Making Your Blood & Plunder World

By Mitch Reed

One of the best aspects’ gamers love about Blood & Plunder is its historical setting in the days of the early colonial Americas. Once a gamer has painted their miniatures, they immediately look to create a beautiful table to show off their amazing models. Firelock Games has some great solutions for those who wish to pick up some great terrain that will create that world in which the game is played. Blood & Plunder is a single game that has two environments in which to play, games can take place on the land or sea and some missions of the game combine elements of both. Games that take place on the seas are easy to play, since all you need is a properly sized blue game mat and perhaps some rocks and shoals to break up the blue. Firelock has some great looking islands available from Table Wars on their website now.
When it comes to land battles, I have recommended that gamers, even those who even do not plan to play with the great looking ships, get terrain that can also be used for a waterfront, since much of the conflict during this period revolved around ports and beaches where raiding parties would land to head to an objective.

Firelock has the terrain that can make this confluence of land and sea look great and are a lot of fun to play with.

Due to a relationship with 4Ground, Firelock has some amazing dock yard sets that are easy to build and use in a short amount of time. These docks are also great to park one of the games amazing ships, and even if they are not part of the game, these ships attract so much attention from on lookers. The Kits from 4Ground also has other types of seaport terrain such as a crane, a boat under construction, cargo barrels and carts that would be found at any seaport during the early colonial period.
When it comes to terrain just for the landlubber, Firelock also has some great kits from 4Ground and Miniature Building Authority. Here 4Ground has some great buildings made just for Blood & Plunder that places hovels, sheds, workshops and buildings in which your models can fight it out in.

Miniature Building Authority adds to this with some beautiful pieces of terrain such as a church, customs house and a governor’s mansion. Firelock adds to these kits with some great terrain they have produced which will add more houses, farmed fields, a stone fort tower and a palisades fort built with logs. Recently the developers from Firelock have “spoiled” the fact that their line of terrain will add some really neat pieces in the next few months. All of these kits are well done and you can use them for other games that you play where these buildings appear.
Despite these terrain pieces being from different manufacturers, they all look great next to each other since they are cast to represent the period very well. Once thing to note about the period in which the game is played is that despite the game covering the Seventeenth to early Eighteenth centuries in the upcoming expansion, the terrain works for the entire period since very little changed in the 100 years the game will cover in 2021.

You can add some more terrain such as trees, bushes and fences to these buildings as well and create an amazing looking table, the choice is yours. Along with the low model count for the game, the terrain is also not too demanding on your wallet since you do not need very much to play an 150-point game on a 3’x3’ table.

I like using the terrain from Firelock. When put together it creates a table that stands out and draws crowds to your games. The game mechanics also helps out the gamer here because to play the game in a town or village is easy to do and you do not have to learn many extra rules to play.
Once you have your terrain collected you have all you need to make a table that stands out and also gives your forces a challenging battlefield to slug it out in.