Tom Vasel takes a look at his top 10 games with a pirate theme!
0:00 Intro
1:02 #10
1:58 #9
2:32 #8
2:59 #7
3:39 #6
4:27 #5
4:58 #4
5:37 #3
6:09 #2
7:05 #1
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British vs pirates is a great skirmish game.
No seafall🤣🤣?
If it had ever become more widely available/marketed, SHIVER ME TIMBERS would def be on any "Best Pirates" game.
My favourite is still "Blackbeard" a Richard H. Berg design. I have, but have not played it yet, "Pyrates" the new game from White Dog games. Several pirate games do not make any of my lists as I do not like the Eurotrash type games.
Tiny Epic
Jack Sparrow fan. My list 🙂
Merch&Marau should be the king. But needs serious rule development. WIP.
Sea Rovers (has never come out/ Villain author/ too bad 🙂
Captain's Log (overpriced/ bad-looking/ Merch&Marau spin-off)
(Its rulebook will be used to rebuild M&M though)
Dead Reckoning: incredibly overpriced/ merchants win-pirates enjoy game/ Merch&Marau knock off in its expansions.
(Its rulebook will also be used to rebuild M&M though)
Games like:
– 21 Mutinies
– Dead Man's Doubloons (Jamaica on steroids)
– Tortuga 1667 (a good party game with min. 3 players)
– M&M Broadsides (with rule-development)
– Extrao. Adv: Pirates ( good no-three-big-things-in1time life-like lesson 🙂
– Libertalia (1st Ed. kinda piratey trickster game 🙂
– Letter or Marque (with rule-development)
– Plunder: very good base of a big pirate game with rule development
– Francis Drake (seabattle will be built in)
– Dutch Golden Age (on the shelf, haven't tried yet)
– Mutiny! (on the shelf, haven't tried yet)
– Pirates Cove (got a complete graphics/ components redesign)
– Blackbeard: Golden age of Piracy (HC)
– Colonial (HC)
– Winds of Plunder (HC)
No.1: Black Fleet (The most fun 🙂 30% rule-developed/ graphics-redesigned. And 40+ additional development cards made.
Hope it helps you, mateys 🙂
Being forced to use an app to play a board game is just so off-putting. Sad to see that as a component of any board game, especially one that would otherwise be amazing to play
Pop-Up Pirate number 1
Forgotten waters is awesome. Yar!
Dead reckoning, still waiting but so hyped!
Easy Choice: Dead Men Tell no Tales
Plunder: A Pirate's Life. Came out last year, nobody talks about it! Gorgeous board, fun components, gameplay is great especially with a bunch of people playing.
Has to be Merchants & Marauders, even better with the Seas of Glory Expansion