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Ben wrote a new post 4 years ago
Water World Returns
8/31/2022
The first game of seven on my 2022 Las Vegas trip saw the return of brettb45’s Water World scenario! This is a super fun game idea I pretty much always enjoy playing. We played a […]
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Ben replied to the topic Custom Ships (post your custom game pieces here!) in the forum Pirates CSG 4 years, 1 month ago
Is it possible to upload an spread sheet document? That the format I have until I get bact to my computer.
No, but you can try copying and pasting the text from it into a post here, or better yet share a google sheets/etc link to an online version of the spreadsheet. I can also make a sheet for you in the Customs Database if you want.
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Ben commented on the post, ELEVEN Player Game in Portland Oregon!! August 27th, 2022 4 years, 1 month ago
Cool. The game was definitely a bit of a crapshoot, though we expected that. It’s hard to strategize when there’s so little room to make your strategies work, and with so few coins to go around. I’m actually still surprised only one player was shut out.
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Ben commented on the post, ELEVEN Player Game in Portland Oregon!! August 27th, 2022 4 years, 1 month ago
Yeah, I think collection choices and the 40 point limit prevented those factions for the most part. I think somebody said they wanted to go Vikings but the fleet wasn’t going to be much good.
Haha that would be epic. I don’t anticipate seeing this many players again for a while, but perhaps it could happen!
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Ben commented on the post, EPIC SCALE PIRATES – Game with Captain Redgoat in Portland Oregon! (August 27th, 2022) 4 years, 1 month ago
Yeah we’re definitely planning to get the big ships out to some parks before it gets cold up here!
Yeah, I’ve got another youtube video coming where he talks about that. More could definitely be created. I think a campaign with supersized stuff would be far more pain than it would be worth. Plus you’d want to play indoors since the foamboard…[Read more]
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Ben replied to the topic Battle Reports in the forum Pirates CSG 4 years, 1 month ago
Some big bucket list goals hit yesterday.
Epic Scale Pirates with Redgoat from PDXYAR
11 player game in Portland OR, establishing a new record for most players in a game for me personally.
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Ben wrote a new post 4 years, 1 month ago
ELEVEN Player Game
Mox Boarding House in Portland Oregon
8/27/2022
With a HUGE amount of help from Redgoat and Witch, I met up with a ton of people at Mox Boarding House in Portland Oregon for a whopping ELEVEN […]
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Hmmm. No one used the Cursed, Jades or Vikings. Interesting. Cursed could have been a very interesting faction choice given some of the “fast” monsters in DJC and giving them captain as a built in house rule. Perhaps next time. 😀
Anywho, an awesome read and an epic event in recorded Pirates history! Repeating myself a bit but I’m gonna have to find some time at some point and head on up there for a while, maybe bring Darkhurst and Gingerninja with. That could lead to a 14-15 player game. 0.0
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Yeah, I think collection choices and the 40 point limit prevented those factions for the most part. I think somebody said they wanted to go Vikings but the fleet wasn’t going to be much good.
Haha that would be epic. I don’t anticipate seeing this many players again for a while, but perhaps it could happen!
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Given the scenario I’ve been thinking of a 40 point Cursed fleet. My main hurdle is that I don’t own Gog-Cloctoth, I think, and which direction I’d want to go with said fleet. One route does focus on gold, the other is more combat oriented.
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Cool. The game was definitely a bit of a crapshoot, though we expected that. It’s hard to strategize when there’s so little room to make your strategies work, and with so few coins to go around. I’m actually still surprised only one player was shut out.
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Ben replied to the topic The Podcast Thread in the forum Pirates CSG 4 years, 1 month ago
Pirates CSG Podcast #54: Captain Redgoat!
You can listen to the audio via Anchor!Questions of the Day:
Ben: What is the highest number of players you’ve seen in a game?
Redgoat: What is your favorite historical ship?Audio version: https://anchor.fm/a7xfanben/
You can also listen…[Read more]
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Ben wrote a new post 4 years, 1 month ago
Pirates CSG Podcast #54: Captain Redgoat!Pirates CSG Podcast #54: Captain Redgoat! You can listen to the audioContinue reading→
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Ben wrote a new post 4 years, 1 month ago
EPIC SCALE PIRATES
Playing with Captain Redgoat in Portland Oregon!
8/27/2022
I met up with Captain Redgoat in Portland Oregon! One of the founding and leading members of PDXYAR (also known as “the Portland g […]
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I’m gonna have to figure out when I can take some time off and head up there for a week or so. Pirates convention anyone? 😀
Super cool to see the giant ships in action! Did you and Redgoat discuss how the ships were made? If it’s not too difficult more ships could reach Epic scale, though I don’t think you’d be able to play a campaign at Epic Scale. Probably. 😀
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Yeah we’re definitely planning to get the big ships out to some parks before it gets cold up here!
Yeah, I’ve got another youtube video coming where he talks about that. More could definitely be created. I think a campaign with supersized stuff would be far more pain than it would be worth. Plus you’d want to play indoors since the foamboard doesn’t stand up to the rain/elements well. So you’d need like a warehouse lol.
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Ben commented on the post, Pirates of the Caribbean movies – Ranking them all! 4 years, 1 month ago
Yeah, a bit of regression similar to what we saw through the Pirates CSG production run. Though, similar to Pirates, I’ll still be buying whatever they come up with next. Pirates 6 is looking more likely now. 😀 To me even a subpar PotC movie is still better than ~98% of movies I watch.
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Ben replied to the topic Introduce Yourself! Join the Crew! in the forum Pirates CSG 4 years, 1 month ago
Ahoy there Wayland, welcome aboard!
At this point I just horde my collection. Not many people play here and I play really large games.
Nice, sounds kinda like me! Feel free to add yourself to the Player Locator Map if you haven’t already.
I occasionally make homebrew ships or try to make a video version of pirates.
Awesome! We have threads for
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Ben started the topic Questions for Redgoat of PDXYAR! in the forum Pirates CSG 4 years, 1 month ago
I expect to meet up with Captain Redgoat in Portland Oregon this weekend! He was one of the founding members of PDXYAR, a Pirate group that got their origins from Pirates CSG. Here are the questions I plan to ask him on a video or podcast; feel free to comment your own!
How did you get into Pirates CSG?
How did PDXYAR start?
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Ben replied to the topic Questions About Game Rules & The Pirate Code in the forum Pirates CSG 4 years, 1 month ago
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.
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Ben wrote a new post 4 years, 1 month ago
Teaching a Player and their first game!
8/21/2022
It’s been too long since I was teaching a player how to play Pirates! I met up with my friend for her first game. I made both fleets and we would generally b […]
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Ben replied to the topic Questions About Game Rules & The Pirate Code in the forum Pirates CSG 4 years, 1 month ago
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?
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Ben replied to the topic The Podcast Thread in the forum Pirates CSG 4 years, 1 month ago
Interesting segment of a different podcast where James Ernest talks about the origins of the game/etc.
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Ben replied to the topic Questions About Game Rules & The Pirate Code in the forum Pirates CSG 4 years, 1 month ago
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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Ben replied to the topic The Fleets Thread in the forum Pirates CSG 4 years, 1 month ago
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
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Ben replied to the topic Show Off Your Collection! in the forum Pirates CSG 4 years, 1 month ago
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. 🙂
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