Hi all! Just played my first official game of M & M and had a brief question. I adopted a pretty straightforward merchant strategy, as did one other player while the third was a pirate from the start. It seemed like I was able to avoid being targeted by just hopping port to port and avoided pirates and other players alike.
My question is, if a player merchant enters waters where a player pirate is, can the pirate player try to engage the merchant player even if it is not their turn? It seems very difficult for the pirate to engage if the merchants do what I did and keep to port, move port ok nearly all turns. It seems like it would be thematic that a pirate player could blockade a merchant in a port and force an engagement as soon as they head out from port.
Thanks for any and all feedback!
My question is, if a player merchant enters waters where a player pirate is, can the pirate player try to engage the merchant player even if it is not their turn? It seems very difficult for the pirate to engage if the merchants do what I did and keep to port, move port ok nearly all turns. It seems like it would be thematic that a pirate player could blockade a merchant in a port and force an engagement as soon as they head out from port.
Thanks for any and all feedback!
