"Ever Gamed Anything Like 'Cutthroat Island'???" Topic

Remember that flick?

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Ever gamed it? If so, what 1) figures, 2) rules, 3) ships and 4) terrain/scenics did you use?

Thanks.

CC

I think regular pirate minis would work, but the rules that you woule have to use be the worst ones out there.

Bad movie, bad rules. Just keeping with the flavor of the movie that is.

LOL

CC

In Grant's Scenarios for Wargames there is a great Pirate adventure

Not yet. But I could.

We have had many, many Pirate adventures over the years and all of them have had that "movie" feel about them. We just banged together a quick set of homebrew rules we called "Darrrrggghh Matey!" available here:
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They aren't the most in-depth rules out there but they worked great for Con games.

Here are some pics from a game many years ago on a site we hardly touch anymore.
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A few more photos here on our yahoo group:
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Ah, you also asked what figs and such…most of the figs were Foundry with some Old Glory thrown in for good measure.

The ships were mostly Old Glory and Flagship Games.

I scratch built the jungle terrain and trees. The hills were Geo-Hex.

The buildings are that foam resin, I think Old Glory has them, or they did. We picked them up painted at a convention flea market. It was funny, we rousted all our members out of bed early Sunday morning to collect money for the set then slowly one member bought out the rest. We have used that spanish village for many games and periods.

Been watching Comcast on Demand?

These days I would think -if you are not already a big pirate afficionado, but just thinking about getting into the period- that the many prepainted plastic toy sets (54mm) would be a good start. You could have an instant game for twenty bucks or so, and switch to more artistic minis later, if you enjoyed the genre.

Regards

For Gina Davis, I'd look at the pirate babes from Eureka. These are about as tall as the Foundry or Old Glory pirates, but slimmer. At least one also wears high heeled boots!
If you like your pirates a bit taller, look at the pirate ranges from Bronze Age or Black Scorpion.

Blood & Swash/Thunder & Plunder by Buck Surdu and Christopher Palmer (who are better known for their GASLIGHT VSF rules) has a nice cinematic feel.

richarDMB: I think I read that at one point in filming the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie, Keira Knightley found herself wondering how she got involved in a genre that hadn't had a major success since Errol Flynn.
Riverbluff Wargames: loved your photos!
Inquisitor: Name names! Implicate companies! I'm not very knowledgeable when it comes to 54mm, I'm afraid.

Grelber

I think there was a participation game went round the UK con circuit a few uears ago might fit the bill.
Check out old copies of wargames illustrated maybe.

I remember the movie – it was such a flop that it put the cause of the swashbucker 10+ years. I watched it for the first time this summer – thank you Netflix – that's 1h 40 mins of my life I'll not get back.

There are plenty of pirate figures in 28 and 15mm – plus you might looks for some of the 28mm miniatures for 7 Seas RPG.

Some of the skirmish rules would work fo you – you could try "Lace & Steel"

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Once they gave me Pirates of the Carribean, I wiped CI off the hard drive. One's good, stupid, fantasy-pirate fun, the other's typical Hollywood crap. "Bad Dog"? *shudder*

'Pirates' settings are specially propicious to free runs of imagination!

Re. 'Pirettes' link I try to maintain a bank of links to 25-30mm 'tricornes' female fighters:
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(yes, there -just scroll down to the 3rd part).

For the (over)imaginative the possibilities of such Gulf of Mexico / Carribean setting are endless: TMP link
You can add there (James Bond fashion) a 'mad scientist' /'world conqueror' with Da Vinciesque – Munchausenian contraptions, a Pirates Free Republic, a Spanish Vice-Kingdom turned practically independant after the WSS -a good locale to field (after headswappings…) 'traditionalist' Governor Guards in morions on WSS uniforms (a 'classic' of 'pirates' comics)- and what about a 'wilder' crossover: TMP link

But you gotta, I mean.. gotta…. agree that Frank Langella made a great villian in Cutthroat Island – its just too bad about the rest of the cast ….

Pirate: We can't leave yet, Captain. We haven't put enough food on board.
Dawg Brown: We need less mouths.
[Shoots Pirate]

CC

abdul,

The filmography in Pirettes may be the worse blue screen action I have ever seen but YIIIIKES!!!! those girls are HOT!! I'd sail anywhere with them – preferably as their captured "prize" to be "shared" by ALL the female crew!!

dreams, dreams, dreams….

deanoware
just one among the so many advantages of building (or sharing) an Imagi-Nation setting: you could not have them in 'historical' "Treasure Island"! But, in an 'alternate' Carribean, you can meet a full shipload of them:
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I came across these the other day that might serve

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They do have a pirates supplement.

You should also consider reading "The Pyrates"

The Pyrates is a comedic novel by George MacDonald Fraser,author of the 'Flashman' novels and published in 1983. Written in arch, ironic style and containing a great deal of deliberate anachronism, it traces the adventures of a classic hero, multiple damsels in distress, and the six captains who lead the infamous Coast Brotherhood. It also concerns the charismatic anti-hero, Colonel Blood, a rakish dastard who is loosely modeled on the historical figure, Thomas Blood. All of the above face off against the malevolently hilarious Spanish viceroy of Cartagena, Don Lardo. The book's 400 pages of continuous action travels from England to Madagascar to various Caribbean ports of call along the Spanish Main.

The book is completely unrelated to the 1991 movie Pyrates starring Kevin Bacon.

We have played Cutthroat Island like scenarios often with Sailpower ( see sailpowergame.com )

The movie islands were from Thailand, and quite interesting

I have been thinking of making some like that for next year's Origins Sailpower game as they rise straight out of the water which lets you have a imposing island without taking away too much "sea" space

This list of 179 movies is certainly not exhaustive, but already impressive and inspirational: link

On the same site, a list of 157 comics and graphic novels series (French, but this does not detract from the visual inspiration): pirates-corsaires.com/bd.htm

And of course TMP link
(remember Raquel Welsh in '1 million years BC'? Then what about Geena Davis having to choose between a T rex and a Pteranodon?)

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