Design Note: Blackbeard is more of a simulation than most Pirate games. However, it is not a detailed, complex simulation like many other games in the hobby. On the other hand, things that happen in Pirate movies and other fictional approaches that rarely—if ever—happened in reality are not included in this game. It is difficult, for example, to find an actual instance of one Pirate attacking another at sea, something that happens in Pirate movies all the time.