Ben

It’s the Glorious First of June!

cakes1974 has a HUGE amount of impressive stuff up right now, in addition to the usual bidding fun.

@Woelf: Just to confirm, the ignoring terrain ability does not allow you to shoot while overlapping a fog bank either?  (similar to Ghost Ship as discussed above)

Today is the 4 year anniversary of VASSAL Campaign Game 4 starting up!

VASSAL Campaign Game 4

https://pirateswithben.com/tag/cg4/

Does towing an enemy derelict count as “capturing” that ship, for the purposes of meeting the requirements of the Ransom keyword?

Yes.

@Woelf: When Unique Treasures are revealed at a wild island, does the exploring player choose the order in which the UT effects are applied?  (I know I’ve asked this before but I can’t find the answer in the Code…[Read more]

CC booster box in Poland (possibly better for European buyers)

old_man tells me he has sold his entire Pirates CSG collection with the exception of his custom made Vieil Homme.  🙁   Asking about where his SiaB’s and Obago Deuce may have ended up.

From this old FAQ, does this part about Ghost Ships and fog banks still hold true? (for regular fog banks, not those created by smokepot specialists/shot)

Q: If a ship becomes “ghostly” while in a fog bank and is forced to leave the fog bank, where does she exit?

A: She can exit at any point along the edge of the fog bank!

Are there any events that you’ve used before that you feel have added to the game at all or do you think events are just a badly done mechanic in general?

I think they’re a bad mechanic and should be avoided. Some of them feel like magic, such as Becalmed and Hidden Cove (both severely overpowered). I know some abilities behave like magic too, b…[Read more]

Do any of you guys use events at all or do people just generally avoid them?

I hate them and vastly prefer playing games where they are banned (which happens in most of the games I’ve played nowadays).  The last time I used them consistently was just for the competitive fleets in VASSAL Tournament #2, but even then Xerecs and I banned mermaids and FotG.

What other questionable ones are out there that need it, besides the Runes and the Cross?

Not sure off hand.

-If a UT is loaded facedown and can be revealed voluntarily later, including as a response to an opponent’s actions or effects (such as a die roll), it can be used once per round.

This clears things up!  Thanks.  Now to find more exploits…. 😉

Has playing the fleets started yet?

+1 to CrazyIvan as a great trader!

On Nemo’s Plans with Runes of Thor:

Similar applies to these.   You could use it against a ram roll, then a boarding roll, and then a single shoot action roll, but you can’t use it on every single die rolled during a single shoot action.

The discussion from 2020 gave me the impression that this couldn’t be done.  Is there something I’m missing?

I’m assuming you’re probably wanting them for collection purposes so this might not be what you’re looking for, but I thought I’d put a post in case you were just wanting them for actual play.

I would be fine having them punched.  🙂

@CrazyIvan: Welcome aboard matey!

I think I first played the game some time around 2010 or 2011 when my older brother came across a box of the Pirates of the Caribbean set that was on clearance sale from a stationary store. He bought a couple of packs before we then decided to go back and grab as many as we could. In the end we managed to get our…

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