LoTHS game in New Zealand

[Arteis]

Last night some of the Kapiti Fusiliers in Paraparaumu, New Zealand, had a very enjoyable game of 'Legends of the High Seas'.

We had four players, ably assisted/watched by a team of off-spring (indicating how much wargames can actually be a spectator sport if they are fast and fun).

Scott and I had only ever played LoTHS once before, and Joe and Greg never. However, the basic rules are incredibly easy to pick up, especially if you have a smattering of GW games experience.

The terrain was thrown together on the night from a hodge-podge of what people brought along. Buildings are home-made and Italerei kits.  Ships and boats are converted plastic toys.  Greg made the swamps just a minute before the game from Two Dollar Shop grass, and he stumbled round in his garden in the dark to find the rocks.

Pirates were all Foundry, from the collections of Scott, Greg and myself.

The game was a four-way all-on-everybody tussle - each person had a crew of eight men, and the aim was to take on everyone else! The rules handled this very well, and it meant you really had to keep eyes in the back of your head as you were playing.

There was lots of fun and daring-do: sword-fighting a-plenty, with lots of mad charges and parrying, leaping up onto objects, firing blunderbusses and pistols (and whipping out second pistols when opponents thought you were unloaded) ... etc etc. Loads of laughs and excitement - it's the sort of game played for enjoyment, not to win (we never even thought to discuss who the winner was at the end of the game!).

Here's a few pics of the game:

[Poiter50]

OK, so I recognise Roly's Weapons & Warriors ship, is the other the Disney remote control Black Pearl?

[joroas]

Nice to see some real wargaming scenery for a change, too.

[Arteis]

Arrr ... well-recognised, matey ... the "Black Pearl" she be indeed!



For more pics of her, go to this thead:

http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=4668.0

[bandit86]

Very nice table and ship.

[Poiter50]

Ah, just succumber, went into FLTS and bought one, just need to find time to take it apart and remove the rocking hull portion. It is much larger than the Pirate Armada version but will have to be a medium size ship, rather than a small ship and I am thinking that it may even be a galleon like a friend's Spanish type galleon that hye scratch built (hopefully some pics soon).

How did you make the furled sails? Mine has the full sails of the movie Black Pearl. The wheel & figure are way too large, so they go into the spares box as does the cannon.

I hope they make an Empress Junk in the same scale.

[Arteis]

The furled sails were already on the toy - you can get it either with furled plastic sails, or non-furled cloth ones.

[Furt]

The terrain looks really good. 

What LotHS scenario did you play?

[Argonor]

Luvverly!

What are the grass-tufts? I use 'Plant Picks' from Pfeil an Holing, but they have narrower 'leaves'...

[Poiter50]

Interesting, there must be 2 different versions then, as mine just came with the non-furled plastic ones. The only thing the remote control does is cause it to rock & roll as it were.

The furled sails were already on the toy - you can get it either with furled plastic sails, or non-furled cloth ones.

[Arteis]

Poitier, I think yours then is a completely different toy.  Mine did not frock at all - it could drive on small wheels under the hull.  You could make the cannons light up, and also the stern cabin lights.

As mentioned, there were two versions in the Disney Shop when I got mine - one with plastic furled sails, and one with cloth sails (the sails were black with cannonball damage).

I have seen bigger remote control toy of "Black Pearl" with a huge ugly cannon mounted on the bow, but this is not the same toy at all.  There may be other toys about, as well.
 

[Arteis]

We played a very loosely interpreted version of "Clash of Swords".  But it was a one-off game, and not part of a campaign.  And of course it involved four sides, not two.

The clumps of grass were from some sort of plastic mat bought at a Two Dollar Shop (one of those el cheapo household goods shops).

[TJSKI]

Arteis,

Sounds like you guys had a good time, I'm glad to see that. Also nice looking ships you guys had there.

One question, were you guys using new Crews and linking this to a campaign?

Nice report and I'm glad you had fun.

Tim Kulinski

[warrenpeace]

I hope they make an Empress Junk in the same scale.

Mega Bloks has already released the Empress Junk.  It has been on toy store shelves for months.

Warren

[Geudens]

Very nice Roly (as always...).  I'll have to do my W&W ships one of these days...

Best regards,

Rudi