Kaiser's Pirates, The

THE KAISERS PIRATES™ is a fast-paced card game of high adventure on the high seas during the First World War. Each player has a split personality – each controls some of Kaiser Bill’s ace commerce-raiding converted merchantmen, passenger liners and light cruisers to attack merchantmen and also has the ability the use the Royal Navy to attack other player’s raiders. The primary object of the game is to use the raiders in the traditions of the privateers and pirates of old to sink or capture as many Allied and neutral merchantmen as possible. It is an excellent multi-player game for up to four players of a piratical mindset or the challenging solitaire version can be played.

The raiders have anonymity, guns, mines, torpedoes, atoll hideaways and even the occasional primitive scout plane to help accomplish their mission. But beware, fuel can get scarce, there are sneaky converted armed merchantmen serving as disguised escorts, and “Britannia Rules the Waves” - there are numerous sleek British and Allied cruisers sailing the world’s oceans to sweep the seas free of these menaces to trade and commerce.

Every player gets three wallowing merchantmen to protect and three German converted raiders and/or light cruisers laid out in front of them. The action cards in their hands permit them to use their ships to attack other player’s ships. There are many different types of action cards and using them effectively and at the right time is the key to developing a winning game strategy.

Components:
• One 20-Card German Raider/Warship Deck: Historic German commerce raiders.
• One 60-Card Merchantman Deck: Historic victims of the German raiders.
• One 92-Card Action Deck: The cards used in attacking and defending the ship cards.
• One 20-Card Solitaire Action Deck: The cards used when playing the game solitaire.
• Eight dice, 2 x 4-sided, 2 x 6-sided, 2 x 8-sided and 2 x 10-sided, along with 16 wooden markers.
• The Complete Rules of Play. Comprehensive, all in color and profusely illustrated.
• Number of Players: One to four.