Willmark:
As I see it, Skaven ships would be very cobbled together. With some Screaming Bells. :DActually that what they looked like big barges with gigantic screaming bells on them.
Bill-117
wallacer:
I’ve always thought of Skaven ships as being sort of like the fantasy equivalent of 40k Space Hulks - big almost derelict ships which barely function anymore.
Bill-117:
Cool. Rat-head busts or anything on 'em?
wallacer:
Cool. Rat-head busts or anything on 'em?Maybe, if they wanted to proclaim themselves as Skaven ships.
Bill-117
More likely they would function like world war 2 commerce raiders, and leave their true nationality disguised until the last minute.
Willmark:
Could be power by warpstone too.
Kera foehunter:
Yea like skaven could build a ship .And if the could they blow it up when they use too much warpstone.
Hammerhand:
Yea like skaven could build a ship .And if the could they blow it up when they��use too much warpstone.After building a massive network of underground tunnels spanning the old world, building a ship is probably the proverbial piece of urine.
Kera foehunter
wallacer:
I’m sure Skaven could build all kinds of things if they wanted to, but for the most part they seem to scavenge and take whatever they can.
Some of their largest cities belonged to other races, originally.
Kera foehunter:
Maybe they stoled the orc ships .They both have the same craftmenship
Bill-117:
Shrug… I could see that.
A Skaven’s Navy would be a varied thing.
Dozens of scavenged ships and rickety rafts filled with chittering clanrats for the minor clan leaders…
Giant barges buzzing with flies and seeping pus and ooze for Pestilens.
Stolen Nipponese, Cathayan, Empire and Araby ships for Eshin.
Massive clockwork doodads dripping in warpstone for Skryre…
Water chariots pulled by drowning rat ogres for Moulder, though they wouldn’t go very far. A cool Moulder navy weapon would be catapulting boxes and jars full of rats at an enemy ship. Tie it up for awhile.
AGPO:
My main question is WHERE they would build their ships, seeing as they have no port. And they couldn’t remain at see forever remember
Kera foehunter:
they might be over in hidden temple ruins in lustria!
AGPO:
But the Skaven were kicked out of Lustria remember
zagor66:
It doesnt mean they wont invade again…screech.
Tallhat:
I guess there could be some kind of underground port. Wouldnt be to hard fro them to make I guess. That is what the DE do If I remember correctly.
- Tallhat
Willmark:
Maybe the build them in some much island near Skavenblight (the swamps) then pilot them out to sea. Not every single piece of land mass in a swamp is all muck, some is solid Terra-firma. Even if they do steal them from others they still have to dock them somewhere.
Tallhat:
Underground docks as I said. There really arent many other possebilities than that.
- Tallhat
Bill-117:
Underground ports, Lustrian bases, Eshin in Nippon and Cathay, underground marshes, stealing Dwarf tunnels and flooding perhaps, or taking over DE waterways.
wallacer:
The Warhammer world is fairly sparsely populated.
It’s not hard to imagine that there is a rarely-visited inlet or river subsidiary near Skavenblight that the Skaven could quietly build ships in if they really wanted to.
AGPO:
Maybe the build them in some much island near Skavenblight (the swamps) then pilot them out to sea. Not every single piece of land mass in a swamp is all muck, some is solid Terra-firma. Even if they do steal them from others they still have to dock them somewhere.The skaven ships just seem too big to navigate marshland. Wallacer's explanation seems most plausible
Willmark