"Historicon: Fistful of Seamen edition" Topic

The Game so awesome it deserves its own thread! It won Best in Show, and while I saw plenty of excellent games and dazzling battlefields, nothing else came close.

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Unfortunate name though!

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The "a" is VERY important. Plenty of vulgar puns to go around, tho!

How much does it cost to amass such a wonderful collection of toys?

Wow, now THAT was a pirate game. Wish I could have been there, looks like a ton of fun.

Wingnut's tables are always absolutely wonderful to see! Richard

I think that had the good ship "Elk Hunt"

Very neat set up and AAR.

I've played this game at Recruits and it was an absolute blast.

It's a far cry from the usual "flat table" fare we see in on gaming tables – which is odd, considering it is, primarily, a naval game!

Congrats to Mr. Christian and his Crew of Jolly Jack Tars for another rousing success!

Shawn.

Didn't play, but checked it out and photographed it in detail. In chatting with "Mr. Christian", he stated it took him four years to create it all, which is easy to believe.

Peter

Very impressive!

Congrats to Mr. Christian and his crew. This is well deserved but not unexpected. From those that have seen this game at Recruits it was going to be tough to beat.
Cheers,
Nick

Every time the bell rang, I thought another car had pulled in for service…

So sad I missed out on this, as a regular Recruits con goer I knew this would go over well. Sadly my first ever Historicon trip got cancelled for medical reasons.

Next year!

I was there and it was a awesome game, terrain was top notch would love to know who makes the ship slpit in half on the island very cool.
John

I believe Ziterdes used to make it, but it is out of production. There is still a photo of it on their website.

Wait a sec, I just found it here:

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THe best pirate set up I have ever seen
BTW is this Roger the cabin boy?

Thanks maddrmark

The question then becomes if that is indeed Roger what happened to 'his' trousers?

We did not have such beautiful models and scenary but I have fond memoreis of pirate games
Capt Benjamin Dover
Sailng Master Edward Bates
First Mate Ivor Biggun
and of course Roger the cabin boy
many happy hours sailing along and raking fat merchants from astern!

GREAT GAME and GREAT PHOTO My Lords…..

The Snickers and The Corona are mine. Along with Skull Rock and the Ghost Ship. I loved wreaking havoc throughout the Caribbean.

Who makes those ships?? those are some nice ships

tom

Darclegion
They are from Kits, but we build them. Check out the site:
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Wingnut.

Amazing pirates!!!!

Wingnut,

First off played in the first game on Saturday at Historicon. Managed to "sneak" off with the treasure only to lose it to the cowardly Spanish captain in a duel!!! Had a great time, thanks for running this game.

Second, how do you make your sails?

Razor78,
The sails are made of .005 thickness evergreen polystyrene. The same stuff that model railroaders and scratch builders use. I size them to fit the masts and use various sizes of thin strips of the same material for seams. Sand the sails with fine grain sand paper to get texture. To get the curve of the sails I glue thin flat brass strips to the backs of the sails on each side. To lash the sails to the yard arms I use a tiny whole punch I found in the "Scrap Booking" section of a local craft store and wax string from the jewelry section. After assembling but before attaching them to the yard arm paint the sails.
Painting the sails is a matter of spray painting it an off-white then washing it with antiquing medium and cheap craft paint. The medium allows you to re-wet the wash the sail to get the stained cloth effect you want.

The brass strip can be put on flat before you paint it, then bent. The problem being that it tends to need a touch of glue where it breaks loose. The advantage is it looks more like the seems and less noticeable. If you put it on after the sails are painted it never really matches the color of the sails.
I use CA glue and ZIP-Kicker to speed up the process but be careful not to get it on your fingertips because finger prints on your sails really stand out after staining.

Wingnut
Thanks for the sail info, I really liked how your sails looked so I will try to duplicate them. I enjoyed the game so much I used my coupon to buy a couple ships from Old Glory in the dealers hall and I'm starting on my own "fleet"!