Holy smokes do not underestimate the new Spanish deaders!
 

As I was sailing to investigate the new islands, a 28 spanish warsloop spawned off my port side. I instantly hit it with abroadside and all cannons hit its starboard side and barely dented it.

It hit me with a broadside of firebrands as well as 3 lightning shots and took me warfrigate to half life :O

as it showed its backside to me I manned the cannon while my broadside was recharging, as I can usually take out sloops before they turn around on the cannon... but my cannoneering was barely scratching it as well. As it came back around I tried to avoid its broadside and failed miserably... Broadside number 2 sent me to the bottom.

Be very very careful if you see them :P

I'm looking forward to seeing how tough their land units are!

Here it is right after it spawned off my port and I hit it with the first broadside.

http://members.cox.net/hellebore/meanspanish.jpg

LOL I can relate. I was taken down for the first time in a long time on my war galleon. I had a lvl 23 Crow take me with Explosives!! Yes, explosives....I dont care, Im still like a kid in a candy store :)

Haha glad its not just me cought by suprise! I loved it too :D

Did you talk to the people on the french and spanish islands? It looks like some big battles are coming and we can sign up to take part for a side :P

Yeah, I even picked up the quest From Orinda De La June on Tortuga dock. Havent done anything but pick it up though. Heres my thread on my demise. Had a blast (no pun intended):

http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/f...ead.php?t=5351

I will be back later...with reinforcements!

Those ships will have many spawns of undeads when we board them so the best strategy after we disable them is to NOT board them immediately but fire grape shots at the spawning undeads until the clock down to 20 second or less. With this strategy we will only have to deal with less undeads when we board them. Remember that the easiest ship is Shadow Crow, the medium is Cerberus and the hardest is Blood Scourge. The last one will spawn undead lieutenant/pirata and capitaine/captain and will be as hard as Colosus.

So far I havn't seen any deader crew that isn't grey, staff makes quick work of them. Hopefully I'll see some bigger ones soon :D

Only one I haven't went up against is the Blood Scourge. Looks like a challenge though. I went after the others solo on my war sloop. That was fun! I really can't wait to see them add the rest of the story to the French vs. Spanish battle. Seems like Davy Jones will be involved as well.

Those are some tough ships. :) I got the Shadow Crow, No Problem, the Cerberus took some extra hitting, but the crew was tame. Now on to the Blood Scourge, think I'll be needing a crew for that one :)

Blimey! Gadflies be look'n at a real challenge now! Tonight we set sail!

took em all down other then the scurge, boarded it with vodoo doll i had 2 guys left to kill and had only one potion with me, so went down ,staff might have been a better choice for the scurge crew. but all def fun

their weakness is their sails, took down all the sails of a level 17 flag today with 1 lightning hit.

Thanks Ironhawk. I've tried three times to solo the bugger and have died each time. Getting a litter further each time though...

Last attempt was bugged though, the re-spawns ran off the bow and were out of range of everything. I seemed to be well in range of them however, and they once again kicked my tush right to jail.

One more solo try for me, then I'm waiting for my guildies to get on line :)

LOL Give me a few and I'll get angel to take them for a spin. Still cant use hunter yet :(

Wowzas, they took on Snorri... they may be almost tough enough to almost be a challenge.

Got It!

After I grappled the ship, I waited for the timer to go down to about 30 seconds, all the while lobbing nades and taking out the skeles. Broke out the staff, took them out quick, and didn't have any spawns. Nice. Thanks again Ironhawk for the tip.

Now on to the French.... muhahaha