"Fluyt for a Flagship" rules - HoP's 1st Official

Tom Pullings · Gunner Posts: 534 **11279 Gold** -

Overall, this sounds like a really sick idea. So I'll probably have to try it. But I'd vote for a mandatory retirement age. Bad enough we be sailing Fluyts, but for three months? - ye could be like 900 years old - if ye don't go insane first. Twisted Evil

Lots of possible special categories - gold plundered; ships captured; SOTL captured?? Shocked

SoxSexSax · Powder Monkey Posts: 1 **23 Gold** -

Hi, long time lurker, 1st time poster (like you couldn't have worked that out from my join date/post count...)

This sounds like a great challenge and I'm definitely up for it. One question though: retire when we feel we've won? Seems to me like someone who finds this challenge in December will have no chance of winning...someone could already have amassed a million gcs and still be going strong. I think a retirement age would be fairer.

Still, either way, I'm definitely giving it a go. Arghhhhh!

Falconer · Captain Posts: 1902 **2865 Gold** -

Doubtful. Remember that you -do- grow old. Smile

So that's basically the delimiter for the game. Within your lifespan, you can do whatever you want for as long as you want. If you feel you have reached your peak early, then you can quit.

Sok · Powder Monkey Posts: 18 **120 Gold** -

Hate to be a pain in the ass, but I still don't know what to focus on in my (slightly annoying) flagship, the "Useless Heap O' Junk". Do I want to be a well-rounded pirate person, a dashing knave, a heartless brute, or something else entirely?

Long story short, what will the winner be decided on?

I'm off to Vera Cruz, this could take some time... Sailor

headrock · Rigger Posts: 1567 **354 Gold** -

Oh, great, you make a competition now so I can't participate? You scaredy cowards, I'd have beaten yer runny little noses anyday! Just you wait for when I get back and I'll show ye how to do it.
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Airsaw · Rigger Posts: 1840 **3281 Gold** -

To win, you win. You take your results, I take mine, we put them side by side, and even if it's even up to my wife is beautiful and yours is attractive, I win. All the stats are in. It may just come down to how much and how many - ships sunk, gold raked in....could involve land...whomever has the highest numbers. Well, that might involve fluyting to a ripe old age...so we have till the end of the year so nobody can fluyt till 2010...a four hundred year old pirate???? Whew. But, if you can do it, do it.
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Quinton · Powder Monkey Posts: 29 **325 Gold** -

I'm already playing through the game with a Fluyt and have been mostly attacking merchant ships. I might as well to use the only advantage of the West Indianman being huge cargo space. This means I can sell off alot all the cargo I get from the Merchant ships.

Possibly a dumb question but would it be alright that I am doing this challenge in Swashbuckler difficulty with a Fluyt? I don't mind if the only extra reward is bragging rights.

Airsaw · Rigger Posts: 1840 **3281 Gold** -

Quinton · Powder Monkey Posts: 29 **325 Gold** -

Airsaw · Rigger Posts: 1840 **3281 Gold** -

That is just too funny. Perhaps it bespeaks of the luck you'll find in-game, in future.
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Luiz · Cutthroat Posts: 380 **2182 Gold** -

Hi there Airsaw !!!
I am back !!! Sailor

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TheDon · Rigger Posts: 1292 **16718 Gold** -

I have begun this sick challenge with the intrepid captain Montalban, a distant black-sheep cousin of the evil spaniard who runs around the Caribbean being evil. My first capture was a French merchantman, which I sailed for some time before being presented with a nice French East Indiaman loaded with lots of gold and goodies. I took possession of same and promptly renamed her "Shue Bocks".

I've been sailing the Shue Bocks for some time now and, other than the fact that she's slow as the doldrums and takes a mile of open water to turn in, she's not a bad ship... although if I could double her gun allotment it would help immensely.

I've attacked many a merchantmen and trade galleon, plus quite a few Spanish Treasure Galleons. I have also successfully taken on barques, brigs, War Galleons, and Fast Galleons, as well as a few sloops, sloops of war, and one royal sloop. That last one (a Spanish Pirate Hunter) shot my hull up pretty good and took out most of my sails, to the point that I was literally dead in the water. If he had chosen to bombard me until I sank, I would have been a goner. However, he made the extremely unwise decision to board me instead, which means my vastly superior swordsmanship ruled the day.

I don't know what will happen when it's time to face my arch-enemy-cousin, the Marquis Montalban de Paloma. Time will tell.
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Airsaw · Rigger Posts: 1840 **3281 Gold** -

Hey Luiz! Good to see you once again. I hope with all your sailing skills you'll be showing us how to float a fluyt! Well met, indeed, skipper!

Don: I shudder to think. You know he'll maneuver and shell until he's deemed you boardable, which he counts in heads, not sailability. So, that swordfight better be short, and sweet. I was toying with the idea of forgoing the pleasure, but now I have a sinking suscpicion you WON'T which would mean YOU'D stand a good chance to win this thing! Plus, the max crew of 125 with hammocks will make it a sore challenge, indeed. Argh!
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Luiz · Cutthroat Posts: 380 **2182 Gold** -

I will try a game using the Fluyt and see how it goes.
What year did you start and what rank ? Journeyman ?
Smooth Sailing

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