[Ben]

I guess the big issue I see would be that it would make you the owner of the license not some other corporation.

Indeed, I would likely set up some kind of corporation to get past legal loopholes and whatnot.  It is confusing and I’d have to do a lot of research – even if funds were somehow raised to convince them to sell the license, where does it get “placed” legally?

not that you personally are the issue just that once the ball is in your court where do we go from there?

I certainly like the idea of making money on Pirates after all I’ve done, but honestly I also like the idea of somehow making it public domain so anyone can make anything and nobody gets sued for it.  XD

Would kickstarter also include money to buy the capital necessary to produce more pirates?

That’s where it seems like a community this small would have trouble.  Who knows what NECA would even want for the license to make Pirates CSG stuff – it seems like $10,000+ or in the tens of thousands would be a bare minimum given the prior success of the product and what could be done with it long term.  It would be devastating to somehow raise a huge amount only for them to not fork it over for nearly any amount for whatever reason(s).  I would imagine that producing enough sets/cards to turn a small profit would cost far more than the license.

How does supporting buying the license further help the return of pirates?

I mean if the license were in the hands of the community or public domain, myself and/or others certainly would have a Kickstarter by now to make the game again.

I know if means we have the potential to make new ones but I think you would want to sell a broader package than just the license purchasing.

Great point, I just wanted to throw the idea out there.  The legal stuff is the first hurdle, I wasn’t thinking much past that because even buying the license would seem to be an enormous sum.

I would almost see a kickstarter for raising funds to start a new and separate pirates csg company being more likely than just buying the license. That way people who support the Kickstart would/could become shareholders in the new company. Then with the purchase of the license and a small set up for printing you could revive the game and just sell via online purchases or whatnot to people and of course those who helped support the company.

That makes sense.

I hate to admit it, but I’m not that hopeful about this, at least not in the short term.  I can hardly get the community to post on forums or answer messages, let alone raise thousands of dollars.  I just want to force the issue a bit and get people’s opinions on what is even remotely possible from a starting point.

[Ben]

Climactic Resonance
Type: Ship
Faction Affiliation: Mercenary
Rarity: R
Point Value: 20
Number of Masts: 6
Cargo Space: 5
Base Move: L
Cannons: 2S-3L-4L-4L-3L-2S
Ability: Mercenary. Junk. When this ship sinks another ship, you may repair one of this ship’s masts. When this ship is docked at a friendly fort, you may eliminate one treasure. It becomes a 3S cannon that can be eliminated only when the ship sinks.

Flavor text: This vessel’s crew are constantly preparing for the apocalypse as foretold by The Cursed. Stocking up on ammunition, they have become expert “sea survival specialists” and use materials from both ships and settlements to help prepare themselves for the inevitable onslaught of evil and doom.

Historical Custom of the Day #391

Jean Fantin
Pirate
Crew
1 point
Ability: When touching a Spanish ship, this ship can load as much of that ship’s treasure as she can carry.
Link: Sainte Rose, Jean-Baptiste du Casse, Jean Charpin

You can find my custom sets here: Pirates of the Age of Sail and Pirates of the Epic Seas

[Ben]

I had the oarsmen on the MB to be sacrificed to whirlpools and Dead Man’s Chest.

Sacrificed with what?  You’ve got the wrong Fantasma – the SCS version doesn’t have Sac.

[Ben]

I don’t have nearly enough pieces to make this (I have sadly few UTs) but I somehow think this could be not the worst Maman Brigitte fleet ever.

Definitely not.  It’s a solid concept, but why the oarsmen on the MB?  They take up space after the first one due to the no-stacking rule, and would be better off the ship to optimize cargo.  Ghost Ship on a stealer is nice, but Trogs could be an alternative as well.  Glad you listed the coins (attention to detail that I would sometimes forget to bother including), but I think it would be a 1 instead of a 2 to get to 15 gold contributed. (or 7-6-2)

I think all events should be banned, so you won’t see any love for them from me.

[Ben]

The game email went to my Junk folder……. UGH.

That’s one reason I like Gmail – I don’t think that’s ever happened to me.

Hammupyklos, Grand Paladin
Type: Crew
Faction Affiliation: Viking
Rarity: R
Point Value: 11
Ability: SAT. [Same Action Twice: Once per turn before you give this ship an action, roll a d6. On a 5 or 6, this ship may be given the same action twice.] AA. [Once at the beginning of each of your turns, roll a d6. On a result of 6, any ship in your fleet may be given two actions that turn.]

