Famous Historical Faces Of The Blood & Plunder Period
June 21, 2017 by crew
We dive deeper into the history of the period this Blood & Plunder Week as we look at the miniatures game set in the as the crew from Firelock Games tell us all.
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We chat about some of their source material like the book “The Buccaneers of America” by Alexandre Exquemelin who was actually a sailor in the period. It’s a fascinating time with all sorts of privateers & pirates committing gruesome, but also, heroic acts.
Mike Tunez from Firelock Games is just busting at the seams with all manner of information about these buccaneers, massive pirate armies, tactics for capturing ships and more!
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This is enough for you and a friend to get started in the game and enjoy some adventures on the high seas!
What do you like best about this time period?
Old Panama… Spanish Colonial Castles… Justin is clearly trying to plan a holiday… did not expect to hear so much about siege warfare in the period and region but it was very interesting; hope there is more scope to re-enact such battles in the expansion!
Anybody know if that book is currently in print?
If only there was a large online book store where one could look and find the book 🙂
$0.99 if you own a Kindle
There’s a bazillion copies on eBay. And the big online book shops all list it as in stock.
This period is a good period for adventurer and opportunist.
For more information on Morgan you can look at recent discovery about Port Royal: very interesting with its 3D rending of what was the pirate’s city.
Taking ships with canoes? Wow!
not the same period or place but there is a case of cavalry taking ships elsewhere for something weird
That would be the british capturing a Dutch fleet stuck in the ice if I remember correctly 🙂
Haha yep the fleet got frozen in and they just walked up and took it. Although it now looks like the fleet surrendered when the ice froze and the cavalry just happened to take them.
Although it is on my list of “Wow if I had the room I’d build that display board”. For gaming purposes it was a battle.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capture_of_the_Dutch_fleet_at_Den_Helder
Liking the historical background. Liking even more the idea of Firelock making some forts 😀
Who needs the fantasy of Pirates of the Caribbean when you have masses of rich evidence and stories about the real historical inspiration to call on?
If you would like to watch something a little closer to the truth, find the series Black Sails.
Great series, except for the 21th century profanity. I didn’t know 17th century pirates used the word f**k in each second sentence…
The Deadwood writers did the same thing, but they did it for a good reason, which was that the swearing would have no force with a modern audience if it was authentic to the time.
So what would authentic 17th century swearing sound like?
if only i had the funds i could get my own fleet of buccaneers
Very interesting, must have a search for that book.
great video very interesting! if i have to pick a period in time which I like the most it would be 1600 – 1800, the golden age of piracy in particular.
I absolutely love B&P. Three of us in my local club picked up stuff during the first kickstarter. Amazing miniatures. Awesome rules. I have backed this KS also.
Very cool. Kickstarter starts today too.
Its nice to see a bit of the research they have put into this game.
Love the theme, love the period.. give me my Dutch buccaneers!
Kindle edition for £3.47, don’t mind if I do.
Ok, This one sounds really good! Would be a good compliment to the Old West genre we play.
Love the time period 😀 . Faction of choice is split between the English or the Unaligned.
I really like the wild and outrageous charters and setting for this period
It would be cool to see even more historical mini commanders.
So Disney didn’t properly depict Caribbean history? ;P
Very nice those historical titbits
very nice game, I am very interested to see more captains soon and more variety of poses and units
Very cool.
I could listen to these fellas talk pirates all day.
whenever I here the name Henry Morgan I think of Bob Marley and Peter Tosh.
Great background info … helps build a picture of the time period and major players for people like me that don’t know a lot about it
That portrait of Morgan…did his eyes follow anyone from side to side?