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<p><img src="http://www.piratesahoy.net/images/stories/potc.gif" border="0" align="right" />In the year 1660, Portugal had been at war with Spain for over twenty years. Once one of the main superpowers on the high seas, Portugal was now a part of the Spanish Empire. Struggling for independance, the Portuguese government handed out many letters of marque in an attempt to turn the tide. It is in this world in turmoil that Bartolomeu decided to leave his beloved country and take his chances in the New World. Little did he know that he would soon become the most famous Portuguese pirate in history, feared by the Spanish and hailed by his countrymen.
Welcome to Part 2 of the Build 14 Alpha 9 Preview series. This article will go more in-depth on one of the several completely new storylines available that will be available to you in "Pirates of the Caribbean: New Horizons</p><p>{phocagallery view=category|categoryid=28|limitstart=10|limitcount=1|detail=0|overlib=3|displayname=0|displaydetail=1|imageshadow=shadow|float=right}<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 100%"><em><strong>THE BARTOLOMEU MAIN QUEST</strong></em></span></p><p>This main quest describes the life of a Portuguese pirate in the Caribbean who came from Europe in 1660. Bartolomeu o Portugues starts his career as captain of a fast barque working for Eugene Martin, the merchant of the Buccaneers camp, selling smuggled goods. After leaving Eugene, he will meet Roxanne Lalliere, a female French pirate and together they will attack the warehouses of Santiago de Cuba. Later, working for the Portuguese governor, Bartolomeu will arrest Nathaniel Hawk, an English pirate and will steal his ship, a fast</p><p>{phocagallery view=category|categoryid=28|limitstart=8|limitcount=1|detail=0|overlib=3|displayname=0|displaydetail=1|imageshadow=shadow|float=left}He will also have to capture a Spanish light galleon and afterwards he will get her back by a trick in the harbour of Santo Domingo. The Portuguese pirate will free his crew from a hanging in Havana thanks to the help of William Klein, an English Pirate. Together, they recover the 'Santiago' and kill an old enemy, the Spanish mercenary Pedro Rivera. Finally, he will go in search of a strange Indian statuette in the company of François l'Ollonais, the famous French Pirate. For this last mission, he will penetrate at night into San Juan, Puerto Rico. </p><h4>{phocagallery view=category|categoryid=28|limitstart=9|limitcount=1|detail=0|overlib=3|displayname=0|displaydetail=1|imageshadow=shadow|float=right}<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 100%"><em><strong>THE REAL BARTOLOMEU O PORTUGUES</strong></em></span> </h4><p>Bartolomeu de la Cueva, nicknamed o Portugues, was a Portuguese buccaneer who attacked Spanish shipping in the late 1660s; he also established one of the earliest sets of rules popularly known in pirate lore as "the pirates' code", later used by the pirates of the seventeenth century such as John Philips, Edward Low, and Bartholomew Roberts. Arriving in the Caribbean sometime in the early 1660s, as did many others during the decade, Portugues lived among the buccaneers in Hispaniola for seven years. Afterwards, he operated off Campeche from 1666 to 1669. He later captured a larger Spanish ship with his barque of four guns and a crew of thirty, off Cuba, after two assaults with over half his crew killed or wounded. With a total of 70,000 pieces of eight and a large cargo of cacao beans, Portugues attempted to sail towards Jamaica; however, due to strong winds, they were unable to return to Port Royal - instead sailing for western Cuba. As the ship reached Cape San Antonio, they were captured by three Spanish warships sailing from Mexico to Havana, who seized their cargo. Soon after, a severe storm forced the ship carrying Portugues and his men to return to Campeche where he was later recognized as the leader of a band of pirates who had ravaged the Yucatán coast. Captured by the authorities and as he had previously managed to give them the slip, he was kept aboard the ship as they erected a gallows in the town. But during the night, he attempted to escape by stabbing the sentry with a stolen knife, and because he supposedly could not swim, he used wine jars as floaters to swim to shore. </p><p>{phocagallery view=category|categoryid=28|limitstart=11|limitcount=1|detail=0|overlib=3|displayname=0|displaydetail=1|imageshadow=shadow|float=left}Travelling through over 120 miles of jungle, Portugues arrived at El Golfo Triste in eastern Yucatan and found a ship to take him back to Port Royal. Returning to Campeche with a canoe and 20 men, the Spaniards didn't recognize him. They must have thought he was smuggling contraband trade from the town and did not stop him. Portuguese captured the ship in which he had been held prisoner and sailed off with a valuable amount of cargo although all the gold had been removed. The ship soon ran aground near Isle of Pines off the southern coast of Cuba, losing the entire cargo. With his remaining crew, Portugues returned to Port Royal before setting out once again. He joined the Morgan's fleet and very likely died in 1672 when he was in Cuba. As Alexander Exquemelin wrote in Buccaneers of America, he "made many violent attacks on the Spaniards without gaining much profit from marauding, for I saw him dying in the greatest wretchedness in the world."