Flavor text: Of Greek descent, this wise middle-aged man is both a scholar and a warrior. His strategic expertise has lately allowed the Vikings to thrive in the North Atlantic, beating off their enemies with more confidence than ever before.

I know this is a bit OP to put on a custom, but he’s at a 2 point premium and the Vikings have almost no way to get extra actions, so hopefully it could work out OK. I could change the AA to Roberto Santana’s “global cannon bonus” ability.

Historical Custom of the Day #390

George Bond
Pirate
Crew
8 points
Ability: Captain. Helmsman. Filching Gold. This ship can use Parley against English ships.

You can find my custom sets here: Pirates of the Age of Sail and Pirates of the Epic Seas

[Ben]

Hmmm, that would confuse me in a game.

You simply pay 14 points for Cain and the canoes; you’re paying 11 for the canoes and 3 for the Captain ability.  Captain can’t be free, but there’s no reason to make the canoes too expensive just because Cain is a very capable chieftain.

But it’s not currently my turn…….?

It has been since February 23rd.  Sometimes I feel bad about nudging you guys, but I can’t feel bad anymore when it seems like I’m the only one who knows what’s going on.

Continuing the current tradition of releasing a new 10 master every Sunday!

Devil’s Slaughter
Type: Ship
Faction Affiliation: Cursed
Rarity: LE
Point Value: 32
Number of Masts: 10
Cargo Space: 4
Base Move: L
Cannons: 1S-2S-3S-3S-3S-5S-5S-5S-5S-5S
Ability: Junk. Massacre. [If this ship succeeds at a boarding party, she can eliminate all of the other ship’s crew.] When this ship docks at an island, eliminate all crew from that island.
Link: Vordictus

Flavor text: The crew of the Devil’s Slaughter are, predictably, only interested in killing. They have taken it too far even for the Cursed, slaughtering their own whenever they make landfall.

Vordictus
Type: Crew
Faction Affiliation: Cursed
Rarity: LE
Point Value: 6
Ability: Horror. [For each enemy ship within S of this ship at the beginning of this ship’s turn, roll a d6. On a result of 3-6, one of the enemy ship’s crew cannot use their abilities on their turn.] Crew Killing. [Once per turn when this ship hits an enemy ship, also eliminate one crew from that ship.]
Link: Devil’s Slaughter

Flavor text: Evil on sight, Vordictus has been one of the main lieutenants of Maorithil before obtaining his own ship. Although not as crazed and maniacal as his crew, he nevertheless does absolutely nothing to stop them from committing atrocious acts and murdering thousands of innocents.

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Historical Custom of the Day #389

Sir Hyde Parker
English
Crew
5 points
Ability: Captain. This ship gets +1 to her boarding rolls against French and Spanish ships. When touching a Spanish ship, this ship can load as much of that ship’s treasure as she can carry.
Link: HMS Squirrel, HMS Panther

You can find my custom sets here: Pirates of the Age of Sail and Pirates of the Epic Seas

[Ben]

@Robert: They really do look cool.  They must be more durable than the styrene as well.  It would be a little funky to have metal ships for a game based on wooden ships in the Age of Sail, but it’s a neat option.

[Ben]

Optional non-Spanish Main stuff: Admiral Castro instead of Captain

That’s what I’m seeing in the fleet (the BC 5 point EA Castro) – with the 3 point SAT Castro the Acorazado setup would come to 29 points.

Similarly, wouldn’t the Sea Nymph setup in the second fleet come to 20 points with the 4 point Hawkins from SM?  I’d recommend a captain instead of musketeer on the Snipe.  Solid fleets either way.

Unfortunately the set specifics and ability abbreviations/etc may get lost in translation without the fleets section at MT, but at least we can still use that too.  Not expecting this thread to take off after so many fleets have been created since 2004, but it can be fun to bounce ideas around.

[Ben]

Howwww have I never come across Le Bon Marin before today? Instantly one of my favorite ships. I need to find a copy somewhere.

I’m seeing one in the UK.

RV was a GREAT set, especially for ships and forts.  You can make plenty of competitive fleets just from that set alone.

[Ben]

You might be able to do metal. See products like metal earth.

