Here’s an online gallery with some very good images of pirates, and related documents and maps. I know that the pirate gaming craze has largely subsided, but its one of htose things that I’ve always wanted to to.
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Blood and Bounty Pirate Rules
Blood and Bounty is set of free wargames rules for pirates in 28mm. The author writes:
“Blood & Bounty” is a pirate themed 28mm wargame that features over 50 pages of rules and statistics for reenacting the swashbuckling skirmishes of the Golden Age of Piracy! The game includes:
- 5 Factions
- (Royal Navy, Marine Royale, Real Armada Espanola, Merchantmen & Traders, and Pirates & Privateers.)
- Full rules for simulated sailing and combat with multiple vessel
- Boarding actions with hectic hand-to-hand and ranged comba
- Historical and fictional pirate characters
- A fleshed-out campaign mode for battling across the tropical Caribbean with multiple players
- And much more!
Freebooter’s Fate Free Quickstart Rules
The publishers of Freebooter’s Fate, a commercial set of fantasy pirate rules has released a free set of quickstart rules.
Return to Lilliput 2.0 Battling Bigguns
Return to Lilliput 2.0 is a set of rules by Walt O’Hara in which, twenty years after Gulliver, a band of pirates arrives at Lilliput.
Island Mayhem Pirate Rules
Island Mayhem is a set of rules for playing games in which 25mm – 28mm Pirates are searching for treasure.