Ben

My ships were left with the Possession with two masts, and the Soleil Royal was left with three.

Nice, sounds like you had the best crew setups overall.  In my experience it can take a while for players to learn that helmsmen and captains are incredibly essential, especially having both on just about every gunship.

I’ve always liked how simple yet versatile the movement system has been but I’ve almost played with a modified rule that sees a ship’s listed speed as its “top” speed. The people I have played with and I always saw it as something that you could choose to modify within your move action. If your move was S+S you can choose to move any where bet…

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Something like you can roll and additional die and take the highest option but you lose one “hit” and have it scale up, giving heavy ships the option to risk all hits for a low chance or basically have a for sure single hit.

I don’t fully understand – if you rolled 2 dice, wouldn’t the probability of getting hits be better regardless of ship siz…[Read more]

I’m about to meet some friends for a couple of Pirates matches, so I’ll have a battle report soon!

Awesome!  Both fleets look good!

Necklace of the Sky: “Load this treasure face down. Give this ship a move action, but do not move her. Instead, reveal this treasure and dock this ship at any wild island. Then unload this treasure at that island; for the rest of the game, no ship in your fleet can load this treasure.”

The Pirate Code says:

-An explore action is required to…

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It is now down for me as well for the first time since the issue was reported.

I revisted it in a bought of nostalgic collecting funded by tax returns and stumbled in here on a whim after I kept being directed here for googling keyword lists!

Huzzah!  Glad to know that my efforts here have started to pay off with SEO and whatnot/etc.  🙂  I do like having all the major rules documents in PDF form on the homepage.

One of my brothers tried to cheese that version with the copying Jones to get Broadsides on a ten mast.

O_O  Wow, that is actually brilliant… except I still wouldn’t want to take such a huge risk just for the chance at one extra hit.  (which would likely be a small percentage of the total damage as opposed to a 2 master with BA)

-Broadsides Attack prevents the use of all other offensive abilities that could apply to the shoot action, including but not limited to the Longship keyword, the Musketeer keyword, abilities that eliminate crew, abilities that eliminate additional masts, and abilities that can modify or re-roll the die.

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@Mechavelli: As with other house rules, let us know how it goes if you do.  Can provide valuable feedback for players to use in the future.

but you can use it in conjunction with a captain (unless I’m wrong), which has caused some confusion and salty situations more than once.

You can, but that’s actually a great point I hadn’t thought of be…[Read more]

Welcome aboard!

I recently bullied my younger sister into playing it with me again anf we enjoyed it more as adults than we did as kids.

Yikes.  🙁  Nobody should be forced to play a game they don’t want to play.

That and you can scale the game as much as you like, I’ve played massive 500 point games before with friends that took a weekend of on…

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I’m able to access it fine, but some folks at the Facebook group said something similar this weekend.

One of the ultimate combos from Pirates of the Epic Seas!! This is a 10 master and linked crew I made in 2018 that is one of the most grand and epic things in the entire set! Prepare for your doom!!!!!

Cataclysm
Type: Ship
Faction Affiliation: Cursed
Rarity: LE
Point Value: 48
Number of Masts: 10
Cargo Space: 9
Base Move: S
Cannons:…[Read more]

It is no different then swapping old car parts or any other collectible really

True, I just wondered if I would regret trading away my only Nautilus.  It was worth it, but I did miss having the ship available for a while.  It’s partly a case of whether or not you’ll really miss something you had for a while and started to take for granted.

The ship has the BA ability, it’s on page 2 of The Pirate Code.

I love the Faux Roi, such an interestingly bad 5 master.  🙂   So bad in fact that she’s worse than the other bad cheap 5 master, the Cursed Mourning Star.  I’m not sure that an 8 point 5 master is a good idea, but I think she could come down to 9 points.  Great flavor text too!

Lava Flow
Type: Ship
Faction Affiliation: Mercenary
Rarity: U
Po…[Read more]