Meant to post my latest battle report video here, but I forgot. Some of you have already checked it out so thanks for that!

Pirates CSG Battle Report – 70 Point Game (26 Point Pools)

I think I tend to see most people overrating a lot of ships so thinking of underrated ones is quite difficult.

I’m not sure if they’re underrated, but I’ve been growing more attached to Galleys recently. Having a pseudo-Oarsman on them is pretty nice as it often forces your opponent to expend extra time to finishing off a mastless Galley. In some…[Read more]

My confusion arose from the codes wording for duplicate UTs. “The no-duplicates rule applies to unique treasures only during setup, when placing them in the treasure pool.” This made me think that the treasure pool is where they had to be unique. Thought I’d just verify it here, thanks again.

For Unique Treasures does the No Duplicates rule apply per player or for the treasure pool for the particular game? I.e. can you have multiple copies of a UT in the same game if different players bring them?

Thanks for the clarification.

If a ship with the “Two hits from the same shoot action are required to eliminate one of this ship’s masts.” ability is hit by something with the “<span style=”color: #000000; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: medium;”>Once per turn when this ship hits an enemy ship, also eliminate one crew from that ship.” does it still eliminate a c…[Read more]

<span style=”color: #000000; font-family: ‘Helvetica Neue’, Helvetica, Arial, ‘Lucida Grande’, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: #fbfbfb;”>Nice!  I think Antelope could be 4 points, and the Privateers likely 4 as well.</span>

I think he’s put the Antelope at 6 points so it can use both crew.

For me 2022 marks my first year of getting back into Pirates CSG after having more or less forgotten about it for about a decade so the year has been one full of discovery. At the beginning of the year I thought the game was literally just a Pirates of the Caribbean game, as I talked about in the self-introduction thread, so I’ve had a lot get my…[Read more]

Does your opponent still get to choose if they want to board if you choose not to?

If you hit a ship with a Switchblade, but then move away so that you are no longer touching the hit ship can boarding still occur or does the blade have to remain in contact?

Finally managed to finish my 4 player battle report video. Ended up taking quite a bit of time to put together and I was quite buy during the week, but I made it! This one is quite  lengthy, but hopefully you still enjoy.

https://youtu.be/y5LDRxCUlQM

Thought I’d have a go at doing something a bit different with a video battle report. It’s just for a very small game I played by myself, but I’m hoping to get a video finished for a slightly larger 4 player game I played yesterday.

https://youtu.be/8M4iD5HkpVk

Ah yes, the “turn them over – they’re yours!”

Thanks for the clarifications, I’ve always played that a player reveals when they have more than half the gold at their island.

How does the “<span style=”color: #000000; font-family: docs-Calibri; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;”>This ship may dock at an enemy home island and load one treasure. If able, she must leave on your next turn.” </span>work? Do you get to choose the treasure you take or is it random?

Also when trying to find an answer in the FAQ I came…[Read more]

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<span style=”color: #000000; font-family: ‘Helvetica Neue’, Helvetica, Arial, ‘Lucida Grande’, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;”>In the original set, the standard fleet size was only 30!</span>

Wow, I didn’t know about this! Makes ships like El Garante feel even more strange.

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To sort of respond to your post as whole, I think the more I play the game the more it seems obvious to me that the game isn’t really balanced at all and a lot of rules and game pieces weren’t play tested as much as they probably should have been.

There are several things such as even the 40 points fleet limit that leave me wondering what the…[Read more]

For ships like Fantasia and Hannah that have the ability “Friendly ships within S of this ship get +1 to their cannon rolls.”, can this also apply to the ship with the ability itself?