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Pirates of the Spanish Main – El
Garante #SS-03
Name: El Garante
Set: POSM
Card #s: #ss-03 (1st), 071
(unl)
Type: Ship
Cost: 21 Points
Masts: 5
Cannons: 3S, 3S, 3S, 3S, 3S
Cargo: 5
Movement: 1L
Faction: Spanish
Ability:
This ship gets +1 to her cannon rolls
for every friendly ship within S of her.
Flavor Text:
“This is the capital ship of the
Armada de Barlavento—the special fleet assigned to
rid the Spanish Main of pirates. "The Guarantor" is
often under the command of Almirante del Nero, who
oversees his crew's competition with the El
Acorazado.”
Today we’ll look at Spains’ other
five masted ship from Spanish Main. The El
Garante is mighty and formidable, but in my mind
she’s far too expensive for a main attack ship. 3S
cannons are not exciting, though with the ability,
surround her with a couple small 1 masters and you
can almost get yourself an automatic hit. But in
order to make her battle worthy, you need some
additions, like an extra action crew and captain (Capitan
Alarico Castro
or El Duque Rafael de Moreno y
Rivera would work),
helmsman, and at least a marine (Diego
Cesar Olano – one of our crewfer reviews for
next time) or musketeer. This ship would
also really benefit from
Master Gunner Rogelio Vazquez
who gives all the cannons L range.
Out of the four Spanish 5 masters
currently available, she’s the second best. If you
don’t have the El Acorzado, the El Garante
is not a bad subsitute.
El Garante 1st Ed (#SS-03)
Completed Auction Review – 8-9-05
# of completed Auctions: 2
High Amount: $7.50
Low Amount: $3.75
Average Amount $5.63
Not a bad value for a first edition
from Spanish Main. Nothing to write home about,
especially since Buy It Nows from Ebay stores are
slightly higher also.
El Garante Unl Ed (#071) Completed
Auction Review – 8-9-05
# of completed Auctions: 5
High Amount: $8.00
Low Amount: $2.25
Average Amount $4.14
One of the rare occasions when the
Unlimited version is actually worth less than the
first edition. Recently I’ve noticed that there are
far more Unlimited pieces out there than First
Editions, and that’s to be expected, especially
since Unlimited is STILL appearing at retail, and
First editions are LOOOOONG gone. Still the market
finally seems to be adjusting to the actual rareness
of first printings of Spanish Main. For four bucks
you certainly get a playable ship, though if you’re
building a Spanish Fleet, you’ll want to look
elsewhere for a primary attacker.
My Ratings
Playability 3 of 5
Collectability 3 of 5
Next time – Crewfers are still
happening…I already mentioned one crew we’ll be
looking at, the Marine from the Spanish. I
actually mentioned BOTH in my previous review,
the second will be the Master Gunner up above.
Friday’s review will be a FIRST for Pojo, we’ll
be looking at a game piece type that we haven’t
touched upon in the first 7 weeks of reviews.
Guess what it could be?
NOTE: As you can see we’ve lost
a few reviewers. If you are interested in
reviewing for this page, send me an email with
your sample review of either today’s review or
the Crewfer review that should appear on
Thursday. My email is
Wmnoe@yahoo.com. If they’re worthy of being
printed, you can see YOUR name in this space
next time!!!!
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