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-Can you roll successfully for Born Leader and then give a different ship an action before returning to the ship that got SAT?  By extension, can you just roll for all the SAT/EA/etc abilities in your fleet at the beginning of your turn and then use that knowledge to help plan your fleet and action logistics?

You can roll for them early if you…[Read more]

Hey everyone,
Do we have copies of the tournament rules and game types Wizkids used to host their tournaments?
If we wanted to host a pirates csg tournament would we be able to replicate how Wizkida refereed the games?

I dug up an old copy of the “Comprehensive Tournament Rules” from 2008, but don’t have a good place to post them, so I’ll email…[Read more]

Would this cover it? The wording for the lightning attack feels a little clunky, but I’m not sure how best to word it, as a leviathan doesn’t have a base like a Sea Monster or Sea Dragon.

That should work.  It is a little clunky, but there’s not a lot that can be done to clean it up more.

If it doesn’t have a base, will it be built more like a st…[Read more]

That should work.   It’ll have to be a pricey ability and it still would be frustrating to play against, but not completely game-breaking.

A leviathan may be shot at only when it is on the surface; its segments cannot be eliminated unless the cannon roll is a 6.

The first half of this sentence isn’t needed; it’s just repeating the “cannot be s…[Read more]

The repair (without damage reduction) would work too, but it would be better as a full action, or at least not something that can be used on the same turn as an unlimited surface move.   The sea creature restriction on repairing, regardless of how it’s done, doesn’t matter because this keyword would override that rule.

Does this become “bett…

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Most of the individual pieces are fine, but the combination still seems like way too much.

Being able to attack while submerged already makes it nearly invulnerable, because that negates one of biggest flaws of Sea Monsters.    With that option, the only reason a Leviathan would ever need to surface would be to make the unlimited movement, w…[Read more]

If its segments cannot be eliminated, how do you defeat it without a canceller?

Would Broadsides Attack work, when its a viable target on the surface?

Technically BA would work while the creature is on the surface, but that appears far less often in games than cancellers, and is significantly harder to use even under normal circumstances. …[Read more]

Leviathans have 7 segments (six claws, one head); However Leviathans may not always have cannons assigned to all their segments. Segments that do not have cannons assigned to them have a blank |_| where a cannon would be. Leviathans cannot re-assign cannons from one segment to another.

You wouldn’t need to have an extra blank mark for the…[Read more]

It could work, but depending on how the ship model was designed and how the distinction between them was set up, the ability/keyword text explaining it could get pretty complicated.

I was thinking that some masts would have a cannon printed on them, while others did not. For example, a ship that has 3 total masts, but only has cannons assigned…

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If a ship existed that tracked its cannons and number of masts separately from one another, would that ship be compatible with the existing rules, or would it be better in a differently structured game?

It could work, but depending on how the ship model was designed and how the distinction between them was set up, the ability/keyword text…[Read more]

Ah interesting, I missed that part from the Code.  A little surprising to me – I saw there was nothing in Titan that prevents it, but the sea creature rules do, so I defaulted to no.  Makes S-Board a weence more appealing.  XD

You can’t do it with a standard ram/boarding because of the sea creature rules, but the S-Board gives you that nice abil…[Read more]

Just confirming: Titans cannot be S-boarded?

The Titan keyword doesn’t specifically prevent being boarded, so you CAN use that ability against one.

With Towing Option #1 (on page 10), can you initiate the tow, then have the towed ship explore the towing ship before any move segments are used?  In my most recent game I assumed you could not because you have to complete the move action that started the tow in the first place.

Your assumption was correct.   Taking the ship under tow occurs as p…[Read more]

So the MKL wording is the official, correct wording?

You can consider it the same level of official-ness as the post-WK version of the Pirate Code, because it does include small tweaks and wording clarifications throughout to better match with the PC.

They’re technically not “official-official” because they were never published by WK, but they…[Read more]

This would also apply to Ex-Pat crew that do have HI-Raiding as an ability, such as Yeshaji Angria, correct?

Yes!     He’s actually the main one it affects, because Le Jongleur is terrible and there’s no reason to use it aside from proving that you can.

I was 99% sure there was a crew that had the combo, but couldn’t recall the name offhand, an…[Read more]

In the Master Keyword List, Mercenary is listed as: “This ship cannot dock at its own home island, and must begin the game S away from its home island.”
In the scans of MI and SS rules, it is listed differently, especially that it cannot dock at any home island.  Which one is correct, and when did Wizkids’ intent change if the MKL version…

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My question is; does Runes of Odin technically sink a ship, or is something else happening?

As written, Runes of Odin skips the “sinking” part and completely removes the ship plus anything else on it.   It will not trigger Eternal.

Don’t mess with the All-father.

How would the wording need to change to allow a mortar attack to target something within S of the ship?

Shifting the text around a little would do it.

Remove the “cannot shoot within S” line from the first paragraph, then add it as a modifier to the “normal” shoot action in the second section.

When an —keyword— is given a shoot action you may cho…

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I was actually going to ask you that, though for a different reason. I tacked on the Broadsides Attack “no other abilities” line to the very end. I’m not certain if that would “overrule” so to speak the S range requirement.

The “no other abilities” text wouldn’t help in that case, for the same reason you can’t use BA against anything with the “…[Read more]

I intend for the ability to be part of a new keyword for future custom ships. If copying is such a concern, would adding text into the keyword that specifically prevent the keyword from being copied work? I believe that you can pick and choose what abilities to copy if a target has more than one, but you cannot cherry pick a keyword, correct?

You…[Read more]