This is a good map. The cartography and illustration are not nearly as good as the new pirate ship flip-map, but I have used this time and again. I use the cannons as arcane weapons.

I would love to see a flip-map take on an airship! Wouldn't mind an arcane train as well! Hint, hint Paizo!

In regards to AvatarArt's comment about beds, they used hammocks, beds or bunks were only available to captains & officers, bunks for crew didn't appear until steel vessels for the most part. But true the cannons aren't for all, static-cling type layovers would have been a cool touch for those who need them

If you buy this in hope of printing a copy across multiple 8.5x11 sheets to assemble your own map, you will be disappointed.

The PDF is two giant pages, so the only way you will be able to do it is with an app specifically designed to split large PDFs into printable chunks (and which will do so on protected PDFs- good luck), or with a large format printer/plotter.

It's still useful for VTT games, but is not a very well thought out product for most people. Come on, Paizo, what gives?

I've been thinking of running a SpellJammmer-style game for a while, and I'd been thinking of drawing a map of the PC's ship until I saw this product.

What a great idea!

I, too, would have preferred cargo space rather than cannon, but it's a small gripe that can be hand-waved away with a bit of "just pretend", and the cannon should be fine if I ever run a different style of campaign in the future (at least a couple of gamers in my group have expressed interest in something with a pirate theme, for example.)

The interior views of lower decks is a fantastic idea! I wish the same design had been applied to the ships in the Map Pack as well, as those only had the upper deck to work with (it's times like this that it's a shame the Map Packs aren't double-sided; an interior and exterior view of a couple of those ships would have been great!)

The art is, as always, fantastic on this Flip Map, the plain grid of ocean on the other side is one of the few times I'm perfectly happy with a "one-sided" Flip Mat, because the "busy side" has four views of the same ship.

It misses a star only by being the sort of thing that can only be used in a few situations, but it only barely misses 5 stars.

This is how I like my flip-mats to be; detailed on one side and featureless terrain on the other side. I'm so glad Paizo gave us a big expanse of sea without cluttering it up with stuff like rocks, seaweed and whirlpools. When I first saw this I thought the idea of four ships in a row was pretty strange until I realised that they were the four decks of the same ship laid out side by side, which is genius. I suppose you could also use it as four separate docked ships at a quay too.

I cut each level of the ship out and glued it to a piece of wood and built a 3-D boat. The map is great and is fine once it is glued down. It is one of my players favorites and now I get to use it again in some of the Pathfinder Society adventures!

I needed a map of a boat for one of my adventure since my PCs needed to escape from it! The fact that the decks are all there, made it easy to follow the fight to it's conclusion. Unlike other reviewers, the folded part did not gave troubles, maybe i was lucky :)

My only problem with it, i would've love to have another boat on the flip side, be it elvish or something else... for other fights!!

The plastic can't stand folding. Unless you always play at your own place, you'll have trouble keeping the mini's from falling off due to the bobbling. Would have been five stars had it been printed on cloth or some other material that doesn't suffer from folding it/rolling it up.

Platinum (aka 'WOOHOO!') aspect: The ship has awesome details, especially in the coloring of the weathered decking, the netting and its shadows, straw in the cargo hold, etc. It looks real.

Gold (aka 'Why You Buy') aspect: If there's a water adventure, this is pretty indispensable.

Electrum (aka 'Cool But Weird') aspect: Lifeboats. Nice to have included, but it might be hard getting the one on the 2nd level up to the sea.

Silver (aka 'The Eh') aspect: I'm all for a sea campaign, but the water-side isn't that useful without a ship to sail on it. With the ship on the other side, you'd have to either make or buy your own ship to use it. And that'd defeat the point of buying this mat in the first place. Instead, give us a little island, jungle lagoon, grotto, etc. Something for the lifeboats to go to.

Copper (aka 'Waste of Space'} aspect: Cannons?! The crew bunks should be where the cannons are and a galley or a brig should be where the beds are.

Gem Idea: Make more ships out of this material, even if just the top deck, for sea battles.

The detail of this map is great. Having all layers of the ship displayed means I can run combat at different levels of the ship without issues. As for the cannons I have simply told players that they are ballistas or to treat them as cargo. They in no way prevent me from using the map. I have used both dry and wet erase makers and both come off pretty well, but if you get too much ink in the map folds it can be a little harder to remove. My only reason for not giving this product 5 stars is that the map came folded up. It took several days of storing the map flat with books on top to get it to stay flat, but the folded sections take away from the over all effect of the ship. I really wish their was some way to order flip maps that are NOT folded even if it cost extra to ship.