Ben

Otherwise it sets a precedent and could potentially lead to “I don’t want to play against forts/events in this game. Let’s roll off”.

The difference between those and MI’s is that forts/events never have their legality or usage in doubt from the standard rules – they’re always fair game.  The rules make specific concessions on Mysterious Islands…[Read more]

Excited to see Universal Pirate Swan in tournament action starting tomorrow.

Can a Navigator place a trade current within S of a friendly ship that is lost in a fog bank? If so, is it measured from any part of the fog bank?

My guess is that it can’t because it’s a fixed range, but it’s not technically being used against or by the lost ship. (instead, “for” it)

-If an ability, action, or other effect has a fixed range,…

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Sad to hear that Kelly Bonilla passed away. (she was lead designer on Rise of the Fiends, Fire and Steel, and Savage Shores + Return to Savage Shores)

https://icv2.com/articles/columns/view/56156/rolling-initiative-invoices-lists-rip-kelly-borilla

Tournament #3 has begun!

The current Fleet Challenge is called Convoy Defense!  Deadline to submit is 3/14. (invite link if you haven’t already joined the discord server)

Frozen North and Ocean’s Edge LE’s available!

Here is the series between UPS 4.1 and Kill that UPS!

Technically it will trigger, but because it’s happening simultaneously with the sinking and neither specifies priority, the current player can choose to roll for the crew ejection before the ship sinks or to just let it sink first (which will prevent the roll).

The current player should be the one shooting, so this is an exception to the loser c…[Read more]

When this ship is hit, roll a d6. On a result of 5 or 6, move the crew on this ship with the highest point cost to a wild island chosen by the player to your left.

Does Jonah’s ability apply to a hit that sinks a ship?  Or does the ship sink without needing to roll one last time for the ability?

Is Ghostly Encounter still worth gold if the ship…[Read more]

Planning to go live tomorrow at 8am PST for the first game of Tournament #3. The live streamed game in January went fine, so I scheduled this one. Hopefully will go off without a hitch.  Once all the games of the play-in matchup have been posted, I’ll show the updated tournament bracket.

The first competitive series of the year was a doozy!  Here’s Game 1:

Here’s my latest:

Video(s) of it in action coming this Sunday!

Hi there. I just got back into this game after (somewhat foolishly) donating my old collection back in 2017 (but I’m making plans to get it back). Pirates was my childhood and I still love it to this day, and I’m glad I finally found a group that is still interested in it as well

Welcome aboard, glad to have you here!  😀

What if both players only bring Isles of Fire MI’s? (no islands can be HI’s)  Would you have to just ignore the ability text for all of them?

Isle of Fire: This island can be used only as a wild island. At the beginning of his or her turn, the active player rolls a d6. On a result of 6, randomly eliminate one treasure coin from this island.

Yeah I think that would work, I would just change the last sentence slightly: “This ship gets +1 to her cannon rolls against the target ship and +S to her base move when moving in a direct line toward the target ship.”

I could still see some rules questions coming up. I think you would need to move all segments in the direct line, including the…[Read more]