Ben

Picked up this thin and flimsy but interesting plastic molding from work today.  That’s the Ville de Paris on a hard card sleeve suspended above the valleys.  It reminds me of the table that was posted on Miniature Trading a while back. (haven’t found the post yet)

SO many options.  I’m thinking about attaching a piece of plexiglass to the to…[Read more]

Great!  I fondly remember those times when I was consistently adding new ships and crew to my collection.

That is unfortunate about the Mega Packs, and one thing I don’t miss as much lol.  (getting lots of dupes, and ones that aren’t that useful in some cases like Squalo)

It is a nice deal on F&S, I’ve thought about it a few times the past few w…[Read more]

I really like the concept of Cancelers but I was unsure about a one masted ship. thanks for the insight.

Of course!  Cancellers are fantastic but of course on a 1 masted ship you have the usual ramming problem, where one easily successful ram can often ruin a 1 master’s chances of impacting a game.  In the unique case of the Hessian, that’s w…[Read more]

Pirates CSG Podcast #43: Jason Mical! (former Wizkids Communications Manager)
You can listen to the audio via ShoutEngine!

 
You can also listen on Archive.org: https://archive.org/details/PiratesCSGPodcast43JasonMical

Jason Mical was the Wizkids Communications Manager from 2003-2006.  Questions list on Pirates with Be…[Read more]

That was such a good podcast. It feels really good to be a part of this.

Thanks!  Glad you enjoyed it.  Happy you’re enjoying Pirates CSG too!!  😀

The podcast is live!!

Sounds like a potentially fun ability.

It is, I actually used that custom in at least one game in 2015 or 2016.  (hope to republish the battle report this year here on the site)

Thanks, I’m looking forward to it as well. This Summer our time is constrained more than ever, so the victory condition number 2 is most likely to occur. However, (small spoiler) we have the least amount of islands this year than ever before, so that should force more combat and competition for islands.

Ah yes, I forgot to mention that at least i…[Read more]

We are planning to do the podcast around 4pm EST tomorrow (6/11), and I plan to stream it live on youtube!

Awesome, looking forward to it as I do every year!!  😀   Should be interesting with some custom islands/etc in the mix as well.

Could the Mountain Banshee be turned into a Double Catamaran?  That’s what her ability makes me think of.  Not a huge fan of having to roll again each time the ship gets hit, but Wizkids started that problem.

I wouldn’t be surprised if the other ships needed a small cost increase.  However, Niko Ren’s ability seems very niche and I could see hi…[Read more]

Looking at King Fergus, I could probably ditch the Crew Protection to keep him at a usable price? Between that and a re-cost, what do y’all think would be better to do?

I think that makes sense.  I just checked my Epic Seas spreadsheet and I have one crew with the ability.  Palamides is an American crew with no other abilities for 10 points.  I th…[Read more]

Agreed with Xerecs for the most part.

King Fergus really needs to be more expensive.  Crew Protect is worth 4 points, but +1 to all d6 rolls on the ship is worth a bunch more.  World Hater is fine at 4, but including all other rolls (especially boarding, ramming, and SAT/EA/etc) has to probably double it to 8 or more.   It would also help aga…[Read more]