Ben

His gold bonus would apply to both the ship he’s on and the target of the trade, yes?

Yes

Suppose the players managed to pull off three trades with Dutch and Japanese ships, does the ship he’s on get a collective +3, or would it be more like three separate +1’s

Technically either way works as it depends on how treasure bonuses are track…[Read more]

A crew from Seas of Japan Part 3!

Jan Joosten
Nationality: Dutch
Point Cost: 3
Ability: Loyal: Japan. Merchant. This crew can use their abilities on Japanese ships. If this crew trades with an enemy Dutch or Japanese ship, one treasure on each ship is worth +1 gold.
Link: De Liefde, William Adams, Jacob Quaeckernaeck, Melchior van…[Read more]

Introducing: the Merchant ability!
The idea of a crew that is a Merchant or Trader (leaning towards Merchant for the name). The Age of Sail is littered with people who weren’t pirates or warlords, but the game doesn’t have many ways or abilities to reflect on amicable relations.

This is something I’ve developed for Seas of Japan Part 3 that I…[Read more]

4 Fleets, 70 Points: Debut of the Portuguese, Carrack model, and Merchant ability!

Does Runes of Defense activate upon a successful ram? The UT says “when one of this ship’s masts is eliminated”, but under the ram rules it also says “remove from the game”.

If it does work and the ship is moved away after the ram damage is undone by the rune, I assume boarding can still occur as normal even though the ships likely aren’t t…[Read more]

Is there a cleaned up version of vulkan’s 2 masted Junk? I do not see it listed.

Unsure, those are his files

Taicang – The first-ever 7 masted ship of any kind in Pirates CSG history!

Nationality: Jade Rebellion
Point Cost: 18
Masts: 7
Cargo: 8
Base Move: S
Cannons: 5S-5S-4L-4L-5L-4S-4S
Ability: Junk. Once per round of turns, if this ship carries treasure and is within S of any ship or island, you may randomly trade one treasure from this ship with up…[Read more]

I recall asking this question at the MT rules thread but can’t recall the answer.

If a ship physically cannot move a segment during a move action due to other ships (or other objects/game pieces) being in the way, is it stuck or can it move the closest possible distance even if the direction isn’t game-legal?

I think a better example than this…[Read more]

If you want this new Carrack ship design and the first Portuguese game pieces ever published for Pirates CSG, sign up for the Buccaneer’s Booty Box by 11:59pm PST on March 15th!

Is there a rule document that indicates the point value associated with each keyword/ability. ?

Also a formula to determine the point value of a game piece or a ship based on its specific stats?

Not a rule document, but you can figure out some of the crew ability costs pretty easily, although some changed over time. You can see some of them at…[Read more]

Fittingly enough, this month’s Mega Pack theme is RtSCS (Return to South China Sea), and this month marks 20 years since the original SCS set came out!

Here are some previews….

Ooooh. A new Red Seal ship. That’s quite the speed and cargo for this one, and not too expensive point cost wise. Looking forward to seeing the rest of the mega pack!

Thanks!  Your copy is en route to you 🙂

Nagoya

Nationality: Japanese
Point Cost: 10
Masts: 3
Cargo: 5
Base Move: S+L
Cannons: 3S-4L-5L
Ability: This ship can use Parley against Jade Rebellion and Portuguese ships.
Link: Murayama Tōan

I really want a cursed fort but I don’t know enough about them to make a balanced one. Does anyone have the stats for one you’ve made by chance?

I have some custom Cursed forts in my Epic Seas custom set.

And if you do, would you mind if I used the stats to get a custom one printed. Thank you in advance.

I’m fine with that, though if you mean to p…[Read more]

Finally here in regular inventory: https://pirateswithben.com/product/franklins-lost-expedition/

You can see some of them here in the Scan Project.

Welcome back aboard matey!

MI’s are special islands with effects when you dock at them, from the Mysterious Islands and Savage Shores sets.