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Definitely have to agree with Ernie there, the game along with its Star Wars material mate were a bit too novel for a company that I’m sure feels much more comfortable pushing various grades of paper with ink and metallic embellishments. Pirates demanded the die cut styrene, the rules package, and can’t forget those tiny dice jammed into the same footprint as any other card trading pack. Considering how terrifying 2008 was it would seem the obvious thing to axe. And of course the thing keeping it dead is probably these self same production costs combined with being unsure of the market because Pirates exists in a weird space between tabletop miniature wargaming and card centric games like say Magic that no doubt would give a marketing department fits trying to nail the right pitch for.
Howdy!
As you can see my name here shows up as Jean Lafitte which is the inspiration for my usual online username lafittejean which is of course derived from the famed pirate Jean Lafitte who stars in the Revolution set but with whom I became familiar with studying history.
I got into Pirates CSG maybe 8 years ago or so, my mother bought me a Crimson Coast Pack and after a couple tins and I was hooked.
Right now I’m pretty much a pure collector with how busy I am with work much less actually getting around to playing games with people but I host ambitions to maybe actually play the game if I can find someone.
Pirates fascinates me with the tactile feel of the ships combined with an interesting approach tabletop wargaming that seems to be nonexistant beyond the product lines directly related to it.
On MT I am known as lafittejean and I’m also part of the FB group.
