The General Pooter Games Thread.

[Psychosplodge]

Spent the weekend being a pirate again, schooners now fall to a single ram which is helpful.
And acquired heavy shot, which means hunting frigates is stupidly easy, unload a Heavy broadside into them, two swivel mount shots, cross their T unload second broadside, then two more swivel shots and usually the third broadside puts them into boarding condition, only the first is heavy.
Took up capturing forts and frigate hunting in the east.
Definitely more profitable than the northern waters I'd been raiding last time.

[eldargal]

Wait until you get south with all the men o' war floating about full of lewt.

Got my mother and aunts playing Tomb Raider, so funny watching them flail helplessly during some of the scripted scenes at the start where Lara is falling and getting injured and whatnot.

[Psychosplodge]

orly?
If frigates are this easy now, maybe a Man-o-war will be a challenging but achievable feat? maybe in a fortnight when I'm at the wenches again I'll have a sail south

[eldargal]

Yeah they are a bit tougher, really damaging broadsides, lots of armour and mortars which necessitate lots of course changing. You also start to see tougher convoys with a man o'war and two or three frigates and that sort of thing. Not impossible but it makes for some fun encounters. Found any of the legendary ships yet?

[Psychosplodge]

I've had one attempt against the one in the far northwest, which didn't go well, and I've got the map symbol visible for another in the north east.
Assume the other two are equally positioned in the south?

[eldargal]

From memory yup. I managed to sink one but finished the campaign and stopped playing before finishing the rest.

[Psychosplodge]

Campaign? pffft I have no interest in the campaign, this is the closest yet to the pirate game I've been waiting years for.

[eldargal]

Yeah but I got bored just sailing around taking pirate ships also I think you need to progress to a certain point to unlock certain ship upgrades.

[Psychosplodge]

Yeah, I can't get the diving bell yet.
Discovered if you swim onto a stationary ship, kill all the crew then attack with your ship it goes straight to boarding and you just have to destroy the flag.

[eldargal]

Yep and you need the diving bell to get schematics to unlock more upgrades.