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Miniatures Adventure => VSF Adventures => Topic started by: gloriousbattle on May 31, 2010, 04:54:29 PM

Title: Barbary Pirates or similar
Post by: gloriousbattle on May 31, 2010, 04:54:29 PM
Continuing my Moslem-VSF theme, I wonder how much adventure / war goes on with the Barbary Pirates (or similar Moslem pirates) during this period?

Technically, the Barbary Pirates are suppressed with the French conquest of Algiers in 1830, which is a little before the beginning of HRM Vicky's reign, but I have to imagine that similar stuff was going on elsewhere in the Moslem world, such as Indonesia.  Certainly the Somali pirates carry on this tradition even to the present day.

See, I have these really cool Barbary Pirate figures, and some European Naval Infantry, so...
Title: Re: Barbary Pirates or similar
Post by: Chairface on May 31, 2010, 05:51:57 PM
Barbary Sky Pirates perhaps? It could be a cool concept. The resulting Nef would be interesting. Perhaps some Mage Knight Dragonfly riders?
Title: Re: Barbary Pirates or similar
Post by: jamesmanto on May 31, 2010, 06:09:57 PM
Campaigns against slavers in Africa were on going and then there's Brookes going after the Borneo pirates.
Title: Re: Barbary Pirates or similar
Post by: Chairface on May 31, 2010, 07:12:39 PM
VSF Brookes! I would love to see that!
Title: Re: Barbary Pirates or similar
Post by: gloriousbattle on May 31, 2010, 07:28:13 PM
VSF Brookes! I would love to see that!

Definitely a colorful character, as was Captain Jack Ward, the English Barbary Pirate, though he was a bit too early for VSF.
Title: Re: Barbary Pirates or similar
Post by: Chairface on May 31, 2010, 08:00:18 PM
Makes me want to read Flashman's Lady again.  :-*
Title: Re: Barbary Pirates or similar
Post by: argsilverson on June 01, 2010, 12:34:40 AM
... and Sandokan !