Wow!  Did not expect someone to suggest metal.  Looking up some stuff, looks very cool.  I would mostly be worried about the cost, and potential cutting hazard.  Also would probably be more difficult to color things in the way the current game is.  That would certainly be a cool option.  Only other metal ships I can recall are the ones made by burnthills for old_man, but those were huge aluminum ships.

A more realistic route for a reboot might be to ditch the buildable aspect entirely, and just have the ships molded in plastic and sold as “blind boxes”. There are a lot of popular collectible toys that use this route, some of them with games involved. Plastic toys are fairly durable and can be produced inexpensively, damage markers could be used instead of removable masts. I personally wouldn’t like this option for aesthetic reasons but I feel like this might be a way the game could be revived.

That makes sense, but definitely isn’t my preference either.  I feel that it could dampen some of the ships’ individuality, and make for a “cookie cutter” game in some ways.  Though with advancements and demonetization of 3D printing and whatnot, perhaps some version of that could work.  I also really like that the ships can be taken apart due to combat, with myself and others valuing the constructible nature of the game highly.

[Ben]

I have about 3 complete Batavian Bats and El Duques haha

Cool.  I wouldn’t be opposed to having another one of either of those, but it’s not necessarily going to be worth doing a 1 for 1 trade.  I’ll check to see if I have a full extra Death Wind.

[Ben]

If a crew with Black Mark activated is transferred to a ship of his original nationality, does that ship become Cursed?  If the crew goes to a Cursed ship, can he use his abilities normally?  Can a crew copy Black Mark or does it have no effect since it’s a start of play ability?

[Ben]

I have the stats part of the James Madison and the Death Wind from OE, would love to complete them

I have James Madison card 2/2!  No Death Wind 2/2 though.  Do you have any other extras yet?

[Ben]

For the first time in quite a while I just had a flurry of fleet ideas.  Since the MT crisis started last August I’ve been hesitant to post much there, and I don’t have time to flesh out and post all these ideas in full.

I’m (re)posting 2 fleets per day here at PwB, with my personally legendary American Pirates fleet today.  It really amazes me how well that fleet was able to perform despite not even being optimized.  Although the obvious swap is to go from Bandido to Banshee’s Cry + helmsman and explorer, I suddenly realized further potential “optimizations” to make involving at least one of the other two ships.  This led to a crazed flurry of ideas, which was really exciting and fun to experience again.  I’ve been busy with non-gaming Pirates stuff since August of last year and even before that, so it was really cool to have a blast of “power gamer” (phrase I learned from James Ernest) thoughts and get really mentally involved with the strategic and fleet building aspects of the game.

It’s hilarious that my AP fleet can do well in competitive play without even being truly optimized.  It’s a little scary to think that it could be better with some modifications.  For example: (H=Helmsman, E=Explorer)

American Pirates 2: Same Roanoke setup, BC w/H+E instead of Bandido, Bloody Jewel w/H+E, Rover, Mermaid

AP’s 3: Roanoke, BC w/H+E, Darkhawk II w/ H+E

AP’s 4: Same as original AP’s but with NH + explorer instead of Amity + explorer

AP’s 5? Combine basic Hai Peng setup with Roanoke setup

French American Pirates: Roanoke setup (or Pirate hybrid sac monster), Bloody Jewel + helmsman, Intrepide, BC w/H+E, HC

-Modify above setups by replacing Roanoke with Victoire less an oarsman. (French Pirates?)

Pirates fleet: 300 FD + Havana Black, helmsman, explorer, oarsmen x2, Darkhawk II + Captain Blackheart, helmsman, explorer, oarsmen x2.  Last 4 points for HC + Mermaid, or BC + JM

Pirate fleet with Darkhawk II and Hai Peng, + HC and/or BC?

 

Alright, that’s my little “fleet blast” for now.  Hopefully I’ll eventually get these posted here and MT.  Just a quick trip inside the mind of a Pirates fanatic trying to make competitive fleets even better and more optimized with tons of variations.  XD  Love this game.

[Ben]

The Warring Tribes would just look like a regular 5 mast, but preferably with a large set of oars on both sides if made in real life.

I see that Cain and the Canoes have different point costs, which confuses me a little. The chieftain crew is supposed to assume the full cost of the canoes, so shouldn’t the canoes also be 14 points, or should Cain be 11?

Cain also has Captain, which has to cost 3 points.  He is still assuming their full cost of 11, but has an additional ability on top of that.  I know it’s a little funky, but I like playing with the idea of named chieftains to spice up the canoes and flavor a bit (similar to the God Chieftain of the “tribal mercenaries”).

