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Miniatures Adventure => Pikes, Muskets and Flouncy Shirts => Topic started by: Lee Lowe on June 01, 2008, 01:10:22 PM

Title: photos of our wizzkids pirates game.
Post by: Lee Lowe on June 01, 2008, 01:10:22 PM

Here are some pics of one of our games at the club using the pirate ships of the spanish main.

(http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn4/leeataftermath/pirate7.jpg)

(http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn4/leeataftermath/pirate6.jpg)

Title: Re: photos of our wizzkids pirates game.
Post by: drferling on June 01, 2008, 03:24:46 PM

Lee - That looks really cool.  Were you using the rules that come with the ships or some other rules?

Title: Re: photos of our wizzkids pirates game.
Post by: JollyBob on June 01, 2008, 05:44:41 PM

Lovely set up, the scenery is aces!

Title: Re: photos of our wizzkids pirates game.
Post by: Lee Lowe on June 01, 2008, 07:43:20 PM

We used the rules from the game but added a wind eliment to it. Thats what the sheet is at the top on the first pic.

Basicly a compass with a moving arrow, every 2nd go you spin the wind direction.

If you sail into wind - S to your move if you sail with wind behind you + S to your mov, if wind side on no difference.


It's amazing how a simple little rule can cause unforseen problems!!

Title: Re: photos of our wizzkids pirates game.
Post by: Furt on June 01, 2008, 10:15:12 PM

The setup looks great - and at that distance the card models actually look very realistic. Awesome!  :)

Title: Re: photos of our wizzkids pirates game.
Post by: Gluteus Maximus on June 02, 2008, 09:13:17 AM

Lee, how did you do the sea?

Is it a painted textured surface or a printed sheet?

It looks fantastic!

Title: Re: photos of our wizzkids pirates game.
Post by: Lee Lowe on June 02, 2008, 12:00:44 PM

The sea is thanks to one of the guys down at club I run Aftermath gaming club, by the way there are more pics on there as well.

Basicly he went onto a website a took a photograph of the sea that he liked, once he had the image he copied it and pasted it next to each other to cover the size of the board he wanted.

Once that was done he shoved it on a disk and took it to a photo copier place and had it printed out and laminated.

Probably cost about a fiver or so, but the result as you say looks very realistic and adds great depth to the game. :)

Title: Re: photos of our wizzkids pirates game.
Post by: Gluteus Maximus on June 02, 2008, 12:16:02 PM

Quote from: Lee Lowe on June 02, 2008, 12:00:44 PM

The sea is thanks to one of the guys down at club I run Aftermath gaming club, by the way there are more pics on there as well.

Basicly he went onto a website a took a photograph of the sea that he liked, once he had the image he copied it and pasted it next to each other to cover the size of the board he wanted.

Once that was done he shoved it on a disk and took it to a photo copier place and had it printed out and laminated.

Probably cost about a fiver or so, but the result as you say looks very realistic and adds great depth to the game. :)

Thanks very much. That seems easy enough even for me to do  lol

Title: Re: photos of our wizzkids pirates game.
Post by: PeteMurray on June 02, 2008, 01:24:26 PM

I might try that printing trick myself - that's very clever!

Thanks for sharing!

Title: Re: photos of our wizzkids pirates game.
Post by: Lee Lowe on June 02, 2008, 01:48:20 PM

No problems!

We are going to try the same trick with wings of war, again going to find an ariel photograph of trenches ect, hopefully colour and do the same thing.

when done i 'll post a picture of it.