Holy War X ships and mounts

You cross Britannia by ship, rowboat and submarine, on land and flying mounts, or by flying yourself. Ships are fought and boarded; mounts range from horses to a three-seat skymanta.

Ships

A wooden junk with red ribbed sails on a dark background

October 2023

Akikaze

A “large ship”, the class below endgame ships. This model was posted with its announcement.

A three-masted ship with cream and red sails

May 2024

NPC pirate ships

Wider decks and no lower deck, built so that fights happen on board. NPC fleets come as pirates and commodores, and are larger than player ships.

Six variations of a small sailing ship with different hull lengths

February 2026

Customising a ship

Lengthen the hull with parts, change colours and edit rooms. These are the ships most players will own around the middle of the game.

There is also a rowboat and, since October 2023, a submarine: “don't ask why we have one, but it exists”. The Movie shows a second submarine design.

A brass submarine with a red fin and a propeller — The submarine, posted with the rowboat. Posted 21 October 2023. Image: Alphirex Studio, official Discord.

Ship battles and boarding

A ship has two stages once its health is gone. First it stops, unable to move and on fire. Then you choose:

Choice	What you do	What you get
Sink it	Keep firing	Half of the resources stored on the ship
Board it	Pull alongside, defeat the crew, take the chest at the stern	All of them

Endgame NPC ships are meant to need several endgame player ships. Ships are also how a guild breaks a fort's defences. Forts. Out at sea you can meet sea bosses.

Mounts

Mount	Shown	Note
Horses	August 2022	Armoured variants exist.
Red demon	August 2022	A chest drop with a very low chance.
Skymanta	October 2023	Carries three players, as in the anime.
Chicken	October 2023	“Fastest land mount in the game.”
Drelk and Nymioth	October 2023	Named with no further detail.
Dragon	October 2023	A flying mount from a side quest. The developers call it Toothless.
Premium Tester mount	January 2024	Runs, swims and flies. Tradeable.
Otter	May 2024	Remodelled for performance.
Winged fish	May 2026	Saddled flying mount; concept sheet posted.

Mounts appear in chests, quests and tester packages. On 10 May 2026: “Mounts are all a luh cleaner and smoother now too.” Pets exist as well; a picture of three was posted in March 2025.

Concept sheet of a blue winged fish with a saddle, shown from the side and from the front — Concept sheet for the winged fish mount. Posted 17 May 2026. Image: Alphirex Studio, official Discord.

A large red and green bird mount running on a dock — The chicken mount. Posted 14 October 2023. Image: Alphirex Studio, official Discord.

Flight

Flying is a sub-skill you level, with a stamina limit; the maps were spread out partly so there is more to see before it runs out. Some islands switch it off: Baste Prison is “a no-flying island (meaning no flying and no flying mounts)”. An update to flight was shown on TikTok in February 2026.