Mercenaries & Privateers is a card expansion for the Epic Board game, Swords & Sails, which funded successfully on Kickstarter in April 2018 and published to retail in November 2019. The new expansion will feature 100 new cards, including the Mercenary/Privateer, Revolt and Calamity/Prosperity categories of intrigue cards. This will expanded the original deck of 60 intrigue cards and the 4 original categories of Development (Green), Political (Blue), Espionage (Yellow), and War (Red) to 6 Categories adding the Calamity (Grey) and the Prosperity (White) categories. The new Mercenary and Privateer cards are in the War (Red) category. Intrigue cards expand the options which Swords & Sails players have during a game and represent many simulated choices which make the game more realistic and very satisfying to play. Intrigue cards are acquired by players during the intrigue phase of the game, with each player gaining at least one card, each turn.

Contents:

• 20 Mercenary + 10 Privateer cards
• 16 Territory revolt cards
• 10 Call-up militia (counter) cards
• 6 Siege engines cards
• 4 Strategic repositions (retreat) cards
• 4 Bribed passages (retreat) cards
• 5 City fire cards
• 3 Fire brigade (counter) cards
• 7 Calamities/Natural disasters cards
• 7 Prosperity/Boon cards
• 9 Replacement political cards
• 9 Additional political cards