Ben

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/

It doesn’t explicitly disable the 0-point rule, but that’s implied, because otherwise it largely defeats the purpose of Ransom.   You CAN transfer the captured Ransom crew to other ships in your fleet, regardless of nationality, but the only island you can unload it to is your home island.

I’m finding that quite confusing.  This is how I see it…[Read more]

Just to confirm: If you capture an enemy ship that has a Ransom crew on it, and the two ships are of different nationalities, you cannot transfer the Ransom crew to the towing ship due to the rule that 0-point crew can only be assigned to ships of their own nationality?

Why does the Pirate Code make an exception to the above 0-point crew…[Read more]

Panda is fun!  Nice new little ability twist.

Hi! I had a “chicken or the egg” style of question referring to the working in parallel with Game Design team on the first set.

Which mechanics arose from the constraints of the physical ships?

Versus:

What changes to the physical ships were made specifically to aid the gameplay mechanics?

Here is the episode – I think it’s mostly answered in…[Read more]

Part 8 wraps up the epic discussion with PCSG game designer Mike Mulvihill!

Uhyggelig feels underwhelming to me. I could see her at 10 points.

Is Abraham’s +2 bonus for cannon and boarding rolls? It might be better to have a semicolon so it doesn’t seem like a separate ability. I could see someone construing it as +2 to d6 rolls against sea creatures. I’m not sure if I love Wizkids’ way of doing it, but it is pretty…[Read more]

2 packs of Revolution are on the way to help get my partner into the game. Looking forward to deep diving into the podcast and looking at some of these custom sets!

Awesome!  Thanks for the kind words and glad to have you aboard matey!

Namazu and the Trident target an area rather than any ship specifically, so Parley won’t work even if it’s the only ship within that target area.

That also means that Namazu could effectively “shoot” (just not with its cannons) at ships docked at a home island, correct?

If a ship has both of these abilities aboard:

-Masts on this ship cannot be eliminated by shots unless the cannon roll is a 6.

-Two hits from the same shoot action are required to eliminate one of this ship’s masts.

Does the first hit of each pair also have to be a 6, or can it be any regular hit because only the second hit would actually e…[Read more]

Not my box, but it was fun to pop these open with Sean!