Introduced my work place gamers to Pirate's Cove today at lunch. I was doing pretty well until about the halfway point when I sent the Royal Navy after the one person who didn't go to the same island as the rest of us. Unfortunately, he had the card that let him redirect the Royal Navy and he sent it to us. Now normally, the Royal Navy is easy to beat but it wiped my hull out (from 12 down to 4) which means I dropped 5 of my 9 treasure before getting to bury them.
In the end, I still managed third but that defeat made me change strategy and give up islands I normally would have gone for.
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