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Super excited to use the chess clock for the first time! It was great and I’ll continue trying different timers….
Interesting idea; I feel it adds another dimension to the game: make sure you are checking the time and have gold to win when time goes out… I’ll have to try something like that…
It could also be very helpful if you have little time to play but want to anyways.
Cheers.
Interesting idea; I feel it adds another dimension to the game: make sure you are checking the time and have gold to win when time goes out… I’ll have to try something like that…
It’s been a lot of fun! It’s mostly to expedite the decision making and add an extra element into the game. Plus, in a real life situation you wouldn’t always have 5+ minutes to ponder what to do in important moments.
Hi everyone,
I think this is the right place to post this game report, so here it goes.
This is my first game report, by the way.
Yesterday, I was playing a 40 point game. I had a fleet consisting of the Delusion with the linked crew Fitzgerald. My opponent had an American fleet consisting of the Freedom, Peacock, and USS James Madison. The Freedom had the linked crew Commodore David Porter, and the James Madison had a Helmsman.
I was doing this game as an experiment to see if there was any way the Delusion could win by itself. It’s one big ship versus three smaller ships.
I came up with a good strategy for this experiment. I would follow enemy ships and position the delusion just right, so that when a ship full of gold gets ready to go back to its home island, the Delusion can easily intercept it, ram it, board if the ram is successful, and use Fitzgerald‘s ability to take as much gold as the Delusion can carry. This worked because my opponent took the most valuable treasure on the island first. When the Delusion rammed successfully and boarded it, I was able to get that treasure for myself. I also used the other abilities of the Delusion to my advantage for this.
In the end, I won by eight points.
It was a very fun game and experiment, and it just goes to show that one big 10 mast ship like the Delusion can win a 40 point game by itself when used properly.
Well, that’s all for this game report. Please let me know what you think of it.
Jared
Well, that’s all for this game report. Please let me know what you think of it.
Must have been some fancy maneuvering to catch ships that much faster than yours!
I’d probably use captain+helmsman if I had to run Delusion in a 40 point game.
I only see one drawback to that, and that is you will lose the “hoarding gold” ability that Fitzgerald has. Hoarding gold says “if this ship wins a boarding party, she can take as much treasure from the other ship as she can carry“
Also, with unholy light on the Delusion, you can find out if a ship is worth attempting to ram/board or not if it’s within L of you. That ability says “After this ship moves, she can look at all treasure on all islands and ships within L of her.” It’s probably not worth it if the ship you want to board only has a few 1 point treasure coins, but it would be worth it if it had more valuable treasure coins.
So you have all these abilities and a few others like Junk, Ghost Ship, Filching Gold, and Eternal, but you’re restricted in movement, making it hard to play as just the Delusion.
Also, you never know what is on each island, so you’re taking a gamble when you use unholy light to see if the ship you’re chasing has valuable treasure on it or not. If it doesn’t, change course and quickly.
This is all just from my experience, which is very limited.
Planning to go live tomorrow at 8am PST for the first game of Tournament #3. The live streamed game in January went fine, so I scheduled this one. Hopefully will go off without a hitch. Once all the games of the play-in matchup have been posted, I’ll show the updated tournament bracket.
Here is the series between UPS 4.1 and Kill that UPS!
T3 continues with its second matchup.
Today I played the third matchup and it was a doozy… Game 2 got kinda crazy, especially with the sheer volume of options I had to consider before finalizing a potential “path to victory” for one of the fleets….
Expecting those games to be published this coming Friday through Sunday.
Ahoy, everyone!
I have a game report.
I played a game as the pirate faction, I was playing against the American faction. My fleet comprised of the Pride, Neptunes Hoard, and Executioner. The Executioner had a firepot specialist, and the Pride had the linked Jean Lafitte.
I was playing against a fleet comprised of the Freedom, the Peacock, and the USS James Madison. The James Madison had a helmsman, and the Freedom had a linked Commodore David Porter.
I was playing this game by myself, because I was experimenting with these factions and fleet builds. I was playing both sides, basically. I have nobody to play with at present time, which is kind of sad. I need to find some people to get interested in this game.
Anyway, the Pirates pulverized the American fleet, and won by two gold points. The Executioner with a firepot specialist proved very deadly, especially with its ability to eliminate a crew from a ship if it hits.
All in all, a successful experiment with the pirate faction. I learned some good strategies and a good fleet build that works for me so far.
Jared
All in all, a successful experiment with the pirate faction. I learned some good strategies and a good fleet build that works for me so far.
Nice! I still enjoy playing solo, partly since it’s easier to set up/coordinate and so I can easily talk about the strategy on both sides for when I do videos of the game footage.
I need to find some people to get interested in this game.
You can add yourself to the Player Map if you haven’t already!
Tournament #3 is complete! It was a very fun time playing a bunch of competitive fleets, going all-out on the Setup phases and with hyper-meta treasure distributions.
In this post you can find the completed bracket below the video reports, as well as a lengthy summary of the tournament results, reflection on the goals I set from the start, and lessons learned. There are also some fun stats such as Player 1 vs. Player 2 winning percentages, gold scores per game, and more. Thanks for watching/reading and I’ll be back with more games!
All games for that series are now available:
Two of the most successful competitive fleets of all time face off! UPS 2 vs. HMS GT UPS – about as “hyper meta” as it can get.
Second GS playtest game:
5th Golden Seas playtest game:
Dutch vs. Pirates!
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