The Age of Sail was dangerous enough when contending only with the bellow of carronades, the clash of steel from enemy boarders in the heat of close-quarters combat and the threat posed by the fickle climate – where a light rain might become a storm in the blink of an eye and threaten to drown…
The golden age of piracy is long past, but its spirit lives on in the hearts of enterprising smugglers out to make their fortune on the margins of society. Smuggler’s Run puts two players at the heart of this black market, running contraband in and out of the British Isles. Create your own smuggling company…
Avast! Set your sights on these Basics of Gameplay tutorial videos. With these in your arsenal, you’ll be sailing the high seas and doing battle in no time. In this series of tutorial videos, we aim to give you a rudimentary understanding of the game, as well as showcasing the key rules and mechanics that…
We’re taking a look at boarding enemy ships in Black Seas, an invaluable technique for securing the contents of a hold, or the ship itself as a prize. There were two chief techniques of boarding in the Age of Sail. The first, and one most pertinent to Black Seas was to bring two ships close…
Black Seas has only been out a short time but fleets are springing up all over the place. We’ve been keeping an eye on your Black Seas. We’ve been trawling social media, and have been mightily impressed with what we’ve found. Here are just a few of our favourite flourishing fleets. Andy Zeck We…
Though the new Black Seas miniatures are fantastically detailed, you can add an extra level by using thread to attach rigging lines to your ships. Many of the new model kits include a spool of thread. A word of caution: this process is intricate and can be fiddly; we recommend it only to the dedicated…
Black Seas is the Warlord Games Age Of Sail era fleet ship-of-the-line combat game set between 1770 and 1830. In this article, Warlorder Gabrio Tolentino takes us through an overview of his game design: Black Seas Warlord’s venture into naval wargaming with Black Seas started as an idea (or you could say a dream) in…
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