Ben

This is an alternate way to conduct boardings which I’ve seen online as a house rule

Do you know who came up with it?  Please include a link to the original source if possible.

– I’m not sure what to do with Inquisitor-type cards that eliminate all crew on a successful boarding. The doc I read didn’t offer any ideas. I think perhaps you could sa…

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Something I just thought of to bypass the boarding ability, a Doctor crew. The Pirates must have at least one, and the Cursed might have one given all the custom stuff we’ve made for them. Hmmm…. If that would work then this ship gets much more interesting, especially if you can bring along a recruiter crew along, then you’d WANT to board so you c…

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Primal Chaos
Type: Ship
Faction Affiliation: Cursed
Rarity: R
Point Value: 19
Number of Masts: 5
Cargo Space: 5
Base Move: L
Cannons: 4L-3S-2S-3S-4L
Ability: Firepot Specialist. Stinkpot Specialist. After this ship resolves a boarding party, eliminate a crew from both ships after all other results are applied. Pirate crew can use their abilities…[Read more]

Woelf’s response:

The printed deckplate should still be considered correct.  It’s entirely possible that the spreadsheet I had wasn’t the final-final version, and things got tweaked just before the set was printed.  From seeing how things are done behind the scenes with a different company, I’m assuming they used a completely separate layout s…

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Doesn’t the Pandora have worse guns and a slightly worse ability? I’m not sure I would take 3S guns and +1 to boarding rolls over 2S guns and an autoheal, or a crew snipe

Yes, but SEVEN cargo.  More than any other non-Hoist 3 master, and by a lot in most cases.  She’s not the best gunship of the three, but makes the best hybrid and best gold runne…[Read more]

That’s strange, my faceplate says S+L… Is the Miniatures entry correct, or is this a misprint?

Wow, I just checked my card and it’s S+L.  O_O  I’ve been thinking it’s wrong all this time.  This is what happens when I rely more on MT than my physical collection.  XD  Sorry about that!

But wait- it gets more interesting!  The original Wizkids [Read more]

Ben, I’m not sure why you’re saying that El Raton is slow when the San Pedro and El Raton have the same starting speed and I haven’t given a helmsman to the San Pedro both for points sake and cargo space.

No they don’t, Raton is S+S while San Pedro is S+L.

Edit: Nope, Ben relied too much on MT and El Raton has S+L on her deckplate!

El Ladron was my first pirate ship, it will always be one of my favorites even though it’s not exactly a very playable ship.

I’d say she’s plenty playable as a cheap sort of hybrid, it’s just that the Pirates pretty much always have a better ship, and the Recreant is slightly better from the very same set. (not to mention the excellent Pandora, k…[Read more]

You can tow the flotilla with the San Pedro like Ben said and use the spare 2 points to upgrade Leon into El Duque for better speed and cargo.

I don’t see that as much of an upgrade since Leon has better cannons and a solid ability.  Though I’ll always favor a ship like the Leon over a ship like the Duque.  🙂

@Mechavelli: Diablo being towed by t…[Read more]

Looks like a solid fleet.  I think the San Pedro combo comes to 21 points, so you could add a point somewhere.  I would separate the Raton and Diablo in the fleet section; you might be surprised how badly you’ll wish Diablo was towed by the San Pedro instead.  (better speed and more direct protection)  Raton probably won’t be a big factor.

But this game has weird rules about the end of the game. The pirates should not have rammed the Albion because between their HI and fort they only had 12 gold. There was 16 gold in Ramsgate. England wins.

It can get a bit strange.  The gold in Ramsgate is still very much in play, so the Pirates needed to go after that first.  I assume the E…[Read more]