Poor_Lagged_Man.
Hell At Tampico
« on: October 8th, 2001, 5:52am »
After Seeing no point to attempt to bombard the towers covering the entrance I am entering for they are out of range, I send my men forward. 267 Marines armed with Muskets or manning one of 6 cannons commanded by 4 fine officers walk steadily up the dirt road towards the fortifications before them. Instead of trying to keep them in one big mass to get them through the outer wall I ordered them to head straight down the road and up to the goveror's mansion surrounded by inner walls. Passing a number of stunned civies they moved up into range of the deadly turrets. They have to get by multiple turrets bearing 7 total mortars facing towards the entrance. When they get close to the entrance a eager grenadier at the top tosses his present. Boom! Then simaltaneously, all 7 turrets open up on the marines. In an instant 30 marines, the entire front section, fall. By the time the cannons are up and in position and firing at the turrets the second morar rounds fall. Rippin' apart the cannons and incineratin' the crews and several nearby marines. They beat there way past defiant soldiers and militia takin heavy losses from grenades and mortar fire from inner mortars. Still over 100 marines were still scrambing past the outer walls being mortared all the way. Trampling over each other to get to the promised saftey of the Governor's yard. 3 of the 4 officers are lying on the road riddled with shrapnel. As the last survivin' officer makes it up the road he's blown apart by a grenade. Struggling by each other, climbing over dead buddies, and beating their way past flimsy defenders, all the while listening to the death screams of comrads, wounded and dying, trampled under the masses of delerious marines, the explosions of cannons and mortar rounds as they rock the ground and disembowl soldiers and buildings, the clanking of cuttlasses as they eagerly slash at each other, the banging of muskets aimed just feet from their targets, terrible mortar rounds rip through the struggling masses of humanity, A perfect hell on earth, perhaps never to be equaled, nor ever to be serpassed. Nor will ever leave the minds of the 52 survivors for the rest of their life.
And all for a $100 increase in their share.
Balhatain
Re: Hell At Tampico
« Reply #1 on: October 8th, 2001, 6:59pm »
arnt' that dramatic.... brings a tear to me one eye....
reminds me of the time that I blew one of me sloops up as a last resort to take down a galleon that was a hunting me, loved that ship I did... the galleon I mean not the sloop but it was either that or a prison cell.......yes, yes, says I to a two sloop fleet, one for sacrifice and the other for escape when such a situation occurs.
Poor_Lagged_Man.
Re: Hell At Tampico
« Reply #2 on: October 8th, 2001, 9:19pm »
Take care of your men it hurts to lose so many of em' fer a measly 40,358 Pesos.
Black_Susannah
Re: Hell At Tampico
« Reply #3 on: October 8th, 2001, 10:59pm »
Stirrin' stuff PLM! Let us know more of yer adventures as they 'appen.
I well remembers when I lost a sloop full o' gunners an' marines (no pesos though!)... the rascally gossips reckoned as how they saw a black parrot, much like me own dear companion Blackcheeks, a-flyin' earlier towards the site o th' explosion wit' burnin' fuze-wire in her beak... 'Twas only coincidence that later that week I divided tons o' plunder wit' me five remainin' men, I tells ye!!
Balhatain
Re: Hell At Tampico
« Reply #5 on: October 8th, 2001, 11:08pm »
Susannah your a pirate after me own heart... and im sure if in' ye get it, it twas rotten to the core before yer blade ever severed it from me rum filled belly.......har... which reminds me I need to pay a visit to the gentry in Charleston....they have not heard the last of ole' Bloody Charleston.......aka Lead Belly.
Poor_Lagged_Man.
