You and your fellow pirates will continue to take these three steps each turn, until you beat the game or the game beats you. Rooms get hotter here, and if you haven't been managing the fires, the rooms can start to explode. The action can be raising the fire level of certain dice (number and pip count), adding deckhands, or moving Skelit's Pirate Crew closer to the nearest Pirate Meeple. Skelit's Revenge - Draw a Skelit's Revenge Card and resolve the action on the card. If your fatigue reaches twelve, you can't enter rooms with 3 or higher.ģ. For example, if your fatigue reaches nine, you can't enter rooms with a dice count of 4 or higher. Beware when taking fatigue, the more you take the fewer rooms you will be able to enter. You could also use the action on your item card for free. Each of these choices costs an Action Token to accomplish and some even will fatigue you. Take Pirate Actions - In this step, you can walk, run, loot fight fire, eliminate a deckhand, pick up a token, rest, increase your battle strength, or swap an item card. If it's a Trapdoor, place it in the room with one Deckhand.Ģ.
You must have a Battle Strength of 3 to defeat them and claim the item. If it's an item (grog or cutlass), place it Skeleton Crew side up. The number on the guard indicates the Battle Strength you need to defeat him. If it's a Treasure token, place it guard side up. draw out a double-sided token and place it in the room.
You then place a Fire Die in the room, which matches the color and pip count of the square in the middle. (Side note On every player's first turn, they turn over two Room Tiles.) If you cannot place a room according to tile placement rules, you lose, so don't close off doors early on and leave yourself plenty of options. Search the Ship - In this step you turn over the top Room Tile and place it where all the doors line up with other rooms' doors. After the ship is setup, a player's turn is divided into three steps.ġ. For beginners in a group of 2-3, four Treasure is the recommended number. Lastly, put your Pirate Meeple on the small boat by the entrance of the game board and decide how difficult you want the game to be by determining how much Treasure you want to claim to win. (I recommend leaving out Captain Skelit your first time playing). Place the 20 double-sided tokens in a bag and mix them around. Shuffle the Skelit's Revenge Cards and make a face down stack. (These numbers tell you how hot the fire is in each room, and you can't start with a six because when a room hits a six, it explodes!) You then place one Deckhand (white skull) in the top room with the Trapdoor icon. If you roll a six, re-roll until a number besides six appears.
Then, for each of the four starting rooms roll a Fire Die that matches the color of the square in the middle of the room. You also take a Player Board, which will track your Fatigue and Battle Strength. To set up the game board, start by placing the Starting Tile on the table. Can you manage the flames, overcome your fatigue, and fight your way to fatigue? Or will Skelit's Revenge claim another one for Davy Jones' Locker?Įach player picks a Pirate (Jade, Whitebeard, etc), their Pirate Meeple, five Action Coins, and an item (dagger, compass, etc.). Your aim is to collect all the treasure on the ship and return it to your captain! It sounds simple enough, but the ship is quickly burning, and the ghost crew is also guarding the treasure and won't so easily surrender it. In this game, you and your fellow pirates will be raiding the most notorious ship on the high seas - Skelit's Revenge. It takes approximately 60 to 75 minutes to play and retails for $45. The game is called Dead Men Tell No Tales, and it was published by Minion Games.ĭead Men Tell No Tales is a fully cooperative game for 2 to 5 pirates, ages 13 and up. It doesn't alter gameplay if you choose not to. It did have one exclusive card, but you can still easily buy it from them for a few bucks if you want. I provide this brief introductory note because the game I am reviewing today was a Kickstarter success that used the money they raised to add to the beauty of the game. I for one am mostly in favor of it, as long as it is used primarily for upgrading the quality of the game and not proving copious amounts of exclusive content that people will never be able to purchase again, unless they want to shell out obscene amounts of money. There are mixed feelings on this, which I won't bother getting into, as I'm not here to debate that subject. Mentioning Kickstarter with board game reviews may start to become redundant, as the two entities are going hand-in-hand lately.
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