Merchants and Marauders turn 4 ends. I set sail north from Tortuga. A change is on the wind.
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Meet Monte. Carlos has joined the game.
The Monday and Friday Merchants and Marauders turn 4 wraps up. I delivered some contraband, bought some cocoa, and upgraded the rigging. The run in with the storm made me nervous.
Merchants and Marauders Turn 4 continues. Sold the contraband and purchased cocoa at the market.
Merchants and Marauders play though Turn 4. Trinidad port action.
For stories sake this turn will happen in a pirate port, it felt right.
Merchants and Marauders play though Turn 4. Approaching Trinidad and porting. Between sailing against the wind and dodging the storm and Navy getting to Trinidad took longer than I thought it would. I was playing solo up until this point but this turn my friend Carlos joined. I had a head start but since I was playing to see what story happened it wasn’t much.
A Tale of Sails 9 A storm at sea.
Characters: Billy Oboe
Merchants and Marauders play though Turn 3. Continuing south to Trinidad the storm marker pushed me out of the way delaying me again. It was somewhere around here I stopped tracking crew morale, mostly cause I never tracked it anyway, maybe next time.
Merchants and Marauders play though Turn 2. I left port and searched for the missing Captain to complete the rumor, I did not find him and proceeded south to end the turn.
A tale of sails 7 Rumors
Characters: Billy Oboe, Rick
Turn 1 ends. I used the last of starting gold on rumors, only one was a success.
The upside to this playthrough being complete is that, knowing how it ends, I’m able to shift some things around to set up later payoffs. The Elder Signs play through was a seat of the pants kind of story that invoved last minute problem solving.
The whale barkeep came out pretty well, I’ll have to bring him back somehow.
Turn 1 continues. I purchased contraband. This is a deviation from what was actually purchased. I did buy two cards in the game but it was prisoners. I felt that was an inappropriate subject matter for a comic strip about a bear thing.
Merchants and Marauders boardgame play through. Turn one continues, drawing cards to shop.
This was the first time I played using almost all the expansion modules. I stopped using the crew morale option because I kept forgetting it was there.
