I've watched a couple of games, there was a "games" shop for a while back in Cornwall where they had tables where you could play, I've seen a few impressive armadas! Somehow I just always ended up with the dice :) I built a fair few of the little ships but never actually got any for myself. Some of the rare ships are really impressive when built!
But then the game shop went away because not enough people buy board games and card games to keep such a shop going. I think it is a shoe shop now and far less impressive.