Take control of a pirate ship and bury your riches in secret hiding places! Detail 1 to 4 players 14 years and over 30 to 60 min Publisher: Gamelyn Games & Pixie Games Author: Scott Almes Illustrator: Chip Cole, Nikoletta Vaszi, Ian Rosenthaler, Benjamin Shulman, Felix Wermke Reference: PIX830 About... Tiny Epic Pirates is a high seas adventure game using a variable puck action system and action combos! Take control of a pirate ship with the goal of burying vast amounts of wealth in secret island hideouts! Each turn, you move your captain token around your ship's action wheel (puck), selecting which action to perform: raid, trade, team up, attack, or search. Each player has a random and unique arrangement of these actions on their puck. Sailing your pirate ship is something each player can do every time they take an action. Raiding allows you to acquire the spoils of colonies at a very reasonable rate. It's amazing how much the negotiation changes when your blunderbuss is ready. A crate of gunpowder for a promise of no harm? Fair trade. Trading allows you to sell your ill-gotten gains on the black market for gold. Each market is only interested in a specific good, so make sure you navigate in the right direction. Timing is everything, sell your good at the wrong time and it's worth a pittance. “Crew Up” adds a new crew member to your growing pirate ship. Crewing increases your ship’s combat advantage and unlocks new abilities for each spoke of your ship’s action wheel, making that action more powerful every time you take it! Attacking merchant ships and other pirates will increase your reputation. It's also a great way to earn gold and more loot to sell. Be enough of a threat and you could become a legend of the sea! Search the high seas for treasures left behind by the unfortunate souls who came before you. Salvage old ship parts for temporary relief or get lucky and find something worth selling. The game ends once a player has buried three treasures (after all players have had the same number of turns). The player who has buried three treasures wins the game. Ties are broken by the player with the highest legendary status, followed by the player with the most gold.
