mats

[Leslie BT]

Stewart.
What colour blue mat did you order?
Does it have black, white or coloured hexes marked on it.

Are you basing your figures or your ships?

[Colonel Kilgore]

Sounds intriguing!

Presumably this would have been from TinyWargames?

The people want pictures!

[Leslie BT]

Its still a developing idea, nothing fixed yet!!

[Stewart 46A]

My mat arrived today ready for play test game next week.

[Stewart 46A]

The mat colour is actually mid blue with pale blue hexes.
I bought about 200 painted pirates from hinds figures and I am rebaseing them.
I have 5 Pirate bands of about 40 figures and 3 cannon and a town/civey group of about 40 figures .
I expect I will sell at least 3 of the Pirate groups.
All passed on 2p's , dead 1p's , cannon on 30x30 sq

[Colonel Kilgore]

Thanks, Stewart - that's helpful, and a nice-looking mat. Those hexes don't look too intrusive.

And lots of Pirates - I'm hoping we won't all need to paint up quite so many!

Are you doing 2 per base?

Will you be doing Militia? I was thinking of using some AWI figures, as they are more modern sculpts than the "official" militia. Any thoughts on that idea?

[Leslie BT]

figures for the old set was 5 for townsfolk, 4 for the army, 3 for regular officers, 2 for pirate captains, governor, priest etc.

But I am sure this will change for the new set.

[Stewart 46A]

Simon I have done a variety, Pirate group x 5
Captain      Single figure
1st maitre/quarter master. 2 figures
Pirate with treasure   1 figure x 1
Swivel gun. 2 figures x 3
Musicians. 2 figures x 1
Canon +3 crew x 3
Crew (various wpns) 3 figures x 7

civys
Govener 1 figure x 1
Preast 1 figure x 1
Bodyguard 2 figures x 1
Civys 2 figures x 14

Talking to Martin probably won't need 1/2 of them so on to the bring&buy.
Play testing starts next week.

[Stewart 46A]

Les, now you tell me!

[Stewart 46A]

Simon this is my 3rd sea mat from Tinywargames, they are really very good.

[Colonel Kilgore]

Stewart,

I have a couple of 3' x 5' gridded ones now. Once they got the squares the same size (there were some early quality control issues), these turned out very nicely too.

I need to get myself one for PBI - hence hoping that Miles will do a bulk purchase for the Arnhem game!

Those sea ones look great. I may get one once Martin is really sure he wants to maintain this size of mat and hex for Pirates!

[martin goddard]

Mat looks good Stewart.

there are some initial ideas on figures in the first set of POE sent out...I think??

martin

[Leslie BT]

This is a great little game that uses a 3x 2 foot board with a simple grid game system. Good fun on it's own or as part of a Pieces of Eight mini campaign as provided in the mini campaign rules.

Defender's Force.
1 x Governor (5pts)
1 x Bodyguard Base (8pts). 4 figures per base.
1 x Priest (5pts)
2 x Officers (32pts)
4 x Militia H/W Bases (32pts). 3 figures per base.
4 x Militia Muskets Bases (32pts). 3 figures per base.
6 x Government Musket Bases (36pts). 4 figures per base.
10 x Mob Bases (10pts). 5 figures per base.Defenders Total 160 pts.
Packs: -2(x2), 3, 11(x2), 12 , 13, 14 17, 27(x3), 28, 29(x3).=16 packs

Attacker's Force. (3 x Boats 9 Fighting points)
3 x Officers
6 x Musket Bases (4 figures per base)
6 x Hand Weapons Bases (4 figures per base)
Packs: -2(x3), 3(x2), 17, 18, 28.=8 packs

[Colonel Kilgore]

Les - presumably that all may change quite a bit with the new rules...?

[martin goddard]

Simon is correct.
All those interested have the new figure amounts in their 'hand" so to speak. The new version will use a different amount of figures to the last edition. But that may change too!!