Black Powder Ghost Archipelago....

The beauty of Frostgrave and Ghost Archipelago is that the rules are very simple, quick to pick up,  which opens them up to be adapted to various settings, having read through the rules over a number of weeks they did not need to many tweaks to make introduce muskets and pistols to the crews armoury.

In the world the alternative setting of Black Powder Atlantis, Warden's are fewer, but the crews are bolstered by a further 100 gold coins to spend, unless of course you opt for a magic user, Heritors take the form of Officers or Captains.

And so to the first dry run. A simple table and a case of run in and grab the treasure before running off.

The Marines are first on the scene, I used crossbow rules as the standard template, in review I shall be increasing to damage to +4 damage for Muskets and +2 for pistols with the ranges remaining unchanged given the size of the table.

The Pirate crew rush straight up the middle heading for the central treasure. The Marine fire off a volley.

Musket rounds are fired off by both sides, but damage is minimal. So time to close with the Cutlass!

Meanwhile an injured crewman staggers back to the start line only to trigger a Swamp Zombie who stumbles towards the injured crewman.

In the centre of the table an almightly melee is underway. Without the magic users on the table damage is taking a long time to wear down opponents, it could have been poor dice rolls but next outing, I propose to inflict double damage if surrounded by 4 opponents and you have no escape.

The clock ran down before the game could be fought to a conclusion, but with a few tweaks the setting transfers rather well.

So in the next outing I shall be upping the damage for firearms.

Pistol - +2 Damage
Musket +4
Grenade +6 - 2" Burst.


Each figure can gain experience and take wounds rather than just the main two in each faction. Each faction can secure more advanced crewmen by increasing the gold by 100 points if no Warden is in the crew..

To mirror my existing collection of wandering monsters and to keep with the theme, I have adapted the encounter table as follows, more on the particular stats next time.

Random Encounter Table
First Die Roll	1 - 12	13 - 18	19 - 20
Second Dice Roll	Level 1 Encounter	Level 2 Encounter	Level 3 Encounter
1	Tribal Warrior	Tribal Warrior (2)	Swamp Zombies (2)
2	Werewolf	Werewolves (2)	Atlantean Warriors (2)
3	Tribal Warrior	Swamp Zombie	Swamp Zombie (2)
4	Swamp Zombie	Atlantean Warriors (2)	Atlantean Warrior
5	Tribal Warrior	Atlantean Warriors (2)	Atlantean Warriors (2)
6	Tribal Warrior	Tribal Warrior	Atlantean Warriors (3)
7	Atlantean Warrior	Tribal Warrior	Swamp Zombies (2)
8	Atlantean Warrior	Werewolf	Tribal Warrior (2)
9	Tribal Hunter	Atlantean Warrior	Tribal Warrior (2)
10	Tribal Hunter	Atlantean Warriors (2)	Swamp Zombie
11	Swamp Zombie	Atlantean Warrior	Giant Crab
12	Atlantean Warrior	Atlantean Warrior	Atlantean Warrior
13	Tribal Warrior	Swamp Zombie	Atlantean Warrior
14	Soldier Crab	Tribal Hunter (2)	Giant Crab
15	Atlantean Warrior	Swamp Zombie (2)	Giant Crab
16	Atlantean Warrior	Tribal Warrior	Soldier Crab
17	Swamp Zombie	Giant Crab	Soldier Crab
18	Tribal Hunter (2)	Witch & Swamp Zombies (2)	Giant Crabs (2)
19	Werewolf	Giant Crab	Witch & Swamp Zombies (4)
20	Soldier Crab	Soldier Crab	Soldier Crab