Virgin Queen PBEM Recruitment

[Tamas]

I am betrayed at every turn!

so you are running at what, a 2 cardraw per betrayal rate?

[Habbaku]

I'm sure there's a reason Berkut's file ignored Tamas's, but I can't think of it...

[Berkut]

I bet you can...

[ulmont]

Hawkins continues to plink away at Spanish treasure fleets, scoring 1 more piracy hit.

[garbon]

Hey when the file is being made that has Berk and Ulmont's moves correctly from Tamas's, France's powercard needs another bit of unrest.

[Berkut]

I don't even know what that means garbon.

File sent, gave the English a treasure.

France is up, and Jeromey can fix whatever it is garbon is babbling about.

[Habbaku]

The Spanish need to discard their used treasure when it gets back around to them.

French assault La Rochelle to no effect (on either side), then raise a regular and send Le Testu on a boat to the Guinea Coast.

Off to Drakken.

[Solmyr]

Hurry up, I want to play too.

[Tamas]

Hurry up, I want to play too.

I have been contemplating launching a parallel game, made out of people willing to post in main European hours (ie. when I am at work and potentially bored out of my mind). Not sure if we could manage 6 guys though.

[Solmyr]

I couldn't post in main European hours anyway (at work and no Cyberboard access here, though ACTS would be fine). Would be nice to start a second game though.

[ulmont]

Remind me, I have to use that treasure this turn or it will be lost?

[Berkut]

Yes, you have to use it. Cannot hold treasures.

[Berkut]

Errh, actually - I don't think it should have gone to your hand - I think it goes on the expedition. So maybe you cannot use it this turn, hang on...

[Berkut]

6. Store Loot: Treasures earned in Step 5 are placed underneath
the sea captain's counter. Undamaged expeditions can carry two
treasures; damaged expeditions only carry one. If after receiving
treasures in Step 5 (and combining them with any treasures received
by the expedition during earlier piracy attempts) the total number
exceeds the storage capacity of the expedition, the owning player
chooses which excess treasures are discarded.

7. Possible Return Home: If a path of connected ocean zones can
be traced from the sea captain's location to an ocean zone of entry
for their power, and that path does not cross a Hazardous Passage,
they may opt to return home immediately. If this option is chosen,
add any loot treasures to the power's hand; place the sea captain
on the next turn of the Turn Track to signify that he may reenter
play at the start of the next turn. If the sea captain instead chooses
to remain at sea, he must wait until a future piracy attempt or the
Winter Phase to have another opportunity to return home.

Sea Captains Returning Home
Sea captains on the Europe Map are placed back in a power's force
pool; they may reenter play during Spring Deployment or a Build
Expedition action on a future turn.
Sea captains on the World Map are returned to either one of their
power's colonies or their ocean zone of entry onto the map (Indian
Ocean for Ottoman sea captains; either the North Atlantic or
Guinea Coast for sea captains from other powers). You may only
return a captain to a colony or entry zone if he can trace a path of
ocean zones from his current location to this destination that does
not cross any Hazardous Passages. If a captain returns to an entry
zone, take him off of the map and add any treasures accumulated
by the expedition to the owning player's hand; he may reenter play
on a future turn. Any colony marker he may have been carrying is
also available starting next turn. If a captain cannot reach a colony
or entry zone without crossing a Hazardous Passage, he remains in
his current ocean zone but must immediately roll another Navigation
Check (16.1).

So I think he can go home right now, in which case it goes into your hand, and you need to use it or it gets discarded at the start of the Winter phase.

If you leave it at sea, he can hang onto it until next turn, but he still has to get it home at some point.

[ulmont]

ok, leave that at sea.