Holy smokes do not underestimate the new Spanish deaders!

[mongo]

I worked on the quest last night with a friend and then with a bigger crew as some of my guildmates were doing it too.

After reading here about clearing the decks, I gave it a shot (grape that is) and it made the ships very easy to take.

The sails came down on the sloops very easily and then they sat there. Then grappled, cleared the deck and boarded. Once on the ship, a few flaming skulls or someone using a doll mopped up the re-spawned crew pretty easily. If only the navy/eitc ships were this easy.

The trick seems to be to engage these ships from a distance (and being sloops they can't shoot directly forward).

But the Spanish ships seem to be giving good plunder (or better than the French).

And for the new islands, I have started to call them Porky's and Greedo's.