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miniature review Seven Brothers: a dopey ship that cannot doc and will leave you grumpy
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Seven Brothers
Miniature text:
Mercenary, Turtle Ship. If this ship wins a boarding party, she may take as much treasure from the other ship as she wants, up to her available cargo space.
  • Collector's Number: 215
  • Faction Affiliation: Mercenaries
  • Rarity: PR
  • Type: Ship
  • Point Value: 12
  • Cargo Space: 4
  • Base Move: S
  • Cannons: 2S
Seven Brothers
a dopey ship that cannot doc and will leave you grumpy
written by phymatine 

General description:
At best, this ship is a speed bump on your opponents road to victory. At worst, this ship effectively turns itself into a treasure barge for your opponent.

Uses:
Trading fodder, coaster, unlocking doors like a spy.

Strategies and game play:
Hope your opponent forgets to move his gold runner after collecting gold for a half dozen turns or so. Explore an island and load up on gold. Hope the ram roll goes wrong. If possible, convince your opponent to use this ship!

Combos with other miniatures:
To move, it needs a helmsman. Unfortunately, Mercenary helmsmen are in short supply due to union demands. It can collect gold from an island, but what is a ship that can neither move quickly nor dock going to do with that gold? It can be rammed and derelicted by any ship that moves L or better 83% of the time. For the ONLY possible good use, add a firepot specialist and load up on gold when facing galleys.

Ways to counteract it:
Either escape it, kill it, or attempt to poison it with a poisoned apple. Best of all, let it get a bunch of treasure, ram it, then tow the loot home in the ship.

Strengths/Pros:
It has a decent gun and is a turtle ship.

Weaknesses/Cons:
It is so slow that it will never ram or shoot anything.
It cannot dock.
It can only actually hold four of the seven brothers.

Artwork and aesthetics:
Looks like a turtle ship, quite fun looking.

Overall rating:
I give it a 1.
 


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colringbk 



Subject:    Posted: November 26, 2007 11:58 am Reply with quote  Report content icon
Very funny and creative. Though, a 1 is maybe too generous of a rating for this ship. It'd be interesting to see if anyone ever DOES use this ship.
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darrin 



Subject:    Posted: November 26, 2007 12:31 pm Reply with quote  Report content icon
Wow, nice review. It's nice to see one of the worst ships for a change, instead of the best. In fact, this is a contender for The Worst Ship in the Game... if I had to choose between this and La Repulsa... I don't know, that'd be a tough call, although this one is two points cheaper.
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colringbk 



Subject:    Posted: November 26, 2007 02:29 pm Reply with quote  Report content icon
Wow, I think Le Solitaire would rank as worst ship ever IMO. But this one is useless.
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captain_arrr 



Subject:    Posted: December 4, 2007 04:32 pm Reply with quote  Report content icon
Hey look on the bright side, if it gets rammed, it doesn't effect its movement!

Seriously, the worst part of this ship is its cost! 12 points!!!!!!!!!!!!
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mercenary30 



Subject: A little history on the Seven Brothers…..   Posted: December 5, 2007 09:01 am Reply with quote  Report content icon
The Turtle Ship, Seven Brothers was owned by the Gredi Gies family. There are actually seven brothers and a sister, but they decided that name was too long.

It is said that the Seven Brothers would not return to home port until its holds had been filled with gold a hundred times, but that omen was misread. It should have been interpreted to say that it would only return home with gold one time in a hundred tries!

The design of the ship was to accommodate a large amount of cargo but the consequence was a steady but slow ship.

The local trade cartel banished the Gredi Gies family because they could never make a deadline, so they had to go Mercenary to keep the family business going. Secretly, the trade cartels hire the Seven Brothers to act as a decoy ship hoping to lure pirates away from their real shipments.

The cannon on the Seven Brothers has been updated to a top of the line model because they needed a better defense against the nearly constant attempts at boarding by nearly every ship that sees her sails.
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