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Pirate Piece of the Day

Grand Path
Jade Rebellion - South China Seas

Junk. This ship gets +1 to her boarding rolls.

Type - Ship
Collector's Number -  005

Piece Ratings: 3.5

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


Date Reviewed - 03.17.06

 
Aethereal

 

Grand Path

Another of the Grand ships for the Jade Rebellion. This time, you're spending 17 points on a six-masted Junk with six 2S cannons, L movement, and 5 cargo slots. The ability, +1 to your boarding rolls, is pointless on this ship as it's much better off just shooting with the cannons. 5 cargo slots is more than what you get on the Grand Temple, which is nice, and all the cannons are rank 2, although they are all short range. This is honestly not a bad ship and I would score it higher, except there's the Grand Temple. For only 3 more points, you can have slightly better S+S movement and a bunch of L-range cannons. You lose a couple of cargo slots, but you can get away with 3 on that ship. A good ship, and if you can't get a Grand Temple, you can try this out.

Rating: 3/5
 
Richard Grand Path

Points: 17
Cargo: 5
Guns: 2S, 2S, 2S, 2S, 2S, 2S
Move: L
Ability: Junk. This ship gets +1 to her boarding rolls.

One of five great big 6-masted junks released in the new South China Seas expansion, Grand Path is amongst the most expensive - but there again, she does have 6 guns, and they all have a 2-1 chance of hitting home.
They are also unimpeded by her own masts (by virtue of the Junk keyword), so the only real downside is that they are all short range – which means the chances of getting them all in range on a target, are pretty slim unless you pull right alongside. Also, the boarding ability is okay but not great, since boarding tends to be a very small part of most people’s games. Fundamentally, Pirates CSG is a shooting and movement game, not a game of hand to hand combat.
Her cargo pretty good – and just as well, since you’d want to load this ship up with some additional nasties, as well as a move and shoot captain, and a helmsman as well to boost her single L move.
But as a big gunship, Grand Path is going to bust the sides of a few traditional square riggers, and I’m looking forward to using her and her sister ships, once I actually get hold of them!

My rating – 4/5. Inscrutably Impressive!
 

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