Seas of Havoc Reprint & First Mates Expansion

Update 1: Thanks for following!

Thanks to everyone following along and leaving us comments and feedback. Hopefully this update will provide you with more information about the game so you can get even more excited about its launch.

Ahoy Mateys!

Thanks to everyone following along and leaving us comments and feedback. Hopefully this update will provide you with more information about the game so you can get even more excited about its launch. Either way, keep the great insights coming so that we can continue to improve the campaign over the next couple of months. We're still very busy preparing for the campaign, but are confident that we will be setting sail in April 2025.

Revision Pack

You’ve already raised some very legitimate questions and concerns about addressing a few fixes for the reprint of the game. I have been working closely with the designers to get all of the fixes/enhancements/clarifications into a pack we can offer for this campaign for die-hard fans. Here is our list of what the revision pack will entail:

• 8 Wooden Ship Tokens, laser engraved on both sides
  
• 34 Market Cards addressing consistency with extended maneuver language (minor)
  
• 2 Pirate Queen Ability card BUFFs to better balance her
  
• 1 Sea Witch Ability card BUFF (Command the Deep - add Infamy gain for hitting ships with sea monsters)
  
• 1 Admiral Ability card NERF (Inspire - Reduce Infamy gain to 1)
  
• 2 Fluyt Starting Deck NERF (Remove FIRING type from the extended SAILING card, reduce scrap value to 1 SAIL, change "instead" to "as well")
  

Some of these changes are very minor, but everything listed here was something brought to our attention by players or a wishlist item from the designers to better balance the game. If you think we’ve missed anything, please let us know in the comments!

What’s New in the First Mates Expansion

The big new addition to this campaign will be the First Mates expansion which introduces a ton of modules that you can add to Seas of Havoc. All these new cards and modules offer a whole lot of fun and variability to our game about blasting each other with cannonballs.

First Mates

With our 8 unique First Mates, you’ll have even more ways to customize your starting deck. First Mate cards are an additional ability card in your deck. They each have a free action and a paid enhanced version of the action. At the start of the game, you’ll draw and draft them based on player count and place them immediately in your discard pile.

2 New Captains: The Gambler and Fisherman join the fray!

These new captains give you even more variability when it comes to making asymmetric starting decks. The Fisherman’s abilities all revolve around fishing out cards from their discard pile, whereas the Gambler relies more on luck to get the most out of their abilities.

New Market cards: Wild Flags

Wild Flag cards can be added and shuffled into the market deck and offer you more flexibility when deckbuilding. After performing or passing their depicted maneuvers, Wild Flag cards allow you to activate any 1 flag action from ANY flag you control. That means your friend can’t fully derail your plans by stealing a particular flag that you’ve built your deck around.

Ship Upgrade Tech Trees

This module adds level 1 and level 2 ship upgrades, requiring you to first unlock level 1 before choosing which ability you want to unlock at level 2. Level 2 gives you a choice over different abilities.

Deck Upgrades and Challenge cards

Deck upgrades are upgraded versions of the starting cards for each ship. When visiting the Workshop, you can now choose to upgrade your ship or scrap one of your starting ship cards for a better card. This makes the Workshop a very sought after worker placement spot, so we’ve also got a bunch of new challenge/objective cards that you can work towards during the game. When you complete a challenge, you get a free Deck or Ship upgrade!

Advanced Sea Monster Cards

If you found the Sea Monsters too timid, new Sea Monster cards can be shuffled into their respective decks to increase the overall aggression of the Sea Monsters.

Let us know what modules and features you’re most excited about to add to your game in the comments and remember to follow along before we launch so that you can save $5 on your pledge.