Blood & Pigment Podcast

How does each nationality play within Blood & Plunder? How do the Spanish factions differ from the French and how are the Pirates unique? In this episode we walk through each nationality, covering what makes them unique, and hitting some of their top factions. If you're new to Blood & Plunder and trying to choose what models to buy, or if you've been playing one nationality for a while and you're curious about the other nations, this overview should be helpful!

Join hosts Garrett, Dan and Joseph for some Blood & Plunder conversations. In this episode we each pick our top 3 units in Blood & Plunder and discuss their strengths and weaknesses and how to use them on the table.We also run through hobby, history, and event news as usual. Enjoy the conversation!

Join the team in reviewing all the events, demos, tournaments and fun had playing Blood & Plunder and other games at Adepticon, 2025. Hosts on this show include Garrett, Dan, Joseph, Jason and Riley.

Hosts Garrett, Dan and Fernando get into into the nitty gritty of different ship types and talk about different great options for adding to your fleet after the Balandra and the Bermuda Sloop included in the starter kit. Last episode before our big Adepticon event!Timestamps:0:16 Intro1:19 Hobby Desk7:34 Tales of Glory and Shame15:15 Best Ship Purchase After Starter Box16:17 Garrett's Recommendation20:35 Dan's Recommendation29:12 Fernando's Recommendation42:49 Announcements

The Surgeon is in! In this episode we dissect some Blood & Plunder forces, chatting about potential weaknesses and ways to improve or modify. We take a look at three forces submitted from community members:1. Native American Creek Land 200pts2. Spanish Sea 150pts3. English Militia Land 150ptsWe also chat about hobby projects, recount tales of glory and shame, review upcoming events, and look at some of Firelock's upcoming projects.

Have Amphibious games of Blood & Plunder been hard to balance or set up well? Join Garrett, Dan, and Joseph for a discussion on making amphibious games fun and balanced in this episode.Other segments include:Hobby DeskTales of Glory & ShameAdepticon PrepPeek Behind the CurtainPainting Contest Updateand, shamelessly stolen from Tales of the Sale, New Year's Resolutions (henceforth to be referred to as "Plunderlutions"). 

The big errata episode is here! The core rulebook is getting some corrections, updates, and balance changes and we're here to guide you through everything!With the whole podcasting crew on, we hit all the hot topics, breeze through the little fixes, detail any rules changes, and reflect on our experiences playtesting some of these new rules and pontificate on how we see this update affecting the meta in 2025. We also recount Tales of Shame & Glory, review our painting projects, talk about Dan's piratical experience at the Texas Renaissance Faire, and peek behind the curtain at some of the active projects we're working on for Firelock Games.It's a packed episode! 

Garrett, Fernando and Joseph are back with more Blood & Plunder news, updates, and a big conversation about playing "convention" size 3-10 player games of Blood & Plunder.

In this episode, Garret, Joseph, and Daniel talk about their Top 3 Favorite Sea Factions for Blood and Plunder. There are some sudden twists, as well as tactics that many players may not have realized are possible! 

In this episode Garrett, Dan, and Fernando go over their top 3 favorite Blood and Plunder land factions.

In this bonus episode, Joseph sits down with Bartosz, Commander of the Native American team in the 2024 Summer of Plunder. Since Bartosz wasn't able to get in on the big roundtable discussion, we caught up to him later and got to chat about how the campaign went from the Native American team's perspective.

In this special episode, Joseph and Jason host a roundtable discussion of the 2024 Summer of Plunder with (nearly) all the Commanders and 2nd in Commands for the 6 nations participating in the campaign this year. Each commander is asked how the campaign felt for them, what they focused on in their national chats, and why players should fight for them next year.Then we have a bit of open time for interaction and review of the diplomacy aspect of the campaign before touching on some possible changes for Summer of Plunder, 2025.Congratulations to the Dutch, led by Matthew Doerr this year for winning the campaign this year!Thanks to all our special guests for coming on!Jason KlotzJoseph ForsterDan CarlsonGarrett SwaderJosh ShivakErich GeobelAndy HodgesTyler StoneMatthew DoerrMaarten de KruifBrent DevosAnd thanks to all the commanders who helped out and served but weren't able to come on!Greg PadillaJayden KingBartosz NowickiDavid Boeren

Join Dan and Joseph in a review of The Republic of Pirates by Colin Woodard. This title is one of the more well known and recent publications on the early 18th century pirates. It attempts to cut through some of the romance and legends and examine the Nassau pirates as they were, their backgrounds, influence on international politics, successes and failures and their ultimate place in history. 

Joined by Firelock Games' own Mike Tunez, Dan, Garrett and Joseph get a full update on the goings on at Firelock Games, including updates on Blood & Plunder, Port Royal and Oak & Iron.After getting the exclusive scoop, we have a great conversation on tactics in Blood & Plunder. Swarm lists (many cheap models) have been strong for a long time in Blood & Plunder, but Elite lists (fewer, high cost models) have been placing high at tournaments as well. Fighting against these extremes on the Force Building spectrum can be challenging! With Mike's great insight, we got over some of the strengths and weaknesses of the lists, giving tips and tricks for how to play them and how to counter them. 

Hosts Garrett, Dan and Joseph finish the mini-series on building Blood & Plunder ships by discussing techniques and methods for creating sails and rigging. We also review the Enfilade convention and give some updates on the in-progress 2024 Summer of Plunder, seen from various perspectives as Spanish Commander, Pirate Commander a one of the Campaign Managers. 

The whole crew is here with Garrett, Dan, Joseph and Fernando on deck! First we do a quick walkthrough of the upcoming 2024 Summer of Plunder campaign event, and then we share our various processes for preparing, building and painting a Blood & Plunder ship so it's ready for the gaming table.

Garrett, Dan, Fernando and Joseph look at the recent changes in the new reprint of the No Peace Beyond the Line expansion for Blood & Plunder. Lots of great tales of games and hobby work, along with some reviews of books related to Blood & Plunder.

Garrett and Dan are joined by Josh Shivak to recap the Blood & Plunder experience at AdeptiCon 2024, 

Joined by special guest Tyler Stone, regular hosts Garrett, Dan and Joseph go over details of the Blood & Plunder and Oak & Iron opportunities & events that will be taking place at Adepticon 2024, and then have an in-depth discussion on how to run a fun and effective demo of Blood & Plunder for new players.Additional conversation covers upcoming events, reenactments, related books, painting projects, and news from across the Blood & Plunder community.

Hosts Garrett, Dan and Joseph are joined by special guest Fernando Arteaga. In this episode we review the Portuguese factions in Blood & Plunder, then interview Fernando on his upcoming work on the Portuguese in a future release for Blood & Plunder, then grill him on his excellent painting techniques.

Garrett, Dan & Joseph discuss the new resin Blood & Plunder miniatures, discuss the news for the game, and compare the Brethren of the Coast and Golden Age Pirate factions. 

A new Blood & Plunder podcast is starting! Dan, Garrett and Joseph introduce the podcast, go over the basics of what Blood & Plunder is, and outline some plans for the podcast.