They were designed along with the boxed game, but released later to give the impression of an expanded product line. Two boxed supplements were published by Games Workshop each with a different focus on what they added to the game system.

It seems that the miniature moulds had worn out because of the high number of duplicates the Bretonnian Corsairs were the first units to be unavailable. It reached a final 'out of print' status in 1998. The game was removed from store shelves in 1995, but remained available through mail order in selected countries, like the US. The boxed game contained land features in the form of printed card shapes as well as the printed templates. These miniatures are now considered out of print. Each box had the metal parts for the model ship (or ships - smaller ships came three to a box) and printed sails and flags with plastic masts (as applicable). These came in small boxes rather than blister packs.

The boxed game included twelve plastic models (rowed galleys), sufficient to learn the basics of play in scenarios between 'pirates' and 'the Empire', but the other ships in the Empire's fleet and those for the other races were metal models. Chaos Plaguefleets ( Slaanesh, Khorne, Nurgle, and Tzeentch).Independents (INDs) were similar to Men O' War in that they operated singly, but were much less powerful and tended to be unique in some way, making their classification as a SOL less appropriate.Д«y the time all the supplements had been published Man O' War supported the following fleets: One ship in the squadron was designated as a flagship and the other ships in the squadron had to stay within 6' of it to receive orders or else they would become stragglers and suffer various penalties. Ships of the Line (SOL) varied in size and firepower and were operated in squadrons of 3. Men O' War were the most powerful ships in the game and they could typically take heavy punishment before sinking. These command ships operated singularly and usually carried the fleet Admiral and Wizard (if available). The largest and most powerful ships were the Men O' War (MOW). Ships were designated as belonging to one of 3 categories.

Some innovations were present, such as alternate unit activation. Each model had a corresponding template to record damage, crew levels, and outbreaks of fire, among other bookkeeping activities. The game typically used a small number of models with half a dozen to a dozen models per player. The game name coming from ' Man-of-war', it dealt with the sea battles of the Warhammer world each player controlling a fleet of model ships. Other races of the Warhammer world were not included, either because they were lacking seafaring abilities ( Wood Elves), missing from the main factions at that time ( Ogres, Lizardmen), or both. The game was set in the same realm of Warhammer Fantasy as used for the Warhammer Fantasy Battle and included most of the factions from that setting. Man O' War (sometimes also written as 'Manowar') is a now out-of-print table top war game by Games Workshop.

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