Placing the highest value three-point coin right off the bat means that you can’t be outbid, and the other players in my demo were quick to secure as many British pirates as they could. Other players favored a more aggressive approach. The ghost pirate would also be more valuable if I found his living brother, so I started a series of smaller bids just for information-gathering purposes until I found him. This was particularly useful since the pirate to the right of him had a special ability indicating that, once all the bribing was over, he’d shoot the pirate to the left of him. On my first turn I picked a card just based on his nationality because I wanted to get the extra points from the British ship, and I discovered he was a ghost and thus couldn’t be shot. Knowing what’s in play is important to forming your own bidding strategies and interfering with other players. Whenever you bid on a pirate, you get to peek at their card and at one of the adjacent cards. Players take turns bidding on pirates by placing colorful coins in front of their cards. The captain reveals their card and gameplay starts with the player to their left. It’s every pirate for themselves in a three-player game, but for larger games players are divided into teams based on whether they’re a mutineer or loyal to the ship’s captain. This game begins the same way as Bang!, with each player receiving a secret role card. While 15 Men does share some mechanical and thematic similarities with Bang!, it adds layers of strategy and complexity that make it more satisfying and fun for everyone at the table.ġ5 Men was named for a lyric in the song “Dead Man’s Chest,” which was written by Robert Louis Stevenson as part of his novel Treasure Island. The demoer running games of Pendragon Game Studio’s 15 Men in the GenCon exhibit hall lured me over with the promise that it was a pirate-themed version of Bang!, the Origins Award-winning fast-paced social deduction card game where players try to shoot each other while figuring out who’s an outlaw and who’s on the side of the sheriff.
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