Does your Age of Pirate game need a fast heavily armed man o war? The Galley frigate was a powerful light warship of the early 1700's. Designed to be narrow and fast, and equipped with long oars called sweeps. These ships quickly became popular among navies, among privateers, and even merchants.  This model closely replicates the Queen Anne’s Revenge although it can be used to represent many different galley frigates if the era.

6MM scale Captain’s Edition : This is the latest 6MM version of this kit featuring MSLA resin 3D printed hull, masts, shrouds and sails. The kit features an improved resin that has high detail but maintains part flexibility. The goal of the Captain’s Edition is to get a model on the table for gameplay in a faster manner then previous versions. This kit is sold unassembled and unpainted.

Historic ship type:

Most pirates used small ships such as sloop or brigantines but the famed pirate Blackbeard knew the galley frigate was a powerful yet fast warships and wanted to get his hands on one. As he only had a small squadron of sloops, rather then go after a fully armed naval version he set his sights on a merchant version which tended to be comparatively under-armed and undermanned.

His eventual capture was of the French galley La Concord. He named her Queen Anne’s Revenge (often referred to as QAR for short) quickly scaled the ships armament up to reportedly as many as 40 guns.  Eventually, after a reign of terror on the high seas including using QAR to blockade Charleston for ransom, the ship ran aground, and Blackbeard chose to abandon her and return to a smaller sloop.

 Pirates were not the only captains to employ heavily armed galley frigates. Famed privateer, and later pirate hunter, Woodes Rogers used them to great effect both with purpose built naval galleys as well as up-armed merchant galleys.