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I’ve updated the file for Fiends of the Blood Islands on BGG. It might take a while for the new file to appear, but when it does it’ll be here: Fiends of the Blood Islands

Serenata is too cheap. She should be about 5 to 6 points more.

I’m not sue how I feel about the Resuelto, her cannons are already very good.

JW posted the first of them, here are the rest of the convention pack story insets for Fiends of the Blood Islands.

USS Ironsides:
The captain of the USS Ironsides looked warily back towards the fleet of rotting, bone-encrusted ships on the horizon.
“This wasn’t part of the plan…”, his voice nervously trailed off as he glanced at his two…[Read more]

In addition to the Leicester, I’ve seen the bronze corner on the HMS Dover and Shadow. I’m assuming (like Ben) that they originally had a different color for Uncommon, but changed it. Possibly because the bronze/brown color went on to become the color for LE rarities.

Thanks for that link to the galley pictures. It’ll help a bunch if/when I do reviews of ships/crew.

Would you consider a ‘fleets’ section like MT, or would that be difficult to implement; or just isn’t high on the priority list?

Hadn’t though of stickers o anything like that. That would make using other peoples customs easier. I think though, that putting the scans out thee would have to be fee, otherwise you’d have creators competing with whoever was selling the blank packs. That said,if the game came back, and IF blank packs became a thing and IF what you and I are…[Read more]

I’d be all for that, obviously. The custom  potential would be though the roof, not only with artwork, but with cannon ranks and whatnot. It’s too bad something like this didn’t exist, would have made my day a lot easier. 😀

As for rules/guidelines and such, you could include them on a small sheet, detailing etiquette for using custom pieces in…[Read more]

Changed the wording on these, think they might be better.

Catapult
Equipment
Points: 3
Ability: This equipment may be used on an island o on a ship. If used on a ship; she gains one 4L cannon that can shoot from any mast (even an eliminated mast). If the cannon roll is a 1, turn this equipment face-down. You may give this ship a repair action to…[Read more]

I’ve had my eye on some of these, but my funding hasn’t recovered from Christmas. 😀

So….. Will you make a ship fo Snoopy? 😀

Jokes aside, I really like this ship, and I like the fist pat of he link. I’m interested to see what Clout does.

I like Spike Shot, but what is the idea behind stopping the enemy ship? Big spear lodged in the rigging?
Catapults on seagoing ships seems like a very unwieldy concept. They’re very large and the projectiles would travel more slowly than cannonballs. The potential height seems like it could easily interfere with the ship’s rigging. I think I’d…

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I really like he flavor text, paints a picture of how she would behave and whatnot. I know I don’t do it often, but I do like when the flavor of a piece can show how/why a piece does what it does.

Anywho, I thought I was done with SpMg, but no…….  I decided to create 7 equipment and 5 forts for the Ionics. now…. You’ll have to wait till I…[Read more]

Huzzah for Lordstu! I read some of the reviews and comments he made. Quite impressive, I’d have loved to have had a chat with him about pirates and whatnot.

I like that Scorpion. Despite my reluctance to use ships with one cargo space, I think I’d use this in a campaign o customs allowed game. Flavor text is particularly fun and nasty. 😀

I think it’s better.

Okay then, into the spreadsheet it goes.

Bedlam seems very confusing, and aptly named. 😀  However, I think I like it. I could certainly see using it in a big game.

I’ve been going through my word doc for SpMg, mostly adding flavor text to things, but I’ve also been resolving some ‘unfinished’ or left for debate pieces. Mostly I’m not going to re-post them, but this one I think warrants it.

What it was/is currently:

HMS Chronicler
English
Points: 20
Masts: 1
Cargo: 1
Cannons: 2L
Movement: L
Ability: Once per…

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My bad for not posting the ability with the “new keyword”.

Eh. I knew what you were talking about. When I describe an ability like that, I don’t usually think of making a keyword, I’m using a short-hand.

With a recent influx I am happy to say that Pirates of the Epic Seas now has over 800 total game pieces!

Nice! SpMg tops out at around 343 pie…[Read more]