How to Play: Merchants and Marauders

[@hollykottke400]

Your explanation helped us so much following our first play. Thanks!

[@dennishanans533]

Couple mistakes here,Merchant raid fails if any of your ship is destroyed.Pg10 under "Hit Icon" "If any other location is destroyed, you survive but the raid fails". Also don't forget,Special weapons really help in a Merchant Raid,use them to change a failed roll into a Success. One on One Combat-- Special weapons change hit location from target choosing the location(Skull dice) to either masts or crew.Pg15. In your playthru,the young lady tried to board on her turn and lost her last crew, Sorry Dear, you "died" and must "reset",as Dennis eloquently says! Had to smile when she said, "I'm not going to die!" then just went on her merry way! Also, she would not have had to pay the "Courier Fee" to stash money cuz you can stash money in your Home Port! Dennis was right, it's for all the other players to pay if they wanted to stash out of their home port.I hope your not upset with me pointing this all out, all in all,was fun to watch! Just say'n!

[@khristienpennanen1810]

Just bought the game! Can’t wait. The tripod idea is good but it would take 4X as long to shoot the video because you’d have to move it for each shot. Maybe just put the cards you are reading on the table or something so you don’t accidentally shake the card for emphasis :). Thanks for the video

[@TheBoardDad]

Thanks a lot for this video. I am getting this today and your video has helped tremendously.

[@BoardGamesUnLocked]

The Board Dad That’s great! Thank you and enjoy!

[@charmtrap]

Useful video, but jeez man...get a tripod or something. All the camera movement is making me nauseous.

[@BoardGamesUnLocked]

charmtrap I used to use a tripod. you're thinking I just do different shots?

[@TylerDeLisle]

FatNastyNerd Runthroughs I like the free form camera since you can zoom in more, but you just need to be conscious about doing slower camera pans and try to minimize it if possible. Great run-through!

[@morsmagne]

@@BoardGamesUnLocked Motion sickness is caused by the eyes registering a shift in the horizon but the ears not registering the same movement. Boards are one big horizon because they have many lines to orientate you. Therefore, don't pan across a board - or everyone will want to vomit: Insterad, hold the camera steady on a tripod and zoom to the area you want to highlight. It will take more work to edit, but that's one way of doing it.

[@lnightg]

Great job! A one taker, very useful

[@gravy229]

This is so realistic, I'm getting sea sick.

[@gravy229]

Hope to break this game out soon. It's been sitting on my shelf in wrap for far too long. To err is human, to arr is pirate.

[@BoardGamesUnLocked]

gravy229 Lol. My How to Plays are more static now! Yes, it’s so good!

[@slionheart76]

Coudln't watch, camera too unsteady

[@nuiinu9841]

So... Do the Naval Ships never hunt the pirate NPCs? I mean, if they do not end up in the same sea, do not they hunt each other (they have a combat or they ignore ach other)? So, will naval vessels never hunt a pirate if they are not a player? On the other hand pirates will always chase a player, right? It's okay?

[@BoardGamesUnLocked]

NuiGaming Inu So, a NPC will not hunt and kill a pirate ship so they pretty much have a hunt priority which applies to the players. They can lock each other out so they aren't focused on you but that's pretty much it. For more reference, it should be on page 13 in the rulebook

[@nuiinu9841]

I see... Okay! Thank you for you quick reply

[@BoardGamesUnLocked]

NuiGaming Inu Anytime!

[@vendetta1306]

Excellent explanation

[@marcalbero91]

are you sure that moving two areas is allowed? then you can go from port to port in one turn avoiding all combats

[@BoardGamesUnLocked]

Marc Albero As far as I know. You get three actions and could use them all to move so exiting a port, moving a sea zone, then entering port could be a legal move. However, you cannot enter a port if you have a bounty from that nation or if you are hostile towards an NPC in a sea zone. They will scour for you as soon as you enter their space but if they don’t find you, then you can still move

[@heijewubs988]

At 7.48, please, do justice to my flag: red on top, than white, than blue. Thanks lol

[@camvel869]

That intro video was sucking my life! Should I call it a leech intro ? It was 22 seconds too long! Other than that and the dizzying camera the content is useful.

[@BoardGamesUnLocked]

Cam Vel The How to Play videos and intros have since improved. Glad you still found it useful!