Hello,
On my current Hawk campaign, i joined a battle between english and french warships with my recently acquired Sloop .
In the course of the battle, my allies won (we had the number overwhelming the french fleet) , i was happy that my Sloop managed to sink an enemy damaged warship ( a corvette, the log mention 156 crew member died from this) and an enemy warship (a frigate) even surrendered.
After saving at that point to test around, i boarded one of the surrendered ship and noticed its captain hadn't surrendered and wanted a duel, seems like there was no other choice than accept.
This taught me i should have trained my melee skill more and should have invested in armor (and better weapon than i had) as the captain was barely hurt at each of my strikes and even despite Defense 1 , his slashes were noticably ignoring my blocks half of the time, killing me fast
So basically i'm nowhere near ready in term of level and melee equipment to take out such foe for now, so i'm left with a choice :
Leave the place with the loot i got already, or open fire and try to sink that surrendered warship with the hope to get more loot.
But then the question : is there a hit on reputation from destroying an enemy ship that had surrendered ?
I'm sporting the english flag and the english warships are still around, the "Art of War" manual does not refer to this specific situation in the "unrespectable act" section so i'm a bit clueless there to see if there's some consequence.
On my current Hawk campaign, i joined a battle between english and french warships with my recently acquired Sloop .
In the course of the battle, my allies won (we had the number overwhelming the french fleet) , i was happy that my Sloop managed to sink an enemy damaged warship ( a corvette, the log mention 156 crew member died from this) and an enemy warship (a frigate) even surrendered.
After saving at that point to test around, i boarded one of the surrendered ship and noticed its captain hadn't surrendered and wanted a duel, seems like there was no other choice than accept.
This taught me i should have trained my melee skill more and should have invested in armor (and better weapon than i had) as the captain was barely hurt at each of my strikes and even despite Defense 1 , his slashes were noticably ignoring my blocks half of the time, killing me fast
So basically i'm nowhere near ready in term of level and melee equipment to take out such foe for now, so i'm left with a choice :
Leave the place with the loot i got already, or open fire and try to sink that surrendered warship with the hope to get more loot.
But then the question : is there a hit on reputation from destroying an enemy ship that had surrendered ?
I'm sporting the english flag and the english warships are still around, the "Art of War" manual does not refer to this specific situation in the "unrespectable act" section so i'm a bit clueless there to see if there's some consequence.
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