Ben

Very impressive effort by the Galeon de Gibraltar.
Some of those Spanish customs look absolutely amazing. The Bretwalda’s sails really make any ship look epic. I’m surprised by how much I like the contrast of the red and white sails on at least one of the custom Spanish 5’s.
Pirate raid on the French reminds me of CTO, though not with as hasty…[Read more]

Instead of galleys not being able to ram I was going to change it to only galleys can ram. It seems to make sense to me thematically and for gameplay reasons, makes 1 masters better. But does this make the Barbary pirates too powerful?

I think all ships should definitely be ABLE to ram, because it’s historically accurate and boarding should be…[Read more]

@Vax: Welcome aboard!  Glad you’re back into it!

You could try Points in play + gold for the win.  Emphasizes captures and combat.

Assuming your friends have not played before, I would keep the build total to no more than 50 points. (30 or 40 might work better for their first game)  With teaching, rules questions, and building ships/fleets, it…[Read more]

For those of you that enjoy playing deathmatches, the Defence of St. Helens scenario is a good one.

The previous post in this thread was a preview for a game I completed in September 2019: 6×150

Love the photography even more on this one, great thumbnail too!
Neat to see the sea monster squadron again after a few years.
4:34 Beautiful and epic!
Interesting to see the rise of the Pirates… looks like the English could do some megalaunches if they really want to go after the French.
For a moment in that picture where the English are…[Read more]

My question concerns using the unreleased Fort St. Phillip (in a draft of Revolution) in conjunction with native canoes.  (now that I think about it, El Puerto Blanco has the same ability)

Fort St. Phillip
4 gold
3S-3S-3S-3L-3L-3L
A ship docked here may use its action to look at one face-down cargo on each island.

Do all of the canoes sacrifice…[Read more]

Apologies for the errors in the Master Spreadsheet.  I just uploaded a new .xlsx file to the homepage with the following corrections: Duex-Deux, The Red Skull instead of The Cursed, Alquimista speed from L to S+L, added Fort Brompton’s cannons, changed CC #123 from “Specialist” to Cannoneer.

The shared spreadsheet is always corrected first so…[Read more]

Fort Brompton review.  Captain Nemo is online.  XD  Also fun to see the old menu format again.

@DaddyGarand: Feel free to post in the Game Ideas thread!

@CrimsonChance: Welcome aboard matey!  Glad to have you aboard.

I agree that the individual ship artwork is part of what makes the game special.  Oftentimes people call the ships cool for their design and size, but the very unique artwork on each is a beautiful aspect of the game.

Now a Zeus up as well! But for $125+.  O_O

That is wild.  Seems like it must be quite rare if nobody so far has even seen anything like it.  (also seems too early to start an April Fool’s joke :p )

I just PM’d Holofernes and old_man to alert them to this mystery!

Ahoy matey!! 😀

I originally got into the game when the Crimson Coast came out and all my friends were collecting cards and I wasn’t allowed to have Pokemon cards so I naturally shifted to Pirates.

That is interesting… I know Pokemon has some weird similarities to dogfighting and poaching, but it still seems more reasonable for a child than p…[Read more]

Bunch of lots being bid on, plus a Celtic Fury!

Great report Xerecs! Loving these reports, they are a fun way for me to relax while eating. 😀
Yes go Hessian! XD
Glad the Spanish are beating the Americans, mostly because they should. Kinda feels like the Americans maybe should have tried to retreat 1-2 turns before the Spanish had that decisive blow of sorts, but I don’t know the situation…[Read more]

I just fixed the fleet links (hopefully all of them) for VASSAL Tournament #1 and VASSAL Tournament #2.  Between my own fleets at PwB and the others on the Internet Archive, we can see all the fleets!  😀

As a side note, anyone participating in Vendari’s VASSAL tournament may find the battle reports useful.  There is a HUGE amount of strategy ta…[Read more]

Don’t get me wrong, I’ve gotten some excellent deals on Pirates stuff on eBay, and I’m sure others here have too, but I’ve started to notice that prices for ships I consider to be relatively common are increasing at an absurd rate. This has spread over to lots as well, despite most of the offenders containing little to no elusive pieces.…

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Just called all these numbers again.  Pretty much same results but I left messages on the first two this time.