Ben

Historical Custom of the Day #428

Carronade
Equipment
3 points
Ability: This ship gains one 2S cannon that can fire from any mast (even an eliminated mast), but cannot have its range increased. When this cannon hits, eliminate one mast and one crew from the enemy ship. This cannon may be used with other equipment. Ships may use up to two…[Read more]

The crew elimination ability seems useful, and makes the most sense. I’ve always found the Marine and Musketeer ability to eliminate masts rather comical, since you’d expect them to be carrying, well, a musket.

Haha!  Exactly!  The concept of mast elimination (and how it doesn’t slow down ship speeds) has always been rather strange in this game.…[Read more]

Execration
Type: Ship
Faction Affiliation: Cursed
Rarity: C
Point Value: 14
Number of Masts: 3
Cargo Space: 2
Base Move: L
Cannons: 2S-3L-2L
Ability: Fear. L-range cannons cannot hit this ship.

Flavor text: Foul misdeeds follow those who have lived through an encounter with the Execration. It seems as though anyone who loses a battle with the…[Read more]

Big win today.  Managed to increase the speed of the home page and main forum page – Google’s PageSpeed Insights tool now shows a perfect 100 score on desktop for both.  Mobile is only at 74, but lately it’s been in the 27-34 range, so still a big improvement.  So for now I might kinda rest on that since it can get technical, confusing, and ti…[Read more]

Making the rounds and finding a few things:
4 pounds of cards, total mystery lot: https://ebay.to/2JEfE0Z
Same thing but 8 pounds: https://ebay.to/2XKlQto
Lot with some useful crew: https://ebay.to/2JEEkX5
Roanoke: https://ebay.to/2SelcTz
HMS Titan: https://ebay.to/30taHPe

I have to admit I was wrong about the DJC LE’s.  Thought there might be a bit less demand nowadays.  The roundup:
Tarantula: $31
Pandora’s Box: $10.50
Judas: $36
Blackgate: $31.50
Dance: $6.50
Salem: $29.50
Black Gentleman: $24.50
El Pluton: $10.50

Grand Wind: $26

Guess attention now shifts to the kendarus auctions: h…[Read more]

The Experimental Cumulative Game

Although, it might be a little difficult to make a physical model for this, since forts only have room for 8 flags…. I suppose you could squeeze some in on the sides.

Definitely should be simple because of how the slotted flags should sit on the non-slotted fort walls.  It’s also the type of thing that would deserve a custom fort with a special co…[Read more]

Responding to Report 7:
Love that midsize American launch. Especially the Mohican setup; one of the most underrated 3 masters. Love the maxed out crew setups in general, makes a lot of sense given the gold available.
Notre Dame looks cool and intimidating. Love the realistic shadows at 6:42.
Love the grand wide angle shots showing pretty much the…[Read more]

In addition to that some of the factions need to be SHOWN that the Spanish are a threat, and others are hesitant to fight an ally.

I think it’s pretty obvious – even if they don’t have a ton of gunships in the water, they could quickly and easily.  Their biggest obstacle might actually be logistics and space constraints, but they could get a…[Read more]

MI packs and some singles including the DJC LE’s ending today!  (depending on time zone)

Also, kendarus may have lowered their prices on some lots.  Some of them look pretty solid for someone getting started that’s looking to play, especially the punched BC lot.  (look at description – looks like only deckplates for most of the punched lots)

I’ll admit this is dumb, but I couldn’t help it after discovering it through a fittingly WICKED EPIC SONG. (found the name of this “fort” in youtube comment and looked it up) (That will be one of the songs of The World Game if it ever gets played)

Showed this to my dog. It now has three heads and guards the gates of Tartarus.

Tartarus
Type:…[Read more]

Playing around with the top menu a bit.  It was time for Blog to get demoted, but that made the bottom row about half empty, so I added the Information category down there.  Might add one more thing soon to fill it out.  I’m at 113 pages and 521 posts, so lots of content to attempt to prioritize!

Edit: Just updated the Information and Stats pag…[Read more]

Hi everyone, I’m the same Phymatine who was on Miniature Trading. Thanks for setting this up, Ben!

Ahoy matey, great to see you here as well!!

(reposted from youtube)

Love it!! Lots of great grand shots at the beginning.
Spanish should basically run away with the game, especially since some of the other factions are fighting each other and not forming an anti-Spanish coalition. (which hasn’t been discussed?)
Nice to see your factions going at it. This gave me a new idea for a dumb…[Read more]