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The latest battle report for VASSAL Campaign Game 4!

Changes to the Giant Turtle keyword: Added capability to build fort on turtle’s back when it’s docked at a wild island you have explored, not just at your home island. Changed “has its own turns” to “has its own actions” in regards to the fort.

Full keyword text:

Giant Turtle
A ship with this keyword printed on its deckplate is a sea creature.
A…[Read more]

Hex
Ability: Schooner. 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, choose one enemy ship in play: that ship cannot be given actions this turn.

I assume “this turn” means until the beginning of the Hex controller’s next turn? If it was the same turn as the Hex owner, it wouldn’t be…[Read more]

Are the UT generation effects of MI’s #4 and #12 mandatory?

“5-6: When this ship explores this island, replace one treasure coin with a unique treasure from your collection.”

What takes precedence, sea monster pinning (mandatory?) or “this ship cannot be pinned”?  I assume cannot be pinned, because Sea Monster keyword says “becomes pinned”…[Read more]

Mysterious Islands were not the best-thought-out addition to the game, but unless it’s an immediate effect and/or specifically says otherwise, the roll only applies to the specific ship that rolled it, and only to next time that ship does the action specified (explore, move, etc.).

My argument is that it effectively does say otherwise, by not s…[Read more]

I think the intention was that it completely overwrites the Eye user’s abilities with the abilities of the target, so you gain  the use of everything from the target, but lose the use of everything your crew had.

Interesting, I figured it was the opposite based on this line from the Code.  “If the target Cursed crew has multiple abilities only one…[Read more]

If Calim hits with grapple shot, I assume a successful boarding party would eliminate a mast?
Grapple Shot: If it hits, do not eliminate a mast; instead this ship can initiate a boarding party against the target.
Calim: If this sea monster succeeds at a boarding party, it also eliminates a mast.
-Initially I thought the “do not eliminate” wou…[Read more]

Finally the forum is back up!  Pirates with Ben now has a new host.  Glad to be back!

PSA: https://pirateswithben.com/the-challenges-of-restarting-pirates/

TLDR: The income from my business has not been high enough to justify continuing it full-time, so for the foreseeable future I will be shifting to doing it part-time.

Q3 update to the Scan Project is complete. Thank you to FoxTrot for uploading scans. The Master Scan List spreadsheet has been updated.

Can a native canoe be used to trigger the ability of El Puerto Blanco while still moving other native canoes in the same set of canoes?

A ship docked at this fort may use its action for the turn to look at one face-down treasure on each island.

Or does the canoe have to move and redock, which would not be using its action for the turn to do the spying.

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Does Cursed Captain Jack have to be rolled before the kraken cancelling ability, or can the player choose the order in which they’re applied?

Code entries:

CCJ:

This ability must be used before applying any other “beginning of turn” abilities or effects.

Kraken cancelling:

This ability is rolled at the beginning of a turn, before any other “be…

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Neat!  I’ll probably make a joke entry for fun to make sure I don’t win.

Best of luck to all participants!