Arrrr! This be the personal ships log of none other than Black Henry Scarlett of the Swashbuckling Pirates!
We set sail in January, the year of our good Lord 1656, from our haven of Tortuga. The good shipwrights and carpenters of the haven were hard at work researchin the secret of Royal Ships, for we had judged that our Pirate Flagships, devil-scuttlin though they be, could use some reinforcements. However, it looked like our research would take some considerable time.
I decided that the extensive archipelago on which we found ourselves was clearly a place of delicate geopolitical balance, with a number of powerful factions striving for dominance. Unwary decisions could have catastrophic and unforeseen consequences. Bearing this in mind, I summoned the men and nary a swarthier, more cut-throat crew did you ever see and announced a massive invasion of the Spanish haven of Santiago. Arrrrrr! cried the cut-throats, as they streamed from Tortuga and Crooked Island. Along the way we were ambushed by treacherous pirates under rebel command: they sunk many of our ships, including a Flagship! I vowed that I would shave their bellies with a rusty razor for this. The other minor incident during our attack was an unexpected message informing us that the Dutch had declared war on us. However, I judged that the tulip-loving dandies posed little threat, and continued the attack on Santiago, which fell like the swooning governors daughter with the first attack. Huzzah! A Spanish Treasure-Keeper attempted to flee the mayhem, but was cut down by a Buccaneer, who commandeered his booty.
Meanwhile, a British naval contingent was intercepted, resulting in the capture of more booty. This was returned to our haven and the money used to hire more Buccaneers. Huzzah once again, and grog all round!
As we prepared to marshall our forces to continue the assault on Cuba, the French unexpectedly declared war on us. This was more serious, as the garlic-munchers occupied much of the island on which our base was located. Our Buccaneers marched overland to Port-de-Paix, but were unused to this cowardly land-based attack and were repelled. A greater force must be built up before the French can be booted off Haiti.
Ten weeks into our adventure, and Cuba was ours! The Spanish resistance crumbled before our brave lads, as a combination of amphibious assaults and the commandeering of the islands road network led them to victory. Meanwhile, our fleet, battered by assaults from rogue pirates and the imperial powers alike, regrouped and changed tactics. A series of daring raids upon passing ships resulted in the capture of enemy shipping, which was press-ganged into service; also, considerable booty was captured and returned to Tortuga. Here it was used to buy more grog, with which our men were bribed to hurry production of dockyard improvements, for better ships, and to hire many mercenaries. These were unleashed to attack the other Haitian settlements, leaving only Petit-Goave still to fall. And fall it will, my pretties! In the meantime, our attentions turned to Heneago and the Cayman Islands, havens of the rebel pirates: capturing these prizes would remove our rivals for mastery of the Caribbean Sea and allow us to continue our good Christian work of relieving the local governors of their material woes in relative peace.
...here the manuscript breaks off. However, the old chest is in considerable disarray and may yield further log pages...
Problems discovered:
Theres something not right with the animation on some of the LHs. Also, the LH pcxs don't match, so that everyone looks wrong on the Foreign Advisor screen.
There are no pedia pics for the Pirate Captain, causing game-crashing tendencies.
Im not sure that all the building tree is correct. I was told I could build a Game Hunters, even though I had no Sugar Plantation, contrary to the pedias claim that the latter was required for the former.
Having such high HP for the ships means extremely long ship battles, as they plug away at each other! It might speed things up to give them more normal HP.
Other than these, it's all splendid fun with a lot of detail. It could certainly use polishing on the pedia front. Also, it would be good to change some of the text: instead of "That's it! Prepare for war!" it would be fun to say "Arrr! Prepare to be boarded, ye scurvy scalliwags!" or words to that effect...
We set sail in January, the year of our good Lord 1656, from our haven of Tortuga. The good shipwrights and carpenters of the haven were hard at work researchin the secret of Royal Ships, for we had judged that our Pirate Flagships, devil-scuttlin though they be, could use some reinforcements. However, it looked like our research would take some considerable time.
I decided that the extensive archipelago on which we found ourselves was clearly a place of delicate geopolitical balance, with a number of powerful factions striving for dominance. Unwary decisions could have catastrophic and unforeseen consequences. Bearing this in mind, I summoned the men and nary a swarthier, more cut-throat crew did you ever see and announced a massive invasion of the Spanish haven of Santiago. Arrrrrr! cried the cut-throats, as they streamed from Tortuga and Crooked Island. Along the way we were ambushed by treacherous pirates under rebel command: they sunk many of our ships, including a Flagship! I vowed that I would shave their bellies with a rusty razor for this. The other minor incident during our attack was an unexpected message informing us that the Dutch had declared war on us. However, I judged that the tulip-loving dandies posed little threat, and continued the attack on Santiago, which fell like the swooning governors daughter with the first attack. Huzzah! A Spanish Treasure-Keeper attempted to flee the mayhem, but was cut down by a Buccaneer, who commandeered his booty.
Meanwhile, a British naval contingent was intercepted, resulting in the capture of more booty. This was returned to our haven and the money used to hire more Buccaneers. Huzzah once again, and grog all round!
As we prepared to marshall our forces to continue the assault on Cuba, the French unexpectedly declared war on us. This was more serious, as the garlic-munchers occupied much of the island on which our base was located. Our Buccaneers marched overland to Port-de-Paix, but were unused to this cowardly land-based attack and were repelled. A greater force must be built up before the French can be booted off Haiti.
Ten weeks into our adventure, and Cuba was ours! The Spanish resistance crumbled before our brave lads, as a combination of amphibious assaults and the commandeering of the islands road network led them to victory. Meanwhile, our fleet, battered by assaults from rogue pirates and the imperial powers alike, regrouped and changed tactics. A series of daring raids upon passing ships resulted in the capture of enemy shipping, which was press-ganged into service; also, considerable booty was captured and returned to Tortuga. Here it was used to buy more grog, with which our men were bribed to hurry production of dockyard improvements, for better ships, and to hire many mercenaries. These were unleashed to attack the other Haitian settlements, leaving only Petit-Goave still to fall. And fall it will, my pretties! In the meantime, our attentions turned to Heneago and the Cayman Islands, havens of the rebel pirates: capturing these prizes would remove our rivals for mastery of the Caribbean Sea and allow us to continue our good Christian work of relieving the local governors of their material woes in relative peace.
...here the manuscript breaks off. However, the old chest is in considerable disarray and may yield further log pages...
Problems discovered:
Theres something not right with the animation on some of the LHs. Also, the LH pcxs don't match, so that everyone looks wrong on the Foreign Advisor screen.
There are no pedia pics for the Pirate Captain, causing game-crashing tendencies.
Im not sure that all the building tree is correct. I was told I could build a Game Hunters, even though I had no Sugar Plantation, contrary to the pedias claim that the latter was required for the former.
Having such high HP for the ships means extremely long ship battles, as they plug away at each other! It might speed things up to give them more normal HP.
Other than these, it's all splendid fun with a lot of detail. It could certainly use polishing on the pedia front. Also, it would be good to change some of the text: instead of "That's it! Prepare for war!" it would be fun to say "Arrr! Prepare to be boarded, ye scurvy scalliwags!" or words to that effect...
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Oh well, going into v1.2 (with other stuff just said on this thread)
