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Year
2017
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Description
Description from the publisher:
Jamaica: The Crew is a set of twenty characters, each with a special power, that add flavor to the game without any big changes in the rules. The characters may be hired when you're able to pay for the fee of a harbor, and they are "loaded" like any other resource, following the same rules.
You might find it enticing to add several characters to your boat — especially since most of them earn you additional gold at the end of the game — but with fewer holds dedicated to the regular resources, navigation becomes more dicey. All in all, more challenge, more silly fun, more Jamaica.
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Nights Around a Table Unboxing at 0:10 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Spices up the base game
- Gorgeous artwork
- High production values
- Functional insert
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Pirate crew recruitment
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Pick-up-and-deliver — So i guess you get a... there's also like a pick-up-and-deliver thing, maybe? You haveta.... you're also a water taxi delivering these characters to different places?
- Recruiting crew members — you actually recruit crew members for your boat to do different things as you go around the island.
- Resource management (rum bottle) — The bottle of rum fits in these little indents, and all of the character tiles that we saw get randomly dealt out to these spots, and when you recruit a character for your crew, it needs to be adjacent to the rum bottle, and you can pay to move the rum bottle around.
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Quotes (from this video)
- This is a GORGEOUS game.
- It's not complicated enough, i guess, for my tastes.
- i like more complex games, and Jamaica wasn't really it.
- It's gorgeous. i love LOOKING at it.
- The whole thing, i mean it's... production values: off the charts.
- Looks like it spices the game up a little bit.
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Nights Around a Table Analysis at 20:08 sentiment: negative
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Overall sentiment (raw)
negative
Pros
- Adds more pirate artwork and crew members.
- Features a cool wooden bottle of rum component.
Cons
- Felt like Jamaica with a couple of extra mechanics, not significantly more piratey.
- Added 'pirate paint layers' rather than a deep pirate theme.
- Did not make the game significantly more piratey.
Thematic elements
- piracy (artwork and some mechanics)
- around a circle on a map with islands and blue ocean
Comparison games
- Jamaica
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Crew Members — Crew members provide different roles that can help in the race.
- Recruitment Board — Introduces a recruitment board for hiring crew members.
Video topics + discussion points
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Quotes (from this video)
- If you want to play liar's dice, you just go buy a bunch of dice.
- It's a drinking game, if you're into that. Gambling game, if you're into that. It's probably a whoring and a murder game, if you're into those things. This is why pirates played it.
- Well, i think it's fair to say that Dead Reckoning owes a lot to Merchants & Marauders.
- if you want to play a theme first game where everything else takes backseat to making you feel like you're captaining a ship through golden age of piracy Caribbean Sea, then Piratoons is the game for you. Oh God, no! i mean Merchants & Marauders!
- if you want a master class in the integration of theme and mechanics...
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Game Night Picks - Pair Of Dice Paradise Unboxing at 2:58 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Adds variety and depth to Jamaica without sacrificing accessibility
- Potentially resolves playgroup fatigue by refreshing decisions
Cons
- Adds some complexity that may challenge casual players
- Needs integration with existing Jamaica rules for balance
Thematic elements
- expansion-led flavor via hired crew and new character powers
- Caribbean trading and racing atmosphere
- expansion-forward narration highlighting added personality and options
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- character hiring with special powers — introduces 20 new characters, each with a unique power that modifies gameplay without large rule changes
- resource/harbor flow — characters are hired by paying a harbor fee and are treated as resources to load onto boats
- Unique Player Powers — introduces 20 new characters, each with a unique power that modifies gameplay without large rule changes
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Quotes (from this video)
- this Borg assimilation adds an all new threat to the game
- the Borg are an independent menace attacking player ships and assimilating civilized worlds
- they could overwhelm the entire galaxy
- one player takes the role of Frodo and his companions and up to four other players represent the nazûl who are trying to hunt them down
- this is a hidden movement game that's played in two chapters with each chapter being played on a different game board
- the thing is a social deduction game based on the movie from the early 80s
- players will relive John Carpenter's sci-fi classic in a race to discover who among the team has been infected
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