Merchants & Marauders: Broadsides
Expansion of: Merchants and MaraudersXVII century, Caribbean Sea. At the helm of your mighty vessel, revisit the golden age of piracy with Merchants & Marauders: Broadsides, a game in which you and your opponent are engaged in a deadly battle hoping to sink each other’s ship.
45m
2 - 4 Players
Ages 13+
weizur
Enjoyed it but does seem like there may be degenerate early strategies with early shots. Also seems pretty luck based. Still need to try it with the advanced cards.
raitoning
Honestly not too bad. A lot of reviews make it out to be the worst game ever but I was pleasantly surprised. The gameplay is tactical and frankly quite brutal, the theme is pleasant minus some awful art on the reputation cards, and the card play was definitely unique and felt like it played well into the whole pirate theme. One thing that is unforgivable though is the component quality, or the complete lack thereof. The player boards are flimsy and one of them broke right in half after being opened. The cards are made of poor material that makes them hard to shuffle too. The little meeples and wooden blocks are generic and frankly boring and take away from the theme. As the game is quite expensive at a normal price, it was really disappointing. I managed to get it at a good price so I could cringe a bit and overlook it, but imagine it would be quite the sting if I'd payed full price for it.
SeanXor
This was the surprise of Gen Con 2016 for me. It has some unique mechanisms, but the replayability does not hold up at all.