All of the quantities are as of December 2025!
My Pirates CSG Life “By The Numbers”:
Games played: 604
Huge games (1000+ points in play): 12
Campaign Games: 9 (non-solo CG record: 3-0)
Players taught: 31+ (likely many more through the 32K+ total views my how to play videos have gotten)
Videos published: 830 (1213+ subscribers)
Podcasts: 68 (including 7+ with original Wizkids employees that worked on the game)
Fleets made: 116 submitted at Miniature Trading, 74 so far on PSMList
Trades: 122+ (73 different trade references on MT)
Miniature Reviews: 17 on MT, essentially hundreds or thousands total including all the set review podcast episodes
Posts at Pirates with Ben: 925+
Pages at Pirates with Ben: 117+
Instagram: 3136 posts, 543 followers
Constructed ships in collection: probably over 1000
Ships given away: many hundreds, plus sealed packs
Sealed packs given away: 129+ since December 2021
Game pieces available for trade: 1805
Time in PCSG online community: 14.5 years
Total hours of PCSG: way over 10,000, possibly over 15-20K hours since 2011
Restarting Pirates Project
Ships Made: 65 and counting
Newsletters: 58
Print companies contacted: 300+
Other companies contacted (for plastic, laser cutting, wire EDM and/or die cutting): 53+
Restarting Pirates folder: 123GB, 5623 files, 975 subfolders
DM’s and emails sent: thousands across many platforms, including everyone in the Pirates CSG community
Reachouts included: Wizkids+NECA (multiple times each in multiple years), sent PotC packs to Martin Klebba, Johnny Depp, Gore Verbinski, Jerry Bruckheimer, talked to Lee Arenberg about the game (+his signature on his PotC Pintel card). Communicated with original manufacturer Lucky Yeh International after many attempts including physical letter sent with Chinese translation. Plus many other titans of the past PCSG community, board game industry people, and more.
Hours spent: 3000+
I also documented part of the slog and journey here: A wild journey to accomplish the dream.
Document lengths by page count: (these are just the core/biggest ones, there are many other smaller documents)
3D Printing, Production and Manufacturing Pirates CSG: 88 pages
Restarting Pirates: 40 pages
Pirates with Ben: 35 pages
Pirates CSG original doc: 37 pages
Subscription Box: 8 pages
PCSG contacts/etc: 34 pages
Pirates CSG Videos and Video Ideas: 21 pages
VASSAL: 31 pages (mostly CG4 notes)
Fleets and Future Games: 21 pages
Thought it might be fun to choose one picture for each “domain” that summarizes the extreme lengths to which I’ve taken this game.
Playing:
The Sea of Karkuda in Command the Oceans, 2017.
Collecting:
People picture:
Restarting Pirates CSG:
New Ships created for my Relaunch of Pirates CSG!