Ben

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.

Well, that’s all for this game report. Please let me know what you think of it.

Must have been some fancy maneuvering to catch ships that much faster than yours!

I’d probably use captain+helmsman if I had to run Delusion in a 40 point game.

That goes way back to the early days, but I think one of the original intents was to maintain a clear distinction between the coins with a numerical (printed) value and UTs that produce a value, by allowing bonuses to apply only to the ones with printed values.

Interesting. I think it makes more sense when using a “replacement” method for gold…[Read more]

The winners announcement video!  Thanks to all who entered and congratulations!

Reviewing the Fleet Challenge entries!  Winner announcement video coming tomorrow.

In The Pirate Code, it says this about gold bonus abilities that add value to a treasure:

-These abilities have no effect on the values of unique treasures.

Why is that?  How would a player/layperson know not to apply the bonus based on the simple ability text?

One of this ship’s treasures is worth +2 gold when she docks at your home island.

Sleigh pic came in 3rd for the January photo contest 🙂

Went with a Command the Oceans pic for this month

I don’t remember offhand, and can’t check at the moment, but are they numbered or uniquely marked in any way on the back sides?

Only the MI symbol for the ones from MI, but the SS islands are numbered.

The player(s) placing them will know which islands they were placing, but other players will not.

Interesting, that makes sense to me.  So if you…[Read more]

Zeus at $355 as of now!  Also seeing The Kraken up for grabs….

Thanks to all who entered the Fleet Challenge!  The submission deadline has passed and I count 10 entrants!  🙂

My tentative plan is to review the fleets on Saturday, and announce a winner on Sunday. (likely videos for both)

I’d say Kero could come down to 4 points.

Those canoes will be a boon to Cursed gold running.  I’m tempted to say any canoes with more than 1 cargo space each should probably cost at least 10 points, but I might be too biased from how good the American ones are.  I like that these are closer to “hybrid canoes” than the original Cursed ones from S…[Read more]

I’m curious about this as well:

Are the effects of Mysterious Islands considered public knowledge to other players, or is the contributing player the only one who knows what the islands do until they’re revealed?

It seems that a player could look at the back of any islands they place as part of the random draw when executing the Setup rules. (…[Read more]

Interesting idea; I feel it adds another dimension to the game: make sure you are checking the time and have gold to win when time goes out… I’ll have to try something like that…

It’s been a lot of fun!  It’s mostly to expedite the decision making and add an extra element into the game. Plus, in a real life situation you wouldn’t always have 5…[Read more]

What UPS means?

It generally refers to any fleet that uses the ability of 058 Captain Jack Sparrow (CJS) to fling coins home to ships waiting at your home island.  A few ships have it too, but CJS is usually the most competitive way to optimize that fleet archetype.  The fleet idea for it was pioneered by darrin back in the 2000’s at Miniature T…[Read more]

Being able to flood your home island with a bunch of loose 1s and 2s weakens the HI-Raiders too much, unless you allow them to choose what they take, or they’re allowed to make change up to some value (like combining enough low coins to max out at the 7 again).

My preference with HI Raiders is to make their choice random. (usually by splaying o…[Read more]

Is the “nearest” part of Hidden Cove always measured from the ship you intend to teleport with it?  Is it always the player’s choice whether it’s the nearest unexplored WI or nearest WI with no treasure on it, or does it have to be the closest of those two options regardless of what they want?

Reveal this event at the beginning of one of your…

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After observing some recent new UPS fleets, I decided to try and revisit an “old” idea of mine, getting a +4 bonus on a gold coin. This lead to an afternoon of head-scratching and bemoaning as I tried to make the combo work at a 40 point limit. I met with some success, but feel as though the fleets could still be optimized further. I’ll share…

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F&Sx36 marked down by $50.

I see that the Plague UT can eliminate a Ransom crew.  If Plague is used to eliminate the Ransom crew in a hostile manner (such as intentionally ramming the enemy ship to take out their crew), does the player who used Plague to eliminate the Ransom crew receive the 1 gold payout?