taking over enemy ships....

[Devin]

Originally Posted by jmej06

Are you trying to capture luther? If you are then you don't have to board a ship you just have to sink a navy vangaurd ship.

Cool, thanks! That will help me alot.

Originally Posted by Captain Sea

Anybody know how to take over ships anyways I do not know lol.

~Cpt.Sea

On cannons, right click and look for the grappling hook. ONce it's released, it may or may not grapple to the enemy ship. If it does' you go to the other ship. You basically take out the crew of the enemy ship (I think...) COrrect me if I'm wrong on the last part.

[HaveAMagicalDay]

well, it never works with me any ideas on how to make it work?

~Cpt.Sea

[BoatBuilderBob]

Shoot the ship until it is weak enoguh and then 4 little green circles appear, once you have these switch to grapples and fire over 4, 1 for each circle and you will become bound to the other ship. Off the cannon, move to the edge of the gunwhale (edge of your ship, rail or what ever) and hit 'control' once you get teh prompt. it has recently begun to work.... HOWEVER !

Once aboard i usually end up sunk as either the ship I am on is sunk by others or my original ship goes down at the target ship contiues to fire...

I'll work it out yet

[Jack Sunshot]

Do you have to blow the sails off the ship to be able to grapple it?

[HaveAMagicalDay]

Originally Posted by BoatBuilderBob

Shoot the ship until it is weak enoguh and then 4 little green circles appear, once you have these switch to grapples and fire over 4, 1 for each circle and you will become bound to the other ship. Off the cannon, move to the edge of the gunwhale (edge of your ship, rail or what ever) and hit 'control' once you get teh prompt. it has recently begun to work.... HOWEVER !

Once aboard i usually end up sunk as either the ship I am on is sunk by others or my original ship goes down at the target ship contiues to fire...

I'll work it out yet

I never get the little green circles...

~Cpt.Sea

[crystalseeker]

I've found that the green circles come up once the sails have been shot down so that the ship can't sail away and the hull is damaged. Switch from the cannon shot to the grappling hooks (right click or use the scroll wheel on your mouse), and aim for the green circles. If your shot is successful, you'll see a rope slung between your ship and the enemy ship. The program will pull the ships closer. Exit your stance at the cannon and go to the railing like you want to exit the ship. When the ship is close enough, the program will indicate "Press Control to board enemy ship".

Once you're on board, a variety of things could happen. Fight the soldiers. Take over the helm (although once a soldier got back to the helm after I left it, and I was stranded on this enemy ship, unable to exit the ship or take back over the helm with soldiers that kept respawning ). Or get hit with a bug. We were most successful when we killed off all the enemy crew. We were immediately transferred back to our ship (reverse rope move) and the enemy ship sunk.

[saltwater]

I was able to grapple and board the ship. I battled all the guards and had to use the elixer to stay alive. When all the guards were defeated I was automatically put back on my ship and turned around to see it sink. Other times that I have done the same thing my healthy ship was sunk while I was onboard and then thrown in the ocean only to have a guard still attack me but I couldn't see him. The health bar for the guard was gaining its health back too. Strange. The game exited abnormally but I got some screenies to send to the Development Team.

[Jack Tree]

Thanks for the info..

[Autumn]

I think you can only board certain ship, and it seems to be the navy galleon and frigates. Try the ones that have the pirate flag above them, it works only some times. Then when your on board you get the "you've been sunk" message.....

[Ducky Wucky]

You can take over ships? I had no idea! Every time I kill the Navy guards on the ship, the ship always sinks. O_o


Arrr!
-Ducky

[Plo Koon]

Heh... There's a lot of times where I'll board another ship, and the crew are like in the high lv 20's, that can really suck on solo missions.

[Jack Sunshot]

Originally Posted by Plo Koon

Heh... There's a lot of times where I'll board another ship, and the crew are like in the high lv 20's, that can really suck on solo missions.

Thats why you take the crew out with your cannons(grape shot) before you board the navy ship. Its that much easier if you do it that way. No blood is shed(at least pirate blood, that is )