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(TFT) Pirates! and Wooden Floating Stuff
YEAH!!! this is the Pirate game that I used in my campaign. The ships are
beautiful and fit 25mm figures wonderfully. The rules are easy and
flexible. You can easily (yeah, sure) modify it to TFT. I recommend this
to anyone who wants to do a nautical setting with 25mm lead figures.
Michael, I haven't played the other sea games, but I played this at a con
about 3 years ago. FUN! I even bought the rules and three ships (four if
you count the Dirigible).
Rick, Do you use strict hexes in your game? Would you use the inch sytem
and Resin ships? How were you planning to do your Pirate game?
So, GC. How did you use Pirates with your TFT game?
Hail Melee,
John Paul
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From: GypsyComet@aol.com
Subject: (TFT) Hot Lead & Pirates!
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 19:29:19 EDT
>> While it scales things down a bit, 7th Street Games' "Pirates,
>> 2nd ed" is most definitely worth a look, as it starts from a
>>semi-historical nautical base and adds the fantasy races, magic,
>>submarines (ala the Nautilus), seamonsters and airships. The >>resin
models they make for it are marvelous, scaled to use any >>25-30mm minis
you like. Crew sizes are abstracted down to
>> manageable levels for fast play.
>
>Sounds interesting, where can more infomation be found
>
http://www.flagshipgames.com/Pirates!.htm
My memory of the company name is either faulty or outdated...
GC
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From: "John Paul Bakshoian"
Subject: Re: (TFT) Re: ...keep your powder dry
Date: Tue, 05 Oct 1999 18:25:34 PDT
Rick asks:
What would the range of various sizes of cannon? I would be very
interested since one of my campaigns has pirates with cannon.
Cool. In the previous segment in the Troop Movement campaign I'm running,
the players were in a cog and a sloop and they came up against a Large Ship
and another cog. They were in a river and
had to pass these two ships. I used ceramic cast ships and rules
from the game called PIRATES from a company in California. These rules
were modified only slightly to fit TFT.
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From: Michael Taylor Subject: Re: (TFT) Re: ...keep your powder dry
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 22:07:51 -0400
Someday I intend to do an expansion on the "Ships & Swords" article by
Glenn L. Williams, combining it with the Ram Speed Mircogame to create
sailing ship rules... The Milton Bradely game
"Conquest of the Empire" has some great little ship miniatures as
well.....and of course, the Milton Bradely game "Broadsides and Boarding
Parties" has a 25mm sized plastic pirate ship as well and some pretty good
sailing rules as well...
Sigh. So much game, so little time...
Michael
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From: Nils K Hammer
Subject: (TFT) Re: TFT Digest V1 #249
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 00:37:40 -0400 (EDT)
A small note on ramspeed, the ships are play balanced but not
historical. I havn't played for years, but researched the subject
when trying to make my own game. For sailing, I like Wooden Ships & Iron
Men although you will be confused if you try to find the scale of the game
for matching with tft. It has no scale so you don't have to worry about
which war uses which scale.
nils
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From: "Dave Seagraves"
Subject: (TFT) TFT: Griefs
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 15:23:06 -0500
I understand that Steve Jackson was into Legos in a big way, and designed a
pirate ship game around them. That was a few months ago . . . he must
have finalized the design by now.
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From: GypsyComet@aol.com
Subject: (TFT) Re: TFT Digest V1 #250
In a message dated 10/8/99 6:53:39 PM, was written:
I understand that +snip+ he must have finalized the design by now.
Not likely. Ever heard of Hot Lead?
While it scales things down a bit, 7th Street Games' "Pirates, 2nd ed" is
most definitely worth a look, as it starts from a semi-historical nautical
base and adds the fantasy races, magic,
submarines (ala the Nautilus), seamonsters and airships. The resin
models they make for it are marvelous, scaled to use any 25-30mm minis you
like. Crew sizes are abstracted down to manageable levels
for fast play.
GC
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From: Michael Taylor
Subject: (TFT) Re: TFT Digest V1 #249
Date: Sat, 9 Oct 1999 11:45:39 -0400
Message text written by INTERNET:tft@brainiac.com
A small note on ramspeed, the ships are play balanced... +snip+
...don't have to worry about which war uses which scale.
nils
Well, I'm not really concerned with historical accuracy. The selling point
for me is the abilility to build your own ships, combining troops and
catapults however you want. Does "Wooden Ships & Iron Men" allow that? I've
always heard its the best sailing game, but I've never tried it.
Michael
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From: Tim Collins <irndrgn@pacbell.net> Subject: (TFT) OT-Wooden Ships &
Plastic Men
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 10:03:19 -0700
GypsyComet@aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 10/8/99 6:53:39 PM, was written:
>
>I understand that Steve Jackson was into Legos in a big way, >and
designed a pirate ship game . . . he must have finalized >the design by
now.
Not from SJ, but along the same lines.
http://www.ed.ac.uk/~geas/RPGmisc/ships.htm
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