Captain Flint Searches For Treasure With Wargames Illustrated
October 15, 2019 by brennon
Embrace the sense of piratical adventure in Treasure Island with Wargames Illustrated's next addition to the Giants In Miniature range, Captain Flint.
Here's the background on this famous sailor...
"Captain J. Flint is one of the main characters in the book Treasure Island. In Stevenson’s book, Flint was the captain of a pirate ship, The Walrus, which accumulated an enormous amount of captured treasure, approximately £700,000. Flint and six members of his crew bury the plunder on an island located somewhere in the Caribbean. Flint then murders his six assistants, leaving the corpse of one, Allardyce, with its arms outstretched in the direction of the buried treasure. He is a ruthless man, who expects the best from his crew. His origins are somewhat mysterious, some say he is the bastard child of Blackbeard, others that he once served in the British Royal Navy."
He is a rather insidious character but one that would be exceptionally fun to play with in your games. You can also see him in action with the TV series Black Sails which was a little bit of a hard watch, to begin with, but turns into quite the spectacle later on down the line.
I think the model looks very cool and he'll be a good fit with the likes of Black Powder and Blood & Plunder and any other skirmishing pirate game you might have sitting around.
Do you reckon you'll be picking up a copy of Captain Flint?
"...he'll be a good fit with the likes of Black Powder and Blood & Plunder"
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Can Flint be the main character in a book he doesn’t appear in?
Love that they’ve done the ‘black sails’ version of flint. I might have to get this little fella, which in turn means picking up a crew, which in turn means buying a boat, which in turn means… this goes on forever.
Flint’s ghost still haunts the tavern he died in here in Savannah, GA.
Great looking pirates.
Does anyone know the manufacturer of the other figures in the picture ? I’d be interested to know.
The Flint figure is cool I suspect I will need to get myself one
@huscarle As its Wagames illustrated it’s a fair bet the other models are foundry
I thought that as they look quite familiar but I don’t see them on their site. Maybe they are discontinued sculpts ? Just wanted to check with everyone there was not someone else out there producing nice figures I’d not heard of before