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Ben wrote a new post 7 years, 9 months ago

September 5th, 2016
VASSAL Tournament #1
Welcome to the first VASSAL tournament! Xerecs and I have agreed to play not one, but two tournaments on the VASSAL module! The purpose of the tournaments is to determine […]
Ben wrote a new post 7 years, 9 months ago

Originally posted to Miniature Trading on March 12th, 2015

This was originally going to go in “Hijack this thread” but the post got really long since I’m trying to really explore these possibilities. Not really […]
Ben wrote a new post 7 years, 9 months ago

VASSAL Game 17
9/2/2016

Xerecs and I have played a 200 point game of Water World!

I went first with this fleet while Xerecs used a similarly powerful fleet with multiple 10 masters. When creating my fl […]
Ben wrote a new post 7 years, 9 months ago

2nd 500 point game – February 2012 Originally posted to Pojo in 2012 The Second 5 fleet 500 point game of PiratesContinue reading→
Ben wrote a new post 7 years, 9 months ago

Originally posted to Pojo in August 2011

August 5th, 2011

I am extremely excited to start my next project: a five-way 500-point game! Cumulatively, 2500 total points! O_O (2520 if we add the ransom crew […]
Ben wrote a new post 7 years, 9 months ago

Originally posted to Pojo and Miniature Trading on November 10th, 2014.

I haven’t played a game yet, but I wanted to document an old game to the best of my ability. Plus, I don’t want this thread to get locked […]
Ben replied to the topic The Random (PCSG) Topic Thread in the forum Pirates CSG 7 years, 9 months ago

Interesting post from 2005 on the US/UK pack difference.

“We actually made different versions for the two countries. Neither game style is better – the English one is only set up to have two players, but because it’s on a map, they have limited space and are basically forced into fighting each other more. The game is slightly more complicated bec…

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Ben started the topic Rules for thought #16 in the forum Pirates CSG 7 years, 9 months ago

This is the first Rules for thought thread since the potential closure of Miniature Trading came about in late August 2018.

Now that the Rules survey has some results (36 responses as of this post), I think it would be a good idea to discuss some various options in detail.

Most of the interesting responses and ideas have already been covered in…[Read more]
Ben started the topic Pirates CSG Hall of Fame 2018 Voting in the forum Pirates CSG 7 years, 9 months ago

The current Hall of Fame, by order of induction:
Woelf
A7XfanBen
Cadet-Captain Mike
Holofernes
Old_Man
Xerecs

This poll shows that people would generally like for Hall of Fame inductions to happen at the end of each year. Each person can have a ballot of people they think deserve induction to the Pirates CSG Hall of Fame.

Post below with your b…[Read more]
Ben replied to the topic Custom Ships (post your custom game pieces here!) in the forum Pirates CSG 7 years, 9 months ago

Amazon Journey
Faction Affiliation: Mercenary
Rarity: SE
Type: Ship
Point Value: 15
Number of Masts: 2
Cargo Space: 5
Base Move: S+S+S
Cannons: 3S-3S
Ability: Mercenary. Catamaran. When this ship hits another ship, instead of eliminating a mast choose one crew whose abilities are cancelled on their next turn. This ship gets +S to her base move if…[Read more]
Ben wrote a new post 7 years, 9 months ago
Ben wrote a new post 7 years, 9 months ago
Ben wrote a new post 7 years, 9 months ago
Ben wrote a new post 7 years, 9 months ago

Pirates CSG Podcast #35: Return to Savage Shores Set Review Pirates CSG Podcast #35: Return to Savage Shores Set Review QuestionContinue reading→
Ben replied to the topic The Podcast Thread in the forum Pirates CSG 7 years, 9 months ago

Pirates CSG Podcast #35: Return to Savage Shores Set Review

Question of the Day: Do you like Return to Savage Shores? Do you wish it was released? Do you like it more or less than Savage Shores? Have you used any RtSS game pieces yet? If so, how did it go?…[Read more]
Ben replied to the topic Custom Ships (post your custom game pieces here!) in the forum Pirates CSG 7 years, 9 months ago

Would wording like this be sufficient?……are eliminated by being hit with all cannons a ship has available.

I think so. Yes, Castaway is already an extremely good UT and arguably OP.

Bomb Box
Rarity: U
Type: Equipment
Point Value: 1
Ability: This equipment takes up no cargo space. When this ship explores a wild island, you may eliminate this equi…[Read more]
Ben wrote a new post 7 years, 9 months ago

HMS Grand Temple dominates, and a Tournament with 8 fleets gets going!
I’ve recently played a few more games: a series of three standard (40 points with gold) games between two fleets. The fleets consisted of a […]
Ben replied to the topic Custom Ships (post your custom game pieces here!) in the forum Pirates CSG 7 years, 9 months ago

Arpencia the Brazen
Faction Affiliation: Mercenary
Rarity: C
Type: Crew
Point Value: 8
Ability: S-Board. This ship gets +1 to her boarding rolls for every crew assigned to her. If this ship loses a boarding party, this crew must be the first eliminated from this ship.

Flavor text: Bold beyond reason, Arpencia has a habit of swinging over to enemy…[Read more]
Ben wrote a new post 7 years, 9 months ago

Originally posted to Miniature Trading on June 22nd, 2018
Ranking: #001 ships – Flagships of their sets
I’ve always thought that the first game piece of each set had to be at least somewhat special in some way. […]
Ben replied to the topic Custom Ships (post your custom game pieces here!) in the forum Pirates CSG 7 years, 9 months ago

perfect shoot action

That needs to be defined every time it’s mentioned in ability text.

Toa Stone is blatantly OP.

Jaconan Backus
Faction Affiliation: Viking
Rarity: C
Type: Crew
Point Value: 4
Ability: All of this ship’s cannons have L range.

Flavor text: Born in France, Jaconan has joined the Vikings after a career with the French and as a…[Read more]
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