I am not 100% sure what caused this, but it happened in two fights. This was in duos. My board setup was Flagbearer → cruise controller → golden bonerender → golden titus → golden titus. I was Teron Gorefiend and used my hero power on the cruise controller, which resummoned multiple cruise controllers at the start of combat due to bonerender. During most fights, the flagbearer’s start of combat would then activate after this and apply to all of my cruise controllers and bonerender.
But twice in a match, when I went second in duos, the cruise controllers resummoned at the start of combat but the flagbearer never went off. All of my pirates died without ever summoning a single pirate.
I’m guessing it has something to do with start of combat effects and going 2nd in duos, but I’m not sure. Other people on reddit seem to have had the same issue:
https://www.reddit.com/r/BobsTavern/comments/1g2tyrv/has_anyone_else_encountered_token_pirates_builds/
https://www.reddit.com/r/BobsTavern/comments/1gg5ppp/why_arent_my_flagbearers_working_here/