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Offline El Frantico

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Re: 1671 Morgan attack in Panama
« Reply #45 on: October 01, 2019, 03:17:12 PM »
Would these fit ?   https://www.wargamesfoundry.com/collections/pirates-and-swashbucklers?page=2

The Spanish would never arm slaves with muskets and would only very rarely arm free blacks with firearms during this period. They were given lances and pikes. Some of their Native American allies were given firearms, but this was also very rare. They barely had enough for themselves!
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Offline Mpanko

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Re: 1671 Morgan attack in Panama
« Reply #46 on: October 01, 2019, 03:47:09 PM »
Thanks - I should have bought more militia from you at Hurricon on Saturday then!    :D

I have one of the B&P thatch roofed buildings painted now.   I picked that one up at Hurricon and will post some time in near future.

Offline Mpanko

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Re: 1671 Morgan attack in Panama (B&P building)
« Reply #47 on: October 07, 2019, 02:20:33 AM »
I had a chance to pick up one of the Blood and Plunder new resin buildings at Hurricon in Orlando last week.  It is a nice sturdy model and will serve well as a basic thatch roofed hut found throughout the Spanish Main in our Buccaneer time period.

Some new buccaneers are shown for scale and fit.

Offline Mpanko

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Re: 1671 Morgan attack in Panama- Talk Like A Pirate Day
« Reply #48 on: September 19, 2020, 10:15:53 PM »
Had some pirate games earlier for TLAP day...everyone had a silly good time...

Offline Mpanko

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Re: 1671 Morgan attack in Panama - Talk Like A Pirate Day
« Reply #49 on: September 19, 2020, 10:26:44 PM »
Scenario was based on the Drake raids into Nombre de Dios and the mule silver train.  We played in the buccaneer era though as that is what we have figures for.  The fight to intercept the mules headed into town became a general engagement as the Spanish were able to hold on against the initial ambush until reinforcements arrived. 
« Last Edit: September 19, 2020, 10:34:06 PM by Mpanko »

Offline Mpanko

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Re: 1671 Morgan attack in Panama - Talk Like A Pirate Day
« Reply #50 on: September 19, 2020, 10:31:27 PM »
The games we played were play test adaptations of the Commands and Colors system by the game designer Richard Borg himself  :o
« Last Edit: September 19, 2020, 10:34:30 PM by Mpanko »

Offline juergen c. olk

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Re: 1671 Morgan attack in Panama
« Reply #51 on: September 20, 2020, 12:26:45 AM »
very cool.

Offline Cacique Caribe

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Re: 1671 Morgan attack in Panama
« Reply #52 on: September 20, 2020, 05:43:42 AM »
Marco55

Those Foundry ones look fantastic!  I should have sprinkled a few of them among my Maroons.

Dan
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Offline Emir of Askaristan

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Re: 1671 Morgan attack in Panama
« Reply #53 on: September 20, 2020, 06:48:19 AM »
Those are very nice!

Offline DintheDin

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Re: 1671 Morgan attack in Panama
« Reply #54 on: September 20, 2020, 07:13:01 AM »
Looks very exciting! Very nice pics and terrain! Congrats!
I am very interested if the C&C adaptations are available.
Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates. – Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi

Offline Mr.J

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Re: 1671 Morgan attack in Panama
« Reply #55 on: September 20, 2020, 08:49:02 AM »
I missed this first time around, what a great project!

Offline Bloggard

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Re: 1671 Morgan attack in Panama
« Reply #56 on: September 20, 2020, 09:22:10 AM »
what are the 2d hexagonal terrain tiles (er... I mean: home-brewed, or bought?) ?

Offline whiskey priest

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Re: 1671 Morgan attack in Panama
« Reply #57 on: September 20, 2020, 09:30:12 AM »
I bought all the figures to do something similar to this a few years back but it got lost in the general fog of projects. This thread has awakened my interest however. A new project and I already have most of the figures I could possibly want? Why, it would be rude not to! Thanks for the inspiration!

Offline Mpanko

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Re: 1671 Morgan attack in Panama
« Reply #58 on: September 20, 2020, 12:02:33 PM »
All the hex tiles are 5 inches (measured flat to flat).  Our local group- based in Orlando Florida has been working custom mats and such with the Deep Cut Studios folks.  Kostas has a great system and high quality stuff- highly recommended!

https://www.deepcutstudio.com/

As I posted previously the game was an adaptation of Richard’s Commands and Colors system.  While the games published are board games - either with blocks or miniatures we mostly use miniatures for all our games.   My favorite aspect of the system is the wonderful blending of rule mechanics that allow for a very fast paced game with multiple decisions each turn. 

This particular game was a playtest of a new ‘pirate’ variation looking at smaller scale engagements and such set around the Spanish Main.  No idea if/when this would be made into something commercial.  His Jacobite game was just published by Compass Games a few weeks ago :)

https://www.compassgames.com/commands-colors-tricorne-jacobite-rising.html


« Last Edit: September 20, 2020, 02:28:31 PM by Mpanko »

Offline Mpanko

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Re: 1671 Morgan attack in Panama
« Reply #59 on: September 20, 2020, 12:57:39 PM »
I will probably get a wack by the moderators but below is another shot of a Commands and Colors game...but this time it is Napoleonic.   lol

This was a ‘what if’ scenario from the 1815 campaign.
« Last Edit: September 20, 2020, 03:37:07 PM by Mpanko »