New Years Day: PIRATES!

 Over the course of the 2022-23 New Years Eve and Day Weekend of Games one player noted the Pirate ships and minis I had on display.

It was then decided that, while a few of the others played a new board game of Darkest Dungeon, we would introduce Blood & Plunder and get the minis and ships out on the sea.

this posting will feature more shots using the
little app that makes images 'comic' versions

We took some time to quickly go over the basics of force creation and broke out the cards to do up the forces:

This being done while the Darkest Dungeon took over the big table:

After some time, a Spanish ship "Gloire" was on the seas vs an English one: "Jackalope"

Gloire

Early on the Gloire used gunnery and the swivel cannons to inflict some hull damage and a number of crew casualties (though only enough for one strike point).

Jackalope was running short of crew to
man the guns, when the Captain rushed to
the gun deck with his personal squad
and maned the guns at close range

Jackalope very nearly collided with Gloire

Gloire had nearly exhausted all the firepower
it could muster ...

Jackalope completed the turn and delivered
a devastating full broadside volley at pistol range

Managing a number of critical hits
one of which turned out to be the 1%
devastation and Gloire exploded, broke in two
and sank immediately taking all hands

This was the first really good action that the player to took on the "Jackalope" command had all weekend, as he had been rolling poorly in the Napoleon in Europe game, the 40K and ShakoII games earlier.

This time it was a win - no question.

So we quickly re-set and went at the battle again.

another encounter between Gloire and Jackalope
ensued

this time Gloire's gunnery was even better
and Jackalope sank as they had taken 3 strike points
to the Gloire's 1

Both players ended up liking the fast pace of the game play and said they would like to go at it again - a tentative plan for late January has been organized.

There was also talk of the other Pirate game systems I have, along with some role-play potentials.  So much potential use for these minis!

Happy New Year everyone!