Don't Tread On Me - A Pirates Yarn
07.03.07 / 01:50AM / Joe / comments: 2
Tony already has the usual Game Night pic-post over on his weblog, chock-a-block of folks playing Wii and Guitar Hero... THIS IS THE FUTURE OF FUN, PEOPLE. However, my M.O. is to retreat to the dining room with my back to the wall so I can hold court on tabletop games. And I was super-excited to run a four-player, two-hour game of Pirates.
We had four 40-point fleets - Spain, France, Pirate (that faction really needs a better name), and my Cursed (Dragon and Crab!) Since Pirates has kinda crappy, never-discussed multiplayer rules, I set up four home islands with two treasure islands in the middle of the table. The goal being to have the most gold when the last treasure coin either makes it home or is sent to the briny.
That first picture is the ass-end of my mighty Sea Dragon, who missed attacking Josh's French schooner with a failed swoop attack. Fuck! Josh then used his firepot cannon to set my dragon on fire. Double fuck!
On the left side is France steaming right through my dragon to pillage that treasure island. Check out my awesome crab menacing Anna's Spanish ship on the right! I was so menacing that her shark ate one delicious arm, and then her ship shot off the other three. Triple the fuck!
Meanwhile, Paula starts controlling the north end of the board with her Revenant... sending shots off both ends, some into the French and some into the Spanish.
Great shot of my giant flaming water snake.
The Revenant stormed Josh's flagship and kidnapped the crew, including Mademoiselle Godiva! You can see the boarding about to happen, top left. In fact, the 5-coin ransom of Mlle. Godiva ended up winning the game for Paula's Pirate fleet, even though Spain hauled home far more treasure coins.
Fun game, even if my sea monsters totally sucked seawater. Now nobody will be impressed by them!
Let's wrap it up with a shot of Murray, which is kind of a Game Night thing.
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