Ruby Arch: Where the brigands are Ultimate and the players used to be. You don't want to let them shoot you repeatedly, but with the relative size of cannonballs, it's not a big deal if they shoot you once, since you'll do more damage by ramming them back. Because of the damage done by ships that are larger than their opponents in a ramming, if you can hit the brigands with your brig, you'll go into the swordfight with a much greater advantage than if you simply let it grab you. That's *exactly* what you should do, though number 1 is something you have much control over, it certainly helps if you're a good swordfighter. Losing track of what crew/flag he's on todayĪctually, nuroticfish was being helpful. but even so this post is still more helpful than those other two wiseacres Of course, I was also doing this while memming with nothing on board but a couple barrels of rum so I didn't care if I won or lost I just wanted to get it over with. If they get within cannon range of you but can't get close enough to grapple that turn, they'll shoot, so if you see that they're going to end up at that range throw in a token to get out of the way. If you have more than 1 human, so much the better.īrigands try to grapple ASAP, so just sit there and let them move in. I didn't carry shot or bother loading the guns, and I knew we wouldn't be generating enough tokens to avoid them, so I figured it was best to go straight to SF and count on my advantage of being a human to overcome their advantage of numbers. Stop me if I'm wrong (I'm probably wrong) but in my limited soloing experience vs brigands, the best thing to do is to just sit there like a flaccid flounder and let them grapple. Using your starting 8 tokens, since you're not getting any more, ram whatever engages you if you can (shoot 'em too if you want to pack shot) Senior Officer, Six Leagues Under, Heavens Alignedįleet Officer, Sweet Pillage and Mayhem, Cobaltīest way to solo anything bigger than a cutter:Ģ. If you must do it yourself, I recommend you bring at least one other pirate, and have all hands working on the drinking puzzle. Order a midshipman to do it, and go have a drink in the Inn.