Beginning with the highest ranking characters, players select a booty token from the day’s hold, and execute any Dusk special abilities. That strange idiosyncrasy aside, the game is one of the best designed on the market. It’s not a horrible game, I just want more. However each pirate also has a special ability which changes every turn up just a little bit that may stop someone fro getting their treasure, or killing of someone else. The only truly random feature is the drawing of Booty tiles (one for each player, each day). 24H 7D 1M 3M 1Y All. I’m still looking for a pirate game that has that something special. Will you be outdone by a pirate smarter than you? C’est eux que c’est les meilleurs ! Then each character card is placed back in that player’s Pirate Den, where finally that card’s “Night” effects resolve. As observed by Carolina during the Black Pearl crew's stay at Libertalia, the town's population was made up of Indian, Arabic, Dutch, French, English, Chinese, and most numerous of all, Af… Conclusion My experience is that with 6 players, game duration fall in the 45-60 minute range. In this video, we're going to learn hot to play Ecos: First Continent. Game play is fast and perfect for a casual gamer. It has a lot of variance in games because what you play depends on the randomly chosen booty tiles. With 30 different crew members, each interacting in different ways, Libertalia looks to find who is best at managing the varying desires and personalities of their cards (errr… crew). Libertalia also comes with a number of tokens to represent the various booty tokens (gems, sabers, maps, etc…) and also doubloons to be used as money. In the two subsequent campaigns 6 cards are added to get players back up to 9. But the art and graphic work on this game propels you into the world of piratical debauchery. 5. It seems like these common game themes have been done and are being redone over and over again. A lot of the interaction is dependent on the cards in the round, and the interaction with other cards, so there’s a lot of variability from game to game in how much you can affect other players. Doubloons are scored at the end of each campaign, after which players will start the next campaign with 10 doubloons, just like the start of the game. Making sure every player starts the first round with the same cards is brilliant; three rounds in, everyone loses track of who’s played what, but strategy is still possible. Follow us on: Players whose pirates gather the most doubloons after 3 campaigns can retire on their pirate paradise named “Libertalia.”. Blackbeard (2008) -a remake of Richard Berg’s 1991 Avalon Hill hex and counter game by the same title that changed to card driven battle system mechanic in the newer version. The game is out of print and hard to find. The game is a competitive card game over 3 six-day campaigns where players try to amass riches by looting ships. After this, six more cards (the same for each person) are drawn and added to your remaining cards. This site is dedicated to promoting board games. The sheer number of options can cause some players to lock up; this could be solved by placing the Sunrise phase on a timer. These character cards are placed in order on the play-board from left to right in ascending order of value. No real gotchas in the gameplay at all! Tons of fun! Changing from Series 1, all the base cards come in a Holofoil chase parallel version this time around. Music Stands. $ 0.00 . Walk downstairs to the laboratory. Pirate’s Cove (2002) – another simultaneous action selection game that involves hand management, as players try to capture treasure from six different islands. Needs more exposure to move up (I have read about but not played). Great for avid, strategy or power gamers. Ok, ok, that’s Pirate booty. Der Schwarze Pirat (aka: The Black Pirate- 2006) – the best pirate game for children under the age of 8 (Loot would be the second best). 3. It’s always a great shock to see that card from the first round show up at the end of the game to win the day! Continue. Hi, I film a series of boardgame videos that show, rather than tell, what a game really feels like to play.