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@Bartek: Yes, the Delusion is the GITD ship in the Plunder Pack.
@Countupyourcoyne: I did some 3D printing last year but the folks at the Discord have far outpaced anything I accomplished last fall.Yeah I just saw that video the other day, it’s really cool! I like how you can still take the mast “out” while decreasing risk of breakage.
So Ive got a question for some of you more Dedicated Pirates collectors, Would you rather buy the Mysterious Islands: Message in a bottle pack or the Nordic Raiders Pack? In terms of both collectability and Game Play? I am wanting to pick one of them up. I feel like Nordic Raiders is the rarer of the two… but message in a bottle has better pieces?
I feel like Nordic Raiders is the rarer of the two… but message in a bottle has better pieces?
Not sure which one is rarer. Both have some very unique game pieces. USS Mercury is one of the best submarines in the game, and the combos available for the Slipstream are undoubtedly amazing (some combos probably still out there that may not have been tried in games yet). Abandoned Crew is more fun than Odin’s Revenge.
I get a little obsessed with the Serpent’s Fang – she’s such a favorite of mine that I overrate her lol.
Wow. When I recorded this I had no idea that apparently I was right next to a PotC filming location! ?
2021 Year in Review posted! 😀
It’s the Glorious First of June!
I’d never put any effort into tracking specific release dates, and it’s way too far in the past to remember any of those details, so any info you have on that will be more than I’ve got.
The audio from my Pirates CSG blog is now on Spotify.
Latest unboxing was a great deal from BGG!
Latest unboxing was a great deal from BGG!
Looks like a really nice haul! Was someone selling their collection, or were those just extras they had?
Was someone selling their collection, or were those just extras they had?
Looks like a collection as they were cleaning the basement.
@Woelf: Do you know if cancellers were costed at 5 points partially to allow players to bring them in with 0LR+5 crew to counter things like Submarines/etc? (or if 0LR+5’s were introduced to allow the kind of “canceller flexibility” that would be helpful in later expansions when things like Submarine/Eternal/etc were introduced – not sure how the plans for sets were developed in regards to future idea implementation)
Do you know if cancellers were costed at 5 points partially to allow players to bring them in with 0LR+5 crew to counter things like Submarines/etc? (or if 0LR+5’s were introduced to allow the kind of “canceller flexibility” that would be helpful in later expansions when things like Submarine/Eternal/etc were introduced – not sure how the plans for sets were developed in regards to future idea implementation)
The cancel ability (Nemesio) was already in the game before the 0LR+5 was introduced, but at the time it was still unique/rare, so I don’t think that had much direct effect on the value chosen for the adder. 5 was just a nice, round, easy-to-remember number that gave some flexibility but not too much.
I had no input or insight into what went on with the design back then, but always got the impression that there wasn’t much of an overall plan. There also always seemed to be a large disconnect between which abilities and effects the designers valued and what got the most attention of players (at least, those posting to public forums). A lot of stuff they just kinda threw in because it sounded cool, and many ability costs were just guessed at/estimated. That’s why certain abilities seemed weirdly over- or under- priced, and why some recurring issues like the action limit took so long to be addressed directly in any meaningful way.
ADDED: The later sub-attacking abilities might have been intentionally priced based on the +5 ability, but they definitely weren’t priced with cancellers in mind, because if they had, they would have cost at least a point or two less.
Did you ever find any stats on the actual size of that table? Judging from how it looks in comparison to the ships, it’s way too small to play a regulation game on it even after adding a few more islands. You’d need three more to make a 2×2 square just to get a large enough area.
Did you ever find any stats on the actual size of that table? Judging from how it looks in comparison to the ships, it’s way too small to play a regulation game on it even after adding a few more islands. You’d need three more to make a 2×2 square just to get a large enough area.
Nope. I agree though, it might not work with the 3L minimum distance.
Pretty cool to see my Black Pearl picture in the Top 10 (#9 of 55) of the 2022 BGG yearly photo contest! Thanks to all who voted!
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