[LaPharaonDeFille]

When I first got the grenade quest, I was nervous because I'd read all the posts on how long it takes and that you keep dying, but I think I figured out a better way to do it. Really, the difficult part is collecting all the items from fort storage containers, and that's what I did more easily.

To sail to Kingshead and Padres (if you can't teleport yet), use a light sloop (if you sold yours long ago like I did, buy another for these trips). Try to level up your full sail skill and you can easily outmaneuver the big ships and arrive safely.

Next, for all the Kingshead raids, don't even try to defeat the guards in the courtyard. You will only be able to get 1-3 storage searches before dying or having to run away, and this takes way too long. Instead, make sure you have full health and then once you go through the gate, run along the dirt path through the courtyard, up the hill (past the little town place), and up the stone fort stairs.

This top level of this is in a circular shape like the top level of Fort Dundee in Padres, only more complex and with a bridge to another portion in a different stone pattern. There will be veterans and officers up here, but don't fight them unless they attack, and if more than one heads your way, run around the circle until they forget about you.

Keep going around the circle until you have searched all the storage containers. You should get between 5-10 items from these containers. The more I ran around, the less guards there were and it got easier.

Next, go across that bridge in the different stone and take on the two containers in the square shape. Then, take on the single guard in the turret thing and that container at the base of the slope. Head up the slope and take out the officer, then his container. Keep going up and you will get to another fort location that's a mix of layouts. There will be high level guards, thugs, and mercenaries here, but you should be able to get another three items.

If your health runs lows, max out tonic use, then run away. I got all my items in about one and half circuits of this path without ever dying, and I did the same thing for the next set of items. I just repeated this strategy in Fort Dundee as well, and I never died once.

I hope this helps some of you :-) (Jane Truefoote in game)