Activity – Ben – Pirates with Ben

Ben wrote a new post 7 years, 3 months ago

The Bizarre Bottleneck Game
I thought of the idea of a “bottleneck” game some time ago. The idea is to have a small waterway that fleets must traverse in order to achieve their goal. I finally tested this for t […]

Xerecs replied 7 years, 2 months ago

A very strange game indeed, as discussed on the podcast and that session. I had a similar situation happen in a deathmatch game I played a looong time ago now. The last ship my brother had was the USS Lamon, and I had no canceller, no sub hunters, nothing. I think that we ruled it as a win for me, since the two ships I did have left wee the Fool’s Hope and another 4 mast, and that the Lamon would not be able to ram them into submission since we had home islands in that game, and the FH was eternal.
Perhaps try this again sometime, but with no subs? I like this idea and I’ve done something like it, albeit for a ‘racing’ pirates game.
- Ben replied 7 years, 2 months ago
  
  @Xerecs: Indeed, the submarines can really throw a wrench into strategy plans and endgame situations. Another reason to not use such a non-Age of Sail mechanic 😉 … but they can be fun and add some spice to the game. In this game the English would have won properly if I had kept playing, but alas.
  
  I certainly plan to try another bottleneck game – I want to do the original idea of having the bottleneck be 2 tables that are connected at only the corners. Just not sure if it will happen this summer. I hope to try a race scenario someday as well.
  
  Thanks for reading the report and commenting!!
  Ben

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