Captain Ed’s Logbook

Someone has leaked the 2008 Pirates Convention Pack, which appears to include 4 ships and 4 crew, all Pirates. In the pack are:

• Royal Rover: a 12pt ship with the “If this ship wins a boarding party, she can take as much treasure from the other ship as she can carry” ability.
• Queen Anne’s Revenge: Blackbeard’s ship. IT costs 12pts with the “This ship may dock at an opponents home island and load one treasure. If able, she must leave on your next turn” ability.
• Amity: 10pts with the “When this ship carries no cargo, she gets +S to her base move” ability.
• Minerva: 9pts with the “Once per turn when this ship hits an enemy ship, also eliminate one crew from that ship” ability.
• Bartholomew Roberts: 6pts, “Captain, Loyal:Pirates, After looking at a treasure on a wild island, you can trade any one treasure from that island for a random treasure on any other wild island. This ship must load the traded treasure.“
• Blackbeard: 10pts, “Captain, Loyal:Pirates, If this ship wins a boarding party, she can capture the crew with the highest cost instead of eliminating it. A captured crew becomes cargo worth its point cost in gold when unloaded at your home island.“
• Thomas Tew: 7pts, “Captain, Loyal:Pirates, Once per turn if this ship is touching another ship, reveal all treasure aboard the ship. This ship can take as much unique treasure from the other ship as she can carry, even those that can’t otherwise be removed.“
• Christopher Moody: 8pts, “Captain, Loyal:Pirates, If this ship succeeds at a boarding party, she can eliminate all of the other ship’s crew.”

One of the players in our Pirates group got really, really lucky and found a God Box of cards. The God Box is a box of Pirates cards that has more than the 0 or 1 packs of Super Rare cards. Well, this box had a few more than one Super Rare pack…in fact, it had 29 out of 36 packs!

And, here’s the proof that was sent to me (click for a larger version). Just look at all of those Captain Mysions!

The player, who will remain nameless, was generous enough to give each regular player in our group one of the SR packs. The rest, he put up on Ebay.

I can’t wait to put my Doombox to good use!

Another of the new ship types in Pirates of the Cursed Seas:Rise of the Fiends is the Scorpion ship. These (mostly) Cursed ships come outfitted with a huge blade on the bow that can be lower to strike another ship. If it hits, a mast is removed from the target. Continue Reading »

One of the new ship types that has me excited in the latest Pirates of the Cursed Seas: Rise of the Fiends sets is Flotillas. These stationary gun platforms are meant to be used to protect your trade routes/gold runners, and are cheap at only 7pts each. But, the pros and cons of these units need to be weighed carefully before adding them to your fleet. Continue Reading »

The new Pirates of the Cursed Seas set Rise of the Fiends came out today, and WizKids has updated their card gallery with all sorts of new goodness. Here’s a first look at some of the ships in the new set. Continue Reading »

Just a quick note to everyone that the new Pirates set, Rise of the Fiends, comes out tomorrow. From the Sneak Peeks on WizKids website, it looks like a number of characters are returning in this set with new abilities. Plus, the new keywords of Loyal and Hostile look to make future games interesting.

Depending on if our venue gets the new set right away, I might have a review of the new cards on this Friday’s post. Stay Tuned!