Bugger me an actual game rather than me whining on about how crap I feel.
I know right.
In my previous post I pitted three bold Captains against each other in a bid to prove who was the bestest pirate in the Indian Ocean. The winner would be whoever came back first from Danger Island with the largest share of buried treasure.
Here are the ships that will be headed to glory or disgrace:
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The Mardy Mare whose Captain Black Taff Llewelyn has a fearsome all female crew. |
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The good ship Spatchcock with its Captain Handsome Jack and his Bosun (who is also his mom) Big Nell. |
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The Cutty Wren Captained by the insomniac ornithophobe - Richard Tully. |
Our game starts as the three ships arrive at Danger Island from conveniently different directions.
Setting the scene:
Big Nell was not in a great mood. Her son Neville, Captain of the Spatchcock, had got all caught up in some hare brained hunt for gold, and the crew, sensing impending danger, had seemingly now gone off their vittals. Snatching up a tray of week old macaroons and a large plum duff the doughty Bosun made her way up the companion way to the deck with a view to tossing the whole lot overboard.
On the Cutty Wren, Tully’s crew watched anxiously as their Captain took pot shots at a following albatross. “Sail ho!” Cried the look out, just in time to throw off his aim. Tully cursed the occupants of the crows nest and gave up shooting to focus his perspective glass on the horizon. A twin masted brigantine struggling against the wind was ploughing through the swell towards their shared destination…Danger Island!
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Brigantine on the horizon. Ship ho! |
Broad reaching, several leagues to Starboard, the Mardy Mare sliced like an arrow through the sea. The ship was going fast. Far too fast! Désirée the first mate had the con and it was obvious from the set of her shoulders that she was in a right strop over something Black Taff Llewelyn had said or done earlier, (though he was buggered if he knew what it was exactly). Downcast he watched Danger Island draw closer…we’ll he hoped it was Danger Island anyway. Truth was he’d become lost shortly after leaving port but he’d be damned if he was going to ask any of the vessels they’d passed for directions.
The game:
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Turn 1. The Spatchcock fires at the Cutty Wren but the range is long and the shots go wide. |
So there we have it. The bestest pirate in the Indian Ocean is officially Handsome Jack, second is Black Taff Llewelyn and last and definitely least is Richard Tully.
Altogether now… (Don’t forget to slap your thigh and twirl your moustache). Huzzah!
Conclusions:
Galleys and Galleons delivered another fun game - and could have seen the win stolen by Tully at the very last minute. In actual fact I used the wrong tactics for the Cutty Wren, she had deadly close range falconettes and better boarding modifiers than the others. In hindsight the pinace would have been better served keeping close to one of the other ships and pouncing on them when they’d found something.
Hey ho.
Toodle ooh for now.
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