Blackbeard

Pirate Operations Enumerated:

1. Move (up to result of speed + die roll).
2. Move full movement allowance and Search (draw card to resolve).
3. Move any amount (including 0) and Assault a Port (Ability + Combat + dr vs. Port Defense + DR).
4. Sack a Port (Ability + Combat + dr vs. half Port Defense + DR).
5. Attempt to Take a Prize (option to also place Debauchery and Revelry if successful -- improves Crew Unrest by 1; may be mandatory; next operation for this pirate must be to remove marker).
6. Ransom one Hostage (receive dr x 100 +/- port bonuses or penalties) and/or place Debauchery and Revelry (mandatory in Pirate Haven; improves Crew Unrest by 1; next operation for this pirate must be to remove marker).
7. In port, Sell Booty and/or Purchase a Safe Haven and/or Purchase a Letter of Marque and/or place Debauchery and Revelry (mandatory in Pirate Haven; improves Crew Unrest by 1; next operation for this pirate must be to remove marker).
8. Remove Debauchery and Revelry marker and perform a KC operation.
9. Remove Debauchery and Revelry marker and perform an operation with another Pirate.
10. Remove Debauchery and Revelry marker and Petition for KC (if without one; see below).
11. Refit Ship in port (remove 1 combat damage, 2 in pro-Pirate port, all in Pirate Haven or Safe Haven).
12. Recover in port (remove scurvy non-permanent wounds and restore Crew Unrest (do not restore for Scurvy)).
13. Retire voluntarily in Safe Haven or Pro-Pirate port (must roll Dr⁶⁶ <= Net Worth in hundreds).
14. Careen Ship in Port or coastal hex (remove dr speed hits).
15. Remove Careen (to able to move again).
16. Activate new Pirate anywhere (only 2 active at a time, 3 per game, 2 if short game). (2.31)
17. Petition for a King's Commissioner Ship (KC) if without one (must roll Dr⁶⁶ <= notoriety of active opposing pirate).
18. Move KC (up to speed rating).
19. Attempt to Intercept pirate in same hex with KC (dr vs. pirate speed + dr) and if successful, Attack (combat + DR vs. combat + DR + Pirate Ability).
20. Recover KC in Port (remove non-permanent wounds).
21. Refit KC in Port (remove 1 combat damage, 2 if Anti-Pirate port).
22. Careen KC in Port or coastal hex (remove dr speed hits).
23. Remove Careen from KC (to be able to move again).

Easily Missed Rules

1. If all Governors have been drawn out of the cup, all future draws are automatically Anti-Pirate and recorded on paper, or I suppose you could use any dead Anti-Pirate governors for the purpose. (2.35)
2. Pirate must physically leave the Warship hex to get the Notoriety bonus.
3. If multiple merchants in your hex, the first time draw one at random. If it is still there by turn end, place it on top of the pirate who may then choose next time from among the merchants remaining.
4. On "Warship Intercepts Most Notorious Pirate", the interception is not automatic. There is still an Evasion Roll (if ship is a schooner) and an Interception roll. (6.35)
5. No event part of a random event occurs if there is an auto-intercept by warship. Scurvy, Transit box movement and blockades still occur however. (8.52Q&A)
6. KC's and Warships can only enter Transit box on a Random Event. (8.6)
7. Defeating a Warship causes no damage to either side. (13.61Q&A)
8. Every time ship takes a combat damage, roll for pirate personal injury.
9. A mutiny means you draw a new captain and continue with same ship!
10. A single die roll covers both personal and hostage scurvy (per pirate).
11. If you use Cunning after a battle roll, both ships re-roll, not just yours.
12. Pirates may search in Transit boxes. Leaving the box returns any merchants there to the cup.
13. Use hex numbers (even or odd) to determine whether to remove a merchant when not on a shipping lane.
14. May not use Cunning to re-roll the cost of a Letter of Marque (22.2Q&A).
15. A failed attack does not begin an attack history with a nation.

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