Ben

This is intriguing: https://icv2.com/articles/games/view/6618/wizkids-plans-big-tv-behind-pirates

The game will be distributed in around 30,000 non-hobby outlets nationwide, including 7-11 (where Pirates outsold Pokemon in a test, according to WizKids), Blockbuster, Meier, Rite-Aid, Walgreens, book chains, other convenience store chains, and…

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The “double range, roll 6” ability is an all-or-nothing effect, so you can’t pick and choose specific cannons. You either use it with all of them, or none of them.

You may double the range of this ship’s cannons each turn, but you must roll a 6 to hit.

I would prefer that the Sniping ability work in a mix and match way – such as the crew putting…[Read more]

If you find Altar of the Loa and Plague on the same island, I assume you cannot sacrifice crew to the Altar before they would be eliminated via Plague because the effect of Plague occurs as part of the explore action and the Altar effect is optional and you wouldn’t be able to use it until after the explore action ends?

If I eliminate crew to…[Read more]

Recently finished Murtagh (follow up book to the Inheritance Cycle). I thought it was quite good and it leaves open the possibility of other stories being told with the characters.

Ah nice, I still have to read that after the Tales from Alagaësia book.

Finished:

Think Like A Monk (Jay Shetty)

Currently reading:

Change Your Brain, Change Your Life (Daniel Amen)

Both quite good.

I’m not quite sure how having additional Runes of Thor would change the scenario?  They would each give you one additional guaranteed success with CCJ’s roll on a future turn, but Nemo’s Plans still wouldn’t be able to retain any of them.

It was in reference to attempting to block the “no future move actions” endgame trigger – going back to the i…[Read more]

I understand the first answer below makes the second situation nearly impossible, but it could still happen via an MI that allows for a coin to be replaced with a UT, providing the possibility of additional Runes of Thor for CCJ every turn.

If CCJ’s ship uses Runes of Thor to get the 6 and also has Nemo’s Plans aboard, does Runes of Thor get eli…

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Here’s a weird way to potentially blockade an enemy home island:

Get two Titans (El Toro likely being one). They both need the ability to not be shot at while docked. Bianco’s Haulers for El Toro, and Copier Davy Jones on Brachyura/Raninoidea to copy BH. They both also need the Letter of Marque UT – the CC/PotC variants are not on the…[Read more]

Mysterious Island effects cannot be re-rolled.

I assume this confirms that MI effect rolls are considered to be made for the island rather than the ship?  In which case, the Cursed Zone event would not affect MI rolls.

Cursed Captain Jack: Once at the beginning of each of your turns, roll a d6. On a result of 6, no abilities except Parley can…[Read more]

I discovered something I don’t think I’d ever seen or thought about before in a recent game of Tournament #3. An island can be placed so close to the corner of the map in such a way that a ship can start the game docked there, but with no room to maneuver to leave that little corner it occupies.  Especially with flat earth (hard boundary, not…[Read more]

The 0-Point assignment rule applies in all of those cases, forcing them to be on a nationality-matching crew at all times, except when explicitly captured using an ability like Ransom (swaps and trades aren’t  enough).

Fair enough, though I will say that I disagree and I consider it to be a true rules loophole at this point.

Assignment only ap…[Read more]

Looks like a decent deal for Spanish Main on Mercari.

For island #4 I assume you’d need to choose a Treasure that could actually be loaded, as opposed to one that would go face-up on the island?

Correct, it’s in The Pirate Code now on page 11, I believe in part due to ziotoo4’s Creative Fleet Challenge entry back on MT.

Another UT to farm with the canoes would be Lost. Being able to place trade c…[Read more]

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Welcome aboard matey, glad to have you here!

I assume you cannot swap a 0-point crew via the CJS/UPS ability because such a crew (like Robinson) can never be on an island?  It says so explicitly for the 0LR +5 crew but not the 0-point reducers (or 0LR Rerollers), so I wanted to make sure. I just can’t find anything that says that they cannot be unloaded to an island.

CJS: When this ship is…[Read more]

Mysterious Island #16: 5-6: After this ship explores this island, swap any number of treasure coins taken with an equal number of treasure coins chosen randomly from other wild islands.

This implies that the treasure you trade for must be loaded.  What happens if you receive a UT that can’t be loaded, such as Wolves?  I assume it would apply to a…[Read more]

Thought of another way to gamify a UPS build to potentially win on the first turn. MI #7:
1-2: Randomly move one treasure from this island to another wild island.
3-4: No effect.
5-6: After exploring this island, place a treasure coin from your collection with value equal to or less than one you took on the island.

With a +2 bonus at home, all…[Read more]

Using native canoes to farm Mysterious Islands can break them even more than I thought. It would even work really well for the Mind Control strategy – since they don’t have masts, they’re immune to the negative effect. In a perfect scenario, you could perhaps start 10 American canoes at MI #2, go first and redock them all. With tons of reefs and…[Read more]