Anchor Bay

Anchor Bay is a medium-light weight conflict driven board game in which players compete to return gold to their hideout quicker than other players.

Draw cards and roll the dice to see what happens

• Fire at other players with dice and a unique bullseye target to sink them, gain gold, or damage their ship

• Encounter and fight monsters to acquire their gold hoard

• Collect items and crew to upgrade your ships stats

• Visit the merchant to buy and sell items from for gold

• Encounter Davey Jones before returning to the game if another player sinks your ship

Anchor Bay includes a fun shooting mechanic that allows you engage in ranged combat against your opponents.

Ranged Combat Turn Example

Anchor bay is a game that is easy to learn, but hard to master.

Set up the game

Anchor Bay can be set up in 5 easy steps:

1. Randomly place land tiles on the map.

2. Place each ship in the hideout matching its color.

3. Shuffle and place the Land, Sea, three Merchant, and Davey Jones Decks.

4. Starting with that player that rolls highest, choose ships in clockwise order.

5. Choose captains in the opposite order, starting with the last person to choose a ship.

On your turn ...

Whoever chose their ship first starts. Players move onto the board using their ship speed. Then the player can fire or board another player to gain loot. After battle the player will draw a land or sea card. Based on the card a player will resolve the card to possibly gain gold.

Example Turn

Turn Structure

1. Use your speed to move, pick up gold, or repair in your hideout.

2. Fire at another player OR board another player OR buy/sell from a merchant OR fight a monster

3. Finally Draw, read aloud and resolve a card unless the following applies:

   • Don’t draw a card if you end your turn in a hideout, merchant, or monster tile.
   • Don’t draw a card if you defeat a monster this turn.
   • Don’t draw a card if you end your turn in the same tile that you started in.

Read the full set of rules here

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