Blood and Swash / Thunder and Plunder

Author: John R. "Buck" Surdu Christoperh Palmer
Publisher: LMW Works
Date Published: 2000
Period: Pirate
Scale: Skirmish
Status:Available through Brigade Games, directly from LMW Works., or Amazon.com.
Notes:Two complete sets of rules!

This booklet includes two complete sets of rules. Blood and Swash, written by me, is a set of rules for small pirate barroom brawls. Thunder and Plunder, written by Chris Palmer, is a set of rules for larger pirate actions involving "units" of ten or so pirates.

The beauty of these rules is their flexibility. The people I game with jokingly refer to Blood and Swash as the ubiquitous skirmish rules. We have used them successfully for skirmish actions from Romand vs. Picts to World War II.

Thunder and Plunder became the basis for G.A.S.L.I.G.H.T. by Chris Palmer and me.

Picture of gamers playing Blood and Swash in coats and ties This picture is unique in that it shows a bunch of us in coats and ties playing a Blood and Swash game. We had all returned from the Friday night banquet of PointCon in April 2002. Pictured are Sara Adams (El Presidente for Life of the Harford Area Weekly Kriegspielers), Duncan Adams, Rob Dean, Geoff Graff, Alan Kaplan, me, Joey DiCamillo, Joe DiCamillo (whose face you can barely see), and the back of Norbert Brunhuber.

Those of you who have the First Edition of Blood and Swash / Thunder and Plunder can dowload the latest versions of the consolidated, updated charts in .pdf format.

The second edition book mentions some Samurai charts that I forgot to include in the booklet. You can download them here. The charts were developed by Mike Miller of Texas. Mike also developed some charts for gladiator games and cave man games. Most of these rules suggestions were incorporated into the second edition, but they are consolidated on these charts for quick reference. Where they conflict with the rule booklet, I suggest you go with the rules as written.