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Can active officer's NOT board?

M

Maturin's Eunuch

Landlubber
Sorry if this has been brought up many a time, but my forum surfing can only be described as inept in very polite circles.

Anyway, I have recently `re-installed` POTC and then Build 12, which has completely reformed the game for me, quite a spectacular mod. Onto my problem:

When I used to board a higher rate ship than my own in unmodded POTC, I'd always quickly remove my officers from active 'duty' and then grapple so as to avoid their untimely deaths. This was a pain to do, and still is. Is there ANY way of boarding a ship without my overweight, yet highly able master gunner throwing himself into the middle of the fray and getting skewered? I simply cannot save him in time, mainly since I can't get around the various skirmishes.

I have a few high melee skill officers who are very useful, but it's a major annoyance to me to swap out officers and lose substantial accuracy and reload bonuses even for a second.

Thanks.
 
I've never played build 12, but in build 11 you could talk to your officers when you were on land. One of the options when you talked to them was to tell them to sit it out when you were boarding vessels.

That will keep them from getting killed, but it wont put in your good melee officers automatically. Instead you just get some random guys from your crew to fight along side of you. Their stats (I think) depend on how happy your crew is, number of crew versus enemy crew, etc.
 
Thanks a lot for your help - I see that option on one of my three officers, maybe this function is not for 'quest gained' officers? As I have the Gunner from the prison and also the random lubber who wanders around Redmond or some such early on in the game.
 
Ye can also remove yer Officers te yer passenger list an that will prevent them from board'n next time,ur like he says,talk te em an tell em te stay behind <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/par-ty.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":cheers" border="0" alt="par-ty.gif" />
 
Eunuch,

Yeah, I think you're right. You can't talk to the "special" characters. Only the ones that you hire from the taverns.

I used Rys Bloom (the lubber from Redmond) as my gunner. He kept getting killed during boarding even when I maxed out his melee skill. He just didn't have enough hit points. I couldn't talk to him to get him not to board because he wasn't from a tavern. That kind of sucked.

I guess you'll have to remove your gunner before boarding. That or hire a gunner from a tavern. And order him not to board.
 
Thanks again - I have found a good way of keeping the gunner alive in that one of the passenger slots allows him to board right next to me, so I can kill my foe and his, then cross the boarding ramps. AI controlled officers are very slow at doing this and I can usually hack the opposition down before he gets close. It's still quite hard to save him on lower decks, but not impossible.

He's starting to annoy me with his drinking binges so, hopefully I'll find a better or similar 'random' gunner and throw him overboard.
 
Get Fred Bob fer an Officer,he whacks everything an anything gets in his way,almost indestructable <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/par-ty.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":cheers" border="0" alt="par-ty.gif" />
 
Heh, yes, Fred Bob is de best! <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/icon_mrgreen1.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":cheeky" border="0" alt="icon_mrgreen1.gif" /> He's also got really decent stats.

Something that should help your boarding officers - be sure to give them good blades and good guns and LOTS of healing potions...

I'd like to fix all those `quest-hired` officers so that you will get the `tavern-hired` officers dialog... I did it for Fred Bob... Maybe one day... <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/yes.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":yes" border="0" alt="yes.gif" /> <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/par-ty.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":cheers" border="0" alt="par-ty.gif" />
 
Where can ye 'ire Fred Bob? <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/icon_eek.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":shock:" border="0" alt="icon_eek.gif" />
 
Ye can hire him On FD,talk te Orval at port,he will tell ye about good boatswain fer hire ,<img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/par-ty.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":cheers" border="0" alt="par-ty.gif" />
 
Hee hee, have fun, 8Q, you'll love my Fred Bob quest - Fred Bob did a great job of translating from English into Fred `Bob-speak` all his dialog - which is absolutely wonderful! <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/par-ty.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":cheers" border="0" alt="par-ty.gif" />
 
Ohhh. Thanks <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />
 
Aye mate,ye will enjoy have'n Fred Bob aroun',he can save yer bacon at times plus he be given ye a cool quest <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/par-ty.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":cheers" border="0" alt="par-ty.gif" />
 
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