Each turn, you play one card to try to be the first to choose which share of the booty will be yours. Indeed, Game Cows co-founder Bryan placed it fourth out of 20 on his own list of best ever pirate board games! Of course, each card has special powers that completely break this "routine". Each player has a (mostly) identical set of crew cards. When it comes down to it, the actual game play of Libertalia is fair simple. Thus, each round, players are playing with the same crew cards. In my book, Libertalia is one of the top pirate games out there. At the start of each round, one player deals out 9 crew members and reads them out loud to the rest of the players. Gaining doubloons by itself doesn't During three campaigns, you have to gather doubloons and booty tiles to become the wealthiest pirate. [b]General[/b] The aim of 1v1 is to increase the doubloon difference between you and your opponent. Game Play The game takes place over 3 campaigns. I've played about 50 games of 1v1 Libertalia on Boardgamearena. Game description from the publisher: Captain Swallow has always dreamed of pocketing a large nest egg in order to retire on a remote island – but he never counted on stiff competition from Captains Stanley Rackum, Dirk Chivers and others, greedy and cruel enemies who always manage to attack the same ships as him. During each campaign the players will resolve 6 days of looting (from the sunrise phase through the night phase) and 1 day of rest during which their riches will be totaled. Libertalia - Rules of Play says: Captain Swallow has always dreamed of pocketing a large nest egg in order to retire on a remote island – but he never counted on competition from Captains Stanley Rackum, Dirk Chivers and others, greedy and cruel enemies who always manage to attack the same ships as him. Libertalia is an amazing and original card game. These tips are targeted at 1v1, many of them will also be true for multiplayer. Each other player then finds the same cards and pulls them into their hands.