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Captain Python's Historicaly Accurate Game List

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Captain_Python

Rogue Scholar
I have decided to make a list of most and least Historicaly Accurate Game. The smaller the rating on a game, the less it is historically accurate.

7)<u>Pirates of the Burning Sea</u>
This game is the most historical game I have seen out on the market. After the game gets fixed up after it's release, the Internet world of play will be the best example of what the world was like, and what the ratio of pirates to legal operations ships are.

6)<u>The Port Royal Games & Tortuga </u>
While I have not played these games, while investigating them, they are better off than others in accuracy.

5)<u>Captain Blood</u>
While studing this, the game seems very close to the book. I have read the book, and the book is 75% accurate, so the game should be pretty good.

4)<u>Sea Dogs</u>
While this game is very off in time period (it would fit better in 1700, not 1600), Not using pistols or muskets as weapons, menchioning historical places like Cadiz in the game, and other details like this makes it good. But there are many details like the amount of pirates that are in the game, the ships they are armed with (A `100-gun` Pirate!?), and what ships that were available to players makes it a low rating.

3)<u>Pirates! 2</u>
This new game seems to look like it will be very steriotypical, with oversized cutlasses, treasure, and the like. But at least the time zone will probably be the same. The ships don't seem promising either.

2)<u>Pirates of the Caribbean</u>
This game is worse that it predisesor, due to it includes skeletons, and including flintlock pistols at the time of 1630 is not accurate. It has the same problems as Sea Dogs, but has a small decrease in how much pirates have big ships, and the amount of pirates.

1)<u>Tropico 2</u>
This game is the worst of the worst. about 60% of it is steriotypical. There are characters in there like Long John Silver and Captain Hook in there, who are just fiction story characters. But things I see adressed in it is that brothels and prostitution were a big part of pirate life, and slavery was too.

While this list can change over time, the bottom 4 are very close together, and are almost tied for all 4 places. All except #7, all the games are very close in the race for being the least historically accurate. Most pirate games are just out there to get profits. Sad isn't it?
 
<!--QuoteBegin-Captain_Python+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Captain_Python)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Most pirate games are just out there to get profits. Sad isn't it?<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->Which is why they're called games, and not teaching aids...

I think people who are - ground level - into historical reenactment are really among the best as far as historical accuracy is concerned because we CARE about portraying our little segment of history CORRECTLY. Unfortunately profit tends to get in the way of THAT on occasion, too.

In the group of people who do the Southern California Renaissance Pleasure Faire, it was all about historical accuracy as much as we could make it - for a long time... But what with rising costs of insurance, liquor licensing, security, and other problems, the faire was losing money - so things changed - and not for the historical, either... It's disappointed a lot of us, but since we are not "in charge", there's not much we can do except break off and do the smaller faires and keep the history alive in that way...

The breakup of such a `close-knit` group (mainly breaking up in disgust over how the Faire is being run and the breaking of historical traditions in favor of things that are more "commercial") is truly distressing. People used to come from near and far to participate in this Faire of ours, and now they stay closer to home, so we don't see old friends as much as we'd like...
 
It is sort of the same thing for us in Civil War reenacting. Except that Civil War reenacting is one of the biggest (if not the biggest) time period reenacted in the country, and even internationaly. Estimations on how many reenactors there are out on the field are between 50,000 and 150,000, probably somewhere in between. But out of all the reenactors, only half attend 2 or more events, and about half of that are actually historically correct. In Civil War reenacting, we organize ourselves into groups, and each group is sort of like a club, with money dues, presidents, elections for officers, and so on. In these groups, you have a better chance for historical accuracy than men who are independent. But there are some events out there that are just out there to gain a profit, and let any reenactors in. At my last event, I saw a man dressed in a Kepi (which is only for officers, he was a private) and a pair of blue sailor's pants (of that time period). One problem with the reenacting market, over half of the companies that make the reproduction stuff is not correct. Most of these companies are in for the profits. These companies that are called "Sutlers" go to events, set up tents, and sell their stuff. While few reenactors are tricked into buying thing unless shure of it's correctness, it mainly targets unknowing spectators.
I understand though that for those doing time periods before the Revolutionary War have many problems in finding proper clothing. I am guessing hte Renaissance people have to either make their own clothing or have to search for that one person that might make a proper one.
 
Damn you Confederates!!! We kicked your asses in Vietnam and we'll do it again. <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="xD:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" />

*shakes angry fist*
 
<img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/keith.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":keith" border="0" alt="keith.gif" /> KevO's been playing Battlefield Vietnam recently, I see. Don't mind him, Captain Python, he's `dinky-dau`. <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="xD:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" />

I was just viewing the movie "Gettysburg" again - it's out now on DVD and I want to get it to replace my ratty old VHS tape with all the commercials...

Have you read "Killer Angels", Captain Python? Or any of Jeff Shaara's books? I read KA LONNNNNNNNNNNG ago before they were talking about making it a movie, and thought it was excellent. Jeff has done a credible job "taking up the mantle" his father left behind when he died.
 
Maybe Kev0 meant Antitam? Then again I don't know much about it either.

And Capt_Python, I won't hold it against you, it's not your fault, not everyone can be a Texan. <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/icon_mrgreen1.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":cheeky" border="0" alt="icon_mrgreen1.gif" />
 
In Reply to Cat:

<img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/bookish.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":mm" border="0" alt="bookish.gif" /> I have read all three books in the Shaara series. Out of the two books put in movie form, Gettysburg is by far closer. I suggest picking it up and reading. You will see the movie in a whole new light. Reading the book after the movie is like watching the movie again, except they `re-shot` and `re-edited` about a third or half of it.

In Reply to DeCuervo:
It's Antietam, which is the bloodiest day in American History. And for being a Texan, I love Texas. Out of all the Confederacy's States, the Texas troops were the most unique, most known, and considered one of the few groups of elite troops in the Army of Northern Virginia, competing with the Stonewall Brigade. If you had a army of New Yorkers, Texans, Wisconsinites, and Virginians, I think that would be the best army in the field, especialy for that time period.
 
<!--`QuoteBegin-Captain_Python`+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Captain_Python)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Gettysburg[/quote]You mean, <i>Killer Angels</i>? Excellent read! I read it long before they did up the movie Gettysburg, and have `re-read` it many times since.

I like the movie Gettysburg, thought the major actors did a fine job, and so did the `re-enactors` who comprised a lot of the extras.

Jeff Shaara's "Gone For Soldiers" about the US war with Mexico is *excellent*, I think surpassing his other works by far.
 
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