Woelf

A situation came up that I was unsure about. I think in the end we played it correctly, but just to reassure myself.
If a player’s last ship in play is dismasted and has an oarsman that had their ability changed to another crew (OE Davey Jones) via Eye of Insanity, would the end of game trigger since the oarsman’s ability is not currently act…

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If a ship wins a boarding party against a ship with Unique Treasure on board, can the winning ship decide to steal a Unique Treasure from the loosing ship? The Code is open-ended in boarding, simply saying “a Treasure”.

UTs are included with “treasure” in situations like that, so the player losing the item can certainly hand over a UT instead of…[Read more]

I know this question has probably already been asked but, Can you put two Tribal Chieftains on the same ship if you have the required cargo and point cost on the ship?

The no-stack rule applies, so while you can put multiples on the same ship, they all have to start the game on different ships to get all of their canoes.

Once the canoes are all…[Read more]

Can a ship with the Parley ability parley out of being damaged by abilities such as Namzu or Neptune’s Trident? What qualifies a ship as being a target of a shoot action?

This ship must be targeted directly with a shoot action to use Parley.

Namazu and the Trident target an area rather than any ship specifically, so Parley won’t work even if i…[Read more]

Suppose you have the Savage Shores version of Wraith in your fleet, and a source of the SAC ability. If I SAC a crew can I choose not to roll for Wraith or is the roll mandatory? PC entry seems to indicate that the roll is optional.

The wording of Wraith does imply that it’s mandatory, but I don’t think it’s ever been treated that way in the PC. …[Read more]

After exploring this island, place a treasure coin from your collection with value equal to or less than one you took on the island.

The way it’s written, Mysterious Island #7 would allow you to replace a coin with a UT (likely worth 0 gold).  I’d imagine that’s not the intent, but the 0’s from the last sets would provide a good counterp…

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Sorry if some of these are obvious or repeats.

No worries!  I had to really dig to find answers to a few of them…

Does a ship with an Explorer have to look at coins when it docks and explores or can it just mark the island explored?

Yes.   The looking is the primary aspect of the explore action, so if you don’t look, you can’t mark it as ex…[Read more]

Can Duel be used to target an enemy crew on a ship in a fog bank?

Yes – It has no range or line of sight requirements that being lost in fog would prevent, so it can be used by or against crew on ships lost in fog.

If the island treasure trading ability is used to receive a UT that can’t be loaded, does the UT still apply? (and stay on the island, for example with Altar of the Loa)

The trading ability takes place immediately before revealing UTs, so if you received the Altar or any other UT that can’t be loaded (Wolves, etc.), it applies normally as if it…[Read more]

Do you know if cancellers were costed at 5 points partially to allow players to bring them in with 0LR+5 crew to counter things like Submarines/etc?  (or if 0LR+5’s were introduced to allow the kind of “canceller flexibility” that would be helpful in later expansions when things like Submarine/Eternal/etc were introduced – not sure how the plan…

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Return Fire – When this ship is shot at, after the enemy ship has completed their attack action, as a free action, this ship may return fire with all remaining masts. While conducting this action, all cannons increase to rank four.

What happens if the ship’s natural cannons were a 5 or 6?  (There are a handful in the game.)  Do they…[Read more]

@Xerecs

Can you re-roll the die roll for the Duel event, if the chosen crew are on the same ship as a re-roll?

No, for the same reason you can’t reroll a Marine.    The roll is being made for the crew, not the ship they’re on.

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Can a home island raider dock at an enemy home island if there aren’t any coins there?

Yes.  You just won’t get…[Read more]

It might need to go up a couple points, but they’d always felt overpriced for what they did (or couldn’t do), so maybe it doesn’t actually need to change.

Test them priced as-is, but if they start to feel too powerful, you can always bump them up a little

Adding the abilities to repair and move-shoot both do a LOT to improve the playability of sea monsters.     The submarine-style underwater ram maybe isn’t as necessary, but still worth testing.

If a ship has Holy Water, and an enemy ship has Voodoo Doll, can the Doll be used against the ship with Holy Water? I’m thinking no, since it would count as a direct effect because it targets a specific crew and turns them face-down and prevents them from using their abilities.

Correct, Holy Water will protect crew from Voodoo Doll, for exactly t…[Read more]

Do you know if there is a reason that Wizkids often used the term “boarding action” instead of “boarding party”?
Seems to me that using “boarding party” would avoid potential confusion for players thinking that boarding is (maybe only for certain abilities) a full action.

It’s mostly just written that way as shorthand in the PC, because the…[Read more]

Can you reveal a face down UT such as Runes of Odin to play it from your home island after unloading it there, or do face down UT’s have to be on ships in order to be revealed and used?

Unless the UT specifically says it can be used or applies while still on an island (Altar, etc.), or is revealed when unloaded at home, once it’s on your home i…[Read more]

I assume you can stack the uncommon versions of equipment like exploding shot with the LE variants because they have slightly different effects/drawbacks? (just confirming since a “trigger” could be different than a drawback)

Yes, that’s correct.    Even though the end effect is similar, they LE versions remove themselves after use, which makes…[Read more]

Latest unboxing was a great deal from BGG!

Looks like a really nice haul!    Was someone selling their collection, or were those just extras they had?

Is the ability of Tobias Huntington the same as the ability of Rollando (and others). I know there is a difference in text but would the two abilities function more or less the same?

They do both let you steal UTs, but their methods are completely different.

Tobias is more convenient to use because you can grab something just by sailing past…[Read more]