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Master Plan - Ships One
Publisher: UKG Publishing
by Lanse T. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 03/05/2007 00:00:00

Lots of decent ship designs. I never ended up using them, but they were a decent reference for sizes.<br><br><b>QUALITY</b>: Acceptable<br><br><b>VALUE</b>: Satisfied<br>



Rating:
[3 of 5 Stars!]
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Master Plan - Ships One
Publisher: UKG Publishing
by Rich S. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 06/05/2006 00:00:00

Interesting package, this one contains 4 different ship deck plans. The problem is, that they're pretty disparate. You get a Galleon and a Pinnace, which both work together pretty well. I mean, the pinnace would work pretty well for a small vessel like a sloop maybe. The Galleon is rather large. It has a top deck, forecastle and aft castle, cargo and steerage decks. The Galleon is over half the pages in the package.

The problem is that the other two ships are a Bireme and a Viking long ship. I know that my knowledge of fantasy naval settings is probably not complete, but I can't think of any that I've run where you're likely to need 3 ships from completely different cultures and time periods! Maybe it would be a more attractive package if there were 4 ships you could use together in the same campaign?

The problems don't stop there. The artwork is so-so. Not bad per-se, but I have a lot of the Skeleton Key Games e-adventure tiles and these are nowhere near as attractive as those. The objects on deck are quite pixelated and look very "Cut and Paste".

Next, there's very little in the way of customisation possible. The ships all have stuff (cargo, cannons, weapons etc) drawn right there on the decks. It would have been much better to have the "furniture" on separate tiles that could be added later. There is a page of extra parts you can print and add to the decks, but the decks are already pretty crowded and there really isn't much room to put that stuff out. Having said that, the cargo and such is laid out ok, so that's not the end of the world, and you get a choice of forecastle with or without giant crossbows and either a cargo or cannon deck.

The last problem with this set is that the interior of the ship is presented as an exploded view, presumably so you can let your players only see the rooms they're in or have been in, keeping the rest of the ship hidden. Problem with that is that I wanted to print the whole thing out as one big sheet per deck. Fine I thought, just cut the rooms out and stick them together. Sounds easy, right? Except they don't actually fit! You need to cut them down to size and overlap them, and even then the doors don't line up! Just plain sloppy, especially with a PDF where you can provide both versions (exploded and complete) at no extra cost.

Overall, it's a bit mediocre. You get 4 ship plans which are all unexceptional. They're from 3 time periods and cultures, so unlikely to all get used together. There are things wrong with the larger ones, but nothing that makes them useless. Reasonably versatile Pinnace and Galleon makes it worth getting this set (that's 20 out of 27 pages, not much wasted)<br><br><b>QUALITY</b>: Acceptable<br><br><b>VALUE</b>: Satisfied<br>



Rating:
[3 of 5 Stars!]
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Creator Reply:
Interesting comments, we actually printed the galleon out as a display item for shows and got very little image pixellation and had no problems matching the pieces up. Could you please contact us via our website (www.ukg-publishing.co.uk) so we can investigate further, as we take all our customers issues seriously and like to try to get our products to the best we can. We obviously cannot try all our work out on every system but in theory the sizes should not change and we printed out on a high end color laser and also on a basic epson inkjet for contrast, this enabled us to correct some color issues on the printouts, and yes as to options this pdf was the first ship layout on the market (we believe) and technology has moved on, so perhaps we should look at an update, although we still think the product has a good range of vessels lacking in other products, and also has sufficient adaptability for most GM's diverse needs. We also got complaints from other buyers about no margins on pages so people couldn't just overlap pages on to each other so I guess its the old "most people most of the time" saying and its easier to remove extra paper area with scissors than try to stick paper back on, for those who want margins. thank you for taking the time to write and I look forward to hearing from you directly.
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Master Plan - Ships One
Publisher: UKG Publishing
by Ron O. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 06/02/2006 00:00:00

I was dissapointed with this product. I have bought a small set of maps like the set included here and paid about two bucks. This product needs many more deckplans, artwork and ship designs for the price charged!<br><br> <b>LIKED</b>: The Galley deckplan was fairly extensive.<br><br><b>DISLIKED</b>: The other deckplans were 'minimalist' in nature and there were nowhere near enough for the price.<br><br><b>QUALITY</b>: Disappointing<br><br><b>VALUE</b>: Ripped Off<br>



Rating:
[1 of 5 Stars!]
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Creator Reply:
I would like to know which company is producing high quality graphics such as ours and 50 pages to boot, so if you could contact us through out home website I would be extremely grateful, if you could send us a URL for this product, so we can take a look. As a PS 50 pages of graphics for $8 (if not bought during a sale) works out at 0.16c a page and if bought when this product was $1 (on sale) 0.02c per page
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Master Plan - Ships One
Publisher: UKG Publishing
by Erik M. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 01/16/2006 00:00:00

Customizable deckplans of four ships: Galleon, Bireme, Small Pinnace, and Viking Longship. Each deck and cabin is cut apart so they can be kept hidden until the right time.

