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I am in the market to buy 4 to 6 small (about 1 inch no more than 2 inches in length) sailing ship miniatures for a pirate game I recently purchased. Ideally these ships will be easy on the eyes, require little to no painting/assembly and be relatively rugged.
Does anyone know where I might find something like this? I have searched online but really can't find anything that I feel fits the bill. All comments welcome!
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I am in the market to buy 4 to 6 small (about 1 inch no more than 2 inches in length) sailing ship miniatures for a pirate game I recently purchased. Ideally these ships will be easy on the eyes, require little to no painting/assembly and be relatively rugged.
Does anyone know where I might find something like this? I have searched online but really can't find anything that I feel fits the bill. All comments welcome!
You might want to check these nifty things out. It's a collectible card game, but each "card" is actually a heavy cardstock three-dimensional ship that you punch out and assemble. You should be able to find them at most gaming stores. The one I used to work at sold several editions of them. They are rather high-quality (for cardstock punch-outs) and extremely cheap (1 pack gets you 2 ships for 4 or 5 bucks). They might be slightly longer than 2 inches in some cases, but most of them should be in the size range you're looking for. Hope it helps!
Yeah, Fatespinner is right on...it's a fun game too.
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I have a friend that has this card game, it certainly looked to be a good one. However, here is the issue. The boardgame game I recently purchased, Pirate King, contained cardstock ships printed on glossy playing card material that looked very much like these ships; in fact, I thought the cards were manufactured by the same company they were so much alike. The ships were well-drawn and seemed excellent for the game, but proved impossible to assemble. Each was printed on a playing card-sized piece of glossy cardstock with 7 punch-out pieces that when assembled created a two-deck, three-mast pirate ship about an inch long. I tried to put one together for 45 minutes and the slots and tabs were just not manufactured well enough to get it to go together and stay together reliably. My wife finally got one together after 30 minutes of effort but neither of us could put the other ones together.
Given my assembly problems and the similarity between the ships in this game and the game you mention, I am leary about buying these other ships (or any cardstock based ships) unless the ships in the game you linked can be readily assembled without painstaking effort. What is your experience in with these ships? Do they assemble with easy to moderate effort or have you had quality issues?
They're very easy, plus you can just buy a booster card to check them out, not the whole game. For $5 or less you can check out the quality for yourself.
Some of the "common" Pirate minis are available through E-bay vendors for less than a $1 so if you just need a fleet for an RPG, you can probably pick 10 different commons from 10 different sets and build a nice fleet without spending a bunch of money.
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One of my players brought his collection of those ships over for a pick-up game one night. He disassembles them after every game and puts the pieces back in their cards. We played a crazy 7 player game, which was fun, and none of us had any trouble assembling or disassembling the ships.
Except that everyone but me put their ships' flags blowing backwards instead of forwards.
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Thanks to all of you for your advice. I will pick some of these up and give them a try! They seem to fit the bill perfectly.Did you get a chance to check them out? How did they work for you?
I did get to my FLGS and had a look, but the card selection was poor. I explained to the guy there what I was after and he didn't feel that the cards he had in stock would work for me; most were monsters or early, shore-bound sailing ships.
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I did get to my FLGS and had a look, but the card selection was poor. I explained to the guy there what I was after and he didn't feel that the cards he had in stock would work for me; most were monsters or early, shore-bound sailing ships.Thanks to all of you for your advice. I will pick some of these up and give them a try! They seem to fit the bill perfectly.Did you get a chance to check them out? How did they work for you?
Monsters? Are you sure you were looking at the "Pirates of the X" cards? I've never known it to have any monsters (or anything other than 2-4 masted sailing ships, for that matter). Unless this is a new edition (which, I'll admit, is entirely possible since I haven't messed with them in a couple of years) I think you may have been looking at the wrong stuff.
The items you're looking for are called "Pirates of the Revolution," "Pirates of the Crimson Coast," "Pirates of the Barbary Coast," and similar things. There's an Asian one that has come out recently to my understanding, but I know of no monsters or shore-bound ships in the game.