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The next report for CG4 is now up, here.

In case you want to catch up, here is the entire playlist of my reports for CG4.

Sea Dragons are fun if a little difficult to use imo. To best take advantage of their unlimited movement and swoop attack (or their regular cannons and abilities) I find it advisable to have some kind of fleet action available, be that Lord Mycron, or one of the many ‘roll a 6 one ship in your fleet gets an extra action’ crew. Those will allow…[Read more]

As a general question, how would these loyal: Merc or dual nationality crew be used in a campaign?

I like anything Eternal, so I’m quite fond of Xelomenos, and Haltharad seems to be made for campaigns/large games.

I just do what feels right to me. Kind of a balance of “would I use this at this cost” combined with “will Ben have an aneurysm looking at what I just typed” lol. Not too much of a science to it.

Heh, I’ve done some of that. 😀 When i cost things, if I’ve used an established ability, like +1 to boarding rolls, I try and find pieces that WK made…[Read more]

I feel that the Garmr should be a little bit more, but not by much. I think 13 might be good, if only because that boarding ability is much better when the ship it is on has more cargo to take advantage of more crew.

Usually ships with the Acorazado ability deserve to be expensive, however I feel that the Skidbladnir should be less than 20, say…[Read more]

USS Vesuvius
Type: Ship
Nationality: American
Point Cost: 23
Masts: 3
Cargo: 3
Base Move: S+S
Cannons: 3S,3L,3L,2S
Link: David Porter
Ability: Bombardier. You own any derelict that this ship explores; both ships become docked at your home island.

I like this Bombadier, though I think it’s a little too expensive. WizKids didn’t really price…[Read more]

I like the ability of the Deathless, BUT I feel it might be too good, even at 17 points. She has VERY good cannons and decent speed for a ship that size, couple that with her ability and it becomes very hard to sink her for good. Perhaps I’m overreacting, but that’s my gut reaction to it.

When this fort hits an enemy ship, also eliminate one crew from that ship. If an enemy ship is within S of this fort you can roll a d6. On a result of 6, one target crew is immediately assigned to this ship. Its nationality changes to match the nationality of this ship. If any ship is moved into contact with this island, that ship and all crew…

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“The SoS is a pure gunship”

I completely disagree.  I think she immediately becomes one of the best hybrids in the entire Cursed fleet, though mostly because they don’t have that many of those.  Having her be from one of the imperial nations was my flavor excuse of making this good of a Cursed ship that wouldn’t normally be Cursed.  XD

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The SoS is a pure gunship, one level of something you’d see from the English, or French. Lots of cargo and good speed, a little on the expensive side, but that’s fine. This is worth every one of those 18 points.

The JC is one of the few sips where there is a difference between the Unlimited version and the regular version. I think the UL version is the one with the extra text. However according to the code:

The complete ability text for…….should read: “Schooner. Broadsides Attack.” Certain printings included additional text in the ability box that sho…

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I feel that BA shouldn’t have been put on crew, and should have been limited to a ship only keyword. As for it’s mechanics, I wouldn’t change much, but I would (unless it’s been done already) explain what the ‘no other abilities’ would cover. I know that you can’t couple a WH or a re-roller crew with a Broadsides Attack, but you can use it in…[Read more]

I suspect a temporary server issue or some other hosting problem on their end. I’m assuming they’ve fixed whatever problem they had, since I can access the site and it seems to be operating as normal.

This happened at least once before, before the new owners took over, the site went down for a few days. When I tied to access it then I got a…[Read more]

Put Don Osvaldo Guillen on his linked ship, the Santo Columbo. They both have the same ability, so it’s pointless to do it.

As for high impracticality? Try and get all of the WK doctor crew into one fleet. 😀

I think I did once. At the time we had an un-punched Dauphin Royal form CC. I thought one of my brothers already had it, so I traded it, though I can’t recall now for what. It wasn’t until afterwards that I realized none of us had a complete Dauphin, and I was kicking myself for a while. However just last year I think, I was able to score a…[Read more]

“I have mixed feelings about the Combustion and the Flame Fiend because I actually have a similar-ish ship in the set following Seas of Doom”

Huzzah, another set!  XD

I’m eagerly awaiting the next one, since I’ve made a point to NOT look over JW’s shoulder o at his doc for it, since I want to be surprised. 😀

Reading the ability again, I…

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I agree with your assessment that the Shrieking and the Heir would be best served in a battle group or formation. On their own I think they would be hard pressed to do any major damage to a ship before being overwhelmed, especially if they were caught by a small formation by themselves.

Of the two, I feel that the Shrieking has a higher upside,…[Read more]

Darren would be interesting to pair with a HI raider that had good to semi decent cannons. That or an escort ship for a raider, since cargo is so valued on those ships.

Jerrison is also interesting, if only for his link. There are a few very good American twos and thees.