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Okay so I screwed that link up big time, my apologies for that. Not very used to forums.
Here should be the correct one.
After I introduced my buddy to ebay he’s bought…a lot of stuff, and still stays on the lookout for more.
He shared this today https://www.ebay.de/itm/Wizkids-Pirates-Booster-Box-Lot-South-China-Frozen-North-Mysterious-Terrain/174668521044?hash=item28ab0e1e54:g:z5MAAOSwGAhgQxeb
It’s true that the models could have just been replaced by cards, that’s my main issue with the game. But the simplicity of the gameplay is what makes it kinda exciting to my group.
It’s basically a TCG, which we all love. Your deck is gonna have a bigger influence on the outcome of a match than your units, but without the right units even the “strongest” deck will underperform. You have to approach building your fleet with certain things in mind, like what you want your win condition to be, how to deal with your opponent’s annoying objectives, etc. It’s fun, and pretty damn cheap to get started, too. You can get a lot of 24 booster packs from Wholesalegaming for as cheap as $20 (last time we ordered, the Ground Assault set was on sale for $6 for a 24 booster lot!). Due to it being a TCG you’re probably not gonna get your playsets from just one box, but if you’re looking for something neat to play quick matches of, it’s worth buying a box or two.
Our draft has concluded!
…without any games played. We had only a couple of hours to spend, so we decided to just draft the packs and play games like normal some other time. A bit sad, BUT! But, I say. But, I pulled the Super Rare pack from Barbary Coast, so I’m extremely happy. In ~500 packs opened so far, we have pulled exactly 3 of these treasures – Barbary Coast, Rise of the Fiends (or Fire & Steel, I can not remember right now) and Pirates of the Caribbean.
Hey guys, I could use some advice!
My friends and I just ordered two boxes of Barbary Coast boosters. We’re planning on doing some draft games with those packs, which is something we wanted to do for a while now. My question to you: With only game pieces from the Barbary Coast booster set available, which pieces should I try to snatch away in the draft to have a good shot at winning?
Further info: We’ll do 8 rounds, each round adding 3 packs per person. So round 1, we are 3 people with 3 packs each. Round 2, we do another draft of 3 packs per person, but everyone can also use the pieces they drafted in the previous round to build their fleet for round 2. By the end of it, we’ll have 24 packs worth of game pieces to build our final fleet from.
If it was just that I wouldn’t ask BUT, in case anyone pulls the SR pack it’ll be the big prize of the whole thing, so I wanna maximize my chances of winning. Any advice would be much appreciated!
My gang all play exclusively single nations, two per person out of the big 6 (even though the Cursed don’t feel that big).
Aside from that, I like to play for fun more than efficiency. I’ll look through my ships and pick out one that looks interesting to play, then build around it. Most of these lists fail horribly, but I make it my mission to at least sink one enemy per game.
Cheers for the answer, much appreciated. We’ve had a pretty long break from playing Pirates and are starting to appreciate some lesser used pieces now.
Question about Broadsides Attack:
<span class=”fontstyle0″>-</span><span class=”fontstyle1″>Broadsides Attack </span><span class=”fontstyle0″>ignores all defensive abilities of the target ship, except those that make it an invalid target for a
shoot action. </span>What exactly counts as a defensive ability here? Specifically, ships that need to be hit twice in the same shoot action to lose a mast, would those be “immune” to Broadsides Attack or would the keyword cancel that ability?
For me it has to be the first purchase I made with my friends.
I played when I was younger and had nothing from back then, but when I stumbled upon HWG some years ago I couldn’t help but buy the Ocean’s Edge lot. Got to play a few games with my brother and sister, but ultimately they just collected dust in a box.
Then one day, hanging out with friends, I just decided to give it a go and asked them if they’d like to try a round or two. And they had fun! So that sunday we decided to buy some stuff together. A display of Revolution, and 3 Spanish Main 20 piece blister packs. That’s what got our collections really started, and I look back on the day of pack opening fondly.
I failed to pull the one ship I wanted, the HMS Titan, from that purchase, so I got more Spanish Main for myself in the next purchase we made. All together we’ve made 3 or 4 purchases from there now, plus a good chunk of singles from a German ebay seller we found.
What is your favourite ship type? Least favourite?
Did you have any ideas for the game that got implemented (ships, crew, treasure, etc)?
How did you feel about the game “sinking” before Return to Savage Shores?
100% the HMS Titan. Was in the first booster pack I opened back when I was a child, and took me 120 booster packs to get again as an adult. Close second is the Le Courageux, absolutely gorgeous little ship.
After 120 packs of Spanish Main, I’m still missing 4 English ships (046, 052, 053 & 054), as well as 4 crew (057, 059, 065 & 066). From Revolution, after 2 displays, I’m missing the 024 HMS Swallow for my English and a few things for my French (048, 059 & 061).
Can’t really complain too much about the things missing from Revolution since we got pretty much all the American stuff and almost everything else, but man I can’t believe 120 Spanish Main packs later I’m still missing so much. And most of them are commons, too!
The majority of pieces my ragtag crew of pillaging and plundering sea rats and I have comes from Spanish Main, Revolution, Ocean’s Edge, Rise of the Fiends and Fire & Steel, since those were the sets we could get for fair prices. We have a few singles here and there from Savage Shores, Davy Jones’ Curse, Crimson Coast and Barbary Coast (no Corairs), and absolutely nothing from South China Seas, Frozen North or Mysterious Islands.
Personally, my favourite set is a tie between Spanish Main (god bless the HMS Titan) and Revolution. Spanish Main evokes a massive feeling of nostalgia in me, and I’m particularly glad that the pieces we got from the set were all in German. Revolution on the other hand finished the big nations off with America and feels like the set that began giving each of those five factions their own, distinct identity. Plus the forts from that set are great.
Welcome back! (?) You’re in Germany right? I think I remember Kaiser being from there. If you’re over there, you could always hit up the old_man
Wow your memory’s something else. Yup that’s me!
Fleets? I guess I’m the only one who doesn’t do other games where that is the jargon… even in CCG’s I’d call them decks before “lists”. (no offense, just a pet peeve I have to deal with)
I’m used to calling them lists from wargaming pretty much, but yeah fleets.
Ahoy!
I played this game as a kid and then lost track of it. Years later I remembered and managed to convince some friends to play with me. Now several millions in debt and living under the bridge, we have accustomed to our new vagabond lifestyle, taking only the bare necessities and our vast collection of ships with us as we get chased off by police day and night.
Well it’s not that bad, but oh boy did we sink some money into this game. Due to our unfornutate geographical location we can’t get our hands on everything we want – no South China Seas, Frozen North, Mysterious Islands or other fun stuff for us – but what we’ve got is plenty to play a few good rounds with every now and then.
I’m craving games regularly, but we can’t get together too often, so it’s mostly just me going over my collection and building new lists to try out, or thinking up some custom things here and there. I’m looking forward to hopefully being a bit more active on here, though I make no promises.
