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#1 Correct, in order to build say, a French Fort, you need to have at least one French ship in your fleet.

#2 I’m not entirely sure. They changed how 3-mast schooners are configured in later sets so that their masts don’t overlap.

#3 I think so. I’ve played it that way in the past, but I could be wrong.

I have a nephew I’m looking to introduce Pirates to. He has an interest in dragons and other fantasy elements. Which faction(s) offer the most in that realm?

The Cursed and the Pirates mostly. They have Sea Dragons in the Ocean’s Edge expansion. They’re a little difficult to get ahold of however, since they came on mega sized cards and were only a…[Read more]

would prevent other players from using them against your ship.

Even UT’s that don’t affect the ship directly? Like Altar of the Loa, etc.?

I have a question about a custom UT (not my own)

This ship cannot be affected by unique treasures unless you permit it. This treasure cannot be unloaded.

The way that the above is worded, would it be prevent UT’s from affecting the ship ONLY when it explores a wild island, or would it prevent a UT from affecting the ship period?

For example, if…[Read more]

Nice pull! The FS Super Rares are pretty decent game-play wise. Granted, the Skin Flayer is expensive, and for the same amount of points you can get the Endeavor.

Interesting. I’m not familiar with types of ship, at least historically. Are they similar to a Trireme?

Really? What are they more like then?

Since none of them can be activated more than once during a turn, they effectively wash each other out and whatever other ability was involved gets to function normally.  The specific timing of which canceler goes first doesn’t actually matter.

I take it then, that if an opponent tried to cancel something else (like a captain for instance) th…[Read more]

How did it perform?

With EA possible along with Parley to give it a second layer of defense, I imagine it was hard to damage.

I’m fairly certain I’ve asked this, but I can’t find where. What happens when two sources of the cancel ability get within range of each other? Do players have an option to use their cancellation on something other than the opposing canceller if in range?

A matter of timing as well. Lets say that I have a ship with a canceller, and it is my turn.…[Read more]

Considering the excellent crew selections the pirates have, this is a VERY good ship. 23 points is a good place to start, it could very easily go up. It might be more interesting if it was slower. Reducing the speed would also bring the point cost down imo. If you go from S+L to L you could probably bring this down to around 20 points.

That is an impressive gunship there. That combination of abilities with that speed….. That’s a scary ship, and possibly worth more than 23 points.

I don’t see a faction, who gets this ship?

Tell me about it. The discord went nuts when those lots ended.

Nice! Looks like English v Pirates.

Near the beginning of the month a member on the Pirates Facebook group posted a challenge to sink the Sleigh using as few points as possible. Sinking the Sleigh would be difficult, the ship cannot be shot at, and cannot sink. A canceller would get around that nicely, but the problem would be catching the Sleigh and getting her in range. The ship…[Read more]

I’m not that familiar with historical names of ships, but I’d assume so?

The artwork for generic cursed crew seem to indicate that they’re all some kind of undead, either a zombie or walking corpse or some sort of ghost/phantom.

You make a good point though, not all of the cursed are undead or some kind of specter, but a majority of the ones we see are.

Tsai could be used on the USS Morning Star, or the Sol no need to bring Jack on either of those. If you wanted to bring Jack along, then the Americans might be able to pull that off with the Roanoke. You’d double or triple up on the captain ability, since you’d need to bring the SS version of Charles Richard to make them fit point wise.

The Spanish DO have SAC in RtSS, but it’s attached to Marine on Sebastian Rojo. Furthermore, the SS version of Tsai is a SAC-Captain with ex-patriot, so the Americans COULD use him. Using either of them almost requires a higher build point total though.

Fleet name is fun indeed, and I’ve gone with something similar for the anniversary game, using UPS with non-pirates.