Ben

How do you guys scale games for different point totals?

A lot of times I don’t.  I often just go with what feels right/fun.  Adding more islands will probably lead to less competition and often less fighting as a result.  Adding more gold is likely to make the game longer.

Unless you’re getting to 300+ points in play (4 players/fleets at 80 po…[Read more]

Hmm….. Now who could that be….?

A real person that is not playing CoEC.  A different oceans of vastly different proportions exists…..

Ahhhh… a “normal” campaign of Pirates with “normal” turns… can’t say I’ve had any of that lately. 😂😂😈😈😈Those cancellers should cancel each other out right? Don’t see what the issue was.
This is awesome, was one of the highlights of my day. 🙂
I hope Voya Nui gets fought over sometime.
Yeah I saw Thok recently…I think I’ve been a little…[Read more]

Also @Xerecs: Regarding the Mask of Creation UT-

Once per turn roll a d6. On a result of 6 place up to three random treasures on the nearest wild island. If there is a tie, the player to your left chooses which island.

Are these 3 “random” treasures from outside the game?

To minimize the potential for ships breaking, taking them apart and putting each ship in a separate bag would be best.

If that doesn’t happen, I would just recommend good padding around the box and try to have it be full so that the ships can’t roll from one end of the box to another when the box is being moved.  And separate the cards from the…[Read more]

@Xerecs: I assume crew captured with Captain Shamshere also don’t count against the point limit of his ship?

Captain. If this ship wins a boarding party, she may capture all of the enemy ships crew. Captives become assigned to this ship, take up no cargo space, and may use their abilities. Captives cannot leave this ship.

Regarding the Arcane custom ship from JW Darkhurst’s Seas of Doom set:

Once per turn, you may give this ship a move action, but do not move her. Instead, roll a d6. On a result of 6, you may place a Unique Treasure on any ship in your fleet.

Is there any way to get around that once per turn part?  From this post last month it sounds like the A…[Read more]

@Xerecs: Concerning the Matatu UT from Spherus Magna:

Give this ship a move action but do not move her. Instead you may move any other ship within 3L of this ship.

Does this mean you can give a move action to another ship within 3L of the first ship, or does it mean you can move any ship in play from its original location to anywhere within 3L of…[Read more]

I’m not actually sure if the Three Musketeer cards were ever officially released btw

They’re part of BC.

Very happy to see the forum so active lately.  Huzzah!  😀

Soon something else will become more active….

Which crew? I didn’t see mention of them in the original post.

Cursed Captain Jack; I moved the last few posts here because I didn’t want the Introductions thread to further develop into a rules-only discussion.

Huge lot with 500+ ships including the Zeus and Baochuan!

is this crew not op then, cause it f*cks up every over Point builded ships also mixed nation ships?

It’s overpowered indeed.  Which is part of why I went after him in VASSAL Campaign Game 1.

not globally ALL ships and crews are effected?

This is the case.  Check out Page 33 of the Code for a bunch of good extra information.

–All abilities, with the exception of Parley, are ignored regardless of their sources. This includes the abilities of ships, sea creatures, crew, equipment, forts, unique treasure, and events.

What other crew or ships have an ability that was only ever printed once?

My podcast partner Godmason actually made that exact list.  I made sure to archive the forum page, I have a picture as backup, and from the MT thread I extracted the link to his spreadsheet.  😀

Most of these are quite common, though you have a point in saying some of the…[Read more]

Today is the one year anniversary of the day that Miniature Trading sank.  I made a video a few days prior for a “final” look at the site.

I don’t even remember if the rules state that a ship can fire at multiple targets or not. That’s the way I have always played, so I guess it would depend on your ruleset.

They certainly can.  Makes things more interesting.