Wargaming at Iserlohn

 Fleet File Vol 11 This ship set came out in 2019 after a long gap of years between releases as volume 10 came out in 2011. Likely this is because of the renewed interest in the series due to the release of "Die Neue These" the year before; this is of course only speculation and I have no information on this apart from a letter included in Volume 10 which I will mention in a later post. Ostmark: the flagship of the Lippstadt fleet during the Imperial civil war. The main ship design is fairly standard and follows the traditional design of imperial flagships (I.E. just a big version of a standard battleship).  It is interesting in the fact that it also comes with two shield ships on the sides which give it a completely different profile. Viewed from the side the whole set looks just like one huge ship instead of three separate ones.   Berlin: The ships is basically a sister ship to the Ostmark, the only differences are in the interior (from the included booklet it was more luxu

  Fleet File Vol 5 review  Another fairly standard Fleet File volume if not for the fact that it contains one of the weirdest/ugliest/confusing ships in the FPA fleet, the Triglav.  Theodoricus (Goldenlowe version): The flagship of admiral Thurneysen. Interestingly with the Goldenlowe crest, it is noteworthy because the last time this ship was seen in the animated series was before Reinhard's ascension to the throne so with the old Goldenlowe crest.  This is due to the fact that admiral Thurneysen fell out of favour after his blunder during the battle of Vermillion.   Grand Canal  + 2x Alliance cruiser, three copies of the standard alliance cruiser with the Grand Canal only being distinguished by the numbers on the side of its prow.   Salamander: Goldenbaun and Goldenlowe version: Admiral's Wahlen's flagship in both versions. I believe this is the only imperial ship equipped with a pair of claws on its lower part presumably to anchor the ship during landing operations. Pr

    Fleet File Vol 1R review  This R volume was created, I believe, to give people the opportunity to buy the Brunhild model as it is one of the most important ships in the series and was previously included in the Vol 1 which has been long out of print and extremely expensive to purchase.  The only duplicate ships between the two volumes are the Asgrimm and Brunhild, both Goldenbaum and Goldenlowe versions.  This makes it a bit awkward as you really need to buy both sets as the other ships are extremely different but then you end up with 4 copies of each duplicate ship.  There are some minor differences which I will get into with the Vol 1 review. This set is mostly for imperial ships as the account for 80% of the included models.   Brünhild (Goldenbaum and Goldenlöwe versions): probably the most iconic ship from the series, the model does justice to the animated series and it is really impressive.   As I mentioned above if you want to purchase all the sets you will end up with 4 cop

     Fleet File Vol 6 review The set is focused on the empire carriers and both empire and Alliance light cruisers Bang-goo: out of all the Alliance flagships the Bang Goo has a thicker midsection and profile than the standard ship.  Quite a nice design.     2x Imperial cruiser (Goldenbaum and Goldlowe Version): Truthfully the imperial cruiser design is not my favourite especially the soft curve of the front prow.  Having a couple extra models though is quite useful.     3x Alliance cruiser: standard alliance cruiser, as i mentioned other times it's quite useful for wargaming purposes how there are multiple models of standard ships included in these sets.     4x Imperial carrier (788 UC era) (Walküre and Gunship   carrier) (Goldenbaum and Goldenlöwe versions): this is the main part of this set, in comparison with the alliance carriers these models are a lot bigger in both volume and length. There are not many large differences in the two carrier ship types apart from the pattern o