Ben

When this ship is hit, roll a d6. On a result of 5 or 6, move the crew on this ship with the highest point cost to a wild island chosen by the player to your left.

Does Jonah’s ability apply to a hit that sinks a ship?  Or does the ship sink without needing to roll one last time for the ability?

Is Ghostly Encounter still worth gold if the ship…[Read more]

Planning to go live tomorrow at 8am PST for the first game of Tournament #3. The live streamed game in January went fine, so I scheduled this one. Hopefully will go off without a hitch.  Once all the games of the play-in matchup have been posted, I’ll show the updated tournament bracket.

The first competitive series of the year was a doozy!  Here’s Game 1:

Here’s my latest:

Video(s) of it in action coming this Sunday!

Hi there. I just got back into this game after (somewhat foolishly) donating my old collection back in 2017 (but I’m making plans to get it back). Pirates was my childhood and I still love it to this day, and I’m glad I finally found a group that is still interested in it as well

Welcome aboard, glad to have you here!  😀

What if both players only bring Isles of Fire MI’s? (no islands can be HI’s)  Would you have to just ignore the ability text for all of them?

Isle of Fire: This island can be used only as a wild island. At the beginning of his or her turn, the active player rolls a d6. On a result of 6, randomly eliminate one treasure coin from this island.

Yeah I think that would work, I would just change the last sentence slightly: “This ship gets +1 to her cannon rolls against the target ship and +S to her base move when moving in a direct line toward the target ship.”

I could still see some rules questions coming up. I think you would need to move all segments in the direct line, including the…[Read more]

You wouldn’t have to use it every turn. Yes the +S is treated like a regular movement bonus, you wouldn’t be required to move in a straight line toward the target ship, but you would be required to move toward the target every turn that ship is a target. I suspect the language might need to be cleared up a bit….

In my opinion, custom creat…[Read more]

Announcing the return of consistent, intense, standard competitive play!

Explosion may be great against The Cursed, but looks quite average otherwise. I think I would price her at 8.

At the beginning of your turn declare an enemy ship a target of this ship. This ship gets +1 to her cannon rolls and +S to her base move against the target ship.

This is pretty unique, not sure how similar it would function to the kraken…[Read more]

You can split it with two silver 1s if you have them, but otherwise change should be made using standard gold coins instead.

Just thought of a strange follow-up. What if the players disagree on how it should be split? Ex: One player wants silver because they have a silver explorer and might try to build a fort with the silver and then bring it…[Read more]

If a ship has multiple gold bonus abilities, such as +2 and +1, should they be recorded separately as different coins at the home island or can they be combined into a new 3 coin?

-If a docked ship loads Plague by any means it immediately becomes undocked.

Does that end the explore action?  Since UT’s are applied before regular treasure is…[Read more]

I’d bring Widow down in cost, probably to the 10-12 range.

The first time each turn that this ship hits another ship, eliminate two masts instead.

I recommend adding “instead of one” at the end.  I know it’s a stretch, but this could be interpreted as “instead of Widow scoring a hit, eliminate two masts from her instead”.

I think the first two ships above would see more usage at these costs:
H’Pka: 9
R’Ki: 11

Utakam and Boldirk both have strong abilities, so I think you’re probably right on the money with their costs.

Regarding spyer abilities, are players allowed to shuffle the cargo on a ship’s deckplate around to make it harder for an opponent to spy something different each turn?  (such as going left to right on face down crew across a deckplate)

“Once per turn, this ship may look at one face-down cargo on any ship.”

Probably a pretty hard thing to…[Read more]

Middle of this post has a list of what I saved, with some useful URLs you can paste into the Internet Archive to view some of the old threads/etc.

Woelf, do you know if “The Navigator” was someone involved with the rules at Wizkids, or a fan of the game in the community?  I’m slowly reorganizing my oldest PCSG document and fixing some links, and came across the name in the original MT rules thread (or at least the biggest/most recent one – 143+ pages!).

Very rare to see the Morning Stars up for grabs.  If any ship other than Obago Deuce might be able to hit $1000, it could be one of those.  Also available are a Raptor Maw, various pack lots, and some DJC LE’s.