Blood & Pigment Podcast

Hosts Dan, Garret, and Joseph are joined by guest (and Patron backer) Niguel to talk about building lists for competitive Blood & Plunder events. How do you approach a tournament? How to you build, prepare, and practice so you have a good time and a big event? We also cover various hobby, history, and gaming topics. 

Our main topic in this episode is Blood & Plunder campaigns, or sets of linked scenarios. Some great conversations and a wide variety of experiences and ideas. 

Adepticon was a blast! Joined by guests Kurtis Fraley and Erich Goebel, the Pigment crew reviews all the gaming goodness from Adepticon 2026. Tournaments, painting contests, big Plunder scenarios, Port Royal campaign, demos, doubles tournament, and fun times with friends.

This is our 2 year episode!  Our main topic in this episode is a deep dive into the "Pirate Nation." What are the key units, factions, commander and game mechanics that make the real "Pirate" factions awesome in Blood & Plunder.  Hosts Dan, Garrett, and Joseph cover other events, painting projects, Reports of Glory and Shame, Dan's Frozen Empires, and updates on new re...

Our year-end AMA session with Mike Tunez from Firelock Games. We ask Mike tons of questions from the community, covering Blood & Plunder, Oak & Iron, Port Royal, and all Firelock's other titles.  Other special guests include Liam Taylor, Erich Goebel, Josh Shivak, Tyler Carlson, and Dr. D.  Also available on YouTube with timestamps for every questions if you would rather cherry pick!

Another packed episode! Garrett, Dan, Riley and Joseph cover a bunch of Blood & Plunder topics: Hobby Discussions Reports of Glory & Shame  Overview of the millions of Blood & Plunder and Firelock Games events at Adepticon 2026 Review of 2025 Plunder Resolutions Commit to new Plunder goals for 2026

We cover a lot in this episode. Join us for a full conversation on explosives in Blood & Plunder. They are special weapons only available to a few certain classes of units in Blood & Plunder. Firepots, Stinkpots and Grenadoes all perform special jobs in Blood & Plunder and can be very dynamic on the table. We discuss rules for each different explosive, and then how to is it well in a g...

Join us for a mega episode where we have all (most) of the national commanders on for a debrief from the big Summer of Plunder campaign. Get reports from each commander on how the campaign went from each nation's perspective. 

Dan, Joseph and Riley take a survey of all the ships currently available in Blood & Plunder. Starting with the Canoa and moving all the way through to the Galleon, we take a look at each ship, what it's good at, what makes it unique, which nations it might work especially well for and if it might be a good addition to your fleet.

We have lots to talk about on this episode! We discuss the Summer of Plunder conclusion, and Garrett's experiences as Gencon and Nashcon before jumping into our main topic: Crew Management.  Running a ship well in Blood & Plunder takes some experience and finesse. You have lots of options, and lots of potential problems to manage once you make contact with the enemy.  We talk through some...

In this episode we take a deep dive into the topic of Cavalry in Blood & Plunder. What should you expect? How do they work? What do you need to be aware of? Which cavalry is best? What Nations and Factions can use cavalry? It's a small crew on this episode with Garrett and Joseph holding down the fort, but we charge into the topic with brace of pistols blazing. 

How does each nationality play within Blood & Plunder? How do the Spanish factions differ from the French and how are the Pirates unique? In this episode we walk through each nationality, covering what makes them unique, and hitting some of their top factions.  If you're new to Blood & Plunder and trying to choose what models to buy, or if you've been playing one nationality for...

Join hosts Garrett, Dan and Joseph for some Blood & Plunder conversations. In this episode we each pick our top 3 units in Blood & Plunder and discuss their strengths and weaknesses and how to use them on the table. We also run through hobby, history, and event news as usual. Enjoy the conversation!

Join the team in reviewing all the events, demos, tournaments and fun had playing Blood & Plunder and other games at Adepticon, 2025.  Hosts on this show include Garrett, Dan, Joseph, Jason and Riley.

Hosts Garrett, Dan and Fernando get into into the nitty gritty of different ship types and talk about different great options for adding to your fleet after the Balandra and the Bermuda Sloop included in the starter kit.  Last episode before our big Adepticon event! Timestamps: 0:16 Intro 1:19 Hobby Desk 7:34 Tales of Glory and Shame 15:15 Best Ship Purchase After Starter Box 16:17 Garrett's...

The Surgeon is in! In this episode we dissect some Blood & Plunder forces, chatting about potential weaknesses and ways to improve or modify. We take a look at three forces submitted from community members: 1. Native American Creek Land 200pts 2. Spanish Sea 150pts 3. English Militia Land 150pts We also chat about hobby projects, recount tales of glory and shame, review upcoming events, and lo...

Have Amphibious games of Blood & Plunder been hard to balance or set up well? Join Garrett, Dan, and Joseph for a discussion on making amphibious games fun and balanced in this episode. Other segments include: Hobby Desk Tales of Glory & Shame Adepticon Prep Peek Behind the Curtain Painting Contest Update and, shamelessly stolen from Tales of the Sale, New Year's Resolutions (hencefor...

The big errata episode is here! The core rulebook is getting some corrections, updates, and balance changes and we're here to guide you through everything! With the whole podcasting crew on, we hit all the hot topics, breeze through the little fixes, detail any rules changes, and reflect on our experiences playtesting some of these new rules and pontificate on how we see this update affecting...

Garrett, Fernando and Joseph are back with more Blood & Plunder news, updates, and a big conversation about playing "convention" size 3-10 player games of Blood & Plunder.

In this episode, Garret, Joseph, and Daniel talk about their Top 3 Favorite Sea Factions for Blood and Plunder. There are some sudden twists, as well as tactics that many players may not have realized are possible! 

In this episode Garrett, Dan, and Fernando go over their top 3 favorite Blood and Plunder land factions.

In this bonus episode, Joseph sits down with Bartosz, Commander of the Native American team in the 2024 Summer of Plunder. Since Bartosz wasn't able to get in on the big roundtable discussion, we caught up to him later and got to chat about how the campaign went from the Native American team's perspective.

In this special episode, Joseph and Jason host a roundtable discussion of the 2024 Summer of Plunder with (nearly) all the Commanders and 2nd in Commands for the 6 nations participating in the campaign this year.  Each commander is asked how the campaign felt for them, what they focused on in their national chats, and why players should fight for them next year. Then we have a bit of open time for...

Join Dan and Joseph in a review of The Republic of Pirates by Colin Woodard. This title is one of the more well known and recent publications on the early 18th century pirates. It attempts to cut through some of the romance and legends and examine the Nassau pirates as they were, their backgrounds, influence on international politics, successes and failures and their ultimate place in history. 

Joined by Firelock Games' own Mike Tunez, Dan, Garrett and Joseph get a full update on the goings on at Firelock Games, including updates on Blood & Plunder, Port Royal and Oak & Iron. After getting the exclusive scoop, we have a great conversation on tactics in Blood & Plunder. Swarm lists (many cheap models) have been strong for a long time in Blood & Plunder, but Elite list...