Merchants and Marauders
Merchants & Marauders lets you live the life of an influential merchant or a dreaded pirate in the Caribbean during the Golden Age of Piracy.
180m
2 - 4 Players
Ages 13+
Merchants & Marauders lets you live the life of an influential merchant or a dreaded pirate in the Caribbean during the Golden Age of Piracy.
alexd
It looks like there'd be something here, and the board and parts are pretty. Alas, at the heart of the missions/rumors/upgrades is a tedious pair of games: merchant raiding for pirates and "collect 3 in demand" for merchants. Tedium in a nice outfit. Doesn't feel at all piratey-swashbuckly, and as a euro it's both over luckish/unbalanced and overcomplicated. Too bad.
adamw
This game indeed meets the expectations of a fun pirate game. It may be difficult to win as a pirate, but I don't think that takes away from the sheer enjoyment (and surely a house-rule could fix this). There's a simple routine to playing, a rhythm that might become dry after several games - and simply sailing about buying and selling is early on an obvious strategy. But this game demands more than selling bananas and tobacco. For me, you need to raid merchant ships and escape thuggish frigates from nations with a bounty on your head. This is my favorite pirate/ship game so far.
abssalom
EL juego de piratas, no hay más, si te gusta surcar el caribe con tu navío y ganarte la fama y la gloria o bien asaltando barcos, o bien mercachifleando, este es tu juego.