PS: Let’s play CG4!

[Ben]

a standard 40 point game, but ships are damaged permanently and realistically (shot by actual cannons when they are hit in game)

I want to do something like that someday, but you’d have to have bigger ships to make it work unless we can utilize technology to really miniaturize the shots and damage to a tiny scale.

a standard 40 point game, but both players must be blindfolded

I assume you’d have a ref to make sure stuff didn’t get broken?  To me it doesn’t sound very fun.

a standard 40 point game, but all ships used MUST be the Batavian Bat.

I think it would be funnier to do it with the Banshee’s Cry, or Jolly Mon for swarm chaos.  XD

a standard 40 point game, but the rules are combined with the NASCAR race day game (participants are also blindfolded)

Check out what Cadet-Captain Mike did!

[Ben]

Alright, here comes a massive combo that started with the set of native canoes and was recently wrapped up (for now? 🙂 ) with the full combo of pieces.

Gravedigger’s (Death) Sentence
Type: Ship (canoes)
Faction Affiliation: Pirate
Rarity: U
Point Value: 11
Number of Masts: 1
Cargo Space: 1
Base Move: S+L
Cannons: 2S
Ability: Native Canoe. Crew Killing.

Flavor text: This batch of canoes are crewed by gravediggers of the Caribbean. Unhappy with their lifestyle of slavery, they have taken to the seas to put bodies in graveyards themselves rather than waiting for the Reaper to give them a job to do. Rastarius Cain has taken them all the way to the Pacific, where they mix well with the native tribes and their own fleets of war canoes.

Rastarius Cain
Type: Crew
Faction Affiliation: Pirate
Rarity: R
Point Value: 14
Ability: Captain. Chieftain (Gravedigger’s Death Sentence).
Link: Warring Tribes, Mao Tiki

Flavor text: Rastarius Cain was a slave in Jamaica when a man named Philomela Yaqob broke him out of that hellish life. Commanding former slaves, he heard about the “exodus to the Pacific”, and decided to join the fray. Along the way he picked up a useful Chinese man skilled in the martial arts.

Warring Tribes
Type: Ship
Faction Affiliation: Pirate
Rarity: R
Point Value: 22
Number of Masts: 5
Cargo Space: 3
Base Move: S+S+S
Cannons: 2S-2S-2S-2S-2S
Ability: Galley. This ship’s cannon ranges cannot be increased. If this ship is not assigned Rastarius Cain, she gets -1 to her cannon rolls.
Link: Rastarius Cain, Mao Tiki

Flavor text: One of the most unique sights on the increasingly crowded Pacific Ocean, this ship has had her lower gun deck replaced with a rowing deck. The ship was already fast; with a full complement of oarsmen, she has become the fastest man-o-war of the modern age. The seasoned crew have maintained the ship’s firepower with a combination of constant gunnery training and a high number of devastating carronades. Her captain, Rastarius Cain, has become a favorite of the local natives in Oceania.

Mao Tiki
Type: Crew
Faction Affiliation: Pirate
Rarity: C
Point Value: 6
Ability: S-Board. This ship gets +1 to her boarding rolls.
Link: Warring Tribes, Rastarius Cain

Flavor text: After 31 years in mainland China learning how to fight for his life and country, Mao Tiki escaped the press gang and never stopped running. Picked up on Taiwan by former slave Rastarius Cain, he has formed an unlikely partnership that has proven lucrative – and dangerous for their enemies. With Cain leading his speedy makeshift galley and Tiki teaching the crew how to fight even without swords, the Warring Tribes looks to be one of the hardest ships to capture in the East.

Historical Custom of the Day #388

George Sayer
English
Crew
9 points
Ability: Captain. S-Board. This ship gets +1 to her boarding rolls.
Link: “HMS Lacedemonian, HMS Xenophon, HMS Proselyte, HMS Galatea, Robert Stopford

You can find my custom sets here: Pirates of the Age of Sail and Pirates of the Epic Seas

[Ben]

I’ve never expanded it beyond being an upgrade to the basic Catan game, but you could in theory make a megagame out of it, with your Catan cities producing ships which you then use to play Pirates CSG.

I assume you saw Woelf‘s version on the page?  His alternate ruleset is one I’ve wanted to try for a while, but I want to learn how to play Catan first.

