Xerecs

In addition to pirates I play a host of things. Bunch of “classic” board games like Monopoly, Clue, Risk and Life.

A host of different and varying card games, from stuff you play with a regular deck of cards like Gin Rummy, BS, 21, and others; to dedicated card games such as Uno, Unstable Unicorns, Exploding Kittens, and Coup. I’ve also played…[Read more]

I actually asked about this in the rules thread a while ago, since I found this in the code:

If treasure is transferred to a ship that is already docked at its home island, it does not automatically unload.  That ship must move away from the island and re-dock or it must be given an explore action targeting the home island, at which point all…[Read more]

A neat idea in theory, but I’m afraid a couple things are going to prevent that from working.

Firstly, you can’t stack abilities, so you’d only get one helmsman +S movement bonus. It can come from either Hermione or from the regular helmsman, but the ship won’t get both. Same thing applies to Trevor van Tyne.

“The Pirate Code”

-If two or more…

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Let’s say that a ship has an Ex-Patriot crew on her, giving her the Mercenary keyword and all that implies. This same ship also has Eternal, as an ability provided by the ship, not coming from a crew. The ship is sunk. If I have Raft, can I flip it and throw the crew onto the nearby island, thus eliminating the Mercenary keyword from the ship and…[Read more]

Glad you’ve enjoyed watching/reading along, I’ve enjoyed playing the game.

Meanwhile, an overlord waits impatiently….

Hmm….. Now who could that be….?

Yes, they would come from outside the game. I should add some additional text that specifies this, and a line or two about the treasure being regular gold, not Unique Treasures (there were other abilities for that :D).

Crew that are assigned to that ship with that ability would still take up cargo space as normal, and would still take up point…[Read more]

Good news, Report 5 is here!

Bad news, due to some IRL stuff involving my camera I’ve been forced to go on a little hiatus from game-play. I should be able to get it resolved quickly and get back to game-play before the week is out.

I’ll throw in my thoughts as well. Do not mail a ship built, ever. It’s just asking for trouble. It’s better to take them apart and put them into bags (snack sized or similar). For packing, I’ve not used packing peanuts much as they and bubble wrap are not ideal for sending miniatures. Both tend to not absorb impacts and will exert force on…[Read more]

can we creat our own nation with ships here?

I’ve done that at least twice so sure, go ahead.

First option, within 3L of the ship the Matatu is on.

Jeez, that is a huge lot of stuff.

@Ochobrazo2298, Sorry mate but Ochobrazo doesn’t exist. 🙁 As I’ve heard it he was supposed to be in Rise of the Fiends, even appears on the Checklist, but didn’t make a showing. He got moved to the Savage Shores set but when that set was split in two parts, he didn’t make it into either half. His stats are visible in the Master Spreadsheet under…[Read more]

Another tidbit for ya.

Carbon Charlie was a crew from Spanish Main, English and cost 3 points. he lets you turn one treasure on your home island into a cannon for the ship he’s on. In order to use him though, the same ship needs to be docked at your home island.

This ability appeared later on Ships, but never again on a crew made by WK.

Oooh. Yeah he’s powerful. I’ve finally gotten my hands on the SR pack from DPotC, so he could show up at some point in the summer game, if the pirates ever feel like he’s necessary.

It’s overpowered indeed.  Which is part of why I went after him in VASSAL Campaign Game 1.

Which crew? I didn’t see mention of them in the original post.

This sounds like a decent idea or scenario for a campaign, but it needs a wee bit of modifying, especially when custom ships are taken into account.

The Cursed did get their hands on Favor of the Gods, and used it. Since then till now no event has been played, even though the Pirates still have two of them on their island….

Its even better for the Pirates since the Treasure ship can move S after loading or UNLOADING cargo at a home island.

The Pirate controller told me he didn’t want to use Events, but he said he felt forced to in order to get around the Phantom. I don’t exclusively ban them for games like this, it’s just that my brothers and I typically don’t use…[Read more]

Steady all hands, Report 4 is here!

@Avery, nice. I did see those on the FB group and left a few thoughts there. You can also put the links in the Custom Ships Organized thread, so that they don’t “get lost” in this thread.