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Avelon
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Vagabond

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UW:NH Dream Team - 2008/08/08 19:28

I've sailed the oceans of UW:NH for quite some time now, and many sailors have come and gone, like the tide, sweeping into my fleet for a moment, only to drain back into the endless sea. Like the sandy beach, I remain, contemplating the infinite waters before me. I find myself returning, again and again, to the same question...

...what is the perfect team of captains? I've played with most of them, and more than a few are complete idiots. I've trained them ad nauseum, but there are some sailors who just can't captain a boat no matter how great their stats and navigation levels are.

So, which 6-8 (depending on scenario) vagabonds or beat-hires do you all prefer?

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Cervantes
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Re:UW:NH Dream Team - 2008/08/21 11:42

Well, most of the mates can easily get good seamanship stats if you have them for awhile. So what I look for is good starting strength, courage and the gunnery skill. Good pick include Salim (Ali's story), Antoine Fistch (also doubles as bookkeeper), Gus, Miguel Solis, Diego, Aloiji, Jacob and especially Cizzaro: he's level 1/1, with seamanship in the high 60 or low 70, gunnery skill, strength and courage of 70 and also has Celestial Navigation. He would be among the best at the beginning.

I am playing on snes, so I am not sure this can happen on all systems, but I have been able to recruit commodores after I defeated their fleet. They can be find at the bar and instead of saying: "I'm comodore... I sail with a such country battle fleet" , they now say: "I'm a vagabond sailor. Up to now, I have not only been able to pick up a Louis from Portugal (level 17/17) but also the Pirate Iden Leis (level 17/31). I think it would be great to catch pirate al-Kadim with his 41 battle level!!

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webrv

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Re:UW:NH Dream Team - 2008/08/22 21:45

matthew loy (otto's FM) - gunnery

First mate:
(usually just the starting unique char for each player)
*Nicolo Montagna
*Patric Toman

Bookkeepers:
*Antoine Fitch - good sailor/captain/bookkeeper/FM
*Jacob Walweik - (backup when *Antoine sails) Jacob can't sail a damn thing even at lev9 navigation. Still hoping ..

Gunners:
*Lawrence Edwards (expensive to hire with his neg. skill)
*Miguel Solis (..neg. skill)
*Amerigo Bassio
*George Eggel (Pirate;good sailing. Holland area)
*Ivan Soledad (Pirate;Stockholm?)

No skills:
*Alonzo Oreida (always join early)
*Fritz Ramsey (just cus he's italian/genoa/cheap 10)

In general most ppl just grab whomever they can until they get stuck at 30captains, but i've been trying something new with a replaying of otto's campaign (as diplomacy is slightly different) over the past year.
i'm very stingy with salaries, so much that i'd not hire some ppl.
Its more a research project of sorts.

At any rate, if i do get leis or khar my first move would be to put them on a dinghy and sailing into the very first storm!
(yes, you can hire captains by sinking them - any version)

Post edited by: webrv, at: 2008/08/22 21:52

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