Ben

  • Ripped Canvas
    Type: Ship
    Faction Affiliation: Pirate
    Rarity: U
    Point Value: 8
    Number of Masts: 2 (blockade runner like Le Courageux)
    Cargo Space: 3
    Base Move: S+L
    Cannons: 3S-3S
    Ability: Chainshot Specialist.

    Flavor text: These pirates are obsessed with shredding enemy sails until their “art” takes on a ghostly appeal.

    Jacquotte Delahaye
    Type:…[Read more]

  • Ben wrote a new post 7 years, 2 months ago

    A Brief Experiment with Return Fire
    I was joined on VASSAL by agiantpie! The setup was for 80 points.

    I went with a French fleet that had also hired El Fantasma aboard the Hades’ Realm, while agiantpie went […]

  • Ben wrote a new post 7 years, 2 months ago

    Played two games on VASSAL with agiantpie.

    For his first game in quite some time, we went with a standard setup at 40 points.  He went Spanish with the Acorazado and Pescados de Plata, while I fielded a Pirate […]

  • Ben wrote a new post 7 years, 2 months ago

    Spooky Deathmatch Fleet Challenge

    8/2/2019: These were some of the most shocking and unexpected game results I’ve ever had playing Pirates.

    11/12/2016

    The Spooky Deathmatch fleet challenge has […]

  • Ben wrote a new post 7 years, 2 months ago

    Pirates of the Mysterious Islands – 10th Anniversary Game
    11/15/2016

    Today is the 10th anniversary of Pirates of the Mysterious Islands being released!

    To celebrate, a 50 point game with all-Mysterious Isl […]

  • I love how the ships don’t have bases.  A ton of naval games are dependent on a base of plastic/etc for the ship to sit on, which makes ramming, boarding, and point blank range much harder.  I love how easy it is to use the ships from Pirates CSG.  It also makes them easier to store and probably easier to use in multiple naval games.

  • Discovered this week whilst pulling a pretty sizable assortment from my “double dupes,” that I really love SCS. The assortment is for a friend new to the game, and because I had comparatively little from SCS to give to him, it emphasized what a player would be missing from a lack of those cards.

    SCS is amazing.  I think it’s definitely in the [Read more]

  • Purchased one of the 2007 Pirates of the Spanish Main RPG (Savage Worlds) hardbound books today, at my OOP-friendly neighborhood games shop.

    Captain Vendari has played and enjoyed that a bunch in the past.

  • Ben replied to the topic News and Updates Thread in the forum Pirates CSG 7 years, 2 months ago

    OOPS!!  Looks like I’m to blame for the linking problem.  The issues are LINKED!!  XD  It seems that in my haste to clean up and prevent the spam, I changed a setting that added “comments” containing 1 or more links to a “moderation queue”.  However, that seems to have affected the forum as well, rather than just the site comments you can subm…[Read more]

  • I’ve been trying – unsuccessfully – to embed a link to the Pinnacle Entertainment Group

    Yes, links are not working for anyone but me it seems.  Sorry and I’m trying to fix it.

  • So you could keep the starter packs as the “game in every pack” variant where islands, crew, and random ships are all included but then other packs that are cheaper to produce and do not contain everything could be sold separately. Those could be the single nation, or crew only… ect options available.

    I’ll give a +1 bonus to this idea.  XD

    Ma…[Read more]

  • About how rare was the Revenge from SM? Not the 11 point uncommon one, but the promotional one?

    Not all that rare from what I know.  I don’t remember having trouble acquiring mine and I don’t think I paid much.  I think a collector posted at MT about giving them away.  (though they shouldn’t be as common as the Obago)

  • I think Pandemonium could be more suited for standard play if the equipment it uses had to be on the island with the fort.

    I think I might make an alternate version like that for less points.

    I am developing a “class” of three fictional steam-

    That’ll be a no from me, dawg!  XD  (not that you would expect anything else from me lol)

    Made these…[Read more]

  • Ben replied to the topic News and Updates Thread in the forum Pirates CSG 7 years, 2 months ago

    Just implemented a captcha on the registration page.  Hopefully it will stop the spam accounts.

    Made a question thread at the bbpress support forum inquiring about the link problem.  No idea why people other than me have trouble posting links (posting as a bare URL rather than linked text may help), the site seems glitchy for no good reason s…[Read more]

  • Ben replied to the topic The eBay Sales thread in the forum Pirates CSG 7 years, 2 months ago

    kevin2377 has a bunch of pack lots up, plus a few 3 pound boxes.

  • Ben wrote a new post 7 years, 2 months ago

    A Foggy Affair
    This game was between 5 fleets at 50 points each.

    Here are the fleets in the order of play:

    The English were looking to combine extra actions with the Hoist keyword and Commander Temple’s […]

  • Ben wrote a new post 7 years, 2 months ago

    Another solitaire game has been played. As before, the Water World rules were the basic rules. However, similar to last time, there would be no home forts.

    This time, instead of maxing out the cargo space of e […]

  • Ben replied to the topic The eBay Sales thread in the forum Pirates CSG 7 years, 3 months ago

    Bunch of auctions ending soon!

    Now seeing some interesting singles up as well.  Kind of an individual ship bonanza.  XD

    Edit: Seeing some decent lots up as well.  Lately I’ve been noticing multiple lots that look borderline on whether or not they’re worth taking.  For someone beginning to collect I think some of them are fair.

  • Ben wrote a new post 7 years, 3 months ago

    70 point Water World

    10/7/2016

    A 70 point game of Water World was played between myself and El Cazador.  He went with a Pirate fleet with three ships each having double action crew aboard, while I went […]

  • Ben replied to the topic News and Updates Thread in the forum Pirates CSG 7 years, 3 months ago

    Sorry if you have trouble posting links.  No idea what the problem with that is but I’ll be looking into it.  Apologies for the leaky vessel….

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