By Joseph Forster I can’t tell you how horribly disappointed was by the news that 4Ground Publishing is closing its doors this year. Their terrain is a mainstay of the Blood & Plunder community! However, they haven’t closed to the doors yet. They’re taking orders through the end of June 2022, so now is the … Continue reading 4Ground Terrain – 28mm Spanish Church
The folks at 4Ground Publishing have been supplying wargamers with excellent terrain for years, but last year 4Ground Publishing officially shuttered as a company. But we have recently learned that most of their product line will continue to be produced by their sister company, Tymeagain. It appears 4Ground was mostly moving away from the distribution … Continue reading 4Ground Pirate Wargaming Terrain
Wargaming Terrain is an important part of any miniatures game and collecting terrain for Blood & Plunder can be particularly challenging since it doesn’t use the mainstream fantasy or WWII style of terrain. Here you can find details & sources for appropriate buildings and area terrain with a Caribbean style for your Blood & Plunder … Continue reading Top Suggestions for Pirate Wargaming Terrain in Blood & Plunder
By Joseph Forster Firelock Games recently partnered with 4Ground to create a whole new line of Port of Plunder terrain and buildings for 28mm games set in the Caribbean. The folks at 4Ground very kindly sent me a selection of these products and I’ve been working away at building them up and I’m very pleased! … Continue reading 4Ground Terrain – Port of Plunder Hovels
I’ve finished building another set of 4Ground buildings from their Port of Plunder series and I couldn’t be happier. I started with the Hovel set and they were fairly simple and a good first experience for me. This set of 3 Colonial Port Houses was more complex and took more time, but building on the … Continue reading 4Ground Ports of Plunder Colonial Houses Set
By Joseph Forster I’m back with some more of 4Ground’s amazing Ports of Plunder terrain series. I recently wrote on the Hovel set and the Port Houses set and now I’m taking a look at the docks and some of the other portside accessories. Here I have a setup using the Large Dock Bundle, the … Continue reading 4Ground Ports of Plunder Docks, Crane and Barrels
By Guy Rheuark The recent partnership between Firelock Games and 4Ground Publishing has produced an extensive series of exciting terrain for Blood & Plunder. The kits that are initially available are relatively cheap, fun to assemble, and look good out of the box. Of all of the buildings and piers, the crane stood out the … Continue reading Fan-Made Treadwheel Crane Rules and Scenario
How I Stopped Making Horrible Messes and Learned to Love the Render Powder I’ve been working on a lot of 4Ground terrain lately and I wanted to share some technique and tips that I’ve picked up along the way. Much of the Ports of Plunder line of product comes with a “Render Powder” that has … Continue reading 4Ground Render Powder
The Pirate painting contest continues! It’s been 2 weeks since the last update and we’ve got 4 weeks to go. Let’s catch up with the latest entries and news! (Note: in the interest of some level of anonymity for the final voting later in the Spring, we are not including painters’ names on photos going … Continue reading Great Pirate Paint Off Painting Contest – Update #3
By Guy Rheuark Setting up terrain for Blood & Plunder, as listed in the core book, can be a little uncertain. How much terrain is enough? How much is too much? The only guidance you get is to follow the scenario, but few scenarios mention terrain. I usually end up setting up terrain based … Continue reading A New Way to Determine Terrain Setup
By Joseph Forster Terrain is a big part of Blood & Plunder, both to make game play interesting and to make your tables look good. 4Ground Publishing makes a lot of great stuff that works for Blood & Plunder and today we’re looking at a set of 3 buildings that can be a great place … Continue reading 4Ground Terrain – Town Bundle 1
Here’s a full length battle video of an amphibious custom scenario built around the Treadwheel Crane. This battle features tons of the great 4Ground terrain from the Ports of Plunder series.
I’m back with some more MDF buildings from 4Ground Publishing. When I first started collecting terrain for Blood & Plunder, a couple 4Ground buildings were among my very first purchases and since then I’ve come to count them as my favorite source of buildings and terrain accessories for the game. I thoroughly enjoyed reviewing the … Continue reading 4Ground Terrain – New France Cabins
By Joseph Forster Last year we reviewed the Ports of Plunder line of 4Ground buildings and terrain and I’m still very happy with that complete set. I recently learned there are more pieces that weren’t included in that set but fit right in! Today we’re going to look at the Spanish Town Hall from the … Continue reading 4Ground Terrain – Spanish Town Hall
Intro We have finally come to the last week! The Summer of Plunder is coming to a close and an epic summer it has been. Entries were up to around 120 games this week, bringing the total to around 1,500 games logged in this campaign so far. Spain and England still struggle for the top … Continue reading Week 14 Summer of Plunder Update
