All at Sea is a naval ruleset for

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'' 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 ''

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'' magazine ( US issue 295). The game's mechanics centre on boarding parties, with options for ramming actions and light

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in the form of

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e and other

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s. As such, the game's scale ratio corresponds to the 25mm scale miniatures used by ''The Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game''. Games Workshop has not yet released any

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for this system, opting instead to provide terrain guides for model

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, but Corsair miniatures were released in 2008. Model ships are built by hobbyists, just as normal miniature terrain, such as " great ships" of

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, cogs of Dol Amroth and Corsairs of Umbar

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The Ports of Pelargir
directory and resource site for Naval Miniature Wargaming
All At Sea
PDF Copy Of All At Sea Rule Set Middle-earth Strategy Battle Game Miniature wargames Naval games {{wargame-stub

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