[Ben]

Any other variants on how to play the game that people have done?

That’s why this thread and the associated page linked above exists – I may still sticky it so it’s more visible.  I merged your topic into this one so there won’t be tons of different threads about the same topic over time.

The Game Ideas page has enough content to keep you busy for many years.  I’ve done a bunch of them, but there are more rulesets and scenarios I’d like to play than I have already played, and I’m the most experienced Pirates player (that we know of haha).

Since you like the general cumulative game rules, I’d suggest the Campaign Game rulesets.  Economy Edition is a classic and looks to be the basis for many games going forward, including both the current CG4 and THC.  If you don’t have time, simply varying the build total and player/fleet count is fun.  3-4 players at 60-100 points can be really great.  Also don’t be afraid to go tiny.  Control multiple fleets of only 10-25 points for some wackiness, especially when combined with Water World or other stuff.

If you do come up with your own variant(s), feel free to share them here so I can add them to the list!

[Ben]

Luz de Vida
Type: Ship
Faction Affiliation: Spanish
Rarity: C
Point Value: 22
Number of Masts: 3
Cargo Space: 4
Base Move: L
Cannons: 2S-4L-2S
Ability: All ships within S of this ship get -1 to their cannon rolls.
Link: Alonso Guños

Flavor text: The “Light of Life” is so inspiring that hardened cannoneers lay down their weapons to stare in amazement at her adornments and perfection.

I know this is kind of a “dumb” ability to put on a custom. I’m thinking that if you sandwiched it between enemy gunships it would be sunk in short order. Willing to change it to something like 1 enemy ship within S, or maybe the nearest ship regardless of allegiance.

Alonso Guños
Type: Crew
Faction Affiliation: Spanish
Rarity: C
Point Value: 6
Ability: Captain. Island treasure trading. [After looking at treasure on a wild island, you may trade any one treasure from that island for a random treasure on any other wild island. This ship must load the traded treasure.] Ship treasure trading. [Once per turn, if this ship carries treasure and is within S of an enemy ship, you may randomly trade one treasure with that ship.]
Link: Luz de Vida

Flavor text: Alonso is a sailor’s sailor. Having simply risen through the ranks from age 18 to 30, he knows what every position on the ship feels like. This gives him an edge in his operations, which are mostly related to commerce.

Historical Custom of the Day #387

Isaac Smith
English
Crew
5 points
Ability: Captain. Explorer. This ship gets +1 to her boarding rolls against French ships.
Link: HMS Weazel, HMS Perseverance, James Cook

That boarding bonus isn’t really even worth a full point, but Captain+Explorer for 4 is just one of those combos that shouldn’t really exist in my opinion. (I may also make him worse since he’s still kinda “gamey” in a way, but at least he’s not part of a better gold running faction.)

You can find my custom sets here: Pirates of the Age of Sail and Pirates of the Epic Seas

[Ben]

I hadn’t heard about the MT crisis until like last week. It’s sad to hear :/ There’s definitely plenty of Pirates fans out there but as you said the MT scare seems to have scattered people.

Yeah, I’ve directed people from there to here with a sticky thread at MT along with updates on just about all the Pirates sites I know of, but between the ubiquity of facebook and MT still up, the migration is somewhat slow and random.  I’ve just done what I can and people can decide what they want to do.

[Ben]

Has anyone actually played a game with the contents of a single pack?

I can’t remember exactly how my first “games” went down back in 2005, but it’s possible that I played out of just one pack because that’s what the Start Here rules suggest.  However, my first purchase was 2 packs of SM, so it’s likely I learned with both of them.

I agree that it’s a cool feature of the game/distribution, but if the game was relaunched I would probably want at least 4 ships per pack to have a much better chance of balancing point costs/factions/etc.  Or a starter pack/box with either 8 or 10 ships total.

Thanks for starting a new thread topic too.  The forum could use more topics started by someone other than me.  XD

[Ben]

France always seemed like the best all-around nation to me and in any strategy game like this I like to go for versatility.

The Pirates are the best, but you can make a solid case for the French in 2nd place.  I like their versatility as well, in addition to their underrated named crew selection (for example: 2 sac captains; England and Spain combined have 0) and their aesthetic appeal.

