Sunday 16 April 2017

Release the Kraken!


“Men may sail the seas for a lifetime and seldom, if ever, come in contact with the nightmare monsters that inhabit the caves and cliffs of the ocean floor. Gazing down at the slightly muddy water, the men of The Unicorn saw a squirming mass of interwoven tentacles resembling enormous snakes, immensely thick and long and tapering at their free ends to the size of a man's thumb. It was a foul sight, an obscene growth from the dark places of the world, where incessant hunger is the driving force. At one place, down near the bulge of the hull, appeared a staring gorgon face with great lidless eyes and a huge parrot beak that moved slightly, opening and shutting as though it had just crunched and swallowed a meal of warm flesh.


("Fire In The Galley Stove")” 


   Not long after I bought the Juliette, I started looking around at other piratey things I could add to my collection and I found this kraken on eBay. I have no idea who actually makes it but I was really captured by the idea. As my ship project had stalled badly this went into my lead mountain and that's where it sat for quite some time.
   In my head I have a vague idea of doing a multi-ship free-for-all game that involved the crew on deck as much as the ship's cannons themselves, but I wanted some way of mixing it up and a kraken felt like the right answer.


28mm pirate ship kraken model sea monster

wargames blog pirate attack ship kraken

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4 comments:

  1. Lovely stuff!

    It's made by Scotia Grendel. I have one in the resin pile.

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    1. Thanks Edwin. And thank you for telling me where it is from - not knowing is one of the oddities of ebay.

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  2. Everybody needs a Kraken! What a fabulous addition Mike.

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    1. Thanks Michael. After your post a couple of weeks back, I knew this would be up your street.

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