Overview

Play one of five ruthless pirates, fighting to capture your unfair share of the treasure fleet. The lookout keeps a watch on Porto Bello's harbor. Will he spot sloops carrying just a little treasure or brigantines loaded with modest treasure? Perhaps he will spy the king's galleons fully loaded with the finest of treasures.

No time to waste, order your crew to load the ship. The choice is yours. Load the big guns. Prepare the boarding party. Set a course to intercept. The crew is waiting your orders. Will you concentrate on one of the galleons or split your fire between a couple of sloops. A cunning captain might even lure the fleet into a tropical storm to gain the upper hand. Better plan well because you're not the only captain gunning for the treasure fleet.

This is a game of skill and wits. Each captain starts the game with the same complement of cards consisting of cannons a boarding party and maybe a storm. But each sailing you can load only so much on your ship. So choose and play your cards wisely. Commit too much firepower and it is wasted. Commit to little and you may not have enough to even capture a sloop. Each sailing you have less cards to choose from. So if you bring out the big guns early, you may find yourself out gunned in later sailing. Oh yeah, don't forget the governor, he may fetch a fine ransom too. But at the end of the day it's the captain who captured the most treasure who wins.

The Cards

The game consists of two distinct decks types, player decks and the fleet deck. The player decks have cannon cards with values ranging from one to four. The player decks also have a boarding party card and optionally a storm card.

The fleet deck has three classes of ships: sloops, brigantines and galleons. Sloops range in value from six to twelve. Brigantines range in value from fourteen to seventeen. Galleons range from eighteen to twenty-two. The values of the ships are distributed so that the majority, of the treasure points available, are found on the brigantines.

The Rules (2nd Edition)

The rules to Treasure Fleet are simple enough that a child of eight can easily play the game. However the strategy of Treasure Fleet is deep enough to engage even a die hard gamer.

You can download a full set of the rules in PDF format here.

Play Testers

I would like to extend a special thanks to all the play testers. I wish I could list them all but quite frankly there were so many and I don't know all your names.

A. Morgan A. Perry B. Andel B. Penner B. Perry B. Stancato Brandon C. Cook C. Hasegawa D. Hancock J. Abbott

J. Beatty J. Bodey J. Heder J. Mitchell J. Ratke J. Scopel J. Shire J. Thompson J. Weirich K. Boling K. Lopez

L. Morgan M. Frederick M. Morgan M. Pilman M. Sorensen M. Steedman Maryanne P. Steedman P. Sullivan R. Ethington R. Palmer

Renee S. Jaffee S. Tidy S. Urena S. Wyatt T. Andel T. Button T. Logan T. Mehle V. Morgan

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