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Oct 23, 2025·Review·20:55·1755·Watch on YouTube

Fortunes of Scoundrel Bay - How It Balances Speed vs Strategy. Board Game Review

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Watch “Fortunes of Scoundrel Bay - How It Balances Speed vs Strategy. Board Game Review,” a board game review for Fortunes of Scoundrel Bay on BoardGameVideo.

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Fortunes of Scoundrel Bay, a thematic Euro game. A board game review. We really appreciate if you can leave a comment for us, if you find it this video useful, or if you have any feedback. Thank you very much🙏 Join Meeple University Discord Channel where we chat about board games, where to meet at board game conventions, organise BoardGameArena and more - https://discord.gg/JUNsVty I (Stella) have a fortnightly Friday podcast now, our podcast titled Life Beyond Board Games 😀 . It's about life around board games, with my friends Candice (BoardGameGeek), Eric (What's Eric Playing) and Melissa. It really means a lot of you can listen and give ratings/review (apparently this is how it grows, especially the first episode) Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/5X1Ay6nFcKU7DWFHLyiCQN?si=yqdUEbPZRr-P3rghB8zfPw&pi=aUeOme9wSs2K6 Apple Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/life-beyond-board-games/id1791071879 Subscribe to our new YouTube channel for Shorts videos and Live Stream - https://www.youtube.com/@MeepleUniversityShortsAndLive Find out how you can be part of Meeple University member to get access to exclusive perks and badge when commenting : https://www.youtube.com/meepleuniversity/join Merch by Meeple University - https://meepleuniversity.creator-spring.com/ We have board game meetups in Melbourne, Australia. Details in Meetup site, of in our Melbourne board game Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/WePlayBoardGames INDEX 00:00 Game info 00:46 Overview 08:35 Review Board Game Geek Link - https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/446703/fortunes-of-scoundrel-bay Connect with Stella & Tarrant: YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/meepleuniversity?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/meeple_university/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/MeepleU TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@meepleuniversity Twitch - https://www.twitch.tv/meepleuniversity Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/meepleuniversity/ Meeple University Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/meepleuniversitycommunity/ Website - https://www.meepleuniversity.com By Meeple University - Tarrant Falcke and Stella Jahja Hi everyone! Stella & Tarrant here. Thanks for watching! If you could please help us like the video, subscribe and comments if you find it useful and will help others to find the video and seeing your comments. That would help us a lot. Small gesture (even thumbs down, thou we prefer up lol) would help us a lot. And if you comment, I'll try to get back to you soon, and it's usually Stella, about 98 percent hehe. Many thanks for your support. Love from Down Under 🥰🙏🦘 Game is provided as review copy by publisher / We thank publisher for sponsoring this video. If you want your board games to be featured in Meeple University channel, email us with the rulebook at meeple.uni@gmail.com - or go here for more information - https://www.meepleuniversity.com/work-with-us/ #meepleuniversity #boardgame #FortunesOfScoundrelBay

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Fortunes of Scoundrel Bay

Fortunes of Scoundrel Bay

2025·Vegard Eliassen Stillerud, Eilif Svensson, Åsmund Svensson

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Creators
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Mostly reviews. Fortunes of Scoundrel Bay is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 7 reviews, 2 how-to-play guides, and 1 unboxings.

1 - 4 players
75 - 120 min
Heavy weight: Expect a long teach

About Fortunes of Scoundrel Bay, from BoardGameGeek:

You have finally reached the archipelago of Scoundrel Bay! Here, amidst treasures and dangers, fortune awaits any crew daring - or foolish - enough to seize it. In Fortunes of Scoundrel Bay, players are pirate captains who try to collect the most gold by conquering harbors, seeking hideouts, delivering crates, digging up treasures, and gaining reputation by fighting monsters. During the game, each player builds up their crew to unlock stronger actions such as digging for treasure, invading hideouts, and picking up and delivering crates. On your turn, play one card from your hand and choose one of three actions for it: Recruit Sail and shoot monster Invade You may not pick the same action you took on your previous turn. The deck contains 84 unique, multi‑use cards, and every card works with all three actions. After each of five reefs, you resolve an event and feed your crew. The game ends as soon as a captain crosses the fifth reef. Sailing quickly shortens the game, but racing ahead might leave your engine too weak to claim victory. In the box, you'll find unique player power tiles, asymmetric player boards, screen-printed captain figures, screen-printed pirate ship figures, 108 pirate figures, event cards, and a lot more. Fortunes of Scoundrel Bay is a high interaction game in which players compete to gain area‑majority over lucrative islands, outpace foes in an open draft of crew cards, race to engage monsters before others can, and outwit captains in tense blind bids - all without resorting to negative or take‑that attacks. -description from the designer

Designers

Vegard Eliassen Stillerud, Eilif Svensson, Åsmund Svensson

Artists

Billy Christian, Sylvain Leroy

Publisher

Chilifox Games

Categories

AdventurePirates

Mechanics

Area Majority / InfluenceHand Management
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