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You can use your move segments in any order

For some reason I only ever made one fleet post on MT despite 5-6 ship reviews. I’m making up for lost time with this thread lol.

 

Whoops, forgot that second Oarsman would count as cargo. I really want to keep that cannoneer because of Santiago’s rank-4s so I might just change Amity’s explorer into a helmsman. Not sure though.

Ah alright, that makes sense.

Now I’m confused again. In game 2 between the French fleet and the UPS one, it ends with the Sea Crane establishing the Devil’s Maw. But France can still move. La Courageux is actually a nightmare for the Devil’s Maw to deal with because she can just sit so only one short gun of the fort is in range and fire with impunity. How come the game ended…[Read more]

A couple of 80 point Crimson-ish Coast fleets that may go up against each other soon:

France:

La Ville de Paris

– Capitane Gastone de St. Croix

– Madame LaFontaine

– Captain

– Helmsman

– Cannoneer

L’Orient

– Capitane Arathiel

– Helmsman

– Oarsman

– Oarsman

L’Auguste

– Explorer

– Maurice Artiside

L’Artesien

– Monsieur LeNoir

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That’s… distressing. At least the rules apparently changed so I feel less bad about not understanding, but forts are suddenly much less powerful now for me. I feel like they lead to a lot more games ended by stalemate then.

I was actually just thinking about doing a post following the careers of the main “cast” of myself, Calico Cat, Blackheart, and Fantasma. The wiki probably lays it all out but I love Cat’s story so I’ll just leave it here as condensed as possible:

Cat’s real name is Catherine Gunn. You can put this together from the flavor texts of Thomas Gunn t…[Read more]

Wraith’s is the Deliverance, but the Crimson Angel stole it from him.

Pirate Deveraux’s signature ship to me is the Hades Flame. Ghost ship treasure runner fits his aesthetic very well.

I was reading Under the Black Flag when my crippling nostalgia fit happened lol. Welcome.

I remember going to my friend’s house to play a game and we spent so long trash talking and building our fleets that my mom came to pick me up before we could even start. There’s a rules section with links to the full rulesheet and keywords if you need it!

Ugh, you’re making me want to buy Vega and Diaz.

My Spanish battleship suggestion is El Cristobal del Obsipo with Captain Castro, Duques Vacarro, The Inquisitor, a Helmsman, Inquisitor Blanco, a shipwright, and Don Rafael y de Theresa. Two inquisitors give it a nice thematic fair, but more importantly the idea here is to take advantage of the…[Read more]

Ok so this is embarrassingly simple but I suddenly think I’ve been playing forts wrong all this time. If the only gold left in the game is on forts, does the game end? I’ve always played that it did, because no player can load any treasure from wild islands that they don’t already own. But the more I think about it, the more it seems you’re…[Read more]

The rum bomb idea is nasty. I have the Buried Treasure and Plunder UTs, but both are pretty scratched to the point where I’d unfairly know where they are right away. I actually almost bought rum the other day but opted for explosives instead.

Akua Lapu is also interesting for not sacrificing cargo space but maintaining speed, though I own nothing…[Read more]

I play yugioh a lot, for about a year or so I got pretty competitive with it, but then my deck got hit by a dumb banlist (Trickstars) and the past few formats have been pretty boring, and I can’t go see my usual yugioh buddy cause covid. I also do the occasional Catan game as well as stuff like Civ, AOE3, and CK2. Oh, and Sid Meier’s Pirates ofc

I’ve been trying to find a way to make the most effective use out of the swap ability of things like David “Bones” Wiley and L’Artesien, but the more I try to make it work, the weaker the ability seems. At least L’Artesien is an otherwise great ship. But right now I’m struggling with Wiley. So far my best idea has been to put him and Lucky on…[Read more]

La Resolucion (SM)

– Nikos Chelios

– Bianco’s Haulers

– Master Bianco

 

There’s probably better ways to set this up, maybe with a galley or ghost ship to avoid being pinned. But with this, you can steal three coins for free and thanks to Bianco, bypass the mercenary keyword so you can actually unload the treasure.

Had a fun one last night.

Almost pure Crimson Coast match between pirates, Spain, and France. France’s fleet had Madame LaFontaine which was the one piece not from CC.

French Fleet

La Magnifique

– Capitane Arathiel

– Capitane Gaston de St. Croix

– Claude Perrier

– Helmsman

– Madame LaFontaine

L’Artesien

A battle focused fleet, centered…[Read more]

Okay I have been trying to think of a way to contribute to this thread with a combo that’s actually legal, and I think I have it.

Ship: Song (PotC)

9 points. Junk. Each time this ship unloads treasure at your home island, one of the coins is worth +1 gold

Crew: Genny Gallows, Silver Explorer.

This means that a silver coin unloaded to your HI…[Read more]

Does a firepot count as a “hit?” I know that it counts as a mast replacement not an elimination, so it bypasses effects like Acorazado’s, but what about effects like La Belle Etoile, which eliminate cargo when they “hit” a ship, and ships that ignore the first hit each turn?

 

Why is SCS so expensive again? I assume because it’s rarer than other packs, but how come? Shorter print? More popular?

Since Ex-Patriots that are face down make their ship lose the mercenary keyword I think that would work