Pirate Game

[Franco Clarke]

Not sure if this is quite the correct place for this, as it isn't exactly a moc?

Anyway, this topic is about a game I play with a friend which is based around the use of lego pirate ships. The basic premise of the game is that you play as a pirate captain and sail around the 'sea' digging up treasure and plundering merchant ships in the aim of becoming top pirate. You begin the game with a small rowing dinghy and you can use the gold you acquire to buy better ships or hire crew etc. Also sailing the seas are a whole host of imperial warships and merchant vessels. Since we use full sized lego pirate ships, the game takes up an awful lot of space, and takes quite a long time to play. 

To start with a rough map from one of our previous games, which should help you to understand the basic layout of the area of play. 

The first shot is about an hour into the game, showing the main harbour of Port Royal. In the foreground is a merchant ship my friend converted from the ninjago zeppelin, with my pirate ship behind it. At this point we had both only got a simple rowing dinghy, although I had bought a small mast for mine.

Here a pair of merchants sail round the Channel Fort. The fort is my friend's, while the merchant ships are the aforementioned Ninjago ship, and my HMS flea. 

Further round are another two merchant ships. The closest is my friend's vessel designed for the new Bluecoats, whilst the further one is one of mine.

A little later, here both me and my opponent dig for treasure on small islands. In the foreground is my opponent, having commandeered the Ninjago ship. In the background is my ship, the Black Assassin, which I bought having sold the Dinghy.

A shot across the main island, with a few carriages in the front and a pair of merchant ships at the back. The carriages are my version of a couple of classic Castle sets.

Further round to the top, an island inhabited by non-player pirates in-front of Tortuga. Tortuga was made up of my friend's market village and my boatshed.

Oh dear! One of the merchants sailed a little to close to a sea monster and pays the price!

A trio of merchant ships that shared a similar colour scheme, and such ended up sailing around together for most of the game.

My Black Assassin and the Imperial Flagship cross paths. 

A view through the roofs of Port Royal. The blury green ship in the background is my friend's equivalent of the Black Assassin.

A logjam of merchant ships and imperial patrol vessels clogs up Port Royal. The ship in the middle is my Stingray.

There weren't just small merchant ships. This large Indiaman called HMS Warspite was built by my friend. 

The Imperial flagship is passed by the fastest merchantman, the Colombe.

Here is a shot of some of my pirates who had been digging on this little island for quite some time, and had acquired a large amount of treasure!

Then I forgot to take any pictures for a very long time, and it cuts to when we had both built up quite a large pirate fleet. Here my ships try to keep out of the way of the imperials.

Here my friend decided to attack one of the imperial flagships. He successfully killed its crew, but was then set upon the larger 18 gun brig. This ship swiftly sunk his smallest ship, and killed most of the crew who had boarded the Imperial flagship. It then  continued to severely damage his biggest ship, the Brickbeard's bounty. By boarding the 18 gunner, my oponnent managed to  wipe out the crew, but not without great loss of life. But the time taken had allowed the rest of the imperial fleet to arrive at the site, consisting of an Imperial flagship, Stingray and a 30 gun frigate. Rather than face such odds, my opponent surrendered, and the game ended.

I hope you enjoyed this, I am sorry that I didn't take more pictures but I got engrossed in the game. We normally play this game once a year, so hopefully next year I will have another game to report on!

Edit:

Pirate game(budget) Rules on Google Docs

[kurigan]

That’s really neat! It’s a lot more intricate than I expected. It does seem more like a Pirates forum thing than a MOC so I’m just going to move it over there.

 

[Franco Clarke]

Thank you very much, I am glad you liked it. Also thanks for moving it to the correct forum, I wasn't quite sure where it fitted!

[Lord Valgor]

This is fantastic!

What rules do you use? I am working on making my own Lego Pirate Game (largely inspired by evil Stevie's). Also, do you have pictures of all the vessels used? Your bigger ships sound to be quite impressive MOCs.

At any rate, super cool and would love to see more pictures if you have 'em!

[Guest]

Would love to see some of the rules as im intrested in playing myself . If possible next time you play Id love to see a video of the whole game being played out. Nether the less great photos and Im intrested to find out more!

Edited November 16, 2016 by SodorBricks

[Franco Clarke]

On 13/11/2016 at 6:29 PM, Lord Valgor said:

This is fantastic!

What rules do you use? I am working on making my own Lego Pirate Game (largely inspired by evil Stevie's). Also, do you have pictures of all the vessels used? Your bigger ships sound to be quite impressive MOCs.

At any rate, super cool and would love to see more pictures if you have 'em!

Thank you, glad you liked it, and if you want to see more of my models, I have uploaded most of them to this forum, especially on the Bretheran of the Brick Seas section. 

The rules were developed between me and my friend, and are kinda still in development.

On 16/11/2016 at 7:15 PM, SodorBricks said:

Would love to see some of the rules as im intrested in playing myself . If possible next time you play Id love to see a video of the whole game being played out. Nether the less great photos and Im intrested to find out more!

I will certainly take some more photographs next time I play, and video might work too, but most certainly just highlights as this game is very long winded in its current form (we played over 3 days).

Sorry I tried to attach the rules but they are currently too large to be attached here. I'll see if I can find an alternative.

[Guest]

43 minutes ago, Franco Clarke said:

Thank you, glad you liked it, and if you want to see more of my models, I have uploaded most of them to this forum, especially on the Bretheran of the Brick Seas section. 

The rules were developed between me and my friend, and are kinda still in development.

I will certainly take some more photographs next time I play, and video might work too, but most certainly just highlights as this game is very long winded in its current form (we played over 3 days).

Sorry I tried to attach the rules but they are currently too large to be attached here. I'll see if I can find an alternative.

If you put them on a seperate website and then send us a link to them ,or if not you could take photos/screenshots and upload them to photo bucket/imgur or a similar site. The latter may be easier to do.

[Capn Frank]

5 hours ago, Franco Clarke said:

Sorry I tried to attach the rules but they are currently too large to be attached here. I'll see if I can find an alternative.

If they're on Google Docs, you can provide a view-only link when sharing the document.  The link below has been added to the first post of this topic.

Pirate game(budget) Rules on Google Docs

[blackdeathgr]

Nice one FC! Please do post the rules (following Phred's advice on GoogleDocs) whenever you find time!