Ben

You wouldn’t have to use it every turn. Yes the +S is treated like a regular movement bonus, you wouldn’t be required to move in a straight line toward the target ship, but you would be required to move toward the target every turn that ship is a target. I suspect the language might need to be cleared up a bit….

In my opinion, custom creat…[Read more]

Announcing the return of consistent, intense, standard competitive play!

Explosion may be great against The Cursed, but looks quite average otherwise. I think I would price her at 8.

At the beginning of your turn declare an enemy ship a target of this ship. This ship gets +1 to her cannon rolls and +S to her base move against the target ship.

This is pretty unique, not sure how similar it would function to the kraken…[Read more]

You can split it with two silver 1s if you have them, but otherwise change should be made using standard gold coins instead.

Just thought of a strange follow-up. What if the players disagree on how it should be split? Ex: One player wants silver because they have a silver explorer and might try to build a fort with the silver and then bring it…[Read more]

If a ship has multiple gold bonus abilities, such as +2 and +1, should they be recorded separately as different coins at the home island or can they be combined into a new 3 coin?

-If a docked ship loads Plague by any means it immediately becomes undocked.

Does that end the explore action?  Since UT’s are applied before regular treasure is…[Read more]

I’d bring Widow down in cost, probably to the 10-12 range.

The first time each turn that this ship hits another ship, eliminate two masts instead.

I recommend adding “instead of one” at the end.  I know it’s a stretch, but this could be interpreted as “instead of Widow scoring a hit, eliminate two masts from her instead”.

I think the first two ships above would see more usage at these costs:
H’Pka: 9
R’Ki: 11

Utakam and Boldirk both have strong abilities, so I think you’re probably right on the money with their costs.

Regarding spyer abilities, are players allowed to shuffle the cargo on a ship’s deckplate around to make it harder for an opponent to spy something different each turn?  (such as going left to right on face down crew across a deckplate)

“Once per turn, this ship may look at one face-down cargo on any ship.”

Probably a pretty hard thing to…[Read more]

Middle of this post has a list of what I saved, with some useful URLs you can paste into the Internet Archive to view some of the old threads/etc.

Woelf, do you know if “The Navigator” was someone involved with the rules at Wizkids, or a fan of the game in the community?  I’m slowly reorganizing my oldest PCSG document and fixing some links, and came across the name in the original MT rules thread (or at least the biggest/most recent one – 143+ pages!).

Very rare to see the Morning Stars up for grabs.  If any ship other than Obago Deuce might be able to hit $1000, it could be one of those.  Also available are a Raptor Maw, various pack lots, and some DJC LE’s.

Well, that’s all for this game report. Please let me know what you think of it.

Must have been some fancy maneuvering to catch ships that much faster than yours!

I’d probably use captain+helmsman if I had to run Delusion in a 40 point game.

That goes way back to the early days, but I think one of the original intents was to maintain a clear distinction between the coins with a numerical (printed) value and UTs that produce a value, by allowing bonuses to apply only to the ones with printed values.

Interesting. I think it makes more sense when using a “replacement” method for gold…[Read more]

The winners announcement video!  Thanks to all who entered and congratulations!

Reviewing the Fleet Challenge entries!  Winner announcement video coming tomorrow.

In The Pirate Code, it says this about gold bonus abilities that add value to a treasure:

-These abilities have no effect on the values of unique treasures.

Why is that?  How would a player/layperson know not to apply the bonus based on the simple ability text?

One of this ship’s treasures is worth +2 gold when she docks at your home island.

Sleigh pic came in 3rd for the January photo contest 🙂

Went with a Command the Oceans pic for this month

I don’t remember offhand, and can’t check at the moment, but are they numbered or uniquely marked in any way on the back sides?

Only the MI symbol for the ones from MI, but the SS islands are numbered.

The player(s) placing them will know which islands they were placing, but other players will not.

Interesting, that makes sense to me.  So if you…[Read more]

Zeus at $355 as of now!  Also seeing The Kraken up for grabs….

Thanks to all who entered the Fleet Challenge!  The submission deadline has passed and I count 10 entrants!  🙂

My tentative plan is to review the fleets on Saturday, and announce a winner on Sunday. (likely videos for both)