Avast

Post Christmas Wednesdays have been just as frequent as one might expect of a Wednesday. Unfortunately, questy events on said days have been sparse. The week after a brief and very successful meeting to play Pirates of the Spanish Main, we had a blizzard to contend with. The game was mostly a race for second place. Rainswept took home the most gold in the end and Handwing got the silver medal. Yours truly was dead last, but at least I was compleatly wiped off the board by a combination of poor choices and Rainswept's submarine! You can see it about to ram one of my ships in this picture. In the following image you can see how Physics Brad falls prey to a devastating broadside attack.
Anyway, for about $60 we had a rollicking good time. Some of the rules could use a little smoothing, though.

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rainswept said…
Well, maybe not smoothing so much as writing. Too many versions of the rules and too many unspecified side cases... luckily we are all gentlemen.

Anyway, two thumbs up from me, and I look forward to our next game.
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