Get ready for battle as Firelock Games just released two new awesome Blood and Plunder starter sets for Unaligned, Pirates, and Privateers!
If you love pirates, naval combat, or historical games, Blood and Plunder is going to be right up your alley! With these new starter sets, you can take to the field with a bunch of different pirates or unaligned models. You can also get the models separately if you just want a few of them, but we’ll mainly focus on the starters.
PIRATES AND PRIVATEERS SET: $99 (Resin)
These kits will be in resin, which gives you a lot of detail, but it also looks like you can get the metal models as well. This is a very versatile set that allows you to build warbands for all kinds of factions. Plus, with 25 miniatures inside, you get pretty good value for the price.
This starter set includes 25 models and allows you to build any Spanish, English, French, Dutch or Unaligned and Outlying Powers Pirate, Privateer, Naval or Militia Coast Guard Force.
Here’s everything you get in the set:
- 8 European Sailors
- 8 European Sailor Musketeers
- 4 Sailor Weapon Upgrades
- 4 Cannon Crew
- 1 Reformado Commander & Unit and Faction Card
UNALIGNED NATIONALITY STARTER SET: $99 (Resin)
When you need to harry the Spanish, these are the men to do it! This can either build a Brethren of the Coast force or a Logwood Cutters force, so it’s still pretty versatile.
This bundle includes 25 models and allows you to build a 100-point force of either:
Brethren of the Coast: These adventurers are of all nations, races, and ethnicities, and their sole purpose is to harry Spain—to plunder the Spanish Main! They are English buccaneers, French flibustiers, Dutch freebooters, Spanish deserters, Portuguese seamen, and freed slaves and other men of color, all banded together for common purpose. If they are English and are forbidden to plunder the Spanish, they will accept a French commission, and if French and so forbidden, an English commission. And if there is no commission to be had, they will make a pretense of one and attack the Spanish anyway. They are naturally armed as are the English buccaneers and French flibustiers, both of whom are in their number: with flintlock musket (usually a fusil boucanier), cartouche box of thirty cartridges, a pistol or two, and a cutlass.
Logwood Cutters: Logwood cutters were rough men who labored for months at a time standing knee-deep in water while they chopped down logwood trees, a valuable dyewood. Many logwood cutters drifted through a variety of trades, including buccaneering, “fishing” for silver (treasure hunting), and even local whaling, leaving them with a variety of skills that made them useful to a various military and quasi-military and naval expeditions.
These are a great way to start a new force or jump into the game! Don’t let the seas go unwatched any longer.
