Pirates of the Spanish Main Maps Mediterranean.pdf

Mediterranean Travel Map

A Fan-Made Savage Worlds TM Resource by Jordan Peacock

for use with Pirates of the Spanish Main TM RPG

If you want to send your heroes after the

Pirates of the Barbary Coast , here’s a map of the

region, done to the same scale as the map of the

Spanish Main included in Pirates of the Spanish

Main: Swashbuckling Roleplaying in the Age of Sail

(hereafter referred to as the Pirates RPG for

brevity). For full rules on how to use this map

for long-distance travel, you’ll need the Pirates

RPG core book.

is used for purposes of navigation - with the

exception of the Straits of Gibraltar, where the

GM will just have to arbitrarily choose whether

the winds are coming from the northeast or the

southwest.

Otherwise, some of the winds blow (from

time to time) year-round, while others are

strongly associated with a particular season.

If the wind is “in season,” then take it into

consideration; otherwise, ignore it.

The names given to the winds are just for

“color” - and also to help in matching them up

with the seasonal winds key, in case you print

this map off in greyscale.

Locations

Not all ports of the Barbary Coast are

friendly to western vessels.; it’s up to the GM

how closely he wants to hew to history, though.

The Pirates RPG, after all, features a universe

in which undead pirates, Captain Nemo and his

submarines, sea monsters, neo-Vikings, and a

great many other oddities are real. It’s bound to

impact history a bit.

These are not necessarily the most

important locations - just a few that I thought

it would help to elaborate upon (since it might

not be entirely evident on the map which

harbors your heroes can safely visit).

Ottoman Empire

In the late 17th century, the Ottoman

Empire extends along the southern part of the

Mediterranean to encompass all of the Barbary

Coast except for what would be modern-day

Morocco. (And even Morocco has its “Barbary

Corsair” strongholds.) In addition, on the

northern side, it extends as far as into Greece,

and right up to the edge of Italy. The exact

borders change over time, so a bit of reading

up is suggested for the historically-minded GM.

“Barbary Corsairs” routinely prey upon

merchant ships of the European powers. Some

of them can be bribed for safe passage, but it’s

a tricky business: They have no qualms about

changing their minds when it comes to “nations

which had not acknowledged the Prophet”

- particularly anyone foolish enough to travel in

small, easily attacked numbers.

Candia (Crete)

In the early 17th century, this city is

dominated by Venice, until it is besieged by the

Ottoman Empire in one of the longest sieges in

history - from 1648 to 1669. After that, it (and most

of Crete) falls to the Ottoman Empire. However,

as part of the surrender negotiations, Venice was

able to retain three fortress islets - Grambusa, Souda

and Spinalonga - which serve as stopping points

for Venetian shipping. However, in the early 18th

century (1715-1718) the Ottoman Empire takes

these islets as well.

Casablanca (Morocco)

This port is held by Spain from 1580 to 1640,

then by Portugal until it is mostly destroyed by an

earthquake in 1755. After that, it becomes “Dar el

Beida,” rebuilt by sultan Mohammed ben Abdallah

- an ally of George Washington.

Lefkosa (Cyprus)

This port city falls to an Ottoman siege in 1570,

and remains under Ottoman and then Turkish

control until well into the 20th century.

Malta

This island city-state is home to the Knights

Hospitaler, also known as the Knights of Malta,

until its conquest by Napoleon in 1798. Especially

in the Pirates universe, the Knights of Malta

represent a major force opposing the Barbary

Corsairs.

Marseilles (France)

For most of the era covered by the Pirates

RPG, this is France’s major port city on the

Mediterranean.

Republic of Bou Regreg (Morocco)

In 1627, the twin cities of Rabat and Salé united

to form the Republic of Bou Regreg - a haven for

Barbary Corsairs. Even after the republic falls in

1818, it continues to be used by pirates well into the

19th century.

Suez Canal

This canal links the Mediterranean to the

Gulf of Suez (part of the Red Sea). Although it

is depicted on the map for reference, construction

started on it in 1858, and it was completed in 1869

- well after the periods most commonly associated

with the “age of piracy.” It’s up to the GM, of

course, whether the Suez Canal exists in his own

campaign.

Trieste (Italia)

This represents the easternmost holding of

Italia (Italy), and is one of the easternmost ports

friendly to European powers in the Mediterranean.

Disclaimers

This is not a resource for the study of

history. It’s a game tool. Note the conspicuous

lack of borders, and the fact that the map has no

date on it.

For this map, I tried to give a very rough

approximation of what might be around in

the 17th and early 18th centuries, but even

during that “limited” time window, borders

shift, and cities change hands. Furthermore,

any representation of prevailing winds is just

an abstraction for game play. (Note how all the

“prevailing winds” paths more-or-less diagonally

- since that conveniently its in with the way

“prevailing winds” are used in the ship travel

rules.)

How to Use This Map

This document provides two maps that

overlap each other slightly, to cover the

western and eastern portions of most of the

Mediterranean basin - speciically those areas

associated with the “Barbary Coast.” First, each

map is given its own page - then, the latter part

of this document blows up the maps (with even

more overlap). Print them off on color paper

and paste or tape them together, matching up the

overlapping areas (and trimming off the white

borders) as necessary.

You can then use the map to keep track of

the players’ ship position for journeys across the

Mediterranean. For complete rules on how to

navigate the Mediterranean, see “Rules of the

Sea” on page 128 of the Pirates RPG.

Seasonal Prevailing Winds

The main difference between this map and

the map given for the Spanish Main, other than

obvious geological differences, would be that I’ve

color-coded certain Prevailing Winds with times

of the year.

If you wish to keep things simple, you can

just ignore the seasonality; whichever arrow is

closest to the ship is the “Prevailing Wind” that

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