Ten ships - one of the galleys needed a repair - and all the associated paraphernalia along with two boxes of blocks.
Another Sunday and another visit to our local(ish) boot sale. Scored some useful bits and pieces in the shape of two complete boxes of the ‘not quite Jenga’ Jenga blocks that were available from the Works a few years ago. Regular readers of the this blog will doubtless remember that this particular version of Jenga formed the basis for my block armies and yes, I still have all seven sets of these along with a substantial amount of leftovers. I wanted to get a couple of new sets of this for a ‘Dominion of’ set up using a whole block per unit. I think I still have the digital files for these from my early Block army experiments so in theory it should be easy enough to cobble something up. Ignore the price labels - these cost me 50p a box, each of 48 blocks.
The Wiz Kids Pirates of the Caribbean game contained a number of completed ships, all the cards the pieces were pressed out from, the coins, crew and character cards/tokens, the rules, the minute d6 and a Kraken monster for good measure!
I picked these up simple because the price was way too good to turn them down - £2 for the lot! Having said that the selection of models lends itself nicely to some Ganesha Games Galleys and Galleons games - there you go 5Gs even!
On a different tack altogether I managed to get the Mike’s Models 15mm British infantry jigged up for their refurbishment along with sorting out the recent haul of Space Hulk/Advanced Space Crusade bits and pieces. As mentioned, there are a few bits and pieces to attend to, primarily applying decals and touching in some dings etc.
All in all then, a productive couple of hours - the first for what seems like and age due to the decorating etc.
6 comments:
David,
That’s a great couple of bargains! The not-quite-Jenga block are useful in many ways and not just for block armies. As to the ships … well, I can see you developing another set of naval wargame rules so that you can maximise their usage.
All the best,
Bob
Hello there Bob,
You know me - have block, will battle! The ships will be quite useful for a couple of ideas I am messing around with and I may even look out for some more!
All the best,
DC
Oooh, a nice haul of ships!
Hello there Kaptain,
They are very useful and are covered in the G and G rules. I wanted to reacquaint myself the rules in advance of the coastal warfare set so the ships were a very timely acquisition for the core system.
I had forgotten how good they are!
All the best,
DC
Good haul 😄
Hi Jim,
I was rather pleased for sure!
All the best,
DC
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