Free Nassau updates

captain guides, glossary, timeline and FAQ

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000

New captain guides for all five playable captains: a short history, the starting deck, passive and order, and tips.
A longer period glossary, a Golden Age timeline for 1713–1726, and an FAQ.
The home page shows the top captains this week, and the end screen has a Share button. Updates now have an RSS feed.

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 11:59:00 +0000

Portrait phones get a cleaner layout: a compact enemy strip and a fanned hand in combat, a tidier end screen, Port/Ship/Crew/Log tabs in Nassau, and a "How Renown works" toggle on the Hall board. Turn a phone sideways and you will be asked to hold it upright.

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 11:58:00 +0000

A public leaderboard. After any voyage (win, extract or death) you can sign the Hall of Captains from the end screen and see your rank.
Open the Hall from the title screen or at piratedeck.org/leaderboard: all time or this week, filtered by captain.
Runs are ranked by Renown: (1000 × acts cleared + 1500 for beating Hornigold + 40 × fights won + silver banked) × (1 + 0.2 × Notoriety).
Desktop: end, port and event screens keep their parchment text boxes; end-screen stat labels are readable again.

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 11:57:00 +0000

Hornigold’s ship phase is a little softer (hull 75 to 70).
Act II elites (Guarda Costa Capitana, Plate Fleet Flagship) hit harder and carry more crew.
Bellamy starts with +8 max hull and a Hold the Rail and Broadside in his deck. Bonny & Read: one fewer Cutlasses, and Two blades is now +1 Captain card damage. Vane: 62 to 54 HP.
A full win now banks 155% of plunder value (was 125%), so pushing on pays better than extracting.

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 11:56:00 +0000

All game art is now real engravings and maps from 1625–1739: General History of the Pyrates plates, Luyken, Nooms, Hollar, Hogarth and Herman Moll. Credits are on the About page.
A quieter combat screen, a chart-style map, hand-inked icons and printed-type buttons.

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 11:55:00 +0000

New long-form wiki pages on Hornigold, Blackbeard, Charles Vane, Calico Jack with Anne Bonny & Mary Read, Woodes Rogers, the 1717 pardon, the 1715 treasure fleet, ship types, pirate articles and Nassau’s trade. See the Wiki.

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 11:54:00 +0000

New homepage, a public wiki, a How to Play guide, and About, Privacy, Contact and Terms pages.
The game now lives at /play.html. Offline caching was updated so you always get the latest pages.

Thu, 15 Oct 2026 11:53:00 +0000

A new game engine with a four-lane sea chart, port, careening cove, smuggler and shipwright upgrade screens, plus settings and meta screens.
Battle effects: volleys, hits, boarding runners, sinking, boss and act cinematics, screen shake, with adjustable effects speed.
Installable as an app, with self-hosted fonts, phone safe areas, text-size and colour-blind options.
Two balance passes: captain orders and cards retuned, the fort and Act III eased, Hornigold strengthened.
One-time, skippable coach tips for ship combat, boarding, officers, sailing home and coves.

Wed, 14 Oct 2026 11:52:00 +0000

A full visual pass in the style of a captain’s chart table: inked map, logbook drawer, captain medallions and engraved icons.
Better layout for crowded hands and short phones, map labels, tap guards, press states and a wax seal.

Wed, 14 Oct 2026 11:51:00 +0000

Painted art: captains, officers, ports, careening and boarding scenes. Sound effects with mute.
Parchment cards with descriptive text, an inspect view, a fanned hand and a deck view; select-then-confirm card play.
v3: simpler cargo (powder, rations and repair kits), new enemies and events, Notoriety, and per-act balance.