</p><h4><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 100%"><em><strong>IN THE GAME</strong></em></span></h4><p>The main quest starts out in Pointe a Pitre, one of the new towns in the game. Although based on the stock game Conceicao location, it has been thoroughly reskinned and remodeled to look new and interesting. Note also the new soldier skins for the Spanish Main period being used here. </p><table border="0" width="800" align="center"><tbody><tr><td> {phocagallery view=category|categoryid=28|limitstart=0|limitcount=8|detail=0|overlib=3|displayname=0|displaydetail=1|imageshadow=shadow}</td></tr></tbody></table><p>
{phocagallery view=category|categoryid=28|limitstart=12|limitcount=1|detail=0|overlib=3|displayname=0|displaydetail=1|imageshadow=shadow|float=right}As is quite obvious from the screenshot on the right, Hendrick Vanderdecken isn't quite your usual character. As the historical captain of the Flying Dutchman, he is now retired but still maintains a profitable business in selling cursed ships. Vanderdecken will be your go-to guy for getting ships that are otherwise unavailable, including quest ships like the Black Pearl, Flying Dutchman, HMS Interceptor, HMD Dauntless, Endeavour and others.
But remember... <em>there is always a price to be paid in the end...</em></p><p>
We hope you enjoyed this preview. Be sure to check out the Bartolomeu o Portugues Main Quest Trailer on our <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6RHHHuq0jk" target="_blank">YouTube Account</a> too.</p><p>This is Part 2 in the Build 14 Alpha 9 Preview series. Part 1 showed you some of the new interfaces and loading screens and contained some images on the addition of the United States of America into the game. Check out the <a href="http://www.piratesahoy.net/game-news/new-horizons/235-build-14-alpha-9-preview-part-1.html">previous edition</a> if you haven't done so already.</p>
<a href="http://piratesahoy.net/game-news/new-horizons/239-bartolomeu-o-portugues-storyline-preview.html" target="_blank">View the full article</a>
Welcome to Part 2 of the Build 14 Alpha 9 Preview series. This article will go more in-depth on one of the several completely new storylines available that will be available to you in "Pirates of the Caribbean: New Horizons</p><p>{phocagallery view=category|categoryid=28|limitstart=10|limitcount=1|detail=0|overlib=3|displayname=0|displaydetail=1|imageshadow=shadow|float=right}<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 100%"><em><strong>THE BARTOLOMEU MAIN QUEST</strong></em></span></p><p>This main quest describes the life of a Portuguese pirate in the Caribbean who came from Europe in 1660. Bartolomeu o Portugues starts his career as captain of a fast barque working for Eugene Martin, the merchant of the Buccaneers camp, selling smuggled goods. After leaving Eugene, he will meet Roxanne Lalliere, a female French pirate and together they will attack the warehouses of Santiago de Cuba. Later, working for the Portuguese governor, Bartolomeu will arrest Nathaniel Hawk, an English pirate and will steal his ship, a fast</p><p>{phocagallery view=category|categoryid=28|limitstart=8|limitcount=1|detail=0|overlib=3|displayname=0|displaydetail=1|imageshadow=shadow|float=left}He will also have to capture a Spanish light galleon and afterwards he will get her back by a trick in the harbour of Santo Domingo. The Portuguese pirate will free his crew from a hanging in Havana thanks to the help of William Klein, an English Pirate. Together, they recover the 'Santiago' and kill an old enemy, the Spanish mercenary Pedro Rivera. Finally, he will go in search of a strange Indian statuette in the company of François l'Ollonais, the famous French Pirate. For this last mission, he will penetrate at night into San Juan, Puerto Rico. </p><h4>{phocagallery view=category|categoryid=28|limitstart=9|limitcount=1|detail=0|overlib=3|displayname=0|displaydetail=1|imageshadow=shadow|float=right}<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 100%"><em><strong>THE REAL BARTOLOMEU O PORTUGUES</strong></em></span> </h4><p>Bartolomeu