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Ben replied to the topic The Videos Thread in the forum Pirates CSG 5 years, 1 month ago
One of my favorite ideas I’ve had for this game:
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Ben replied to the topic Battle Reports in the forum Pirates CSG 5 years, 1 month ago
Just finished the reports from my trip to Vegas and LA! I played with Captain Randy plus Xerecs and his brothers! 😀
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Ben wrote a new post 5 years, 1 month ago
It finally happened!! I met up with Xerecs, The Lord Sentinel and his 2 brothers in real life and we played Pirates! Although most of our time was spent on CoEC and Pirates discussions the day before, we were ab […]
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Can’t wait for another in-person game! Maybe next time if you come out during the fall or spring we can get a larger game in. Or, we can plan ahead and see about you taking over for a round of a Summer game. 😀
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Yeah someday! XD
I think I’d have trouble jumping into CoEC – the sheer volume of crew combinations to learn and existing strategic elements to understand would take a time commitment. It’s a good lesson for why people will probably be too intimidated to guest play turns in the Caribbean and World games once those eventually continue/start.-
We could try and line it up for the beginning of a game….. That would be something.
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Ben replied to the topic Rules for thought #45 – Reloading, Recruiting, and Randomizing the turn order in the forum Pirates CSG 5 years, 1 month ago
I typically play 3 player games (when not in campaign mode), and determine player order a couple of ways. All players roll dice and highest goes first, with play continuing to the left.
I think that’s the best way to do it. Once in a while you have the issue of whoever goes first gets attacked (since the starting player can’t shoot at anyone…[Read more]
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Ben replied to the topic Rules for thought #44 – Boarding ships that are already touching in the forum Pirates CSG 5 years, 1 month ago
Boarding in general should/could be overhauled.
I definitely want any future rules to have the house rule that the winner gets to choose whether to eliminate crew or steal treasure, and choose which treasure gets stolen. However, I’m also in favor of doing away with ram damage, which might make boarding even less likely to happen. A pretty d…[Read more]
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Ben replied to the topic Rules for thought #43 – Automatic unloading at home islands in the forum Pirates CSG 5 years, 1 month ago
From reading this, it seems I’ve been playing gold bonus ships and crew wrong. When a ship unloads treasure and has a bonus, I get a new coin to represent that bonus and place it on the home island.
For example: La Santa Isabel docks at home and unloads 3 coins. The gold bonus kicks in, giving one of them a +2 to value. I go and get a spare 2 c…
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Ben replied to the topic Looking for Opinions and Discussion on Rules/etc. in the forum Pirates CSG 5 years, 1 month ago
I do believe that fixing, or clarifying rulings would be slightly more important, especially where Creatures are concerned.
What fixes or clarifications would you make there?
Furthermore, players don’t input the gold, the “house” does. We agree upon a number of coins per island, and if and how many random UT’s we use.
During T1 and T2, did you enj…[Read more]
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Ben replied to the topic Century of Economy 2021 in the forum Pirates CSG 5 years, 1 month ago
We are back! Report 5 is now up!
Exciting stuff, glad to know that things are progressing! 😉
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Ben wrote a new post 5 years, 1 month ago
Four Player Game at 100 Points
Las Vegas, NV
July 5th, 2021
Ahoy everyone! This is a game I played with Captain Randy and his friends Curren and Drew in Las Vegas on 7/5/2021. It was a four player game wi […]
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Ben started the topic Rules for thought #45 – Reloading, Recruiting, and Randomizing the turn order in the forum Pirates CSG 5 years, 1 month ago
Now that the Rules survey has some results (61 responses as of this post), I think it would be a good idea to discuss some various options in detail.
Are there any other changes to the 4 main actions you would recommend? Any new main actions you would add?
realoading guns that fired for one turn before shooting them again. If a 5 mast ship sh…
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Ben replied to the topic Rules for thought #43 – Automatic unloading at home islands in the forum Pirates CSG 5 years, 1 month ago
On the other hand, there are things like suicide fleets designed specifically to end the game as quickly as possible, with just enough of an advantage to claim the win, or simply to irritate other players who had longer-term plans.
Have you seen fleets like that be effective at winning games? Unless there are always icebergs around, it seems…[Read more]
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Ben started the topic Rules for thought #44 – Boarding ships that are already touching in the forum Pirates CSG 5 years, 1 month ago
Now that the Rules survey has some results (61 responses as of this post), I think it would be a good idea to discuss some various options in detail.
Boarding could be an action on its own so if a ship rams, each turn as long as they were pinned they’d be able to initiate a board.
Would a free action be the best way to handle this?
I do like the…[Read more]
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Ben wrote a new post 5 years, 1 month ago
Fourth of July 2021 with Captain Randy
This was the 60 point game that Captain Randy and I played on the Fourth of July 2021! We drove southeast of his place in Las Vegas to his houseboat on Lake Mead! The ga […]
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Ben started the topic Rules for thought #43 – Automatic unloading at home islands in the forum Pirates CSG 5 years, 1 month ago
Now that the Rules survey has some results (61 responses as of this post), I think it would be a good idea to discuss some various options in detail.
“Why would you not want to unload standard treasure at your home island?”
Trade Route (whether used by you or an opponent), gold is safer on ship X, do not want the game to end, etc.
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Ben started the topic Looking for Opinions and Discussion on Rules/etc. in the forum Pirates CSG 5 years, 1 month ago
What is more important:
- Fixing point costs? OR
- Fixing rules?
I would love to hear some feedback on this. Would you rather have things costed appropriately (ie the Banshee’s Cry more expensive than 3 points and Le Solitaire less expensive than 17 points) or rules issues fixed? (such as confusion on sea creature vs. sea monster, link o…[Read more]
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Ben replied to the topic Introduce Yourself! Join the Crew! in the forum Pirates CSG 5 years, 1 month ago
@georgee: Great story, thanks for sharing!
Maybe see if anyone still does any gaming with it too, though I am completely out of the loop on how I would even go about that.
The VASSAL module is a way to play Pirates CSG virtually.
If you’re looking for physical games in your local area, the Player Locator map might help. 🙂 Welcome aboard!
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Ben wrote a new post 5 years, 1 month ago
Ahoy again! This was the first of three games I played with Captain Randy in Las Vegas during July 2021. We were joined by his friend Curren for a 3 player 60 point game.
I played the Americans, Captain R […]
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Ben replied to the topic The Videos Thread in the forum Pirates CSG 5 years, 1 month ago
Here is the first of a bunch of random short videos from my trip to Las Vegas and Los Angeles. 🙂
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Ben commented on the post, Command the Oceans – Rules and Conditions (9/10/2017) 5 years, 1 month ago
Thank you!
That wind system sounds quite interesting. I’ve only used wind rules a few times, with a similar but more basic system: mainly in the Experimental cumulative game and 6×150.Do you ever have problems determining if a ship is going with/against the wind or not? Do ships get the bonus if only one move segment is with the wind?
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Ben replied to the topic Century of Economy 2021 in the forum Pirates CSG 5 years, 2 months ago
Can’t wait to see this game in person in a few days! 😀
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