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That is a good idea. One of the comments I heard from players was that they liked the Pirates of the Spanish Main ships I used as merchants because they were readily identifiable as either targets or...

Andy, how do you think placing some sort of mark on the ship's base and ship mat would work, something that can be on all four sides of the base, visible from any direction?

I had the same...

As you say, maybe a bit of orangish color along the edge closest to the ship on the firing side to differentiate it from the backside, assuming both sides being white/gray. Another option is to...

Brown can be very appropriate, as it would be a prevalent color when coming alongside a loaded enemy broadside while your crew is still loading your own guns.

I don't think we found it distracting at all. We had the counters on the base, and any inconvenience from having to pick them up to calculate wind attitude was more than compensated by the ease with...

We used the white side to mark that a ship fired in a given round, and then flipped it to the brown side at the end of the round. During the following turn, it was clear which ships were reloading...

For the upcoming con, you could make some smoke markers out of construction paper, with different colors on both sides. In the kit, you should have enough markers for the number of ships you have,...

It seems, too, that WoG, and I dare say, SoG, players are a friendly breed. There were a few pirates (BBSuds and crashx) that showed up for the Rock-Con game, but they behaved well. Maybe I should...

I ran two games at different cons this weekend. Not only do I believe that nothing was taken, but the caliber of folks playing and the spirit around the table was such that, until I read your...