Ben

What if you had you knock out the oars per the flotilla hit rules (two hits within the same shoot action) and then they can only be replaced as a repair action at a home island.

That does make sense.  Allow them to be repaired, possibly even as a free action if you pay 1 gold.

I now will not be able to derelict the ship in one shoot action, but I am guaranteed at least 1 hit for performing broadsides attack. So rolling 0 hits will result in 1 hit, rolling 1 hit will also result in 1 hit, rolling 2 hits will result in 2 hits.

I realize this applies to existing BA game pieces that are paying for the keyword, but…[Read more]

Ive been pondering how to not only play co-op pirates but to have a lot of fun doing so. The main criteria I see for a successful game of friendly pirates is difficulty and randomness.

Interesting idea.  You’re trying to play games where the players are incentivized to work together rather than against each other?

I’ve never really thought of…[Read more]

Instead of rolling an additional die and dropping a hit, the attack could lose a die for a guaranteed hit. So your maximum damage on a 4 masted ship would be 3 hits, and your minimum would be 1 (even if rolling all misses). This achieves the same result as the above proposed rule, just with absolute consistency.

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The bribes exist mostly to add just a touch more flavor. However, it could also allow for very interesting game decisions. Deciding whether to spend precious gold to bribe during an important capture could either win you the game by giving you the edge in the next engagement, or lose you the game due to the loss of coin. Tough choices like these…

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Le Tireur d’Élite could come down in cost by a handful of points.  The Selkie (one of my favorite ships) has much better cannons for 4 less points, and is arguably costed correctly.  I think this ship could be 8-9.

Wow, heckuva ship thee with the Calamity. I imagine that she’d only make an appearance in a huge game, in excess of 100 points, since…

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Thanks so much for doing what you can to get these folks on the podcast!

You’re welcome!  My plan now is to wait perhaps a week in between each new person I’ve messaged before trying a new one.  (I’d be overwhelmed if a bunch of people were willing to be on all at once)

@Ed: Any specific crew artwork you find weird, not just the actual photos of the PotC characters? (though I can admit Damsel in Distress was a weird crew to make for the game in general)

I have reached out to additional former Wizkids employees who worked on the game in hopes of talking with them on the podcast.  Kian Ng (the real person, not the crew named after him 🙂 ) said he isn’t able to be on.  I messaged Ethan Pasternack; no response yet.  Today I messaged Sandra Everingham (formerly Garavito).

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I think Le Baron could be 14 points, since I’d say the Jarvis from RV is still superior at 15 points.  With the Georgetown from OE at 14 being not too great of a ship, you might get away with 13 actually.

The other point costs look about right; the Lis de Tigre might be one of the more underpowered Men-o-war so far, but I don’t see that as a bad…[Read more]

The SoS is a pure gunship

I completely disagree.  I think she immediately becomes one of the best hybrids in the entire Cursed fleet, though mostly because they don’t have that many of those.  Having her be from one of the imperial nations was my flavor excuse of making this good of a Cursed ship that wouldn’t normally be Cursed.  XD
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This way you can choose to go for the massive payout of destroying a fully repaired ship in a single action or you can dramatically increase your chance of landing a hit.

Ah, makes perfect sense now, thanks for explaining.  That is quite interesting and unique.   Do you plan to test it out in a game?

Slaying of the Savior
Type: Ship
Faction Affiliation: Cursed
Rarity: U
Point Value: 18
Number of Masts: 4
Cargo Space: 5
Base Move: S+S
Cannons: 3L-2S-2S-3L
Ability: Schooner. When this ship shoots, any of her cannons can shoot grape shot. Declare which cannon will shoot the grape shot before rolling a d6. If it hits, eliminate a crew of your…[Read more]

Player 3 was relying on his Calico Cats getting double actions so he could move and shoot, but I think having a captain is far superior in that situation.

Definitely, and ideally you’d have both.

It’s sometimes bothersome to have to ration out 5 points for every gunship, but it’s very necessary! Moving fast and shooting with one action is a gre…

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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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