All at Sea (ruleset)

For the 1957 movie of the same name, starring Alec Guinness, see Barnacle Bill.

All at Sea is a naval ruleset for Games Workshop's miniature wargame The Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game. The official rules were a modified version of the Warhammer Boat rules, adapted by Nick Davis and first presented in Games Workshop's White Dwarf magazine (US issue 295).

The game's mechanics centred on boarding parties, with options for ramming actions and light artillery in the form of ballistae and other siege engines.^[1] As such, the game's scale ratio corresponds to the 25mm scale miniatures used by The Lord of the Rings. Games Workshop has not yet released any model ships for this system, opting instead to provide terrain guides for model shipbuilding, but Corsair miniatures are pending release. Model ships are built by hobbyists, just as normal miniature terrain, such as "great ships" of Pelargir, cogs of Dol Amroth and Corsairs of Umbar galleys.^[2]

See also

• Man O'War
• Battlefleet Gothic

Notes

1. Nick Davis. "All At Sea Part One". Ruleset. White Dwarf. Retrieved 2007-06-14.
2. "The Ports of Pelargir". Website. Retrieved 2007-06-14.

External links

• The Ports of Pelargir, directory and resource site for Naval Miniature Wargaming