Ben

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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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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

Yeah, Zesk seems like a OP concept.  It’s possible for a 1 master to beat a 5 master in a boarding party, so abilities like that upset the power balance too much and make one die roll potentially far too important.  Plus, the Massacre ability used to be 7 (Diabolito, RotF Blackheart, etc), and even though that’s too high, Zesk’s cost of 8 is l…[Read more]

Can the S-Explorer ability (Once per turn, if this ship is within S of an island, you can mark the island as explored without docking at it. The island becomes unexplored in regards to all other players.) be used by one ship on the same turn that it docks at the island?

For example, a ship moves to within S of a wild island, marks it explored…[Read more]

Well, since you asked, I would like to hear a discussion on various historical ships represented in the game. Perhaps comparing/contrasting their role and setup in the game as opposed to reality. Why some persons or ships never made it into the game. For example, why no HMS Victory or Lord Nelson? Why is the Philadelphia a 2-masted blockade runner…

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