de la Cueva, nicknamed o Portugues, was a Portuguese buccaneer who attacked Spanish shipping in the late 1660s; he also established one of the earliest sets of rules popularly known in pirate lore as "the pirates' code", later used by the pirates of the seventeenth century such as John Philips, Edward Low, and Bartholomew Roberts. Arriving in the Caribbean sometime in the early 1660s, as did many others during the decade, Portugues lived among the buccaneers in Hispaniola for seven years. Afterwards, he operated off Campeche from 1666 to 1669. He later captured a larger Spanish ship with his barque of four guns and a crew of thirty, off Cuba, after two assaults with over half his crew killed or wounded. With a total of 70,000 pieces of eight and a large cargo of cacao beans, Portugues attempted to sail towards Jamaica; however, due to strong winds, they were unable to return to Port Royal - instead sailing for western Cuba. As the ship reached Cape San Antonio, they were captured by three Spanish warships sailing from Mexico to Havana, who seized their cargo. Soon after, a severe storm forced the ship carrying Portugues and his men to return to Campeche where he was later recognized as the leader of a band of pirates who had ravaged the Yucatán coast. Captured by the authorities and as he had previously managed to give them the slip, he was kept aboard the ship as they erected a gallows in the town. But during the night, he attempted to escape by stabbing the sentry with a stolen knife, and because he supposedly could not swim, he used wine jars as floaters to swim to shore. </p><p>{phocagallery view=category|categoryid=28|limitstart=11|limitcount=1|detail=0|overlib=3|displayname=0|displaydetail=1|imageshadow=shadow|float=left}Travelling through over 120 miles of jungle, Portugues arrived at El Golfo Triste in eastern Yucatan and found a ship to take him back to Port Royal. Returning to Campeche with a canoe and 20 men, the Spaniards didn't recognize him. They must have thought he was smuggling contraband trade from the town and did not stop him. Portuguese captured the ship in which he had been held prisoner and sailed off with a valuable amount of cargo although all the gold had been removed. The ship soon ran aground near Isle of Pines off the southern coast of Cuba, losing the entire cargo. With his remaining crew, Portugues returned to Port Royal before setting out once again. He joined the Morgan's fleet and very likely died in 1672 when he was in Cuba. As Alexander Exquemelin wrote in Buccaneers of America, he "made many violent attacks on the Spaniards without gaining much profit from marauding, for I saw him dying in the greatest wretchedness in the world."</p><h4><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 100%"><em><strong>IN THE GAME</strong></em></span></h4><p>The main quest starts out in Pointe a Pitre, one of the new towns in the game. Although based on the stock game Conceicao location, it has been thoroughly reskinned and remodeled to look new and interesting. Note also the new soldier skins for the Spanish Main period being used here. </p><table border="0" width="800" align="center"><tbody><tr><td> {phocagallery view=category|categoryid=28|limitstart=0|limitcount=8|detail=0|overlib=3|displayname=0|displaydetail=1|imageshadow=shadow}</td></tr></tbody></table><p>
{phocagallery view=category|categoryid=28|limitstart=12|limitcount=1|detail=0|overlib=3|displayname=0|displaydetail=1|imageshadow=shadow|float=right}As is quite obvious from the screenshot on the right, Hendrick Vanderdecken isn't quite your usual character. As the historical captain of the Flying Dutchman, he is now retired but still maintains a profitable business in selling cursed ships. Vanderdecken will be your go-to guy for getting ships that are otherwise unavailable, including quest ships like the Black Pearl, Flying Dutchman, HMS Interceptor, HMD Dauntless, Endeavour and others.
But remember... <em>there is always a price to be paid in the end...</em></p><p>
We hope you enjoyed this preview. Be sure to check out the Bartolomeu o Portugues Main Quest Trailer on our <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6RHHHuq0jk" target="_blank">YouTube Account</a> too.</p><p>This is Part 2 in the Build 14 Alpha 9 Preview series. Part 1 showed you some of the new interfaces and loading screens and contained some images on the addition of the United States of America into the game. Check out the <a href="http://www.piratesahoy.net/game-news/new-horizons/235-build-14-alpha-9-preview-part-1.html">previous edition</a> if you haven't done so already.</p>
<a href="http://piratesahoy.net/game-news/new-horizons/239-bartolomeu-o-portugues-storyline-preview.html" target="_blank">View the full article</a>
