Inspired by World of Warcraft’s Boss Battles + Mega Man’s Power Up Progression + Sid Meiers' Pirates!

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, a pet, or a living totem to bring good fortune...

The Calrissa's Menagerie mini-expansion adds 8 adorable, horrifying, or plain-ole-awesome fur/feather/tentacle friends to roam your ship while you hunt the high seas!

Sign up before launch and get the mini-expansion for free when you back the base game or higher!

Includes at least..

• 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, and 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.

Gen Con 24 Playtesting Testimonials

“I like the risk/reward calculations you had to do to figure out if you should push on or what merchants to attack”