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Blood & Pigment releases multiple new articles, videos and content for the game nearly every week. Here are the most recent articles:
Plunder Den Terrain Flash Challenge – 2026 Great Pirate Paint Off
We have a special event for you as part of the Great Pirate Paint Off this year. Dexter at The Plunder Den is hosting a special Terrain Building Flash Challenge with some major prize support! Dexter at The Plunder Den makes great terrain building tutorials. For this special challenge, use the tutorial below and make…
Blood and Plunder 2026 Units Update
With Tournament Season kicking off at Adepticon 2026, Firelock games has published an update in an effort to make some of the 17th Century Factions and Units more viable in competitive games. This is great news! While Blood and Plunder is already a well-balanced game, there are a few units that needed tweaks because other…
Commander & Character Winners – 2026 Great Pirate Paint Off
We have some winners! For the last 5 days votes have been coming in to select winners in the Blood & Plunder Commander and Character categories and now we will be awarding the first two medals in the 2026 Great Pirate Paint Off. Commander Winners First thanks to all the painter who entered. We had…
Buccaneer Storming Party – Wave 2 Blood & Plunder Miniature Preview
We have another quick miniature preview post for you! Dr. D has painted up the Buccaneer Storming Party unit (used for the English Forlorn Hope and the French Les Enfants Perdus) and has given us some pictures to share with everyone. These are part of the massive set of new sculpts coming in the Wave…
February 5th Update – 2026 Great Pirate Paint Off
It’s a new month and we have two new categories to focus on in the Great Pirate Paint Off: Oak & Iron Ships and Terrain. We also have a Special Terrain Challenge project coming from Dexter at the Plunder Den! Oak & Iron Ships We focus primarily on Blood & Plunder here on this blog,…
El Morro & The Great Swamp Fight – Fall In 2025 Blood & Plunder Event Report
There was a notable increase in Blood & Plunder events hosted at conventions in 2025. Brad Meloy put in a lot of work to put on some of the most epic and beautiful games at both Historicon and Fall-In last year. In November, Brad sent me some pictures and info to share, but the holiday…
Commanders & Characters People’s Choice Voting – 2026 Great Pirate Paint Off
2/7/2026 UPDATE: THE VOTING IS CLOSED FOR THIS CATEGORY THIS YEAR. YOU CAN SEE THE WINNERS HERE. It’s time to vote for your favorite entries in both the Blood & Plunder Commanders and Characters categories! Please vote once in each category. Voting will run from Monday 2/2 through the end of Friday February 6. You…
Admiral Christopher Myngs – Rise of Buccaneers Blood & Plunder Mini Preview
Admiral Christopher Myngs looms large in the early history of Buccaneering across the Spanish Main. It’s way past time he should be part of Blood & Plunder! He’s finally entering the game and we’re very excited! In this article we got to check out his mini, his commander rules, and the rules for his new…
February 1st Update – 2026 Great Pirate Paint Off
We’ve finished the first month of the 2026 Great Pirate Paint Off and there’s lots going on! We’re wrapping up the Blood & Plunder Commanders and Characters categories and we have some prizes to give away! We had huge participation in January with a total of 227 entries over the course of the month! For…
Dutch Commander – Wave 2 Blood & Plunder Mini Preview
Here’s the new Dutch Commander, another mini preview for the upcoming Wave 2 Blood & Plunder miniature Kickstarter coming up in late Q1 2026. We’ve already checked out the English, Spanish, Native, and Maroon Commanders and we feel they’re really doing a great job with these new minis! New Blood & Plunder Dutch Commander This…
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