I've had Oak and Iron sitting on my shelf since I backed it when it was first on Kickstarter. As I've started to return to painting and playing miniatures games I was roundly infected with the desire to get this out, blow off the layer of dust, and see about painting the ships and playing the game.
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| Oak and Iron - First Edition Boxed Set |
The ships are multi-part models, that push together. One part is the hull of the ship, and then all of the sails push into their little slots. This has the advantage of making the models easy to set up and play with - you could put them together straight after opening the box, and play it within a couple of minutes. With the hulls in brown plastic, and the sails in a white plastic, they look good enough for a sort of board game/miniatures game hybrid model.
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| Some of the models from the base game. |
Whatever advantages are gained by making the ship models like this, the flip side is that they lack some refinement in terms of their detail. However, at the scale of the models, and how good they look once painted on the table, I don't think it really matters - they are table quality models, and a good paint job really does make them pop.
The base game box includes six ships, and I had to use the handy PDF on the Firelock Games website to help me work out which was the brigantine, and which was the frigate, and so on. I decided to work through the base box, hopefully play a game or two, and then decide whether to continue with the other couple of boxes I've got for the game.
I have played a couple of games now, and I started on the Men of War box (includes 3 more ship models). Two of these are painted in the photos below. I'll review the game another day, but for now, here are all the painted ships...
The first model I painted was the sloop...
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| Brigantine |
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| Corvette |
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