Ben

What I might do is move Hag over to Venture (which gives an added bonus of her not being capturable)…

I know I’m being nitpicky, but someone could still nab her using a Gold Capture crew like Bonny Peel.  🙂

The temptation to break restrictions to optimize a Pirate fleet using their underpriced or OP stuff is almost always present.  I think i…[Read more]

Ahoy Lukas, welcome aboard!

Please post future Rules questions in the Rules thread. (after checking The Pirate Code to see if that answers the question)

1. When super rare Jack Sparrow rolls a 6, do all Crew drop off if their is an ability like Ship can carry english Crew or Crew costs no points etc. Or is the Jack Sparrow to read: it just…

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@Jack: It’s a neat idea thematically.  I think the biggest problem would be predictability, as the rich get richer effect so prevalent in campaign games would likely take over and a runaway leader would be difficult to stop.

I think this is also where keeping treasure face down would be best, just as in the regular multiplayer rules.

Multiplayer…

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Howdy, I’m wissenlander in most areas.

Ahoy matey, welcome aboard!

I got this handle a while back when playing Warhammer Fantasy.  I played Empire and Wissenland was my favorite province.

Uh oh, more ideas for customs for Xerecs and JW Darkhurst!  😉

Glad to have you aboard!

Not seeing a dedicated fleet thread

Maybe it was on the second page of the forum before I moved your post, but it’s still here!

I want a fleet that feels like a ragtag team of pirates instead of a couple super strong ones. Three of the four “main characters” of the franchise show up, with Jack and Cat captaining the ships that are supposed to be…

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The Pirate controller told me he didn’t want to use Events, but he said he felt forced to in order to get around the Phantom. I don’t exclusively ban them for games like this, it’s just that my brothers and I typically don’t use them.

And there you go – that’s part of the problem with OP and/or underpriced stuff.  You have to use similarl…[Read more]

@Xerecs: Great combo to let the Baochuan unload within S of home.
Events should definitely be banned in games like this! The Cursed could have bought Mermaids earlier in the game to slow the Pirate attacks.
Wow, a dragon fight! Don’t think I’ve seen that before. Makes me shocked I haven’t considered Saphira and Thorn/etc as potential customs,…[Read more]

Peace Negotiations my playgroup has used in various ways from using it to protect a gold runners to secure a good gold run to players setting themselves up for a devastating blow to the opponent.

That does sound quite powerful; do you think it should at least cost something rather than being free?  When something like that is 0 points, every…[Read more]

Not too much up right now, but the Shui Xian has been setting all kinds of records for herself lately.  She went for $79 not too long ago, and just sold for $117.50!  Her average auction price is up to $37.21.  The GF9 ship has stabilized, consistently going for between $10 and $20 lately.

@Avery: Neat set! I’m happy to finally get around to looking at it in detail.

Why do you describe the set as “Uff Da”? (I looked up the meaning but don’t quite understand)
There are a few styling things I feel would make it easier to look through some of the set. You could consider italicizing the flavor text, and do a hyphen instead of a comma…[Read more]

Glad you like it!

🙂  I don’t know yet if I like it, but it’s certainly interesting.  I just realized that I think it could be used to “repair” sea creatures.  O_O  And if it had an ability that let it shoot at submerged ships, I suppose the replacement could happen while the creature was submerged since it’s not a repair action of any kin…[Read more]

How cool would it be to see Fort Jefferson in the game at the same scale as the ships?  😀

Oh boy… I’m probably missing something, but I don’t see anything in the rules or Code that prevents you from taking enemy crew (or equipment) from their home island when you dock with a home island raider….

That is correct, but I should have a line in there somewhere that says something to the effect of “you can’t fire on friendly ships normally, just with this ability.”

That’s already the case – “you can’t shoot at a ship in your own fleet.” (from Page 6 of the Combined Set Rules)

It’s definitely an interesting concept, just really strange to thi…[Read more]

That’s not quite what I meant. The issue is that movement is traced from the bow and that large ships are longer than an S-move. So when I finish the first S move the stern of the ship is still overlapping the island.

Indeed.  I think it’s still something that is far less of an issue in the physical game.  I’m pretty sure I had this exact con…[Read more]

Welcome aboard!!

My brother and I completely ignored the actual victory conditions and rules, opting instead for sending every ship we owned into enormous battles to see who could come out on top. Crew? Nah. Gold? Nah.

Nice.  Sounds a little bit like my Historical Fantasy Scenarios.

I have integrated Pirates into many different formats, i…

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@AGiantPie: Nice report!  Glad to see you back in action.

At some point I just decided to ignore any overlaps on an island a ship was undocking from for the first move segment since it was so awkward.

That’s exactly what you should do.  It’s bothered me in the past, but as far as I can tell, it’s an issue of the “rotate on bow” being completely d…[Read more]

My goal is to get as many unique ships as possible so I can use them to play huge campaign games!!!!…. eventually.

I love it!!  I didn’t know you were so interested in campaign games!

I’m not picky as to the type of ship really. A common is just as good on my game table as a super rare. For that reason I’m mostly interested in cheap lots.<…

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I’m a little frustrated that the pictures are looking so blurry. They look sharp and clear on my PC, they look sharp in the camera and while editing. I can only assume that something is going on in rendering that is making them look ‘soft’.

I thought they looked good in the video.  Looking forward to more!

Nice!
I like the idea of the Cursed not letting the Pirates keep the Plague. Maybe they’re going to ram the ship that gets hit with it with something else to get it right back (hopefully the Pirates wouldn’t win a boarding party right after though).
I like the Spanish launches, lock up that useful Merc stuff before anyone else can get it. Not…[Read more]