Re: Hell At Tampico
« Reply #6 on: October 8th, 2001, 11:16pm »
Thats not the worst loss of life i've had fellas. Once when I first got the game and had no sense and pressed every bum I ran into it.... I had one galleon and a sloop. I had all my marines and gunners (and 20 tons of ammo!) on the galleon (about 1500 men in all!!) and I just let the sloop trail behind. Anyway one mornin' some greedy merchants tot they could take on a galleon. So I decided ta show them. However, as soon as I got wiffin range they blew a nasty volley on my ship. Boom!!! About 1500 killed in a split second. Not ta mension the loss of the galleon and half my horde, then the merchant boarding and capturin' my sloop and me bein thrown in prison for a year. I never made that mistake again...
Balhatain
Re: Hell At Tampico
« Reply #7 on: October 9th, 2001, 12:18pm »
twas no merchant ship that got ye mate............. to much rum it was. ye must have been seeing double of your crew I says.....an that merchant musta been a packed galleon......har......... but I says rum up for the one anyways.......
Capn_Crash
Re: Hell At Tampico
« Reply #8 on: October 9th, 2001, 10:53pm »
'Twas a mighty fine yarn ye spilled, Poor Lagged Bastid! Me likes it, me does! R'minds me o' th' last tyme I sacked Santiago, when 3 o' my cannons were blown ta bits by Dons' turrets an' 'bout 30 good men breathed their rum-stinkin' dyin' breaths there. Always good ta hear a good pyrate tale, says I!
Poor_Lagged_Man.
Re: Hell At Tampico
« Reply #9 on: October 10th, 2001, 1:01am »
I could takes Havana on my first day. Shes so easy. All ya have ta do is blow up her Governor's Mansion.
Easy Money and easy goods
I tooked:
86 tons of food
56 tons of rum
96 tons a sugar
131 tons of cocoa
83 tons a fruit
79 tons of livestock
34 tons cotton
143 tons of salt
92 tons spices
119 tons of timber
102 tons of hides
124 tons of luxeries
So what is this? over 1,000 tons of goodies. This is one of the hardest parts of MY Pirate Career.... Leaving things behind! I could divide here but then I wouldn't have that good feeling of sliding that lil thing fer sellin' goods. So I buy some ships from the harbor only ta discover I don't have enuff crew for one of 'em. So I have to give away a brig to the governor. The Luxeries I'm obviously loadin' up first. then the cocoa and tobaco, and after that I realize (unfortunantly) men need to eat. So I load up a couple dozen tons of food, rum, and all. Then I poots some spices and sugar on. So I takes off leavin' 35 cannons, piles a weapons,
50 tons of food
31 tons of rum (I've recieved death threats for)
54 tons of sugar
32 tons of fruit
39 tons of livestock
143 tons of salt
119 tons of timber
and 102 tons of hides
And here I coulda pressed some sailors earlier for that brig I gave away.
Cpt_Limey_Bastard
Re: Hell At Tampico
« Reply #10 on: October 10th, 2001, 1:15am »
LEAVIN' STUFF BEHIND! Are ye mad, mate?? I oughtta keel-haul ye meself, boy!!! Try this : if yer plannin' on pillagin' a rich / large town, secure a few ships along the way, press what sailors ye need to to sail 'em. After ye successfully install yer own gov'nor, SELL the sh!t ye don't want, i.e crap that just weighs ye down. Keep the luxuries and spices, furs etc to sell in Tortuga or other rich towns that already belong to ye. Once ye do all that, ye can load all the extra hands ye picked up along the way, put 'em all in one boat, pick a fight wit a pirate hunter, sail that boat ( click on 'fire ship' icon as you do this) toward's her and you an the rest of yer crew can 'ave a belly laugh while they fight fer their worthless lives hahahahahah Me name ain't Limey fer bein' friendly to pressed men!!!
SupaJames
Re: Hell At Tampico
« Reply #11 on: October 10th, 2001, 2:10pm »
Harr, Limey's got the idea. An' why stop at pressed men? Just get on a longboat, transfer your command to a sloop with 3 sailors and a captain, (which just happens to have every peso you've sto..err...earned aboard) and blow the rest'a yer fleet to the hell an' back. You'd be amazed what over 100,000 pesos for captain's shares can do for yer fame when you divide...