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* TokenEvilTeammate: The {{Novelisation}} of the game reveals that [[spoiler:the Golden Magus]] is a worshipper of Tzeentch, the Chaos God of Magic, and has his own darker reasons to join with the Grand Alliance against the Dreadfleet.

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* TokenEvilTeammate: The {{Novelisation}} of the game reveals that [[spoiler:the Golden Magus]] is a worshipper of Tzeentch, the Chaos God of Magic, and has his own darker reasons to join with the Grand Alliance against the Dreadfleet.Dreadfleet.
* Weird Beard: The artwork for Tordrek Hackhart, the Chaos Dwarf captain of the ''Black Kraken'', shows that he has replaced his beard with a mass of writhing mechanical tentacles, fitting with the general mechanical sea monster theme of his [[HauntedTechnology daemon-possessed]] submersible.
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* FlamingSword: The pleasure-ship Flaming Scimitar is named in honour of the Sword of Fiery Curses, the burning blade wielded by the ship's captain, the Golden Magus. In-game, the magical sword gives the Magus a bonus during boarding actions.
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* StockNessMonster: The Leech Wyrm, a boney-looking sea beast that serves as either an obstacle or a minion of Count Noctilus.

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* StockNessMonster: The Leech Wyrm, a boney-looking sea beast that serves as either an obstacle or a minion of Count Noctilus.Noctilus.
* TokenEvilTeammate: The {{Novelisation}} of the game reveals that [[spoiler:the Golden Magus]] is a worshipper of Tzeentch, the Chaos God of Magic, and has his own darker reasons to join with the Grand Alliance against the Dreadfleet.

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* CoolBoat: All ten playable vessels fit this criteria.
** Special mention goes to the Bloody Reaver, which looks like it sailed right out of a heavy metal album.

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* CoolBoat: CoolBoat: All ten playable the vessels fit this criteria.
** Special mention goes to
in the Bloody Reaver, which looks like it sailed right out game are exceptional ships. The ships of the Grand Alliance include a floating temple, a steam-powered seagoing forge, a giant pleasure barge fitted with an array of bound elementals, a pirate ship coated with bits of powerful sea creatures, and an Elven dragon roost with sails. The undead Dreadfleet itself meanwhile consists of a heavy metal album.floating castle, a literal {{ghost ship}}, a laser-firing pyramid with a hull, a mechanical squid submarine, and a zombie deep sea monster crewed by undead {{rat men}} mad scientists.
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* FiveManBand:
** Heroes:
*** TheLeader: Jaego Roth
*** TheLancer and TheChick: Aranessa Saltspite
*** TheSmartGuy: Both Red Gunnarson and the Golden Magus fit this, with Red focusing on mechanics and the Magus with magic and spirits.
*** TheBigGuy: Prince Yverllian
** Villains:
*** TheBigBad: Count Noctilus
*** TheDragon: Vanghiest
*** TheBrute: Skretch Half-Dead
*** TheEvilGenius: Tordeck Hackhart
*** TheDarkChick: Amanhotep the Intolerant

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[[caption-width-right:350:Pirate Battles on the Warhammer High Seas]]



* TheBermudaTriangle: The Galleon's Graveyard is regarded as this by the Grand Alliance members.


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* PocketDimension: The game's setting, the Galleon's Graveyard, is a near mythical, nautical realm said to draw shipwrecks, and the remains of anything that dies in the ocean, into its cursed waters. Inhabited by numerous undead creatures, the Galleon’s Graveyard is only accessible by arcane means and has been used by Count Noctilus and his Dreadfleet for decades.

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* FiveBadBand
** TheBigBad: Count Noctilus
** TheDragon: Vanghiest
** TheBrute: Skretch Half-Dead
** TheEvilGenius: Tordeck Hackhart
** TheDarkChick: Amanhotep the Intolerant
* FiveManBand
** TheLeader: Jaego Roth
** TheLancer and TheChick: Aranessa Saltspite
** TheSmartGuy: Both Red Gunnarson and the Golden Magus fit this, with Red focusing on mechanics and the Magus with magic and spirits.
** TheBigGuy: Prince Yverllian

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* FiveBadBand
FiveManBand:
** TheBigBad: Count Noctilus
** TheDragon: Vanghiest
** TheBrute: Skretch Half-Dead
** TheEvilGenius: Tordeck Hackhart
** TheDarkChick: Amanhotep the Intolerant
* FiveManBand
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Heroes:
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TheLeader: Jaego Roth
** *** TheLancer and TheChick: Aranessa Saltspite
** *** TheSmartGuy: Both Red Gunnarson and the Golden Magus fit this, with Red focusing on mechanics and the Magus with magic and spirits.
** *** TheBigGuy: Prince YverllianYverllian
** Villains:
*** TheBigBad: Count Noctilus
*** TheDragon: Vanghiest
*** TheBrute: Skretch Half-Dead
*** TheEvilGenius: Tordeck Hackhart
*** TheDarkChick: Amanhotep the Intolerant
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** TheLancer and TheChick: Arenessa Saltsprite

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** TheLancer and TheChick: Arenessa SaltspriteAranessa Saltspite



* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Arenessa is the only girl in the game's playable roster.

