It looks like the Spanish are indeed getting some love! the WizKids Card Gallery has been updated with more Rise of the Fiends cards (A Sneak Peek #3 coming soon?), and four of the cards are Spain specific: Blood Money, Concepcion, Inquisitor, and San Esteban.
"Blood Money" - A killer treasure!
"Concepcion" - Typical treasure ship
"Inquisitor" - He's baaack!
"San Esteban" - Typical ship with nice sails
I'm cruising the WizKids forum tonight, and I found this little response from Woelf, a WizKids Rules Arbiter:
That response could either mean an indirect confirmation, or he/she could just be jacking with us. I want to be positive and think that Woelf is trying to "tell" us that the Spanish Nation in the Pirates Pocketmodel game is finally going to get some better ships.
For too long now, the Spanish have been getting the shaft when it comes to ship stats and distribution, and WizKids takes joy in reinforcing that fact by printing it on the Spanish card's flavor text! Yeah, yeah, historically we all know that Spain was on the decline, but geez, it's a game. Who really wants to play a faction that has maybe only two or three good ships from a game that's covered ten expansions?!? With WizKids leaning towards a more "fantasy" theme to its game, let's hope that Spain will finally be able to sit at the "grown-up table"...
Today, WizKids announced a second Sneak Peek is now available for the upcoming expansion to their Pirates of the Cursed Seas Pocketmodel Game, Rise of the Fiends. Their second preview offers one unique treasure, a crew member, and two ships. Take a look now at what's to come towards the end of January!
I have been following this game since its release back in 2004, when it was originally called Pirates of the Spanish Main CSG (They changed their game name to Pockmodel to avoid copyright infringement with Wizards of the Coast). I don't play much, I mainly collect the styrene cards more for the cool little ships you can build from them. It's pretty addicting to collect!
