Pirate Mini's and Ships for a d20 Game

[Godzilla]

Thanks for all the input!!!

Here is another question. Does anyone make plastic 25mm cannon. The metal ones are very expensive ($5-7.5) and if I wanted to fit out a 20 gun ship the guns alone would cost me more than $100

 

[ledded]

Thanks for all the input!!!

Here is another question. Does anyone make plastic 25mm cannon. The metal ones are very expensive ($5-7.5) and if I wanted to fit out a 20 gun ship the guns alone would cost me more than $100

My advice is to look at your local Dollar Store/Wal Marts. You can occasionally find sets of the plastic toys that can be used with 25-30mm scale minis pretty well. For cannons, take a look for some of the old Weapons and Warriors toy sets. They are various playsets that have near-30mm plastic soldiers, cannon/catapults/trebuchet/etc that shoot little plastic balls at your enemies men and emplacements. They can be found on ebay and elsewhere pretty cheap, as they are mostly out of production. I picked up a few sets at a discount dollar store kind of place for only a couple bucks each, and I ended up with some usable terrain pieces and about 15 siege weapons.

Most of the hobby sources for good cannons, etc. are going to be fairly expensive, and in a wide variety of scales. Look for the toys, or find a way to make your own (some small wooden dowels, foamcore, cheap toy plastic car wheels, and some heavy card for detailing and you might be able to make something passable once it's primed and painted).

 

[Godzilla]

I found some good 30mm cannon which in 1/72 scale would be about 7 foot long. One has a plastic carriage and the other a wooden one. They are about $2.50 to $2.75 each. A pretty good price. Here is the Link

 

[peteyfrogboy]

Re: pirate minis

Wargames Foundry has quite an impressive array of pirate minis, though a bit pricey. ... I personally have eureka, old glory, a few foundry, and some other assorted ones, the foundry are the best sculpts IMO.

I would agree with this, based on what I've seen on Foundry's website. If my campaign keeps going long enough to warrant it I may pick up some for major NPCs.

 

[Uriel]

http://www.flagshipgames.com/

Folks, as a player of Pirates! , the world's coolest miniatures game, I would be remiss in not helping out here. Besides, it has rules for parrots (Um, don't ever take one, they call out random orders.... the creators assign a parrot to the ship with low roll in convention games Woohoo!)

Back on topic, their ships are great, as are their cannon casts etc...

-Uriel

 

[ledded]

http://www.flagshipgames.com/

Folks, as a player of Pirates! , the world's coolest miniatures game, I would be remiss in not helping out here. Besides, it has rules for parrots (Um, don't ever take one, they call out random orders.... the creators assign a parrot to the ship with low roll in convention games Woohoo!)

Back on topic, their ships are great, as are their cannon casts etc...

-Uriel

And I feel totally stupid for not mentioning them in my earlier post... I have several of their ships and a few of their weapons (ballista, catapult, and cannon) and they are quite good.

Jim

 

[Uriel]

Pirates! rocks, and I'm not just saying that because Thomas (designer)is a friend of mine

 

[Laslo Tremaine]

Since no one has posted a link to the Foundry site, I thought I would do so.

Their pirate minis rock!

http://www.wargamesfoundry.com/collections/CUT/index.asp

I also really like their Street Violence line for modern settings (especially the skinhead minis!!!).

http://www.wargamesfoundry.com/collections/SV/2/index.asp