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No, don’t change Sharpton!!!! 😀 I figure you could make another American who has more serious anti-pirate abilities.

I think that the justice is priced fine at 18, even with he bonus. Since its likely you won’t be chasing pirates o Cursed all the time. Outside of the Bonus, she’s a decent 5 mast for the Americans.

I also think that Sharpton is fine as-is. I would probably NOT use him on his linked ship though. I’d probably put him on the RV constitution! 😀

I really like the Justice and Sharpton. the + to die rolls would affect cannons yes? O would it only affect things like EA/SAT, Boarding?

but you could also let crew leave the ship.  Perhaps a crew can move L per turn on the island, and can carry one coin at a time back to the beach.

Sounds like a rule for a campaign, and would lend itself well to islands that have paths cut into them, like my arch island, or the Bone Temple island.

I did that simply because the islands wee large, and it felt silly to have only one stack of coins per island. 😀 Maybe next time I use the islands for a game, I’ll take pictures. I’ll hopefully be playing that scenario game I mentioned on the Podcast today. That I’ll take pictures for.

Just played a game with one of my brothers. 70 point game, and we used my islands from the Oceans Terrain Contest. That gave us 4 islands as wild islands. To spice things up a bit, all but one island had more than one stack of coins on it, each assigned a die value. When a ship would dock to explore, it would roll a d6 fist, and the result was the…[Read more]

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]