Ben

Probably my last physical game for quite a while: Post TG family game

This must have been answered before but I can’t find full confirmation in the Code.  If a Sea Monster does not have sufficient cargo space and wins a boarding party, can it eliminate a non-Unique Treasure from the enemy ship?

Suppose a derelict is still pinned to the Sea Monster that rammed it.  Can a separate enemy ship initiate a tow while t…[Read more]

OOPS!

Forgot to post here when the big Black Friday/weekend sales started at HWG!  Great time to stock up on packs!  (homepage says it will last until “Monday 11:59 pm Eastern Standard Time”)

I’m wondering if I bought good packs though, there seem to be a lot of expansions out there. Is revolution a good set?

One of the best ever, and a steady favorite since it came out.  I ranked the sets here, and many people consider RV their favorite.

Does it have all the generic crew like Captain, helmsman, oarsman etc. that came in the first two…

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The person who made the captions page I use for instagram posts is named… Albert Renshaw.  O_O  Maybe he’s a descendent of Albert Crenshaw from RV?  XD

Nice lot here; not many rares but a great description.

Welcome aboard matey!

But this time around I’ll be playing the game by the written instructions for the first time. I was much to young back then to really care about reading the manual and preferred to make up my own naval battles.

That sounds exactly like me.  I preferred to do “historical fantasy scenarios” for a while, but started playing mu…[Read more]

Don’t see many factory sets nowadays.  There’s one of BC.

This looks familiar… I think I also have at least one Fairfield box stuffed with unopened rules packets.  XD  Not sure why a picture of the actual packs isn’t included.

HWG’s daily deal today is 36 packs of RV for $54: http://www.wholesalegaming.biz/

Why do you prefer Pirates over other games?

The breadth of situations and game pieces the game explores. Some entire games might stick to fighting between square-rigged galleons, Pirates has exploration, ramming, submerged vessels, repairing, towing, sea monsters, forts, and the potential to randomly toss new mechanics into the mix on the…

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I think the point costs of those two ships should be reversed.   I still think Repeating Guns is not that good of an ability.  I almost never hit with all cannons during a shoot action, and the penalty of missing on the second volley is really nasty.  I would probably actively avoid ships with that ability when making a fleet.

Noticing some annoying glitches that may have something to do with the latest update to WordPress, but I’m not sure what’s causing them.  If a page takes forever to load, I’ve found that hitting the “stop loading” button (X at upper left of Chrome browser for me) and then reloading it works to get the page up properly.  If that’s for a forum p…[Read more]

My guess is that discord would be the best option since you could use the pirates community there to pull from. I know lots of people use It to live stream multiplayer games with multiple people chatting at once.

Thanks, I think I will try that first.  At least one of the podcasts this year was in the voice channel there, so hopefully people…[Read more]

For my final podcast of the year and Pirates CSG Podcast #50, I want to finally do a live “call-in” podcast.  (similar to the Pirates Online radio show hosted by RedDragon and Captain Ron)

Does anyone know the best way to do this?  Options I see would be the Discord voice channel, Google Voice, or No Cost Conference (have not tried the latter two).