Ben

Very impressive that the Americans managed to sink the various Spanish 10’s.
4:05 Love this shot. Great angle and height.
10:26 Wild to see how much open ocean there is, and how much smaller the Spanish operation looks.
Nice to see the English rising even more! 😀

Recently I stumbled across two 36 pack boxes, one of Revolution and one of Barbary Coast and decided to buy them so I could force my friends to play.

Even I haven’t done that… I love Pirates, but I don’t think anyone should be forced to play it.  At least those are good sets to garner interest with!

Glad you’ve found some interesting rules…[Read more]

The Pirates market is alive and well! Some recent auction prices to consider:
SM island terrain set: $102.50 (new high)
Zeus: $167.50 (new high, and possibly the highest amount for a 10 master since a Guichuan sold for $175, I think in 2018)
Dungeon (DJC LE): $24.50
Booty Finder: $26
Celtic Fury: $49.79
Near-complete set of DJC: $325

Another question about an unreleased game piece:

Blackfoot Bill
Pirate
2 points
Ability: When this ship is damaged, remove any crew member, except this one, instead of a mast.

Would this apply to fire masts?  I would think not, because the intent behind “remove” is more similar to “eliminate” than “replace”.

It’s great that bbpress comes with the option for adding pictures to forum posts, but I’ve had a few people ask me how to add pictures to forum posts.

At the far right of the Visual post editor, you can click the button for inserting an image.

Source: This will be the image URL’s direct link.  Generally a url generated by the image host…[Read more]

Long story short: I want to use a modified (and very simplifgied) version of Pirates CSG to teach the first module of a short linear algebra course.

Certainly a unique approach!  I like how you’re combining the game with something they’ll be learning regardless.  Definitely “never woulda thought o’ that!”  😀

How to Post Pictures in this Forum

Welcome aboard!

I’m a university teacher and stumbled across Pirates CSG while searching for miniatures to use as teaching aids in a class of linear algebra for biologists. Sorry to say I haven’t played it yet but I hope I can dupe my better half into playing next weekend :-D.

Feel free to use my tutorial videos since you’re new.   You can also p…[Read more]

What exactly counts as a defensive ability here? Specifically, ships that need to be hit twice in the same shoot action to lose a mast, would those be “immune” to Broadsides Attack or would the keyword cancel that ability?

BA ignores that ability, but doesn’t cancel it. (since it would still work against other ships not using BA on that same tur…[Read more]

Celtic Fury and others ending soon!  Also a Neptuno being bid on at $22.

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!