Ben

Well good luck, man…I truly hope you find something special during your time. Truly honored to hopefully be part of one of your bon voyage games! Fair winds and following seas, my friend.

Thank you!  Indeed, it should be a fun time in LV.

Our official count is actually up to 353 unique ships as of this last weekend! Just got our first Viking ships, completed South China Seas, and about 4 ships away from finishing up Spanish Main! Again, sorry for the confusion with the post, but have been happy to be part of the scene the last few weeks!!!

It’s my fault for not realizing what was…[Read more]

Officer/Enlisted?

Officer.

Hope you enjoy your time in the Navy!

MMN1(SW)

That is awesome, thank you.  Active now?

Best of luck Ben, and hopefully all goes well!

Thank you!

Nice lot of various packs.

Best of Luck to you Ben.

I am happy to help out.

Thank you again.

Best of luck in the Navy!

Thanks!

Pirates CSG Podcast #46: Former Rules Arbitrator Tony Vigil! (Piranha)
You can listen to the audio via ShoutEngine!

You can also listen on Archive.org.
Tony Vigil (Piranha) was the Rules Arbitrator before Woelf.
His store: http://neverlandgames.tcgplayerpro.com/

Questions of the Day
Piranha: What is your favorite house rule?
Ben: What is…[Read more]

LIVE on the Podcast with former Rules Arbitrator Tony Vigil! (Piranha)

I am saving all the pages of the main menu at the Internet Archive in case the site ever goes down for no good reason.  😀

https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://pirateswithben.com/

^Access point would be there, and then you could do the different URL’s for the other pages.

Back in June 2019 right before the fall of Miniature Trading, I did make the fleets I talked about in my post from March 2nd.  Here they are:

American Pirates 2
American Pirates 3
American Pirates 4
American Pirates 5
French Pirates
Pirate All Stars

At some point in the future I may write descriptions for the fleets and make them into full p…[Read more]

also, I feel like this may help to explain the ability

It does, just kind of funny to wrap your head around.  🙂

The new pieces look fair.  Is the Red Dragon designed to shoot at friendly Pirate ships?  If not, the ability is unnecessary.

Here’s a new one!

Preferences Survey

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With only game pieces from the Barbary Coast booster set available, which pieces should I try to snatch away in the draft to have a good shot at winning?

This is perfect: Top 10 Barbary Coast Game Pieces.  The Tiger’s Eye and the numerous cheap Corsair galleys (especially the 6 pointers) are extremely good.  A few of the cancellers won’t apply be…[Read more]

Saberhook is awesome, I don’t know if I’ve ever seen such a unique Scorpion!

I do think that putting the faction affiliation for each and every game piece is ideal.  Until the end of the post I didn’t know what faction any of them were.  I think the Coastal Ranger’s ability could be switched to non-Pirate.

Love the Setekh.  Flavor is in…[Read more]

Solid lot here with set and rarity variety.

The Rye is physically a galley, but lacks the Keyword. Would that technically make her not a galley and therefore able to ram other ships?

That’s something I’ve never understood properly; I just play them as they look to avoid confusion and wondering which have the keyword and which don’t.  The Code has some info on page 16.