Cool. I've kind of drifted away from 40k, and towards the Battle Fantasy variant of Warhammer. My biggest problem with tabletop battlegames, is that their infuriatingly expensive to get started.

That's certainly true. My Dad's wooden ships game is great. The game comes with little cards that represent the ships, but he built little miniature ships for it, complete with little cardstock sails, and fine detail painting.

Do you even want to guess what something like that might cost if they sold it in stores?

Holy crap that sounds awesome. Have you any pictures of the ships? They sound cool.

I suppose I could find some... I don't have any, but if I can find wherever the game has gone to, I could...

How does the game play? Is it well designed?

It's very well designed.
Basically, it starts out both the players write down their moves, then take the next turn at the same time.
Each ship has three different "health bars" representing rigging, hull, and crew, and there's different penalties involved for losing certain amounts of each.

You can board, and get tangled rigging, and other such occurances, too.

Awesome.

Yeah, it's pretty awesome.
Did you ever play Heroscape?

Can't say that I have.

It's pretty simple as tabletop games go. I'm sure you saw the commercials for it a few years back.

I haven't seen any ads on it. It could be because I live in Ireland.