Ben

Here is the first of a bunch of random short videos from my trip to Las Vegas and Los Angeles.  🙂

Can’t wait to see this game in person in a few days!  😀

Hyped that the game has begun!  😀

Can you target a ship that cannot be shot at while docked with Neptune’s Trident?

Can you finish taking treasures from an island that the Whirlpool UT is found on?

It’s probably not even remotely worth the effort/cost required to do it, but it is possible.

And then you get the Eye of Maru aboard (from RtSS) for a 16L freak cannon?  XD

Feel free to take any of the surveys you haven’t already!

Fleets sorted by vote count

Today is June 27th 2021.  10 years ago today I joined Miniature Trading!  Although the site shut down on July 1st 2019, it was the hub of Pirates CSG on the internet for about the full 11 years since Wizkids shut down on November 10th 2008.

I made a youtube video of MT in its final days: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNUolUn2s3w

Privateer pieces are not eliminated if they dock at an island that shares a port and a fort.

Is that only possible/relevant at Voya Nui?

Is it ever confusing switching back and forth between CoEC and CG4 due to the rules differences?  Though I suppose the digital vs. physical aspect might make it easier.  Maybe some aspects of CoEC could be a…[Read more]

Just updated my “legal post” with a bunch of good links at the top.

I controlled the Spanish and the Cursed.

Congrats and huzzah!

However, he’s controlling them again for this year and has literally been plotting and strategizing since they were eliminated.

Nice, hopefully I’ll see them in action before too long.

It’ll be weird starting CG5 for when Cg4 eventually ends.

That might be an if… something has onl…[Read more]

Absolutely staggering.  O_O  That is amazing that only THIS turn (that I’m currently working on) in CG4 will beat either of those fleets for ship and point counts (with the Pirates of course).  Insane that you had two fleets in one game that were BOTH bigger than ANY previous fleets ever seen, by both ship (previous high 131 by Pirates in CTO, or…[Read more]

Good questions… for gameplay, tough to pick between Behemoth, Raninoidea, and Namazu.

For looks: Ophidious

How the hell did Spain get their 1000 gold coin from the Branwen??!

I won’t be too happy with the Spanish if the Pirates narrowly beat them in ship count at the end partly as a result of this truce… all very interesting nonetheless.  And maybe the Spanish didn’t know at the time that the end was near….

I said whoa out loud like 3 times when I saw that Branwen move.  THAT’S THE KINDA PLAY I’M TALKING ABOUT!! XD  😀

I love how the Spanish protected El Acorazado.

Really impressed by that random group of Furia, Antamasia, and Clear Wind.  They did a great job.

17:19 is a picture of the year candidate IMO.  Especially at full screen.  Not only…[Read more]

Glad the Spanish are trying hard to preserve the Santisima Trinidad.

That Baochuan town capture was epic to me, nice appearance all of a sudden and coup by the Pirates.

Wow the Zeus is basically running over the VW and Divine Wind!

Can Windcatcher be copied to a 10 master to allow it the 180 rotation?

The Code says: “-If part of a keyword refers to a specific ship type, such as catamaran or submarine, that part can be used only by ships of that ship type. Copying a keyword does not change a ship’s type.”  Windcatcher starts with “when a ship with this keyword”….