Ben

Happy to be on the podium for another BGG monthly photo contest.  🙂  Feel free to vote for my outdoor pic for this month.

The Wikipedia page for the game has been heavily edited and cut down by others due to the page supposedly not adhering to Wikipedia’s rules.  I have preserved the older version with valuable collecting information here in this post.

Can a 0 coin become negative in value (-1) due to the Rats UT?

I would argue that Unique Treasures and rare coins (such as 0’s, shiny silver, etc) are one of the most irreplaceable types of game pieces.
Crew are proxied all the time, and new copies are easily made. They are also usually on the “sidelines” of a game where having a perfect back (showing the faction flag) is often not considered, or can have any…[Read more]

HWG added a lot of sets to their inventory today, and have a small Black Friday sale on RVx9 through Monday!

Blindside feels too cheap.  How does Black Mark work on a ship?  It’s only worded for crew so I think you’d need to make a new ability.  I think I get the general gist, but would it be mandatory to use it?  (or declare it’s being used from the start of a game)

Same deal as the above post: HWG PotCx36 (sale through 11/30)

Hydra is interesting. Cannon ability is too hard to use with Mercenary, but the last ability could allow it to operate at sea for quite some time.

I think Shadow of Cygnus should be at least 1-2 points higher; it’s probably at least as good as Forward.

Cutlass looks like a good specialty ship.  Defining “defensive abilities” could get a little ugly, especially with the introduction of new custom abilities.  For example, could that ability itself be cancelled?  If not, could the ship’s ability shut down an enemy canceller if the canceller was trying to cancel the ship’s Captain?

Hero’s Blade se…[Read more]

Let me know if you’re in Las Vegas and can play Pirates!

We’re looking at a larger-scale meetup at Dice Tower West in early March 2024!

Algolmantis here and I’m glad to be back in the scene but my username is just my gamertag. I used to play Pirates way back when it first came out and to my delight it made a pretty decent splash at our FLGS.

Welcome aboard matey, glad to have you here!

Both of those look interesting, and pretty neat.  Maybe you’ll use the Vassal on VASSAL in CG4.  XD

The root of the issue is that Ransom was introduced in Crimson Coast, while the 0-Point rule was added later in Revolution, but Ransom was never updated to address it directly.

Interesting, I didn’t know about that part.  I could ask Piranha if he remembers any direction from Wizkids about it.

I’m not so sure it should override the 0-point crew…[Read more]

The Mike Mulvihill Supercut podcast is here! No new content vs. the 8 separately released episodes, but I wanted to have it available all in one place and one file. 8+ hours of Pirates info and discussion! 😀
https://pirateswithben.com/pirates-csg-podcast-mike-mulvihill-supercut/