This game has me in an absolute choke-hold right now. It's just so charming. It went out of production in like '08 and I collected it for most of the short time it was in production, and for a while after as it was still selling at bargain bin prices (you can still see the stickers on some of the sealed product that's still out there).
After losing my collection a few years ago, I recently reached out to the game's small but active community to see if any of them had stumbled upon it and although I haven't tracked it down yet, I have managed to get re-hooked on the game and my new collection is rapidly approaching the old one in size, although the availability of sets is much smaller now I'm still having so much fun collecting, building, and playing the game.
If you aren't familiar it's a miniatures game and the ships come in little playing card sized sheets of plastic. You punch the ships out and build them and you can build and customize your fleet with special crew members and such. They have little islands and gold pieces that you sail between to see who can get the most gold while you fight it out with your opponents' ships.
I'm not really selling it well (who comes here anyways?) but there are several pretty well made videos on YouTube that are worth checking out.
This how to play video is incredibly good
This absurdly long interview with one of the game's creators Mike Mulvihill is very interesting.
A well produced "battle report" if you're curious about how it's played
The game is currently maintained by the legendary Ben, who you can find at his website
It's really fun, you should check it out! Has anyone here heard of it? Played it? Love it or hate it?
That is awesome!