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* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Arenessa Aranessa is the only girl in the game's playable roster.
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* StockNessMonster: The Leech Wyrm.

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* StockNessMonster: The Leech Wyrm.Wyrm, a boney-looking sea beast that serves as either an obstacle or a minion of Count Noctilus.
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* OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame: Both dwarf characters, Red and Tordeck, are temperamental engineers who pilot ironclad warships.
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* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Arenessa is the only girl in the game's playable roster.
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* NonHumanUndead: Skretch and the Skabrus.

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** TheLancer: Arenessa Saltsprite

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** TheLancer: TheLancer and TheChick: Arenessa Saltsprite



** TheChick: Arenessa Saltsprite
* TheFlyingDutchman: Vanghiest and the Shadewraith.



* StockNessMonster: The Leech Wyrm.
* SubmarinePirates: Tordeck and the Black Kracken.

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* StockNessMonster: The Leech Wyrm.
* SubmarinePirates: Tordeck and the Black Kracken.
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* FiveBadBand
** TheBigBad: Count Noctilus
** TheDragon: Vanghiest
** TheBrute: Skretch Half-Dead
** TheEvilGenius: Tordeck Hackhart
** TheDarkChick: Amanhotep the Intolerant



* FiveBadBand
** TheBigBad: Count Noctilus
** TheDragon: Vanghiest
** TheBrute: Skretch Half-Dead
** TheEvilGenius: Tordeck Hackhart
** TheDarkChick: Amanhotep the Intolerant
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* StockNessMonster: The Leech Wyrm.

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* StockNessMonster: The Leech Wyrm.Wyrm.
* SubmarinePirates: Tordeck and the Black Kracken.
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** TheDarkChick: Amenhotep the Intolerant

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** TheDarkChick: Amenhotep Amanhotep the Intolerant
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* ElvesVsDwarves: One of Red's lines shows that he doesn't have a high opinion of them "pointy-eared pretty boys". Though it's possibly one-sided as Yvrellian makes no statement against any dwarf.

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* ElvesVsDwarves: One of Red's lines shows that he doesn't have a high opinion of them "pointy-eared pretty boys". Though it's possibly one-sided as Yvrellian Yrellian makes no statement against any dwarf.
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Dreadfleet is a pirate themed role playing board game based in the world of Warhammer. It was created by Games Workshop and released in stores in October 2011. It is a two player game where one player controls the titular Dreadfleet, an army of monsters and warlords led by the vampire Count Noctilus, and the other player has the Grand Alliance, a collation of sailors and pirates determined to stop the Dreadfleet from controlling the seas. The two sides fight in a treacherous stretch of water known as the Galleon's Graveyard. The game's rule book features an extensive story regarding all of the playable character's and their respective ships.

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Dreadfleet is a pirate themed role playing board game based in the world of Warhammer. ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}''. It was created by Games Workshop Creator/GamesWorkshop and released in stores in October 2011. It is a two player game where one player controls the titular Dreadfleet, an army of monsters and warlords led by the vampire Count Noctilus, and the other player has the Grand Alliance, a collation of sailors and pirates determined to stop the Dreadfleet from controlling the seas. The two sides fight in a treacherous stretch of water known as the Galleon's Graveyard. The game's rule book features an extensive story regarding all of the playable character's and their respective ships.
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** NonHumanUndead: Skretch and the Skabrus.

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** * NonHumanUndead: Skretch and the Skabrus.
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** Leviathan Island was formed on the bones of an immense sea turtle, and in "Between a Rock and a Hard Place", it is home to an indestructible one.

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** Leviathan Island was formed on the bones of an immense sea turtle, and in "Between a Rock and a Hard Place", it is home to an indestructible one.one.
** NonHumanUndead: Skretch and the Skabrus.
* StockNessMonster: The Leech Wyrm.
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* KrakeandLeviathan: Dreadfleet contains several massive sea monsters.

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* KrakeandLeviathan: KrakenAndLeviathan: Dreadfleet contains several massive sea monsters.
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* KrackenndLeviathan: Dreadfleet contains several massive sea monsters.

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* KrackenndLeviathan: KrakeandLeviathan: Dreadfleet contains several massive sea monsters.



** The Black Kracken, while mechanical, invokes the classic image of a gargantuan squid that drags mariners into the briny depths.

