Seaports and towns, HO/HO scale card stock buildings

• Back in the 1990s, I had purchased 2 books of New England themed buildings for a town, and a seaport.

I lovely built them and used them for my many battles. Until I moved to South Korea for my first teaching job. And I haven't been able to find them since 1997.
So I made my last hobby purchase on my card for a VERY long time and will be slowly building them.
Oh and that includes a 3d puzzle of Hogwarts castle which is currently scattered on my sons bedroom floor as he has the space for.
So my North American theater scenery will be fine.
Hmmm, New England seaport, 1770s raids or War of 1812 battles.

 starting to get them built in January 2020

Back about 1992, I had a copy of both the New England village and Seaport books, but due to university, moving and living in Asia for 19 years and a my parents divorced and selling of the family home, these models were lost.

My dad still had the original books with the models I hadn't built. However about a year ago I bought the books again and have finally got around to build them again.

Some of the bits I will leave out and use wooden bits for railings and steps

Pirate action, somewhere in the Carribean 1700

Ian and I wanted to do a Black Powder game. However, the garage is a bit too cold. One of the future house projects is to either get the wood stove in it certified, the electrical system hooked up again or some other heat source. 

These figures were from his toy sets he got when we first came to Canada on a visit back in 2013. Little did we know that two years later we would move back.

The pirates on their ship were trying to capture supplies from the pirates on the beach. Luckily for the beach pirates, the ship guns fired poorly

Pirates attack a Ghost Castle

The night before last, prior to my departure for work, Ian and I played a game with his castle and pirate ship

He was really happy that we could play before I went off to work.

This shot is supposed to be us in a Toys R Us with some Zombie Nerf stuff, but it didn't seem to load well.

Spring and Summer campaign kits

I arrived home to find my birthday presents arrived. Two kits for my Bolt Action on Grampies War blog, two boxes of Prussia troops and

My first order of hobby kits from amazon

Hat Spanish guerillas

Ye Muntinous Crew of Scurvy Dogs against The King's Men

This was my first play test of "On The Seven Seas". I've read a review of the game after I bought it, but thought, it shouldn't be too bad. It looks like an interesting game, but some of the firing rules are a bit annoying, but that might be to reflect how terrible flintlock and muzzle-loading firearms.

So our story begins. A small port town on a market day. Two ships of His Majesty King George I keep guard over a small colonial town in the colony of Newfoundland 

A small shallop pulls up, with a 12lb gun 

 Some Militia horse come to protect the town.

A battalion of uniformed militia with a gun.

Citizens take up arms to protect their town.

In one of the more insane moves, the Pirates ignore the King's ships and run right into the beach.

Two pirates skiffs run onto the beach, much to the amusement of the Royal Navy.

The Pirates, soused on rum run ashore, attempting to use their fierce and drunk demenor to scare off the militia.

But the townspeople hold their own and begin to trade musket fire

And pirates begin to fall.

The Royal Navy begins to sink the pirate skifs

One final push by the pirates to try and steal some supplies.

A militia cavalry charge

Fierce hand to hand combat results in casualties on both sides.

More pirates are shot down.

Some militia begin to go down.

The central market is becoming a place of death. The King's Officer takes on the Pirate captain, and the officer wins.

The pirates, taking more gunfire from the ships pulls off, even losing their gun.

Note to self, have pirates storm the ships at first to gain the fire support. They will sail into a port again, just maybe one not so well defended.
After I played this game I found the rules to be something which wasn't comparable with my other rule book so I sold the book the figures I have kept. Any pirate style games will be using the Field Glory rules

The Golden Age of Piracy Terror at Sea Documentary

 Another documentary on pirates

Blackbeard - Terror at Sea (National Geographic TV Movie) Part1

 Another pirate documentary.

True Caribbean Pirates 720p

 An interesting documentary by History Channel

Ye Mutinous Crew of Scurvy Dogs, part 2

Well, this time, I've repainted some Accurate AWI figures as pirates/privateers, or buccaneers.

I decided these crew would be mostly musket and pistol armed. The officers have swords.

 These figures can be either pirates, buccaneers, privateers or colonial rangers, The Pirate flag denotes them for what they are.

Ye Mutinous crew of Scurvy Dogs

After rumminging through my figures, I decided to paint these fellows as pirates/privateers and buccaneers for my On the Seven Seas game which I will set up soon.

A collection of motley looking characters. Many of them will be repainted to represent sailors of the 18th century. I will make sure they are generic enough to be for other battles in other actions.

A mix of civilian militia and ranger figures

Two of the Osprey books I have for my Piracy campaigns.

Host the Jolly Roger! 

Building a Pirate, Privateering force

I got Osprey Publishing's On the Seven Seas yesterday in the mail. It's an interesting set of rules for doing Pirate and Age of Sail boarding and landing actions. It fits into my own wargamming interests. I may pass on purchasing metal pirate figures, and see if I can build groups with the figures I own now.
Added with my historical literature I have here, I can set up some interesting games.
Pictures of Privateer and Naval crews from some of my previous games

 this shot taken at the Maritime Museum of The Atlantic, Halifax, Nova Scotia