<b>Black Barts war Storys no:2</b>
Ok this was a weird one - i screwed my installation up somehow, but it led to a rather awesome ship encounter.
I was at the stage in the main quest where you have to help the french captain and his ship defect to the british. No problem, its useally a breeze - if the wind is wrong it can be tough, but you usualy make it away to safety.
Well not this time. First time i happily jumped on board the french frigate(if thats what it is?) and i was ready for some large ship fun(i usualy stick to my little ships, so its a rare treat for me).
I got about 500 yards from the fort before being totaly sunk - masts gone(well the bow-sprit was left), smoke and flames billowing out across the sea, bits of hull and cargo flying all over the place! And when i went into the deck view i couldn't actualy see anything due to all the flame and smoke - and yes i'd done about 4 firedrills already!
Soooo that was interesting - ok the wind wasn't great(about 12knots) so i decided to hang around abit in Oxbay and wait for the weather change(remember my tip about watching the grass to tell how strong the wind is?). went for a beer as waiting around the back of the pub with a spy and a french officer isnt my style - so i found a dark corner in the pub and time passed in idle conversation/dice games/staring at the barmaids...snip!(i guess?).
I would pop out now and then to see how the weather was - and eventualy got what i wanted. wow that grass was going crazy - all over the place, dancing like a banshee - perfect! Well as long as it was going in the right direction!
I saved then tried putting to sea again - hurray! wind heading northish by eastish(proper pirate terms i swear!) at a brisk 30knots - perfect. Now i'm out of here i thought triumphantly. 1000 yards away and i'm looking in puzzlement as this beast of a ship plows at quite a rate into the sea, "maybe it just wants to be a submarine?" was the last statement from the first mate.
Now i'm noticeing that all the french ships+fort are using bombs on me - bombs! i tell ye! what the h**k!
i tried around 10 times, then i just couldn't play it anymore so had a go at making some item icons.
I'd got sunk(big style) everytime, then had to air my shame on the bug thread(look i thought it must be a new beta7 bug ok - easy mistake!). Turns out my game was all messed up - bombs were back which isnt normal(thank god - they were way too lethal in the better ship-ship/fort-ship combat!!).
So i dont know what pirate knowledge i gleaned from this little(well medium - it had me for a day or two, stuck and feeling sorry for myself) episode - but i'm very suspicious of the 'I' key now(it changes your names back to the defaults! horrors! at the very least) but most likely i just forgot to install prebuild13.....or beta6 before 7, or maybe 12.1(full)??? Still bombs are bad - there can be no doubt about that <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/razz.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="
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