Woelf

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]

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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]

Transferring the crew is allowed, but all of the extra effects caused by it will cease as soon as the possessed crew is separated from the possession source.    It will revert back to its original nationality, it will take up cargo space again, and its point cost will apply normally.  (ADDED:  It does not return to its original owner.)
The same…

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“If this ship isn’t assigned a Helmsman crew, roll a d6 after this ship resolves a move action. On a result of 4-6, this ship can move L.”
According to page 29 of The Pirate Code, this ability happens after a shoot action provided by a captain. How does the timing work with explorers and S-boarding?

This ability applies after the ship resol…[Read more]

Can a crew captured via the Possession ability be transferred to a friendly ship of the same nationality and use their abilities on the second ship?  The Code entry for Wraith makes me think not, but nothing in the Possession ability forbids it.

Transferring the crew is allowed, but all of the extra effects caused by the possession will cease as…[Read more]

After using Towing Option #1 from the Reference Diagrams (initiate towing when already touching a derelict’s bow at the beginning of a move action), can you immediately drop the tow in order to not have your base move limited to S, or is your base move limited to S during that move action?

You can drop the ship at any time, even immediately a…[Read more]

Decided to just rework False Sighting altogether. Its new effect is similar, although hopefully more balanced:
At the beginning of this ship’s turn, roll a d6. on a 5 or a 6, skip this ship’s turn and remove False Sighting from the game. This treasure cannot be unloaded.

This is a more interesting effect anyway.  The previous was basically a we…[Read more]

The silly Pirates nerd in me is trying to think of a reason to not place all of them.  I assume since each token is considered a UT that they’re not considered “available gold” for endgame conditions?  If you know you have a lead but a weakened fleet and your opponent has an HI Raider, you might want to end the game as fast as possible, in which c…

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