Thread by @DrJACameron

Scanning these to scale took me all afternoon and making this took me all evening but BATTLEFLEET ENGLISH GOTHIC IS LAUNCHED!!!

(all English and Welsh medieval cathedrals from Harvey Cathedrals 1974, with Coventry, Old St Paul's London and Beverley added)

those in lower case were not medieval diocesan churches but were upgraded and are in Harvey and I scanned them so there they are. Carlisle and Oxford lost their naves so are much shorter than they were built, and the naves of Bristol and Southwark were only replaced in the 19thc

and Winchester had a west block until the 14thc that made it that bit longer and deserving of the commanding vessel of the English fleet

damn coventry should be paired with lichfield shouldn't it

also should it really be the west front that's the bow, and the east arm as the aft

whatever. wait till you see the French fleet and what it'd be like when St Albans broadsided Rheims

I suppose you could look it as the grunts (sorry little cathedrals) leading the formation with Beverley at the centre of a pincer movement, with Winchester as the command vessel at the back

ok this did well! I should say it is based off the Games Workshop 1999 tabletop wargame.

for those asking about hi-res etc I am cleaning it up: for that and a similar project for French medieval archdioceses SMASH THAT FOLLOW BUTTON (but not so hard you break your computer)

also I did always think that Battlefleet Gothic was just Man o' War (1993) in SPAAAACE when it came out but turns out GW produced a spaceship game before it in 1991. but the craft weren't as cathedrally in that

and if you feel like reading, here are the twenty richest monasteries dissolved in the reign of King Henry VIII, with some scuppered dreadnoughts that could easily rival some of the churches in any compilation of cathedrals
stainedglassattitudes.wordpress.com/2020/06/26/mon…