There are a few ways of doing this from going on expeditions to hiring the right people. The game comes with cards made up of 4 different types. If the player draws a tax card, the negative effect of the card needs to applied and the card discarded. An expedition card is taken by a player and is set aside until it can be fulfilled. During the buying phase, players can choose to purchase people cards which add victory points and special abilities or skip purchasing — whereby income can be collected from ONE ship card on display.
I mentioned earlier that the game was a push your luck style game. This comes in the form of the ship cards. There are 5 different colored ships with 10 cards of each color.
If, however you draw ships of 4 different colors, you get to buy an extra card in phase 2. If you get all the different colored ships you may purchase 3 cards. Overall I have a lot of fun playing Port Royal, while not the most in depth game in this list — it makes up for that with its quickplay fun factor! Port Royal is a fast paced, light hearted card game that is great to play if you like push your luck style games. Rattle, Battle, Grab the Loot is a dice rolling ship building game that has players controlling their own pirate ship.
The aim of the game is to plunder merchant ships, steal booty and return it to the pirate king to gain fame and glory. During the quest stage, players each draw a card from the adventure pile and collect the necessary ships and token to complete the task.
Dice are then rolled, with the adventure card stating what each roll means as a result of the quest. Players roll both player dice and non-player dice. When battling ships, the dice of the player are compared to that of the non-player highest number sinks the lower number. After all the fighting is done, players head back to port and can use their plundered loot to purchase ship upgrades and crew that will help them in later rounds as well as victory points.
Rattle, Battle, Grab the Loot, is a simple yet really fun game. The components are super high quality with detailed art, custom dice and metal coints. I usually am not a fan of dice rolling games, but the mechanics in Rattle, Battle, Grab the Loot are very well thought out — the game really does come down to luck, but with ship upgrades you can really change the course of the game.
One annoyance of mine was the player interaction and having to measure ship distances for cannons during battle. This all felt out of place and is a bit cramped doing it in the game box.
However, the ship building phase makes up for this in a big way. I love upgrading my ship and crew and actually adding bits and pieces to the ship buy a buzz saw token and actually add a buzz saw to the front of your ship — AWESOME!
Rattle, Battle, Grab the Loot is a great dice rolling pirate game that brings something unique and different to the table. While luck is a big factor, the ship upgrade mechanics help players have at least some way to combat this.
The game is slightly let down by a few fiddly mechanics but nothing major and overall is a great light hearted pirate board game. The game has players controlling legendary pirate crews that make up two factions — locked in combat with each other.
The aim of the game is for players to control pirate heroes that come in the form of brilliantly detailed miniatures , board the enemy ship and disable it. The board is set out in a typical MOBA faction with a pirate ship on each end controlled by each faction. Each ship has 3 spawn points from which a never-ending supply of minions spawn and charge across to the other ship and are in constant battle with the other minions.
If left alone both waves of minions would cancel kill each other out in perpetuity. The only factor that effects this balance is the player-controlled heroes.
At the start of the game, each faction chooses 3 heroes that will represent their side. Heroes in the game never actually die they are only knocked out for a period and respawn. The aim of the game is for players to strategically use their heroes to fight their way onto the enemy ship and destroy 3 objectives. Each objective destroyed inflicts a penalty on the faction it was destroyed from and buffs the attacking team usually creating a snowball effect.
Unfortunately, one of the let downs of Rum and Bones is that it has a luck element combat is determined via dice rolls. Losing a game because of a few dice rolls can leave a bitter taste in ones mouth. However, many of the games I have played have been really fun and the tense competition and beautiful miniatures really make up for any shortfalls.
Rum and Bones is a stunningly well-crafted dual type game. The miniatures are very high quality and detailed and the gameplay is very much like a MOBA game. However, the theme, artwork and lore really creates a highly immersive and entertaining pirate game that deserves its spot in this list. Libertalia is a game where players play as one of three Pirate captains approaching the age of retirement. At the beginning of a round, one player deals nine crew members and reads them out to the other players.
Each other player then finds the same cards from their deck and puts them in their hand essentially meaning all players play each round with the same cards. Every game of Livertalia is made up of 3 campaigns. Each campaign broken up into 6 days of plundering. These can be carried forward to the next two campaigns creating a variety of crew moving forward.
It is simple enough for newbie gamers, but has enough strategy and variety of cards that even the most seasoned gamer will get some kicks out of it. Cartagena is a board game based on the famous pirate-led jailbreak from the Colombian fortress of Cartagena. The aim of the game is to get all your pirates onto a boat and escape before all the other players. At its heart, Cartagena is a tile placement strategy game. Players are dealt a hand of cards that contain six symbols in a random order lantern, jug, gun, grappling hook keys, and a telescope as well as 4 pirates.
Jamaica makes the list of the best pirate games because in brings a very fun racing around a track experience to the pirate world. This is a pirate-themed tactical race game with player interaction and side goals e. The winner is the player who best balances their position in the race with their success at the side goals. For 2 — 6 players, games go for about 30 — 60 minutes. Francis Drake makes the list of the best pirate games because it is a wonderful worker placement and push your luck game set in this world.
Play need to be privateers wrangling to fit out in port, and then ready to set sail for adventure in the Caribbean. The game can get pretty intense but is still on the side of being a very accessible property that all can enjoy. Return to a bustling Plymouth Harbor in as an aspiring Elizabethan captain making preparations for three exciting voyages in search of fame and fortune! As captains, players will have to plan their missions and provision their ships accordingly to be the first to set sail and reach the Spanish Main.
Make decisions about how you will stock your ship, what your crew looks like and what information can you get and use. For 3 — 5 players, games last 90 — minutes. Port Royal makes the list of the best pirate games because it is such a solid economical card drafting game. If you are looking for the overall pirate experience, there is so much of it in this title. The merchant players are trying to earn as much as they can out of the Caribbean Sea, but if they set their goals too high, they might take home nothing for the day.
On a turn, a player can first draw as many cards as he likes, one at a time from the deck, placing them in the harbor an area near the deck. These are made up of persons, ships, expeditions and tax increases, all of which determine your path forward. For 2 — 5 players, games last 20 — 50 minutes. Libertalia makes the list of the best pirate games because the simultaneous action nature of this set collection and hand management game, make for a high-end pirate skirmish.
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