Ian's pirate deck 1

This is a really awesome game!!!!!

This is a good set. The Moat is really not necessary because you have the Lighthouse, but, then again for some extra cards, good to have in the set after all.

This is a good set that we have played many (at least 5) times. It has some interesting complexities, but the pirate ship is almost impossible to use effectively. It is far too easy to chain Treasury and lighthouse (mixing in some woodcutters and maybe a village or two) to get provinces without ever bothering with treasure cards. Also, adventurer has never been a factor in any of our games. The one time someone tried it, he kept pulling up gold/copper and not having enough to buy a province.

We enjoyed this set a lot and played it twice but the second time around we subbed out Moat for Venture and Adventurer for Grand Market and found it flowed better since no one was using those two cards.

Good set, seems a little constricting with regards to tactics, though, at least after first playthrough, in regards to treasury and pirate ship and lighthouse standing out.

Pros funny interactions Cons hard to Remember to keep lighthouse when tipsy. Pirate ship sucks and The treasury fetishist bored us to death and won.