Now Boarding, Party of One....

[Steely Jim]

I've never been denied the ability to board once I had my grappling hooks attached to the other ship; however, I did like to lob grenades over to the other ship sometimes, after waiting for some of the other mobs to start coming out and wandering around their deck. They don't seem to be coming out as much anymore anyway, and I also had something happen once that made me want to quicken my pace when other ships are around.

One time I had done all the damage to enable a flagship for boarding; I got the green circles, but I started to take out the masts and some crew before I connected my grappling hooks. There hadn't been any other ships around, but sure enough someone sailed up and started shooting at the ship I had taken out. I wasn't too worried because I had taken out the entire red bar (hull points) on my own; however, the other guys shots were reducing the blue bar (sail points).

Imagine my surprise when suddenly I could no longer see the green circles that had been there, and a few seconds later I see that the ship I had taken out was being boarded by the other guy. Ever since then, I've always been quick to grapple and never had any problems; I guess now I'll be even quicker to board. There's no rep in taking out mobs on ship decks anyway; it's just good for aiming practice for long volley.

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We didn't have 20" of rain certainly, but since it was all day yesterday and this morning it makes conditions at several of the golf courses I play at very unpleasant. In any case, my friend's wife vetoed the plan, so I ended up just hitting a bucket of balls at the driving range with the guy that didn't back out.