The new standalone expansion for the amazing Pirates of the Spanish Main™ constructible strategy game™ is here: Pirates of Davy Jones' Curse™! Ghosts, demons, zombies, and sea monsters threaten ships sailing these dark waters. The supernatural becomes the super-fun as the Cursed join the hunt for gold and glory, and nothing less than the souls of good pirates everywhere are at stake!
Each person can play from one affordably-priced Game Pack. Packs contain two ships, a crew or treasure card, a die, an island/terrain card, and rules of play.
Contents:
- 2 Sailing Ships
- 1 Treasure or Crew Card
- 1 Cardboard Island Card
- 1 Rules Sheet
- 1 Die
Now With the Cursed Faction and Sea Monsters
The Pirates of Davy Jones' Curse game includes regular factions from previous games and introduces one new faction: the Cursed. The Cursed faction offers new types of ghost ships and introduces sea monsters to the game - look out for krakens and sea serpents!
A Sea Monster game piece is made up of body segments that act the same as masts. These segments come in different forms, such as tentacles, coils, heads, tails, and so on. A sea monster may be given only move and shoot actions. A sea monster's movement is measured from the white dot on its base or the edge of its base nearest the tentacles. A sea monster cannot be assigned crew. Before each turn, a sea monster's controller decides if it is submerged or on the surface. If submerged, a sea monster may only move - not shoot or be shot at. If it is on the surface, it acts like a ship with the following modifications.
A sea monster pins a ship if it rams any part of the ship; it cannot be pinned. After winning a boarding party, a sea monster cannot choose to take crew. If it chooses to take a unique treasure, eliminate that treasure. A sea monster cannot tow. A sea monster cannot be assigned crew. A sea monster is eliminated immediately if it has no segments.
The Black Mark
One of the new keyword abilities in Pirates of Davy Jones' Curse is Black Mark. The Black Mark has long been a part of the pirate mystique, from fiction like Treasure Island (where it is known as the “black spot”) to pirates confronting a traitor with the ace of spades - the card of death. A black spot meant death or a torture that was sometimes actually worse than death.
In Davy Jones' Curse, the black mark is used to highlight those characters that have deals (or would like to) with the Cursed faction, even though they are still a part of their own national factions. The Inquisitor, for example, who is part of the Spanish fleet, may in fact secretly harbor an allegiance to the dark gods of the Cursed faction.