Dead Earth Games Launching Pirate Kickstarter Tonight!
July 22, 2019 by brennon
Fantasy pirate adventures await as Dead Earth Games are focusing in on the launch of Pirates Of The Dread Sea on Kickstarter at 8pm BST.
This game is a Fantasy skirmish game set on the high seas where you take on the role of crews made up of Humans, Dwarves, Orcs, Elves and the Undead. All of the miniatures for the campaign will be in 35mm scale and the Kickstarter they are launching tonight focuses in on the Rulebook and Two Crews.
You might remember that the team ran a Kickstarter for a band of Dwarves not long ago and they are also now part of this world.
If you're interested in finding out more about the game and exploring the rules for it yourself then you can download a Beta Test version of them HERE.
The game is meant to be fun, simple to play and with a lot of customisation options mixed in. The skeletal undead will always catch my eye, if only for the relevance to Monkey Island!
Are you going to be checking this game out?
"The skeletal undead will always catch my eye, if only for the relevance to Monkey Island!"
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Great looking figures shame their 35mill so you can’t mix an match with the figures you already have in your collection.
They say 35mm but i often find that companies mean different things by 28mm, 30mm, 32mm and 35mm. Sometimes they are being exact and can tell you the 1:X scale is, and sometimes they are simply trying to indicate that are roughly that scale that everyone else does. I’d wait to see some comparison photos.
Hi both! Our Humans and Skeletons are all 35mm (or well within a 1mm) from the toe to the top of the head. Totsuzenheni is absolutely right to say different companies can mean different things by sizes – 28mm and 28mm to-the-eye are not the same. As such there will likely be some figures by other manufacturers described as 32mm that actually aren’t very different – certainly well within real human height variation.
Is this something like Freebooters Fate but in 35mm?
Download the Beta rules and you’ll find out for yourself 😉
Don’t tempt me foul demon! I will stand by my vow… no new system this year!
Freebooters Fate doesn’t use dice, so gameplay wise they are completely different. The settings have similarities, though I think we have more “classic” fantasy races. As Brennon points out, you can check out our rules entirely for free 🙂
I like those skeletons. I’m always on the look out for better scaled less chunky looking skeletons. I think putting the coats and jackets on them was a neat little trick by which to achieve it. Fairly true to scale to my eye.
Well spotted 😉 Of course we wanted them to look suitably piratey, but the clothes certainly helped with the stability too.
Why is everyone all the sudden choosing all of these different scales. That will probably alone keep me away from this.
We had a look at the miniatures in a couple of different scales and this one looked best. It’s an increasingly common scale, especially for games with a lower model count and that’s probably because it allows a lot of detail and I individual character. Each to their own, of course, and you are perfectly at liberty to play the game with any miniatures in any scale.