Wargaming terrain suggestions & reviews for items to use on your Blood & Plunder tabletop. Check out our terrain articles for tons of great ideas and suggestions to make your wargaming table look better than ever!
We have collected a large number of terrain retailers that make products compatible with a 28mm Pirate miniature game style that works well for Blood & Plunder. We also have a few elements with a North American frontier style that work well for the Fire on the Frontier expansion. You can find that on our Helpful Links for Blood & Plunder Players
By Joseph Forster No matter how much terrain I collect or create, it seems like there's always something else I could use. Or something else I need. In all seriousness I don't need any more terrain but a new piece always adds interest to a board and it's nice to have options. I've been meaning to buy the … Continue reading Terrain Building: Making River and Stream Terrain
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
Join Guy Rheuark as he paints a terrain piece and gives some tips on painting large pieces without ruining your own paint jobs. https://youtu.be/sLgVgrPhwjQ
This post is long overdue! It's been more than a year since Firelock Games came out with a line of resin terrain. I've had them painted for months but just haven't got them up here on the blog. Let's take a look at the 4 pieces of terrain included in the Village Bundle. The four … Continue reading Firelock Terrain – Village Bundle
By Joseph Forster We've reviewed the entire Port of Plunder line of 4Ground products here and now we're looking at a newer kit that Firelock doesn't event stock yet (I believe and hope they plan to). This is the Wooden Port Set and it contains two small warehouses, one large open walled warehouse and a … Continue reading 4Ground Wooden Port 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
How I Stopped Making Horrible Messes and Learned to Love the Render PowderI'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 to … Continue reading 4Ground Render Powder
We got to release an exclusive set of Beta Rules for the Palisade Fort (and some other fortifications) and we want to celebrate by giving away a complete 8-piece fort kit! All you need to do to get your name in the pool is drop a comment either on this post on this blog or … Continue reading Palisade Fort Giveaway!
By Joseph Forster Here are rules for the Palisade Fort! We have an exclusive pre release ruleset at Blood & Pigment! Liam Taylor and I have been working on these rules for Firelock Games on and off for months now and I'm excited to offer the Blood & Plunder community this fortifications supplement now. This … Continue reading Fortification Supplement Beta Release
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 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
How to Make Piers for Blood & Plunder the Easy (Slow) Way By Guy Rheuark With a full third of the game scenarios being amphibious, it is important to have places ships can dock. While you might think your sloop can just belly up to a sandbar, drop anchor, and throw grapples, it cannot. Any … Continue reading Terrain Building: How to Make 28mm Piers
Terrain is an important part of Blood & Plunder and it's something I can't manage to stop collecting! A nice variety of terrain options makes your games interesting and fresh. You can make a lot of your terrain and making something yourself makes your gaming table unique. You can often save some money making it … Continue reading Easy Terrain – Large Pine Wood
Firelock Games has recently released several pieces of resin terrain and I'm starting to get some painted up. This is a quick review and painting tutorial for the Farmed Field piece that sells for $10.00. The painted example on the website looks fine. It looks like they primed and then brushed on a coat of … Continue reading Firelock Terrain – Farmed Field
Wargamers are always on the lookout for terrain! I recently discovered a couple products from Wizkids that impressed me and I thought I would share them here. Wizkids has been producing massive amounts of miniatures over the past few years and they've recently started releasing some fun terrain elements as well. I've bought some of … Continue reading Easy Terrain – Wizkids Homestead