Jack

Devil’s Maw also doesn’t work with Sac crew abilities. Sad I know 🙁

Back in the day, the most powerful combo in the game was to double pin by ramming a ship’s bow, using Le Bonaparte or another warship that could not be shot at from within S. This was made illegal for being too broken, but you can attempt the same thing today with a chainshot specialist.

I read @woelf‘s old Asesino de la Nave review and it inspired me to buy it. I’ve long had her pirate version, the Santiago, and my most used ship may be France’s La Belle Etoile. But now I want to make a fleet dedicated to destroying cargo.

Panda (22 pts)

Havana Black

Calico Cat (SM)

Oarsman

Helmsman

Santiago (17…[Read more]

I just pulled La Victoire from a Crimson Coast pack. While she’s certainly a good ship and I don’t already own her, my pirate fleet is already stacked to the point where I’m not sure if I’ll use her as much as someone else might. So, I’ll offer her up as a trade piece for a week or two to you lovely people before I build her.

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“Ghostly” ships can shoot and be shot at, and can not ram or board.

Side note: I want to test a house rule making Ghostly ships unable to shoot, but being able to be shot at, except that you need to roll a 6 to hit.

According to the master rules sheet Hanno and Phrygias lacking the galley keyword is a mistake. AFAIK no ships with the galley look are not supposed to have the galley keyword, the way Carolina has a schooner design but no keyword.

Found it. I had originally posted a link to it last year lol.

I’m trying to find a doc that had an alternate boarding rule that I really liked. It was something along the lines of rolling one d6 for every mast and crew on a ship, then whoever had the lower combined roll eliminates a mast/crew, and it continues until one ship is derelict.

Yeah. Only way to hit is if you have something that boosts cannon rolls so you can roll a 7+

How do you guys scale games for different point totals? I usually play the standard 40 point game, but I have a couple of ideas for fleets that would need 50+ points to work.

I’m going to try this campaign soon with this addition to how gold is exchanged for new ships/crew, to try and prevent one faction from snowballing:

Between rounds, when adding new ships/crew to your fleet, the cost depends on how many points your fleet is currently worth. The gold-point ratio is whatever the tens number of your fleet’s current…[Read more]

I also managed to win an auction selling La Ville de Paris, Le Soleil Royale, Mademoiselle Josephine Godiva, and Vicomtesse Angelique Richelieu. My very strong French fleet grows stronger!

Managed to get my hands on four packs of Crimson Coast. For some reason I never collected very much from that pack, despite it containing a bunch of great ships and crew I’ve always wanted. Crossing my fingers for some beautiful French ships of the line or the Deliverance.

Any chance you’d sell the Amity?

I’m not actually sure if the Three Musketeer cards were ever officially released btw

Oh I forgot about ol Carbon Charlie. Always wanted to make use of him but always found his effect too slow.

I have such a poor Crimson Coast collection. Would love to get my hands on basically anything from that pack, but especially these:

Deliverance

Amity

Raven

Mermaid

Crimson Angel

Havana Black

Bloody Jake

Maurice Aristide

L’Hercule

L’Artesien

St. Pierre

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It’s 3, sorry. CC Hawkins costs 6 points and has the 3 Pt SAT ability plus crew protect. By BC crew protect has gone down to 2. Commander Stephen Decatur is 7 points, and…[Read more]

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I’m pretty sure I had the last review on the site. It was for the Snipe, my first ship and personal favorite.

I’ve had issues with campaign type games before with the player who takes an early gold lead running away with things, so I might have some tweaks to make. I forgot about the 3+ player rule getting rid of the majority gold requirement! That should probably stay and rounds should go until all the gold is brought to home islands or everyone passes.…[Read more]