Rad Pirates of the Toxic Sands 2025

Rad Pirates of the Toxic Sands is a game of post-apocalyptic piracy upon the Mediterranean desert sands. Command a small flotilla of junkers as you attack tanker caravans, raid oil rigs and plunder the black gold.

You are a Rad Pirate captain with a small flotilla of sandships. You make a living trading with rigs or raiding them if they hike their prices up too high), salvaging scrap and fuel from wrecks and abandoned rigs, and attacking other sandship and tanker flotillas.

Rad Pirates of the Toxic Sands is my entry to the inaugural One Box Wargame Challenge. The rules were simple: make a tabletop game that required only the contents of a single box of miniatures. To play Rad Pirates with two players, you’ll need a single box of the Black Seas Frigates and Brigs from Warlord Games. You get six ships in the box, and you split them between you.

—description from the designer