Welcome ye to the Spanish Main!

[racm32]

Which version of FFoL did you use?

[Digits]

Using Horse and Musket….

[Digits]

Ok, so we played two games….last nights was a lot of fun, the objective being to locate the buried treasure, then bugger off with it.  I don’t fully remember everything, except that before tea, I was rolling like a turnip and had lost two men…….must have had spinach for tea as I snatched victory out of the jaws…da di da…….and ended up finding the treasure the treasure on my first search in the sand, hauled it out and ran off, not before dealing with Redbeard and his motley crew!



Poor Pete…..winning one minute, loosing horribly the next! Lol


Anyway, now we were fully familiar with the rules, we decided this evening to play the “Hunt” scenario….searching for fresh meat!



Basically a number of piggywigs were snuffling about the island and we were hungry!


My fellas had a brainwave…..it hurt them……but they were going to smother themselves in truffle…..



I was the first to flush a pig out and it charged me.



My fella…Warf….dispatched him and started dragging him off for a roast.

Redbeard himself also flushed a pig, but he must really stink, because the beasts scarpered  and disappeared into the undergrowth before it could be dealt with!

[Digits]

I flushed out a second pig and it too charged me but it proved a bit harder to beat until Blackbeard waded in to the melee, and his cutlass made pork chops of it!



Pete wasn’t taking chances and having had the first hog run away, he surrounded a scrub patch with his pirates ready with their pistols before sending in a goon to flush it out……the pig charged him but his axe was true.

Ok….two pigs to one (assuming we could get them off the table!)

There was one left in the middle…….I wasn’t about to risk it falling into Scurvy Pete’s hands….so Abdab deliberately beat the bushes too loudly and the pig ran off! Huzzah!

Robbed of their bounty, Pete’s fellas switched to the attack and rushed me……with so many armed with cutlass AND pistol…the melees were bloody….and quick!



A few died …..the last being put down by old Teach himself with his trusty pistol!



Redbeard was down and wounded………so my guys stripped him, hog tied him and stuck a curly twig between his cheeks….leaving Redbeards crew a fitting gift for their pains!

Great fun game! Lol

[has.been]

You had fun, which is the aim of playing games, isn't it?

[tomrommel1]

what a wonderfull project

[Digits]

Cheers, indeed fun was had….so much so, it has prompted me to do a bit more.

This morning I combed through a few boxes and pulled together a few unpainted pirates.

Decided I’m going to paint these fellas and have a go at the ship….

The minis are a mixed bunch from a few favourite manufacturers.



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I like the Brigade games minis, but they are small which was I forgo the Wargames foundry minis.  However, as it’s a skirmish game, with no uniformed and ranked minis, real life dictates some of us are more vertically challenged than others!

I have to use foundry for canon crew just to get some variety.

The Black Scorpion are my favourites followed closely by the very characterful NorthStar minis.

Anyway, enough gibberish jabber…time to paint.

[Digits]

Painted a few more

[Bearwoodman]

Nice! I especially like the guy holding his knife between his teeth while carrying an axe in one hand and waving a pistol about with the other.  There is no such thing as "too many weapons" for a proper pirate!

I'm looking forward to seeing what you do with the ship. I have the Reaper Bones pirate ship and am on the lookout for inspiration.

[Digits]

The ships are really only getting a functional paint job.  I’d LOVE to have the patience and skills to actually rig them for sails, but in this state, they are I suspect easier for game play and easier to store in my limited space!

Once I get the boats done though, I want to revisit the port.  I have been dreaming up ideas for such things as fishing nets involving gauze bandage and fishing split shot weights among other ideas I have to make the dock side look busy.

The other thing I need to get my hands on, is a 6 x 4 ocean game mat (the one I have is only 4 x 4) and I’d like one with a beach too.   I quite like the idea though of making a few small desert islands as well.

[Digits]

Started them, a bit of a way to go yet…..

[has.been]

The other thing I need to get my hands on, is a 6 x 4 ocean game mat (the one I have is only 4 x 4)

My sea matt is from Dunhelm.  They do a nice line in
'leatherette' type material. It comes in several colours
& a nice sea blue is one of them. The rolls are about
4' wide & they sell it by the meter.

[Digits]

Cheers…I’ve seen it.   

I’ve ordered the beach mat however and it matches their ocean mat.  That one can wait though…..the beach one will give me a few games yet….

Just spotted a few 18th century civilians in Front Rank….think I need to look what else there is too…

[has.been]

Take a look at these guys.
Excellent for a dodgy sea port.
I might get a few as window dressing for
my Jacobite games.

Ratnik Miniatures

[Digits]

Oooo…lovely!

I will order one set, but they have a few sets….all will be useful but will have to wait!

Cheers


Edit:

I ordered this one




Will order these when available….perfect for my busy dock side!