Wow! Great ships and crews

[Smokeyrone]

Too early for my colonial, and a bit later than the Golden Age of Piracy, but I want them!

Beautiful ships, figures, and those pirates!!!!!


Never saw these guys before.  Way cool!

http://www.thoroughbredmodels.com/SeaEagles.htm


Just call me Decatur (and make a donation so I can defray the cost of starting this operation    )

[Sinewgrab]

Here I was, all excited....

And it is in the wrong freakin' scale.

 

[Gluteus Maximus]

I've always been fascinated by the War Of 1812 and I have quite a lot of 15mm figures, using the free rules from The Perfect Captain.

I'd love to play some 15mm naval games, amphibious assaults etc. Shame the ships are too expensive for me 

Thanks for the URL, as the various seamen, marines and guns are very nice and will add more flavour to my land-based games.

I'll be drooling over those ships for ages though

[The Dozing Dragon]

Very nice stuff but unfortunatley 15mm 

[Smokeyrone]

If those barabary pirates, crews and ships don't bring you in to the 15mm camp, NOTHING will!   

Gluteus, just figure out how much time you need to scratchbuild one of those ships, and assume you pay yourself the going minimum wage for that time, and you will see that just paying those guys to deliver a turnkjey ship is actually a big savings!!!

(Yeah, that arguement didn't work with my GF either       )

[HerbyF]

I'd still use some of those ship models for pirates. I'm always up for a good game of "Lymies & Slimies".

[huevans]

The paper sails are a bit dodgy. AB makes some 15mm boarding parties and quality would be a bit better than the ones on the site with the ships.

[richarDISNEY]

Smokey?  15s?  Say it ain't so....

I knew something was up when I saw the boats, and thought, "Gee.  Now that is cheap for a 28mm boat..." Then I read closer... 15s... dang it.

Great lookin' though.

[Lowtardog]

They are lovely but wrong scale, though if I had the cash I would consider a dabble

[Aaron]

I've seen demo games run by these guys at conventions and they are stunning!

[ushistoryprof]

Yes I want these, but I'm afraid that the budget request will not meet with the approval of "she who must be obeyed".

[ErikB]

Here I was, all excited....

And it is in the wrong freakin' scale.

 

Don't they have something like this in 28mm?!?!?

They're such gorgeous models!!!!

[Smokeyrone]

I wonder if those 15mm barbary pirates would work for coastal thugs around my Nile Sudan  and Congo River Darkest Africa stuff?

Seems they could be using out of date weapons there, (the mid 1880's) right?  (Maybe not, maybe river pirates would have state of the art guns?)

Anyway, I always wanted to do the War of 1812, specifically New Orleans. (what, with free blacks, slaves, indians, frontier militia and regulars, not to mention Baratian Pirates at the guns, it's a virtual cornacopia of different forces for eye candy!) 

Some of those crews would work great (there were lots of gunboat battles, ship to shore engagements, and such during the battle)

And peter Pig Pirate gun crews, and I could really be onbto something neat, eh?

(Will need a ton of 15mm Highlanders, and someone to paint them, as I suck at 15mm plaid paint jobs    )

Buit really, wouldn't a new orleans specatcle be a great convention game?

[HerbyF]

There is a great little green water action that is a precursor to the battle of New Orleans. It involves about 5 American gun boats vs a bunch of long boats filled with royal marines. I always thought this would make a great 15mm navel scenario. And yes the battle of New Orleans would look quite colorful in 15mm or 28mm.

[Smokeyrone]

There is a great little green water action that is a precursor to the battle of New Orleans. It involves about 5 American gun boats vs a bunch of long boats filled with royal marines. I always thought this would make a great 15mm navel scenario. And yes the battle of New Orleans would look quite colorful in 15mm or 28mm.

That's the battle i meant, with the gunboats.  Also the larger actions, but that gunboat battle was a neat affair