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Games => Table-Top Games => Topic started by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on November 24, 2004, 12:57:11 PM
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reference: http://www.timewastersguide.com/view.php?id=909
It does sound like a really good game to get as a gift. Who wouldn't like to play with the ships on their own?
Oh, and I freely admit that my blurb for this one was pretty lame. GIve me a break. I'm doing NaNoWriMo
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This game is insanely fun, and intensely unsatisfying. Every time I play I get upset that combat is pointless. Who wants to play a pirate game where combat is a waste of time. Consequently, I've always played it from a combat standpoint -- chasing down the other ships and blowing them up -- and I've always lost.
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I should point out that by outlawing captains and focusing on combat, you suddenly have a very intriguing strategy game. When a full volley from one ship practically destroys another, and when virtually the only way to get into range with the enemy is to expose yourself to a turn of fire before you can fire back, the tactics become very tricky and very deep.
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I've played this once and came to many of the same conclusions. I don't like that combat is incidental, the game is very very simple, and the flavor is great (the coolest thing about it.) I wouldn't invest in it myself.
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are the ships worth using for anything else?
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I suppose they're okay in the bathtub, but I don't know if they float right-side up.
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I think the ships would be good in miniature scale napoleonic, or navy wargames... and fans of the Jack Aubry books would get a kick out of them...
What I didnt like was the islands...
you get a few in each pack but they are kind of pointless especially since the whole point of 3d ships is to have a game with 3d looks... flat islands punched out of cards are... yawn boooring....
Best to ditch the islands cut out a few pieces of foam and paint and flock them,... then mount the whole thing on a 2x2 piece of fiberboard painted sea green.
Its also interesting to note that untill recently thanks to a production problem you couldnt find POTSM anywhere....
Now everywhere I go has at least on box...
Its a neat game, but I think it needs more depth.
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Hey, i've seen this game a lot and thought it looked kind of fun. Ia ctually figured it was mostly like a CCG, and you had to pay a fortune to play. However, if everything you need is in one pack, I might buy three or four. In fact, I might buy three or four today, and bring it down to Coffs to play with some friends.
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Sorry to double post.
I bought two packs today, and now I want to buy more. The little ships are so cool looking, even if when I play I hate the game, I love the models.
One of my masts broke in half (Didn't have the right mindfulness putting it together) but I fixed that with just a little sticky tape. There's a good hint right there - the tape is clear and almost invisible, and the mast looks cool and won't fall apart.
The dice is the smallest I've ever seen, it's so cool!
I also discovered the masts for the front of a four mast ship actually fit in the back mast slot better than the back mast.
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Yeah, I was way more excited about collecting the game before I actually played it--the ships are very cool-looking, and the flavor is very good. I think that some good house rules could really snazz it up, so maybe I'll work on some. Or maybe one of you will beat me to it.
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The next set will add terrain and forts to the game. Forts seem like a pretty interesting idea, not only because they help you get gold (which is how you win), but because they give you a reason to fight (which is fun). I guess we'll see.
http://www.wizkidsgames.com/pirates/pirates_article.asp?cid=39437
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With the next set only a week or so away, they've announced a third set coming out in June:
http://www.wizkidsgames.com/pirates/pirates_article.asp?cid=39623
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The new set will include ways to set ships on fire: http://www.wizkidsgames.com/pirates/pirates_article.asp?cid=39828
That will be a huge help against super-ships that can, at present, be very hard to beat.
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The new set will include ways to set ships on fire
Couldn't you just use a match?
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Games workshop should release Man o' War again. That had skaven ships with doombells in them. As Fell may attest, one does not get any cooler than that.
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Orkish Hulkships with giant claws and a massive steam hammer. Just what every pirate needs. ;D
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Hopefully I'll be able to purchase another pack of these and then me and some friends can play a rather somewhat large game of it. (A pack or two sent here and there wouldn't be bad either wink, wink)
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WK dosen't send us stuff, sorry Gemm.
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Le pooh