Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!hwcs!adrian From: adrian@cs.hw.ac.uk (Adrian Hurt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games Subject: Re: Pirates! How do you score? Message-ID: <2463@odin.cs.hw.ac.uk> Date: 6 Mar 91 14:12:47 GMT References: <24206@frog.UUCP> <1991Mar5.061156.7557@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Sender: news@cs.hw.ac.uk Reply-To: adrian@cs.hw.ac.uk (Adrian Hurt) Organization: Computer Science, Heriot-Watt U., Scotland Lines: 42 In article <1991Mar5.061156.7557@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> sss10@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Samuel S Sostre) writes: > >For nationality, choose which one? or does it not matter? I usually choose >English or Dutch. Probably doesn't matter, since you start off on reasonably good terms with everyone. >For time period, I dont think its a good idea to choose a very early one. If >you do, you wont see many non spanish governors which really sucks. However >is there 1 time period thats REALLY good pickings? I found the early one the easiest. At least, that's the one in which I ended up with the highest rank (Duke). There aren't many non-Spanish governors, until you start making your presence felt. By the time I had finished, there weren't many Spanish governors. >Why the hell is it so hard to saild from west to east???? and why did they put >vera cruz, villa hermosa and campeche so far away from anything else? :D Because the wind blows from east to west, sometimes with a northerly or southerly component added in. Your job is a lot easier if you stick to sloops and barques, especially if you have to visit Vera Cruz. Having said that, it can pay to keep capturing merchantmen, but sell them off as soon as possible. My standard cruise is to start at Port Royale, go east in a barque or sloop, raid Santo Domingo and/or San Juan if I have enough men, and unload and recruit at St. Kitts, Montserrat or Nevis. (I sometimes have a go at St. Martin and St. Eustatius, if England is at war with Holland at the time.) Then south to Margarita (which I usually capture early in the game). I am then set up for a nice cruise from east to west, plundering Spanish towns and ships along the South American coast, ending with an overland assault on Panama if I have at least 200 men, preferably 300. Finally I head north to Port Royale, sell everything except barques and sloops, and do it again. Of course, things change if there is a mission to fulfill or a noble to assault. You think Vera Cruz is difficult to get to? Try Gran Granada! "Keyboard? How quaint!" - M. Scott Adrian Hurt | JANET: adrian@uk.ac.hw.cs UUCP: ..!ukc!cs.hw.ac.uk!adrian | ARPA: adrian@cs.hw.ac.uk