Activity – Ben – Pirates with Ben

Xerecs replied 6 years, 5 months ago

Not to rain on the parade but…. from the Code:
“If this ship enters a fog bank and remains inside on the following turn, this ability cannot be used to exit a different fog bank. It must be used on the turn immediately after entering a fog bank or it has no effect.”

I think the Stormcloud has been sitting in that fog bank for a while so I’m not sure if she would be able to move out of it using her fog hopping. Only way I could see around this is if she’s been going in and out of the same fog bank by the pirate HI in the north.

That aside, this was epic to read! The point and ship count at the beginning is really telling, the Jades essentially have made 0 progress, and some factions are doing better than I thought they were. The Pirates already have numbers close to what becomes the norm in my summer games, they REALLY look like the favorites right now.
I kept hearing this as I read the report: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgB2qItM76g
Can’t wait for my next turn…. 😀
- Ben replied 6 years, 5 months ago
  
  @Xerecs: O_O Wow, I don’t know if I’ve ever seen that ruling in the Code! Thank you for alerting me to it! I must say I disagree with it, but I’ll have to keep that in mind from now on. It’s too late to go back and change everything, so we’ll just pretend the Stormcloud had been moving in and out of that fog bank each turn, which would have been easily possible if not just kinda silly. I don’t think the Pirates really need a punishment since they would have been able to pull off the raid perfectly fine if they had followed the rule, but perhaps next time the Stormcloud goes into a fog bank, she has to exit and go back in before she can fog hop.
  
  Yeah, the Mercenaries have truly made no progress other than gathering some stuff. It’s clear they could have launched by now but for whatever reason, they haven’t.
  Thanks for the song rec!
  
  Ben
Xerecs replied 6 years, 5 months ago

I think we discussed some of the finer details of Fog-hopping after CG3 when the Cursed used them to run gold. Also, I think you asked about it on the Rules Questions thread here.
Theoretically I could re-send the game file I have and you could go again…. But that would be tedious and a little wonky, since the BR is already out.
- Ben replied 6 years, 5 months ago
  
  @Xerecs: I don’t see anything about that line from the Code in the Rules thread.
  And no, I’m not going to redo 5+ hours of my life for a rule that didn’t matter much in the first place. The key is, if the Pirates followed that rule perfectly, the result would be the same. The Stormcloud would have just sailed into the fog bank on the last turn and the raid would commence as normal. The problem would be if the opposite was true (not following the rule completely changing the result) – such as Eventgate from T2.

@admin