Side note but I have never ever built a 40 point Cursed fleet that seemed good, and I have plenty of Cursed ships/crew

They are easily the worst faction of the Big 6, and best used in more casual games at higher build totals (80+, etc).  To make them remotely competitive at 40 points you have to limit yourself to a tiny handful of game pieces: Grinder, Skwaluck (wrong spelling) from RtSS, and sac captain Fantasma from OE.

[Ben]

How do you feel about the number of packs floating around? Mass produced sets like OE are still easy to find, but obviously the supply of even those is not infinite.

It feels like a very long and very slow decline into reasonable pack scarcity.  With people still getting into the game or coming back to it, it seems that packs are still being opened at a decent rate.  However, the quantity of online retailers show that it will be many years before serious scarcity sets in.  Perhaps in the long-term future every single set will average more than the original MSRP of $3.99 per pack.

Thanks for asking; how do you feel about it?

[Ben]

not really sure if they should be called “pocket models”. Sounds like a good way to break a mast!

Indeed!  I like that idea more for action figures or something that is all one piece, that doesn’t get disassembled.  The cards would fit nicely in a pocket, but I wouldn’t want to risk ships in there….

[Ben]

I think they are pretty sturdy for what they are. Plus this is probably the most economical option.

Agreed.  In the Podcast with James Ernest, he talked about how expensive it was to make the ships, which corroborates what people reported in the past with the “styrene format being cost-prohibitive to produce”.

[Ben]

However, I joined up just to find more people who loved the originals as much as I did.

Hello fellow pirate!  That’s what this site is for – the love of Pirates CSG!  😀  Feel free to jump into the other topics on the game to provide your insight and opinion.

[Ben]

@Jack: Yay for the French!  🙂  They are really good.  It seems like a lot of people in the current Pirates CSG community have some disdain for the French, so even though the English are my favorite I find myself sticking up for the underrated French more than I should have to.

The Miniature Reviews section at MT has been somewhat dormant for some years now.  I reinvigorated it a little with the Miniature Review Contest, but then I ran one of those where nobody submitted an entry by the deadline.  🙁

Not sure how you got the SM version of Ghostly Encounter in a pack, since it’s the ghost version unlike the rare from CC.

I like your list.  🙂  Guy LaPlante is interesting, and he did get a better version eventually.

[Ben]

Queen’s Ghost
Type: Ship
Faction Affiliation: French
Rarity: C
Point Value: 12
Number of Masts: 2
Cargo Space: 3
Base Move: S+L
Cannons: 3L-2S
Ability: Schooner. Ghost Ship. This ship may dock at an enemy home island and take as much treasure as she can carry. If able, she must leave on your next turn. This ship can only shoot when she carries treasure.

Flavor text: This incredible but strange vessel is adept at getting into trouble, and then getting out of it. She flits about, then strikes with agility. Although her cannons are excellent, they are normally only employed when she has made off with ill-gotten loot.

Historical Custom of the Day #386

Charles Saunders
English
Crew
8 points
Ability: Captain. This ship gets +1 to her cannon rolls against French and Spanish ships. This ship gets +1 cargo spaces. This crew does not take up cargo space.
Link: HMS Gloucester, HMS Plymouth, HMS Dunkirk, HMS Yarmouth, HMS Tiger

You can find my custom sets here: Pirates of the Age of Sail and Pirates of the Epic Seas

[Ben]

I don’t see it as pat of his abilities, so I’m assuming he doesn’t have Ex-Pat?

Nope, he does his own thing but isn’t really for hire.

Mink
Type: Ship
Faction Affiliation: American
Rarity: R
Point Value: 3
Number of Masts: 1
Cargo Space: 1
Base Move: S+S
Cannons: 4S
Ability: None.

Flavor text: With a just 10 full-time sailors, the Mink is normally used as a tug or temporary holding station until the cargo in question can be transferred to a more important ship.

Hesitant to go below some of the cheapest factional thresholds, but too late I suppose….

Historical Custom of the Day #385

Richard Spry
English
Crew
3 points
Ability: This ship gets +1 to her cannon rolls against forts within S of her. This ship gets +1 to her cannon rolls when she’s within S of her home island.

I can’t give all the admirals the AA/SAT/EA ability. I also have made a lot of English named captains lately, so in cases like this where there’s not a lot of bio info, I’ll sometimes just do the additional abilities without the “obligatory” ones that just increase the cost.

You can find my custom sets here: Pirates of the Age of Sail and Pirates of the Epic Seas

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