The Edward Lowe Challenge/Valentines Day Massacre

[Achilles]

Superb Edward !!
Great event turnout , I'm happy for you Mate!

Pretty Polly!!,..,.. fantastic job M'Lady!
Handy Lady to have around should the blasted EITC keep hanging around Tortuga the way they have been! (hmmmm...?)

Many Mcraging did great... Kudos to the Guild's honor!
contrats to Swash II, Agile, Senile & Hostile - Rackat good work gang,..

Most excellent in keeping excitement in the game.


Combatlizzy,.. so very sorry to hear about your Captains circumstances, please send word of prayer support
from ol' Achilles, I am a nobody, but I know the one who knows everybody!... Lord's blessing to all involved in your Captains difficulties.

[Edward Edgemenace]

Originally Posted by Maximvs

Congrats to a very successful event and to all the winners of the "heartbreak ridge" V-Day Mass. hehe

Originally Posted by Achilles

Great event tournout , I'm happy for you Mate!

Thanks guys - I have to agree it was a splendid success. Extremely fierce competition on the waters today. I've a feeling there may be a rematch next month...


I noticed several interesting tactics that were not obvious beforehand. Ships with smaller crews fared far better at a speed and aim. (The ship I was sailing was blinding fast with crew of 2, molasses slow with crew of 8. All my broadsides misses were when large crew was aboard.)

I was also surprised that war sloops fared as well as they did. It was a race after all. Even though I had to stop the war sloop for most targets to take a second, third and sometimes fourth broadsides shot, the ship speed made up the difference. When I've done this in a war galleon, I rarely - if ever - have to take a second broadsides shot...but crawling too slow to the next target makes more of a difference, apparently.

Lastly, I found that with two or more people, calling out the number of ships sunk in crew chat after every ship sunk, helped keep count tremendously. With cannonballs-a-flyin' it is much tougher than one might imagine. I was very pleased to see that nobody brought their ship into port with only 99 ships sunk!

Thanks again to everyone who sailed today! Well done!

[akamystic]

Congrats to all!!