Inspired by World of Warcraft’s Boss Battles + Mega Man’s Power Up Progression + Sid Meiers' Pirates!
Build your ship up from a leaky dinghy, to a floating palace of destruction! Gather crew and cannons, roll gobs of dice, and take back New Caribbea!
Red Tides: A Tale of New Caribbea is a 1-4 player cooperative dice battler with RPG elements set in the fantastical world of New Caribbea.
Each encounter you’ll choose an opponent – a mark that is fat with plunder but within your current ability to subdue. You’ll fire your cannons, fly your colors, and then outmaneuver them to minimize the damage you take while maximizing the pain you give. You seal your life as a pirate by opening up the chests and crates in the hold, plunder to take back and spend lavishly in the secret pirate port at the Isle of Souls. You take their power and join it alongside yours.
When you’re ready, you’ll board their ship, and after a bloody assault, you take their ship as your own. Build upon your starter ship and extend its capabilities, more places to shove cannons, more crevices to house crew, and more places to customize your play style. By the end you Captain a terrifying floating palace of destruction.
If you want to stand a chance against the greatest pirate of this age you must coordinate with your table mates, discussing how you plan to play, how you want to load out your ship, and as you grow what role you think you can fill.
Together you weave a team that is greater than the sum of its parts, able to react to the unknown, knowing when to sail forth, blast indiscriminately, or launch a crew assault. This growth, these choices, are the heart of the triumph you feel when you overcome the final boss.
EVERY SHIP NEEDS A MASCOT, PET, OR A LIVING TOTEM TO BRING GOOD FORTUNE
WHO IS CALRISSA?
Calrissa travels the world rescuing, adopting, and rehoming the most exotic, scruffy, terrifying, and adorable fur, feather, scale, and tentacle friends. She is currently at the Isle of Souls with a variety of adoptable companions for your ship.
WHAT'S IN THE MINI-EXPANSION?
Calrissa’s Menagerie is small expansion to the Isle of Souls Port where up to 8 Ship Pets are available for captains to acquire while there. The pets, in addition to being adorable, rad, and awesome will give minor perks and/or chances for additional ways to spend Special Dice roll results.
WHAT PETS WILL BE INCLUDED?
TBD! However, the community on Discord has already made a number of amazing suggestions* that are on the design floor:
One-eyed Tom - Rugged, bushy cat missing something
Madame Plaugington - Ship rat…might have a touch of plague
Pauly - Shoulder bird of ye olde imagination
Edith - the eldritch wiener dog that fell overboard and made some deep friends
“A Real Parrot” - a wily buzzard that pretends to be a parrot by painting itself
Bivalvia - flapjack octopus that uses 2 clam shells to pretend to be a clam
Helmet Crab - a hermit crab with a helm
Sign up before launch and get the mini-expansion for free when you back the base game or higher!
WHAT'S IN THE CHEST?
200+ cards for merchants, plunder, mighty plunder, and specialists
100+ custom d6 and d8 dice such as long, medium, and short range volley dice, action dice for maneuver and boarding challenges, and special dice for unique abilities
30+ mats and over-sized cards for custom pirate captains, John Davies' phases, faction-unique ship boards, and the Isle of Souls port board
60+ custom cardboard tokens for crew, mighty crew, unique conditions, and faction effects
Custom plastic components include dice trays, stat dials, and player tokens
Rule book, quick play guide, and single player supplemental
Firebelly faction Player Ship Board with cannons, regular and mighty crew tokens, and special customization outfitted next to plunder cards and vanquished opponents (bottom).
Roll up to 24 Long, Medium, or Close Volley Dice to determine damage when Hunting the High Seas (top). Use Special, Challenge, and Mighty Challenge Dice to pull off special maneuvers, run down your opponent, and go toe to toe in a boarding assault (middle).
The Isle of Souls Port Board where you can hire new crew from the Tavern, grab a cannon from The Black Market, and customize you ship at The Docks (middle). A row of potential target Merchants (bottom). Plunder and Mighty Plunder decks to draw from after you vanquish an opponent (left).
A spread of components featuring John Davies' Challenge Phases (top) above 3 of 12 of Davies' Enforcer Challenges.
TESTIMONIALS
“… hooked me from the very start.”
“So many dice rolls!! Yay”
“The upgrade strategy system integrated with the plunder. It reminded me of Assassin’s Creed Black Flag with infamy and upgrades.”
“Theme was on point, but could use some scurvy (sic) though”
“Mechanics, cool theme, lots of stuff but it never felt overbearing like some games with this much stuff going on. Easy to learn, but lots of options to make it a different experience each time.”
“I like the risk/reward calculations you had to do to figure out if you should push on or what merchants to attack”
Playtesting at GenCon 24
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