By Sean M: Aaaaaarrrrrrr! (35 points)

Just a little post to show some figs I did for a local WarMachine tournament.

So here are some of the Privateer Sea Dog figures: First Mate Hawk, Lord Rockbottom and the Deck Gun Crew.

The Deck Gun Crew is pretty generic, and probably could be used with any 28mm pirate themed army. Just a normal batch of pirate-y, mismatched clothes for a non-unified appearance. This is one of the few gun models I've seen with the carriage pegged into the ground for recoil. The Deck Gun in game is sub-par to it's larger cousin, the Commodore Cannon, but this sub-par player likes his sub-par models.

There's nothing outlandish about First Mate Hawk, except that she is a lady sea dog (not using the technical term), and there's none of Privateer's egregious steam punk design elements involved. Rule wise, her crew adores/lusts for her, and will take a bullet for her, and to quote Dr P. Venkman, "She's a nimble little minx." In the fluff, she wears a lot of pink, but that was unappealing to my sensibilities.

Lord Rockbottom is a proper pirate dwarf, peg leg (check), bicorne (check), shabby-chic frock coat (check) - unlike GW's pirate slayers. He has an unfeasibly long cutlass, and a fire spouting blunderbuss; because a fire based weapon is something you should employ a hundred leagues from shore... He's the ship's paymaster, so he can use "coins" to boost a model's game performance. However, as the Deck Gun is the only Sea Dogs unit I have, his current utility is limited.

So just a little snippet whilst I push on to the bitter end of the Challenge. I spent a good part of Sunday bashing out another large unit while listening to podcasts. On that note, I highly recommend "The Fall of Rome" and "The Battle of Verdun" podcasts.

TTFN

By Paul: What an outstanding group of scabrous sea dogs! Splice the mainbrace me hearty!
Thats 4 figures, a cannon and some extra points for a wonderfully nautical submission and outrageously oversized bicorne. Yarrrr :-)