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The Cobalt Flotilla
🕑 Added 2021-06-23 08:07:14 +0000 UTCWhew, okay! So, this is the thing I've been drawing over the last few weeks. When I started this, "an island made of ships" seemed like a simple enough idea. But, as it turns out, you need a lot of ships to make an island and ships kind of take a while to draw, so it turned into a bit of an accidental megaproject. Still, I don't know about you, but I think it was worth the effort.
I suspect a lot of people will have questions about where the sleeping quarters are, so let me talk about that. Historically, most crew aboard ships usually slept in hammocks. Space is limited on a ship and beds are big. Hammocks, on the other hand, are small and can be stowed overhead during the day, allowing the room to be used for other things.
This many ships would require a ton of crew and a ton of hammocks. But hammocks aren't interesting and I didn't want to fill the map with them, so I mostly depicted the rooms as they would look during the day, when the hammocks are stowed in the rafters.
Since I've drawn all these ships, I figure I might as well use them for more than just this one map, so I'm going to spend the next few days making individual maps of each of the larger ships. I'm also going to make a map of the flotilla on the move. This shouldn't take long, since everything's drawn and colored and I just need to move stuff around. For patrons. I'll be making annotated versions of the individual ships as well.
When I went into this, I didn't think I'd be drawing something you could base an entire campaign around, but it's starting to look like I did. There are a lot of things you could do with this, really. Let me know if you've got any thoughts about that.
Well, I'm gonna get to work on wrapping this stuff up! I should have more for you tomorrow, if not later today.
Comments
Milby's Maps
Probably not, but Driftport is a similar sort of idea: https://www.patreon.com/posts/driftport-40k-in-87938029
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Would you ever consider updates of this? Could be fun if you made a flotilla series of different formations, new ships, etc.
Milby's Maps
Thanks!
Pope Dezzicus
Lovely work milby, truly marvelous
oceanicsurvivor
Not only can you base an entire pirate or saltmarch campaign around it but thanks to the png/individual ship files ill prolly be taking these into space as spelljammers too! This is fantastic, thank you for yet another incredible megaproject!
