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Piratoons
Treasures upgrade ships
A legendary ship must be achieved, so get you hands on the booty. As a pirate you begin with six crew members, three doubloons and a boat of two parts, bow and stern.
Each of the eight rounds comprises 1) Treasure supply – The treasure chest is filled with one stack of six equipment tiles and three boat parts. 2) Treasure plundering – the starting player = the captain of the round opens the chest and all simultaneously place crew members on equipment and boat part tiles, until the timer runs out and someone calls “stop” (this call only ends the plundering phase!) 3) Unemployment pay – You receive one doubloon for each crew member you did not place on tiles in the plundering phase. 4) Loot distribution – First, everyone removes their crew members touching two tiles or the chest. Then all crew members are removed that cancel each other out, that is, the same number of members of different crews on a tile. Then you take those tiles where you have a majority. 5) Auction – Simultaneous auction of all tiles in the chest plus all that remain from previous rounds; you make one hidden bid and choose tiles in descending order of the bids. 6) Tiles connection and placement – you place acquired tiles into your boat.
After eight round you score majorities, correct connections and sets of equipment, empty spots in the boat and wrong corrections deduct penalty points.
Bluff, planning, hectic in plundering – a nice, well-working and yet rather simple mix for all the family, pirate flair included, thanks to the amazing graphics. But keep an eye on the timer, it might help to keep a majority on a tile.
Players: 2-4
Age: 8+
Time: 30+
Designer: Olivier Grégoire, Thibaut Quintens
Artist: Amandine Flabaut, Antoine Petit, Olivier Bogarts, Nina Clauzel
Price: ca. 35 Euro
Publisher: Act in Games 2015
Genre: Placement, auction
Users: For families
Version: multi
Rules: en fr nl
In-game text: nl
Comments:
Amazing design and components
Hectic in plundering
Money can get scarce
Attractive family game
Compares to:
Pirate games for topic, Nauticus (superficially) for acquisition of ship parts
Other editions:
hobbitty.eu, Poland; Abba Games, Spain; Stronghold Games, USA (announced)
Chance (pink): 0
Tactic (turquoise): 2
Strategy (blue): 1
Creativity (dark blue): 0
Knowledge (yellow): 0
Memory (orange): 1
Communication (red): 0
Interaction (brown): 2
Dexterity (green): 1
Action (dark green): 0