Sarissa Precision has been hitting the high seas of late with some awesome new Medieval ships for you to use in your 28mm Historical wargames. You can start off with a little Skiff and end up at the head of a Northern Great Galley!

Skiff // Sarissa Precision

This small Skiff can fit around six miniatures and was an ideal transport option for getting troops across rivers or perhaps from invasion ships that are sitting further out in the bay. You can see that this Skiff has been crewed by Medieval soldiers but there's no reason that this can't be used as down the timeline as the 20th Century if you prefer.

I do like the idea that you play with a fair few Skiffs in your game and have a small invasion force pushing its way towards the beach. As that happens, your opponent is raining down arrows from afar and trying to pick you off before you land. Think of it as Medieval D-Day!

Going one step up, you have the Rowbarge.

Rowbarge // Sarissa Precision

This can fit around twelve miniatures (it should be noted that the ones shown here are on 25mm bases) and works as a way of transporting even more troops onto the beach. You could even get involved in some boat-on-boat action with a couple of Rowbarges. Have them set up on either side of a lake or in the narrows of a sea lane and work out who is going to come out on top! I sense a lot of splintered wood, shattered bone and floating corpses on the horizon.

Last and most definitely largest, we have the Northern Great Galley.

Northern Great Galley // Sarissa Precision

This can hold eighteen miniatures and whilst it looks a bit lumbering, it was actually quite shift once you got some muscle behind those oars. The addition of the Castellations on the front and back of the ship turned these boats into floating support platforms. Get your archers up on those nests and support your foot troops as they leap across as part of boarding actions and the like.

All of these ships can be snapped up individually or as part of a larger bundle which also features a Medieval Cog. You could have a proper fleet on the go thanks to these MDF kits and then perhaps use these to represent your Crusading force heading to The Holy Land.

I like the idea of changing things up and exploring battles that are played out in very different ways. Taking to the seas with your Medieval armies might be different from your regular fights across muddy fields but it would turn into quite a memorable game I bet!

Will you be picking up these new kits?