El Cazador

@a7xfanben

I think that reviews may get lost in the forum if they are regular forum threads, so I agree with Woelf’s sentiment.

The USS Mercury! Without it, it’s hard to make a submersible chieftain fleet.

Thanks Woelf. I think the restriction to “numbered treasure coins” makes sense and is more in line with the concept. As for the pointless ability; yes, it is redundant; it was thought up as a weaker version of L-immunity. I will keep that in mind if I use it, but it seems more trouble than I first thought.

What hangups might “This ship may eliminate one treasure that she carries to gain a second action” or “This ship can only be hit by ships within S of her” run into? I think that S-only must be excluded from S-immune; and S-only makes cancel crew more powerful.

An alternative to S-only is “L range cannons can only hit this ship at S range” which…[Read more]

@JWDarkhurst

Eldest Seas made me think of Lovecraft.

Privateer: I rate this okay at first. It seems to be fair and a way to add “generic” named crew.

Demon, Nephilim: I think that Demon is a bit unnecessary (and potentially strong; this should be a ship ability only) and Nephilim is too specific. Both Demon and Nephilim seem better suited to a…[Read more]

@a7xfanben

I think that the Ascent would be better balanced if the L-immunity only applied while surfaced.

“L-range cannons cannot hit this submarine while she is surfaced.”

As most ships with submarine warfare must come within S of an enemy submarine to attack it, the additional L-immunity may be too steep of a hurdle for a submarine hunter;…[Read more]

@Xerecs

I think that “Shipwrights” is the same as “Shipwright” for ability purposes, but “Shipwrights” looks better on a deckplate. The HMS Centurion is not a shipwright (crew version), but has shipwrights aboard (ship version) and thus can repair one mast per turn at sea, at an island, or anywhere that is a legal action, really.

If this is…[Read more]

I’m interested

@a7xfanben
I intend to reintroduce my Congreve Rockets as well! Muahahahahaha!

Steam Icebreaker: This ship gets +1 to her ram rolls. This ship cannot be pinned. A ship with this keyword is not derelict when it has no masts remaining. If it has no masts, one hit still sinks it. This ship ignores terrain, except icebergs, when she is given a move…[Read more]

@JWDarkhurst

I dislike the ability to ignore fire masts, as it eliminates one of the reliable ways to combat large armored ships. I would prefer a +1 to fire mast rolls ability. Am I correct to assume that the names come from Alien?

@A7xfanben

I think Pandemonium could be more suited for standard play if the equipment it uses had to be on the…[Read more]

El Cazador’s sets:

Pirates of the Cursed Seas: The Great Sea (1.2)

Enter the Great Sea to do battle with or against the new Kingdom of Hyrule faction. Hyrule and the Cursed have dueled through the ages, but with new weapons and ships, can the Kingdom defeat the Cursed and ambitious colonizers? Or will Ganondorf’s Cursed form a new Gerudo Empire?…[Read more]

Regarding the Byzantines

@JWDarkhurst

The ship type I have in mind is not a trireme; while Roman, the Byzantine Empire / Eastern Roman Empire was a strongly Greek dark ages and medieval continuation of the Roman Empire after the fall of the western empire in the 400s. The Empire reached its height in the 500s under Justinian I but had periods of…[Read more]

@JWDarkhurst

Seems that the best way to combat that monster is using fire from a7xfanben’s Starfire a few pages back. I think that such a ship is difficult to price right, but I generally avoid (and have rarely used) 10 mast junks myself. Your combo would be difficult to use at 40 points due to the lack of cargo, but getting a first strike with…[Read more]

I’m not opposed to that at all, I’ve just combined Portuguese stuff with Spain so far because it’s easier and creating a new historical faction from scratch can be intimidating. Ideally my Age of Sail set will eventually have a full Portuguese faction… maybe in like 2078. XD

Quite right. Your method is convenient, and I understand the concern…[Read more]

I have notes for more along these lines, but none are in pipeline, as you put it. I want to make three British icebreakers next, but even those don’t have much beyond names and ship type.

I would like to eventually design more ships based around the Mediterranean Sea powers, the Baltic and North Sea powers, and the Indian Ocean and Far East sea…[Read more]

I find it amusing that our French ships from the Royal period fly Napoleon’s revolutionary Tricolor. The Spanish also use a more modern design instead of the Habsburg “Cross of Burgundy” or one of the earlier Trastamara or later Bourbon flags. I would have liked to see more variety here, but identifying the ships is more important than the…[Read more]

That was a fun and informative interview. Well done!

I’m going to repost some of my customs from the MT forums. This post contains historical and reasonably historical fictional ships.

* An asterisk indicates a response to comments on the ships; these ships are subject to revision depending on future performance. However, the values should be considered nearly final.

Portugal

São João B…[Read more]

The name is El Cazador. Well, not really, but that is what you may call me. I was a part of the Minitature Trading (MT) boards for a while and even made two custom sets.

I got into Pirates CSG almost by accident and certainly after print had ended, with memories of seeing the SS boxes in store before I cared.

I am more of an armchair admiral and…[Read more]