SOARING TO NEW HEIGHTS - LEVIATHANS: THE GREAT WAR

Italians Vs Germans 1914

 It has been a long wait, but finally Leviathans: The Great War Kickstarter is getting ready to ship. An alternative WWI era where flying warships dominate the skies of the world. The original game released in 2012 to great success and was set in 1910. This saw only British and French Air Fleets battling, while the new version has added German, Italian and Russians to the war. Combat is a unique die system using a set of color coded polyhedrals with Green 4 sided, Blue 6 sided, Yellow 8 sided, Red 10 sided and Black 12 sided all using D12 dice. Weapons are guns and aerial torpedoes, with an occasional ram attack as well. A key feature is unlike most sequenced movement systems where you get conga lines with the best ships holding back to the end to move, this uses the bigger you are the sooner you move in the turn. This plays out with first side A moving its Battleships, followed by side B's Battleships, then A's Battlecruisers, B's Battlecruisers, followed by Cruisers and finally Destroyers. This means lumbering Battleships that are bristling with firepower are vulnerable to smaller faster moving ships that can pick where they want to engage from. The games are fleet action in nature with a typical force of a single Battleship and/or Battlecruiser with an escort of around 3-5 Cruisers and Destroyers. The models come assembled and pre-painted so are game ready right out of the box. To say I am a fan is an understatement. 

I am going to let the pictures do the rest of the talking. 

Italian Destroyer and Prussian Cruiser out of the box.

Prussian Destroyer After I Have Added a Simple Wash. 

Italian Cruiser Again After a Wash.  

British Battleship Again with the Same Wash Treatment. 

The Same Three Ships Shown Together for Scale Comparison. 

The game comes as a Starter Box with rules, boards, dice and a set mix of Destroyers. The add-ons are Fleet Pack of a single Nations Battleship, Cruiser and Destroyers and Ship Packs of each Class of Ship separately. Each ship comes with two versions with different configurations and the cards in the Fleet Packs are different from the cards in the Individual Packs. 

A Game in Action. The Price of Reckless Behavior as an Italian Cruiser Used Its Speed to Get into the Middle of the German and British Fleet.