Chaps,

As stated in the title.

Malburian era? Seven years war? I see lot of people using AWI but that's too late. Most famous pirates were around 1720.

So malburians with tricorne seem to fit. But would live to be sure!

The swabbies would look much the same throughout the period, often dressed in whatever came out of the slop chest, so it's mainly the officers and marines that matter. I'd definitely go for the tricorne hat look of the Malburian era.

Uniforms for Royal Navy officers weren't laid down until 1748 when Lord Anson introduced them so I think you have some lee way in choosing officer figures.

Thanks!

I forgot to mention it were the marines/infantry I was unsure about.

Ship/cannon crews will be usual 'pirates' from foundry/ redoubt.

I wanted a close look to the black sails series so I think malburians will quite fit that.

For officers i was thinking these:

Although not a model, I would suggest Keira Knightly. She has pirate form.

I'd be tempted to go early and have a look at the 1672 stuff from North Star!

http://www.northstarfigures.com/list.php?man=123&page=1

Not a bad choice!

I'm a bit torn between wargames foundry and redoubt enterprises at the moment.

Foundry having the nicer sculpts, but redoubt really the cheaper option, with lots of guncrews for pirates! Unfortunately, they don't have malburian era models, only 7 years war and french indian war.

i must say their french indian war stuff looks good as well.

ok so really can't decide, will have to wait untill tomorrow to make my order 

It'll be a good use of your new boats either way

I'm tempted by North Star's 1672 at some point, I must confess, as I really want to do some Channel piracy with the Dunkirkers!

Well, i'm really enjoying black sails for the moment,so i'll go with the later era.

But, i have been lookingat black scorpion's pirates as well, and although they are somewhat pricey, they are gorgeous as well! I have some lying around already so they are another good option!

Ooo yes, they're lovely models but out of my price range too!

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh!!

I haven't even got my Prehistoric warbands for Tribal delivered yet and now you lot have me browsing Blue Moon's 15mm pirates, civilians and troops!!

Good job I can stay ... Ooh! Squirrel!

One legged ones with an eye patch and a parrot on the shoulder. 

Quote from: ianrs54 on 16 October 2017, 02:43:48 PM
One legged ones with an eye patch and a parrot on the shoulder. 

So black scorpion it is then 

Wow!! those are fantastic!

Looks like some wet blending on those guys, nice smooth job!

they are the painted examples on the black scorpion site,. they really do some nice ones!

So i ended up ordering the black scorpion ones to pick up at crisis. Looking at comparison pics on the web, i found nothing really compared well sizewise with black scorpion. Since i already have some of their pirates, it was the most sensible thing to do,but not the most affordable ( 90£ for 35 models   ). But you can say what you want, they are some of the nicest pirate models around!

I don't really need 35 to play flashing steel (wich i already bought) , but i wanted some choice in weapons etc + i added a privateer gang to my order, to give me the chance to play pirates vs privateers vs royal navy. Since we have an average of 3 players on our game nights, i thought getting it played would have a bigger chance of succes if i had enough models for three forces!

Also ordered a jetty from sarissa for my ships to rest  

I don't think you'll regret it

Btw there may be a new edition of Flashing Blades out soon!

Quote from: toxicpixie on 19 October 2017, 12:39:25 AM
I don't think you'll regret it

Btw there may be a new edition of Flashing Blades out soon!

But I just bought it   

Where did you see that?

On the Yahoo! Group - Andreas made a casual comment on the end of some rules queries so I asked for more! Answer is... out when it's out. IIRC the Ganesha site is set up so once you've ordered once you can then download any revised files?

• It's my bad on this - I had the finished file sitting on my computer for ages. But I want to double check with all the Q and As that have been asked iver the years. Unfortunately now I am in convention season, so I can't give an ETA
  Andrea
  
  Il giorno gio 19 ott 2017 alle 02:34 Toxicpixie toxicpixie@gmail.com [songofblades] <songofblades@yahoogroups.com> ha scritto:
  
  Spotted the comment on an updated Flashing Steel - is that likely anytime soon?
  
  
  Nathan
  
  Sent from my iPhone
  
  On 18 Oct 2017, at 22:56, andrea sfiligoi andreasfiligoi@gmail.com [songofblades] <songofblades@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
  
  <snipped rules queries>
  
  We are working on an updated version of the rulebook and I'll make sure these are clarified.
  
  Andrea