Raise your paint brush and wave it around if you do piracy in 15 mm.
I've build quite a collection of same from Peter Pig, Minifigs, Museum Miniatures and any thing esle I can find (glad to hear of other ranges that might exist in 15 mm.)
I'm proudest of having my pirate crews being unique figures one and all within any single crew. (42 figures per crew) Well, some duplication in the Corsair crew and the female capatains crew, but the other eight crews adhere to the uniqueness. Duplication from ship to ship but not within the ship.
Would love to see more figures along the line of Peter Pigs Pirate Characters pack – and more women, wenches and all. I'm building a couple of pirate towns, one inspired by Port Royal to be dubbed Port Peasant and another to represent a pirate lair publicly entitled Quartojello Town but actually having a much fitter nom de guerre only to be unvailed when the first ship launches.
If you can still find them, Ross and Big Lots used to have great ships adaptable to 15 mm – carefully remove there bases and then chisel away the keels and you end up with a "sort of" water line model. They ride high in the water but for $15 USD or so to have a rigged and painted ship I'll live with it. I do remove some of the deck clutter and raise the mainsails to the yard to provide more play room on the decks.
I ought to be able to run whole day mini campaigns on a 5' x 12' game table.
Watch out for the Royal Navy! (Still mad I didn't buy the 50 gun ship I saw one time – would have been the scourge of the seas! Blast me innards!)
Hey, keep those brushes up and waving while I count them.
