Ben

After exploring this island, place a treasure coin from your collection with value equal to or less than one you took on the island.

The way it’s written, Mysterious Island #7 would allow you to replace a coin with a UT (likely worth 0 gold).  I’d imagine that’s not the intent, but the 0’s from the last sets would provide a good counterpoint to that.

Sorry if some of these are obvious or repeats.

Does a ship with an Explorer have to look at coins when it docks and explores or can it just mark the island explored?
Do you have to place a ship at a different whirlpool when the Whirlpool UT is triggered?
If a ship is only in contact with a ship stealer such as the Harbinger by the jib/foremast…[Read more]

Interesting segment of a different podcast where James Ernest talks about the origins of the game/etc.

If the island treasure trading ability is used to receive a UT that can’t be loaded, does the UT still apply? (and stay on the island, for example with Altar of the Loa)

After looking at treasure on a wild island, you may trade any one treasure from that island for a random treasure on any other wild island. This ship must load the traded…

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Altar Abuse (40 point standard)
Hai Peng + Bartholomew Roberts, helmsman, explorer, oarsman
Patagonia + Robinson, Administrator Scott Bratley, Lord Mycron
Bloody Jewel + helmsman, explorers x2, oarsmen x2
Treasure contribution: Altar of the Loa, Maps of Alexandria, Pirate Globe, Marksman’s Map, Abandoned Oarsman, three 5’s
Forts on hand: all…[Read more]

SCS sealed booster box!  Just when I thought my collecting/hoarding luck couldn’t get any better.  It’s almost like opportunities are just falling into my lap.  🙂

Supermassive free hoard unboxing!

@Woelf: Do you know if cancellers were costed at 5 points partially to allow players to bring them in with 0LR+5 crew to counter things like Submarines/etc?  (or if 0LR+5’s were introduced to allow the kind of “canceller flexibility” that would be helpful in later expansions when things like Submarine/Eternal/etc were introduced – not sure how…[Read more]

Can a home island raider dock at an enemy home island if there aren’t any coins there?

Pretty sure I’ve asked this but not seeing it via the forum search: If you start your turn on a sargasso sea but you didn’t get stuck last turn, do you have to roll since you’re sailing over it?  Or would you only roll if you contact a NEW sargasso sea during…[Read more]

Its been a while since I have last had the opportunity to engage with Pirates csg. Im glad to be see that there is an active community even after Pirates has long been out of print.

Ahoy matey, welcome aboard!  I love the strategy complexities as well, to the point where I made a post about it last year.

1st Edition SM box with bidding starting at ~$199

@Woelf: Do you know if there is a reason that Wizkids often used the term “boarding action” instead of “boarding party”?

Seems to me that using “boarding party” would avoid potential confusion for players thinking that boarding is (maybe only for certain abilities) a full action.

I present the Sea Beast keyword.

I like this a lot.  My hunch is that playtesting would go well.

Can you reveal a face down UT such as Runes of Odin to play it from your home island after unloading it there, or do face down UT’s have to be on ships in order to be revealed and used?

In multiplayer games, is gold on sunken ships revealed when it’s removed from the game?  Or do you have to rely on asking the player whose ship sunk what they…[Read more]

I assume you can stack the uncommon versions of equipment like exploding shot with the LE variants because they have slightly different effects/drawbacks? (just confirming since a “trigger” could be different than a drawback)