All Gold found at the vanquished Port is automatically looted. Fort Combat, a special version of Naval Combat, may take place instead of Land Combat in some versions of the game when a Port is attacked by sea.Īssuming the player manages to win the engagement, he'll be able to loot the attacked Port for as much Cargo his Fleet can carry. The game may skip Land Combat entirely if the player's force is significantly larger than the local defenders to begin with, going straight for the Fencing. Most commonly, Land Combat will begin between your Pirate Crew and the enemy Militia, culminating with a Fencing match between the two forces (assuming you manage to win the Land Combat at all). Next, based on the circumstances of the attack, the game will determine which mini-game(s) will be played to determine success in the attack. Depending on the version of the game, the option to attack the Port may present itself each time you try to enter any Port, or it may only be available if certain conditions are met (as explained in the version-specific sections of this article, below).
The next step is to reach the target Port and attempt to enter it. The decision of which Port to attack rests primarily on the Port's Wealth and Population (with higher values indicating a more lucrative target), and the proportion between the number of defenders and the size of the player's Crew (the more men you have, the easier it will be). This is done by examining known data about Ports, possibly acquiring more information from Travelers encountered in Taverns, or even visiting potential targets to scout them out. The first step in a Raid is of course to select your target Port. Attacks on these Ports may cost the lives of many of your men as well, if successful at all. While smaller Ports may be easy to attack with as few as 100 men, it may take a much larger crew to defeat a large, wealthy Port such as Havana or Santo Domingo, which sometimes have nearly 1000 defending soldiers. Therefore, the more Gold and Cargo a Port has on-hand to be looted, the harder it will be to successfully defeat its defenses to get the that loot.Īs a result, players tend to attack Ports only once their own Crew size has grown considerably. In addition, Ports are often defended by fortifications ( Forts), with a large array of cannons to defend from both sea-borne and land-borne attacks. Especially-wealthy Ports can have a defending force of several hundred men - if not more. Each Port has a force of local militia, whose size is often proportional to the wealth of the Port. Naturally, attacking a Port can be riskier than attacking an enemy ship. This makes Ports exceptionally valuable targets for the player to attack. Ports usually have more gold on hand than any other target, and particularly-wealthy Ports can net more rewards than the largest enemy ships.
The most lucrative targets in the game, aside from Buried Treasures and Lost Cities, are by far the many Ports scattered around the Caribbean. However, over time the loot taken off enemy ships becomes minor compared to the potential of the player's Fleet and Crew, and rich targets such as Galleons are few and far between. In a game of Pirates!, the majority of action is often centered around Ship-to-Ship Combat: chasing and capturing enemy vessels to get a hold of their cargo and gold, increasing the player's assets and wealth.
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