Tacos, Rum, and Pirates!

"Abandon hope all ye who enter here..."

"Jacob you swab, urry up. It's late in the afternoon."

Jacob looked up the hill at his fellow cutthroat Gillman. "You always a' worrying Gilly. Oh, It's getting dark, you spilled salt, it don't look right." Jacob laughed as he moved a crate.

Gilly sneered back which abruptly stopped as he saw new sails past their ship on the horizon. "Whosis' that mate?..." Gilly pointed.

Jacob looked up and saw the triangle sails of a small vessel. Barbary pirates for sure. "Thistles and blood, Captain Payne is gonna need us back to arms" Jacob spat. "We need to leave".

Jacob then turned and looked past Gillman to see an open chest. "Gilly you crab, don't be opening the booty. We need to go."

Gillman looked back at the chest. Gold treasure sparkled in the late sun. He turned back to Jacob "I didn't open it ya swab, you forgot to shut it."

"No he didn't" came a crackly dry rasp.

Both Jacob and Gillman turn to look up the hill past the chest into the cemetery ruins. Sailors with dark clothes began to walk toward them. Jacob and Gillman pulled their swords but almost dropped them in horror as the approaching sailors came closer into view.

"Open the rest" the dry rasp came again from the dark sailor fanning his sword. Then, his tricorn hat turned up to reveal a skull for his head. His whole body was just a skeleton beneath his shambling pirate-ware.

The undead pirate tilted it's skull and pointed his sword, "And no, you two will not be leaving..."

 

 

Had a little get together a few Fridays ago for some pre 4th of July fun. Yummy tacos, a quick game of "Pirate Dice", some margaritas and rum, sweet tunes, and spent the evening in the Age of Pirates. 💀

 

The scenario was basic treasure grab with five chests spread across the island topped with an old abandoned (not really 👻) graveyard. Four contained items we could use, the fifth contained snakes! (YIKES) Whichever pirate crew possessed the most treasure at the end of ten turns won. :-)

 

As mentioned in the previous post, we used a home brew set of rules we call "Age of Pirates," and the same pirate crew set up. Fifteen total with a captain, quartermaster, three mates, and ten crew/cutthroats. Again, every captain had a special rule along with the quartermaster having a special item or rule as well.

 

Coming to shore in their ships (both equipped with working cannons) was the Barbary pirates lead by Captain Sayyida al-Hurra and Captain Robert Payne and Payne's Company. Guarding the island graveyard and the treasure was none other than Grim's Shadows lead by Captain Captain Grimaldus Shade. 💀

 

After a fun evening, and ten turns of pirate on pirate action... Grim's Shadows held three treasure chests while the other crews each held one. Both mortal Captains (Payne and Sayyida al-Hurra) feel to the blades of Captain Grim and his crew. 💀💀

 

It took a few years to get Grim's Shadows back into action again. Hopefully there will be more spooky adventure again soon. :-)

 

Enjoy all the pics!

 

Jason 💀

 

 

The cruel Barbary pirates come to shore.

"They say Captain Payne can't be killed..."

Blunderbuss!!

I spy more pirate action in the future! :-)

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Grim's Shadows

 Fifteen men on the dead man's chest

Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!

Drink and the devil had done for the rest
Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! 

 

Meet Captain Grimaldus Shade and his shadowy crew. "Captain Grim", his Quarter(Necro)master Ezra Nyte, and his three Skull Mates lead their skeleton crew on eternal adventures on the dark seas.

Captain Grim (right) & Ezra Nyte with his special spyglass (left)

The three Skull Mates

I painted these Black Scorpion miniatures rather quickly before going to AdeptiCon in 2019. I was my first time trying a black and white monochrome color scheme. I relied mostly on the Andrea Color black paint set, which made the process go even quicker. All in all, they turned out just fine and have great visual effect on the tabletop. :-)

The Shadows

Again, the motivation to finally get these painted was an "after hours" pirate game at AdeptiCon 2019. As seen below, it was a huge multiplayer "treasure grab" type game. Although my newly painted Shadow Pirates didn't fair too well, it was fun all the same. We used a home brew skirmish rules set that are based heavily the Age of Sigmar ruleset. Everyone brought a crew of fifteen that included a Captain, Quartermaster, three Mates, and ten crew. Each captain had his or her own special rule and the Quartermaster might have a special item/something as well.