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** The Black Kracken, Kraken, while mechanical, invokes the classic image of a gargantuan squid that drags mariners into the briny depths.
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* KrackenAndLeviathan: Dreadfleet contains several massive sea monsters.

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* KrackenAndLeviathan: KrackenndLeviathan: Dreadfleet contains several massive sea monsters.
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* GhostShip: Ignoring the actual ghost ship, when a warship loses all of its crew in a boarding action, it effectively becomes this.

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* GhostShip: Ignoring the actual ghost ship, when a warship loses all of its crew in a boarding action, it effectively becomes this.this.
* KrackenAndLeviathan: Dreadfleet contains several massive sea monsters.
** The Orb Leviathan that would later become the Skabrus was large enough to bite whole ships in half.
** The Black Kracken, while mechanical, invokes the classic image of a gargantuan squid that drags mariners into the briny depths.
** Leviathan Island was formed on the bones of an immense sea turtle, and in "Between a Rock and a Hard Place", it is home to an indestructible one.
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* ElvesVsDwarves: One of Red's lines shows that he doesn't have a high opinion of them "pointy-eared pretty boys". Though it's possibly one-sided as Yvrellian makes no statement against any dwarf.



** TheDarkChick: Amenhotep the Intolerant

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** TheDarkChick: Amenhotep the IntolerantIntolerant
* TheFlyingDutchman: Vanghiest and the Shadewraith.
* GhostPirate: Four variations to be exact.
** Noctilus is a vampire who reanimates the dead to serve him.
** Amenhotep is a mummy and his warship is crewed by sentient skeletons.
** Skretch is a zombie rat-man, as well as his entire crew.
*** The Skabrus itself is an undead sea monster with gaping wounds and trailing intestines.
** Vanghiest, his crew, and the Shadewraith itself are literal ghosts that still cling to the mortal world.
* GhostShip: Ignoring the actual ghost ship, when a warship loses all of its crew in a boarding action, it effectively becomes this.
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* Five-ManBand

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* Five-ManBandFiveManBand



* Five-BadBand

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* Five-BadBandFiveBadBand
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* DerelictGraveyard: The Galleon's Graveyard is littered with floating wreckage of both ships and sea life. And this was before the Dreadfleet came and made it worse.

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* DerelictGraveyard: The Galleon's Graveyard is littered with floating wreckage of both ships and sea life. And this was before the Dreadfleet came and made it worse.worse.
* Five-ManBand
** TheLeader: Jaego Roth
** TheLancer: Arenessa Saltsprite
** TheSmartGuy: Both Red Gunnarson and the Golden Magus fit this, with Red focusing on mechanics and the Magus with magic and spirits.
** TheBigGuy: Prince Yverllian
** TheChick: Arenessa Saltsprite
* Five-BadBand
** TheBigBad: Count Noctilus
** TheDragon: Vanghiest
** TheBrute: Skretch Half-Dead
** TheEvilGenius: Tordeck Hackhart
** TheDarkChick: Amenhotep the Intolerant

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Dreadfleet is a pirate themed role playing board game based in the world of Warhammer. It was created by Games Workshop and released in stores in October 2011.
It is a two player game where one player controls the titular Dreadfleet, an army of monsters and warlords led by the vampire Count Noctilus, and the other player has the Grand Alliance, a collation of sailors and pirates determined to stop the Dreadfleet from controlling the seas. The game's rule book features an extensive story regarding all of the playable character's and their respective ships.

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Dreadfleet is a pirate themed role playing board game based in the world of Warhammer. It was created by Games Workshop and released in stores in October 2011.
2011. It is a two player game where one player controls the titular Dreadfleet, an army of monsters and warlords led by the vampire Count Noctilus, and the other player has the Grand Alliance, a collation of sailors and pirates determined to stop the Dreadfleet from controlling the seas. The two sides fight in a treacherous stretch of water known as the Galleon's Graveyard. The game's rule book features an extensive story regarding all of the playable character's and their respective ships.ships.
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!!Dreadfleet contains examples of:
* TheBermudaTriangle: The Galleon's Graveyard is regarded as this by the Grand Alliance members.
* CoolBoat: All ten playable vessels fit this criteria.
** Special mention goes to the Bloody Reaver, which looks like it sailed right out of a heavy metal album.
* DerelictGraveyard: The Galleon's Graveyard is littered with floating wreckage of both ships and sea life. And this was before the Dreadfleet came and made it worse.
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Dreadfleet is a pirate themed role playing board game based in the world of Warhammer. It was created by Games Workshop and released in stores in October 2011.
It is a two player game where one player controls the titular Dreadfleet, an army of monsters and warlords led by the vampire Count Noctilus, and the other player has the Grand Alliance, a collation of sailors and pirates determined to stop the Dreadfleet from controlling the seas. The game's rule book features an extensive story regarding all of the playable character's and their respective ships.

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