
The SH (Smoke’s Hand) has a true copier aboard, and the ship itself can copy any keyword. Vesok is on the Smoke’s Hand to allow for maximum flexibility and power in one ship. You may make a different choice each turn. Piraka: This piece has the Black Mark keyword, and gets +1 to all die rolls.Ĭopycat: At the beginning of each of your turns, choose any ability possessed by any ship or crew in play this character has that ability. Vesok is another custom crew, with 3 keywords: Piraka. “Any crew ability on this ship may be used by another crew within S of this ship.” My intention was to get Vesok copied to another crew that could then use the Arcane’s ability again. Therefore, I didn’t have to use Runes of Thor on the Noble Swan to get the Arcane’s ability to work! After looking over a LOT of custom and Wizkids UT’s, I decided to take what I saw as a big risk and go with Nuva, from Xerecs’ Pirates of Spherus Magna. However, this was bumped to a 6 with Hakann’s Piraka keyword, which gives the ship +1 to all d6 rolls. The Arcane rolled for her ability, getting a 5. This is where it starts to get complicated, and where the turn started to get just as time consuming as I thought it would. On a result of 6, you may place a Unique Treasure on any ship in your fleet.” O_O

Check out her ability: “Once per turn, you may give this ship a move action, but do not move her. She was launched last turn along with the Arcane, a custom from JW Darkhurst’s Seas of Doom set. She has a boatload of stuff aboard as well. 😀Īlright, enough rambling, what actually happened? The Smoke’s Hand is a 40 point custom 5 master that can copy any keyword each turn (whether it’s in play or not). In time, it could become surreal and bizarre unlike anything anyone has ever seen in Pirates CSG. The Pirates have so much happening behind the scenes that it boggles my mind and just about literally made me dizzy today from the possibilities of what could happen and what is to come.

It has gotten completely bonkers! Each turn you see the fruits of my efforts to optimize the Pirates and my other fleets. O_O I’m talking many hours of planning and custom game piece and combo research before, during, and after each Pirate play turn. The Pirates have designs on the Archipelago! They have been planning and plotting to an EXTREME degree in recent months, to the point where I’ve often spent more time strategizing Pirate faction stuff than I do actually playing all 4 of my factions put together. Here you can see the Spanish with 10 canoes and a couple treasure galleons in the center of the map at the Archipelago: Xerecs’ report on recent events reinforced my last report that showed a relatively tranquil ocean. I was extremely excited to play my turn, as usual.

Ranking: Top 5 Barbary Corsair Gold Runners.Ranking: Top 5 Barbary Corsair Gunships.
