Yes, this was released early heroclix + mechwarrior dark age. I was playing mageknight at the time. Pirates was fantastic, they ran local events

It was good and had a cool theme, but it was a nightmare to collect. Wizkids later did Rocketman that was somewhat similar (Same plastic cards,etc) and even if the theme and art was shit at least they made it better to build for it as there was cards with lots of generic crew for that game (Pirates also did it in the later editions but they weren't nation specific, they were "lost crew")

On a game design stand of view it was really good, there are lots of cool things like the giant crabs (titans) that you could have a crew piloting it... Or forts that you could build in wild islands by paying gold. Or fortillas, or Mysterious Islands, etc

My wife and I have two shoeboxes where we keep our assembled ships, though some are worse for wear. It was a relatively simple wargame that we probably played wrong, but we had fun with it, and liked the little boats enough to hold onto them over 20 years. Really liked my Spanish fleet.

I recall Rocketmen like the other anon mentioned, and I think there was a Star Wars game that had a similar "pop out and build" element, but worked by very different rules. I only ever had like one or two boosters for either of those, and nothing I particularly liked.

>>96486399
I loved this when i was a kid it was awesome

>>96490616
>and liked the little boats enough to hold onto them over 20 years
I still got a few hovering around, too. Turns out that the market for 10-part model ships is criminally under-served.

>>96486399

I remember having fun with chaotic multiplayer games.

It also helped to just houserule that every ship had a captain for free(let you move and shoot in the same turn).

Donated all mine to a thrift store when the Konmari thing got big. I wonder if anyone's made a similar ruleset for a miniatures/board game.

>>96486399

I use them for playing Trafalgar, great little things.