Episode 11 - Favorite 3 Sea Factions in Blood & Plunder

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.