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Latest News and Articles for Blood & Plunder
Blood & Pigment releases multiple new articles, videos and content for the game nearly every week. Here are the most recent articles:
Commanders & Characters People’s Choice Voting – 2026 Great Pirate Paint Off
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 are welcome to share with friends and family but only one vote per person per category. There…
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…
End of Year AMA Video With Mike Tunez & Crew
On New Year’s Day the Pigment Crew got to sit down with Mike Tunez and stream live on YouTube. We got to talk about Firelock Games’ 2025 and look forward to 2026 and then take a ton of questions from the community. If you didn’t get to listen in yet, we’ve cleaned up the video…
Monument Hobbies – 2026 Great Pirate Paint Off Sponsor
by Joseph Forster Hello Nerds! We’re nearing the end of the first month of the 2026 Great Pirate Paint Off painting contest for Blood & Plunder, and we will be giving away some more great prizes in just a few days. We have over $1,600 in plunder to give away this year for this contest,…
Blood & Pigment Podcast Episodes 25 is Live!
We have a new Blood & Pigment podcast episode out! Blood & Pigment Podcast Episode 25 Our main topics in this January episode are Adeption 2026 preview and our review of our 2025 hobby resolutions, and settings new goals for the new year. Blood & Plunder at Adepticon 2026 We have a huge lineup of…
Spanish Milicianos – Wave 2 Blood & Plunder Mini Preview
by Garrett Swader Intro More amazing Blood and Plunder sculpting work is incoming from the Firelock team. This time I had the privilege to paint the new Milicianos unit. These will serve as the backbone to any Spanish force looking to defend the New World from foreign interlopers. New Spanish Milicianos Sculpts The Milicianos here…
January 16th Update – 2026 Great Pirate Paint Off
We are halfway through the first month of The 2026 Great Pirate Paint Off and it’s off to a great start! We already have over 100 entries covering nearly every category! But the focus for the month of January is the Commanders and Characters for Blood & Plunder. In this post we will give away…
New Maroon Models – Wave 2/Rise of the Buccaneer Blood & Plunder Miniatures Preview
The new year is here and the Wave 2/Rise of Buccaneers: Jamaica Kickstarter is fast approaching! In this article we’ll look at some of the new Maroon miniatures coming out in this project. The Maroons became a full fledged faction in the Raise the Black expansion to Blood & Plunder, but they have not been…
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