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Pirate Piece of the Day

Le Loup-Garou
French - Barbary Coast

Schooner. Ghost Ship.

Type - Ship
Collector's Number -  076

Piece Ratings: 1.5

Ratings are based on a 1 to 5 scale 1 being the worst.
3 ... average. 5 is the highest rating.


Date Reviewed - 01.13.06

 
ChaosReaper

 

Le Loup-Garou 076

Today we have the French Le Loup-Garou. This ship in terms of treasure hauling (only 3 cargo) and combat (3 masts; 3L, 4S, and 5S from front to back respectivly) isn't very good. But being a shcooner, a ghost ship, and having a move of 1S+1L makes for quite the manuverable ship. If you put the right crew on her(maybe a captain, something to add to the cannon roll), she could have potential. Maybe put one of the specialists on it. Just use the L-range front cannon all the time.

That could be a pain for your opponent. A specialist set up could look like this: (Firepot Specialist, Helmsman, Captain). Turns this ship into a manuverable menace.

Playability: 2/5

Playability with right crew: 3.9/5 (falls just short of being a worthy ship here)

Collectability: 2/5
 
Richard Le Loup-Garou

The first question about Le Loup-Garou must be ‘why?’
Clearly there’s no historical basis whatsoever for ghost ships - but there is at least some kind of fictional / mythic basis for pirate ships of this unnatural stamp.
But a French ghost ship?? Sacre Bleu!
More relevantly, at 17 points she’s horribly expensive. You can get several of the big French 5 masters for less than that - and they have good guns aboard too.
Loup-Garou has only three masts, average to crap cannon (3, 4, and 5 rank respectively), average cargo space and average movement speed. Impressed?
So that Ghost Ship ability must really be worth all those extra points then, right?
Wrong.
Ghost Ship is a useful ability, sure – you can’t be rammed, and can sail through islands, terrain and other ships.
But it’s not worth all those extra points, and the designers clearly didn’t think so either until recently, since if you compare Deliverance, she only costs two points more than Loup-Garou, and yet she’s a 5 master with a full complement of 3-rank guns.
So where’s the sense in that?
There again, where’s the sense in any of the points allocations in this game?!

My rating – 1/5. If Loup-Garou cost 10 or 11 points, she would be a useful and unusual addition to my favourite faction, the French. But at 17 points?
They’re having a laugh.
 

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