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The fist report is now up!

So it Begins….. CoEC report 1

The site is behaving strangely for me again, so I’m posting the first one here.

So it Begins….. CoEC report 1

Yeah, sorry the forum doesn’t always work optimally.  In the past I’ve had success just pasting into the Visual tab, which usually keeps the formatting from the original document.  If pasting to the Text tab, some of it may not be recognized correctly.

I did post into the visual tab. I think it just didn’t agree with the formatting I’d done on my…[Read more]

Thanks, I’m looking forward to it as well. This Summer our time is constrained more than ever, so the victory condition number 2 is most likely to occur. However, (small spoiler) we have the least amount of islands this year than ever before, so that should force more combat and competition for islands.

Tying in to what I said above, every island…[Read more]

I quite like this Necromancer fellow, I’d definitely use him in a campaign, and maybe a 60 point game, perhaps a  little more, the Cursed are expensive. 😀

Nice, I’d not seen/forgotten some of these.

I”m scathing my head at Gimli and Lief’s point costs. I don’t quite get why they’e that expensive. Also, I think you should spell out that Lief gets +1 to HIS gun roll against the Cursed. I almost interpreted it as a +1 to cannons against the Cursed.

Proposed text change to: This crew gets +1 to its…[Read more]

The Corsairs are an interesting faction to play. Their selection of named crew is lacking, especially compared to the other one-off factions (Vikings and Jades being the other two). However, you will be had pressed to find a Corsair ship that has a single base move segment. A good majority of their ships have S+S or S+L as base moves, and plenty…[Read more]

I’ve never actively used the ‘standard’ treasure rule, along with the ‘first to half total gold wins’.

That said, when I do set up games with my brothers, we agree on a set number of coins per island, but the coins are selected at random from out of a pencil box whee we keep the coins punched out. (quick note, this pencil box contains almost…[Read more]

Most of my points wee made on the FB group, but one more thing I liked was the inclusion of some of the Young Jack Sparrow  book series stuff. Pieces like the Grand Barnacle, and Fluer de la Mort came directly from those books.

On that note, they could’ve used some of the things from those books as UT’s and crew. I would’ve loved to see Left…[Read more]

I quite like these mercenaries, Kadrax will certainly be in high demand, if only for his WH ability. Ghost Ship just makes him that much more interesting.

I agree, the combos with Gervorio would be quite interesting. As an Ex-Pat he can go anywhere, but he also has ransom, which makes him a high priority target for enemy fleets.

Nice galley and linked crew. In a smaller game would be rather formidable I think, and could run as a hybrid. In large, campaign games, I’m thinking she’d make a good sentry/second line gunship. Either for a faction in need, o for the Mercs themselves.

I feel like I’ve already seen the Sentence and Kontos….

Sentence has an interesting ability, making it mandatory to eliminate a crew, either from itself or another ship nearby. It could get ugly in close quarters battles, with so many ships crammed together.

Would Kontos be able to use his ability in conjunction with range extenders, like…[Read more]

I chimed in on the FB poll, and I’ll reiterate most of what I said there. I think the game is fine as-is, and re-costing or ‘fixing’ the agreed OP pieces would lead to a can of worms. I can envision a scenario where someone thinks a piece is OP (just because of bad experiences) and calls for it to be nerfed to high heaven, when it doesn’t need to…[Read more]

Huzzah, I can post again. 😀

Gunos Fortress is interesting, I quite like the concept.

Figlar I think takes the concept of Gunos and dials up to an eleven, not even needing gold to travel through a whirlpool, and being able to use crew inside of it.

Weirdness continues. When I’m on the main forum page, I’m shown as not logged in. However, once I click on a thread and go in, I’m suddenly logged in. I haven’t checked the Customs thread yet though. I’m fairly sue that the oddity is on my end, though I’m not sue what to do about it, since I’ve already removed some cookies and stuff.

Are you accessing the thread from the main forum, from the notification in the top right corner, or from an email notification link?

I was just able to post there after going to the latest post from the main forum, but that might just be because I’m the admin.

I’ll get an e-mail when a new post is made, at the bottom is a post link URL, which I c…[Read more]

Huzzah!  I currently seem to be ranking #2 in google for “Pirates CSG” behind only Miniature Trading! 😀

Nice, break out the special reserve rum, for parties and other extravagant affairs!

Edit: I’m having a problem with the Custom Ships thread, it keeps logging me out when I click on it. Could be a problem on my end, but heads up.

The Beating seems like a nice support gunship, o a stand alone ins a smaller game. Nice set of cannons, a very good ability and decent speed. Only 2 cargo will limit some options I think, but fine otherwise.

repository has some interesting potential, I’d have to look at all the crew with ‘Fiend’ in their name, though I think some might not…[Read more]