<br><br><b>LIKED</b>: This set is terrific! I bought this for use with a D&D campaign (mainly just the Galleon) and it works great. Well done UKG! I would love to see more like this.<br><br><b>DISLIKED</b>: The decks come pre-populated with items (crates, barrels, coils of rope, etc.) that I didn't always want. They provided an alternate gun-deck for cannon-era ships (which is a great idea), but perhaps they could include an alternate bare deck as well? I could place a bare-deck square over them (as was suggested by the publisher in a previous review), but this gets awfully fiddly if you want to customize the whole deck. Really though, not a big deal to me!<br><br><b>QUALITY</b>: Very Good<br><br><b>VALUE</b>: Very Satisfied<br><BR>[THIS REVIEW WAS EDITED]<BR>



Rating:
[5 of 5 Stars!]
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Master Plan - Ships One
Publisher: UKG Publishing
by David F. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 12/14/2005 00:00:00

Overall Good but not great. The side view shows a different deck area then that provided on the map view. The deck plans are pre-populated with cargo. Adding pages without anything but the structure and letting us print and paste over the areas to populate the ship would be more versatile. Also where?s the Galley? Deep ocean ships that can?t cook their food are irritating. I figured that the galley?s fire box, stove pipe and tables would be in the accessories file. Nope, that file does not even have all the types of cargo shown on the ships.<br><br> <b>LIKED</b>: Good basic layouts for the ships and printing to scale is nice. <br><br><b>DISLIKED</b>: No firebox, deck plans pre-populated with cargo, no ships pumps on the large ships and the side views show a different deck layout then the top views provided. The accessories file does not have all the cargo shown in the holds, nor any blank deck tiles to erase what was already imbedded in the deck maps.<br><br><b>QUALITY</b>: Very Good<br><br><b>VALUE</b>: Disappointed<br>



Rating:
[3 of 5 Stars!]
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Creator Reply:
Not sure what the problems is here - you are talking about our ships deckplans for fantasy gamers, we did not do a historically accurate set of ships with added realism. The idea is to supply DMs with some ship floorplans for a pirate battle or a campaign involving merchant ships in port. we all know you need to cook and eat but do you really need a picture of a small room less than 5 ft square in which salt pork is cut up and cooked as a stew in a cauldron. As to the deckplan element cut out a plain square and cover the cargo up with it, there are plenty of plain tiles in various areas. I'm sorry that you were disappointed with the product perhaps you were expecting something a little different if so please drop me a line at kevins(at)uk-gamers(dot)net discuss your needs and we may be able to help you out with a more bespoke item, if we have misjudged the market for ships and need a different product lets do it, the only thing is most other people in their comments have said this was an excellent product ideal for the requirements of a fantasy based naval adventure and given 4 or 5 stars each ship works out at just over $1 which we thought was excellent value for money.
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Master Plan - Ships One
Publisher: UKG Publishing
by Duncan H. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 04/25/2005 00:00:00

I wanted some colour deckplans of various ships to use in a campaign that had an occasional nautical side. So I bought this product and found it does exactly what it says on the tin!<br><br><b>LIKED</b>: This product has a variety of ship deckplans, which can (to a limited degree) be mixed & matched. They came in colour and black & white. Also, when printing off they had 1" grids, to make combat nice and easy.<br><br><b>DISLIKED</b>: Nothing to dislike; the bumpf tells it straight as a die.<br><br><b>QUALITY</b>: Very Good<br><br><b>VALUE</b>: Satisfied<br>



Rating:
[4 of 5 Stars!]
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Creator Reply:
thanks very much for the comment, however there must be something you disliked as you only gave us 4 stars out of 5. It would help us in future products if you can email UKG and tell us what the 20% of our product was that you didn't like,or what didn't make it 5 star in your view. Then we can plan future releases better for everyone Kevin UKG
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Master Plan - Ships One
Publisher: UKG Publishing
by Richard W. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 08/11/2004 00:00:00

Nicely done ships. I'm not thrilled with the planking used as the floor (has some dark stripes running the length of the ships), but everything else is very well done.



Rating:
[4 of 5 Stars!]
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Creator Reply:
thanks for the comment, customer replies are always appreciated both by us the publisher and by future customers. KEV for UKG
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Master Plan - Ships One
Publisher: UKG Publishing
by gideon M.
Date Added: 05/01/2004 00:00:00

Very neat interface! you get a 3 decked galleon, each deck being a 2d rendering with 1" grid, a 2 deck pinnace, a bireme and a viking longboat. Quality illustrations



Rating:
[4 of 5 Stars!]
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Creator Reply:
thanks for the comment, customer replies are always appreciated both by us the publisher and by future customers.
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Master Plan - Ships One
Publisher: UKG Publishing
by Steve S. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 02/28/2004 00:00:00

What a great set of tiles to run a sea adventure. Raise the yardarm and hoist the anchor mateys! This one is a winner! Love the interface!



Rating:
[5 of 5 Stars!]
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Creator Reply:
thanks for the comment, customer replies are always appreciated both by us the publisher and by future customers
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