AdeptiCon 2019

I finally got to take semi-descent photos of these guys today. The black/grey scheme and stark contrast to the sandy bases makes it hard for the pics to turn out right against a black or white background. Red seemed to work better.

"Dead men tell no tales..."

I recently got the chance to break them out for a game again, but more on that later... This post can serve an introduction of sorts. Someday maybe I can actually paint up a ghost ship for Captain Grim and Company. ;-)

Cheers,

Jason

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Viking Bondi and Priestess

Now in color!

Adding 8 more Viking Bondi ("Warriors" in Saga Age of Vikings) to my Viking Warband. This time with color. ;-) You might remember, my original warband has all black and white shields. The plan all along was to eventually paint up another warband, etc. with colorful shields and mix the two. The ultimate goal is to have a large skirmish force as well as a small army (using movement bases) for Hail Caesar! games.

After doing much of nothing hobby-wise last year and packing and moving, Wargames Foundry Vikings are always great fun to paint. They certainly help build some painting momentum when you're having trouble getting going again. :-)

 

I always find it funny that the "Bondi," the Norse farmers and tradesmen, are the fashion darlings of my army. The Hirdmen are mostly covered in chain-mail, but these guys and gals get to show it all off. :-) The only thing that slows down the painting process is picking out the outfits for each fig. Ha!

Along with the hobby drought, its been awhile taking pics and using my light box, so I'm afraid these didn't turn out the best (The WIP photo from the previous post is probably better). All in all, I'm pleased with the new recruits, and I'm hoping to try out packs of 12 warriors in future Viking Age Saga games. Taking full advantage of "Valhalla" on my battle board.

Along with the 8 Bondi, a new Viking Warlord has been hanging out on my painting desk for awhile. She might have to wait a bit longer, but I'm keen to get her and her standard bearer painted all the same.

Throwing in a couple of pics of my Viking Priestess (the new ones didn't turn out :-/ ). I painted her awhile ago, but haven't shared her on here I think. Fun fact: the little rock with the runestones on the back of her base was saved from the "Old Hag" mini that was part of my original Viking army for Warhammer Ancient Battles.

 

Sacrifices were made...

Vito Corleone would be proud

Well, on to finishing up my Old West gang and maybe some WW2 Hungarians after that. More on that later though. ;-)

Cheers,

Jason

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Der Feldmarschall rides again??

"I'm back!"  "Hooray!... now who are you again?"

I've always missed posting on this blog. I've visited numerous times over the past few years, hoping someway I could return to it and make the effort worthwhile (for you AND me). Reading some of my past posts/articles, I'm a little amazed sometimes... "I wrote that?!" Some of them were actually pretty good. ;-) Then I remember the huge amounts of time it took sitting at my desktop computer. Paint or blog? Or other stuff? Well, other stuff won out most of the time. :-/

I've also missed your blogs. Yeah, I might pop in once in awhile, but many of us have gravitated over to Facebook and/or Twitter, etc. etc. Too easy to scroll down the page, look and like pics... but then there's all the other "stuff" on those social media platforms that never really made its way onto out beloved blogoshpere. Or at least the sites I enjoyed. :-)

No promises this time either, but I have also created a Facebook "Der Feldmarschal" page/blog too.

https://www.facebook.com/DerFeldmarschallBlog

Not sure of the grand plan of balancing the two, but it'll be a work in progress for sure.  Hopefully you'll pop over and give me a like/follow and leave a comment or two. :-D

Some WIP Viking Bondi. Working on their bases tonight.

Last year was crazy for all of us, and mine included moving as well. Most of my stuff is still in storage, but I'm starting to hobby and game a bit again. I'll have some fun stuff to share on here and Facebook soon.

Also working on a Desperados gang for Dead Man's Hand. Two left to go!

That's all for now. :-) Hopefully this blogsite isn't as dead as my Twitter account with its 1000+ "followers" (crickets chirping) seems to be. :-P

Cheers,

Jason

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