gravetides project, creating more fleets, and actually try to publish (in a form or another) our core rules, now in advanced development. Among the fleets we’re thinking about, besides the classical Dwarfs, Elves and Orcs, are the vessels of Frostbare, a nation of undead from the northern ice plains, the warships of the quadrumvirate of the alchemical Liches, and the vampire realm of the degenerate Blood Sycophants. Help us creating a new world!

ResInAere: Gravetides, an Undead Fleet for Naval Fantasy Wargaming Kickstarter Inbound

ResInAere: Gravetides, an Undead Fleet for Naval Fantasy Wargaming Kickstarter launches on the 23rd of March! Check the unique resin cast vessels below and master the high seas!

We are two Italian brothers with a passion for gaming and modelling, and we’ve finally decided to do our very own Kickstarter, hoping to find some support to further develop the projects we have been working on for a long time. Among all the games we have played in the past, we have a soft spot for naval wargaming played with fantasy warships with strange powers, that allow to field bizarre and greatly characterized vessel models. Our Kickstarter offers an undead naval fleet composed by resin hand sculpted models, that strive to recapture the look and the feeling of the miniatures of the last two decades of the past century, that in our minds remains the ‘golden age’ of tabletop wargaming, without renouncing to an original touch.

Even if our fleet can be used with any in-print and out-of-print fantasy naval rules, they are also part of our Gravetides project, our own naval rules still in development, where the classic fantasy races and different undead reigns wage war among each other, and against a sorcerous parasite from another plane of existence, in a dying world were naval battles, due to the relentless rising of the seas level, are more and more prevalent. If this Kickstarter is a success, we plan to create more fleets, and actually try to publish (in a form or another) the Gravetides core rules. The Kickstarter will go live on the 23rd of March. Find the Gravetides Facebook page at: www.facebook.com/ResInAere/

Drifting Mausoleums are a daunting and terrifying sight: constructed from the carcasses of a giant abyssal fish or some other marine creatures, they bring into battle an imposing mausoleum that hosts - guarded by a circle of necromancers - the phylactery of a mighty Lich, whose magical energy is channeled by the sorcerers to fuel the ship movement, and to create the defensive aura of decay that surrounds its massive bulk. In addition to its magical powers, the Drifting Mausoleum is heavily armed with batteries of catapults capable of firing on every side of the vessel, giving it a massive firepower that makes it a formidable warship.