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How do i capture a colony, i read about 10 other threads and they all said, to attack the fort then make a land invasion. But how do i attack the FORT, when i get near the Holland fort, all i see is em shooting at me, and the option "Sneak", is do i sneak into town and just kill everyone? Can any 1 clear this out for me please.
 
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How do i capture a colony, i read about 10 other threads and they all said, to attack the fort then make a land invasion. But how do i attack the FORT, when i get near the Holland fort, all i see is em shooting at me, and the option "Sneak", is do i sneak into town and just kill everyone? Can any 1 clear this out for me please.
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Shoot at the fort with your cannons until it blows up... About 10-15 broadsides with a ManOWar should do it. Then when the fort is blown up you get to bring your men in and fight the soldiers. After you've fought the soldiers you get four options (depending on why you attacked the fort) The options are to pillage, raze, capture for a country (only if you're on a mission to do so) and capture for yourself (if you have an available crew member).

If you choose to capture the town, then all countries declare you a pirate and wage war on you, it can get pretty messy so make sure you are prepared.
 
I found that with only 2 Lineships I did not have enough to capture the Tortuga fort. I found that it dropped by about 300-500 soldiers after the bombardment. Sail away for a few days and come back and it will drop a lot more. Maybe down to 900 total but still too many. Go away for a about 4 days and the fort is rebuilt but minus the men you killed in the initial attack. Destroy it again and keep doing that until it gets down to what you can handle. For me that was 300-400 soldiers. The odd thing is the big drop off after a day or so of the fort falling. Kind of like they are elsewhere rebuilding rather than defending the fort. I still think that attacking forts is broken at the moment though. Why can 900 soldiers not fire 11 remaining cannon at you???
 
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I found that with only 2 Lineships I did not have enough to capture the Tortuga fort. I found that it dropped by about 300-500 soldiers after the bombardment. Sail away for a few days and come back and it will drop a lot more. Maybe down to 900 total but still too many. Go away for a about 4 days and the fort is rebuilt but minus the men you killed in the initial attack. Destroy it again and keep doing that until it gets down to what you can handle. For me that was 300-400 soldiers. The odd thing is the big drop off after a day or so of the fort falling. Kind of like they are elsewhere rebuilding rather than defending the fort. I still think that attacking forts is broken at the moment though. Why can 900 soldiers not fire 11 remaining cannon at you???
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Try attacking the fort with grapes... Preferably after you've knocked down some cannons... And if you have trouble getting close enough, just make sure you're facing the ford broadside from afar, load bombs, use the sail to option and fire away immediately. When you've knocked down some cannons, change ammo to grapes and when you've killed enough men, switch back to bombs, and finish off the fort. And for the best effect yust keep rotating your ship in one direction (Sails up) while attacking the fort.

Hope this was helpfull.

P.S. You have to eliminate all enemy ships first or there won't be the sail to fort option.
 
the best way at the start is shoot bombs on the fort till its blows then sneak to the town and buy soldiers and then land troops there are also usful abulities that increases the health of your soldiers and ther fighting abilities skilfull crew and fighter officers also help very much
 
For some reason, when ever I sneak into a port nowadays I'm automatically under attack. It started just after I became the leader of the pirates.
 
That's annoying, I'm having serious crew problems. I've been having to wait for like a month just to fill my corvette...
 
Well, you can always try to attack smaller ships and take their crew... <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/unsure.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":?" border="0" alt="unsure.gif" /> or haven't you got enough men atm to make them surrender?
 
I do have enough to do that, but I desperatley need soldiers and after doing that I keep finding that I have lost more than I've gained. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/dunno.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":shrug" border="0" alt="dunno.gif" />
 
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try to sail to some island that is far away from where you are now
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Why?
 
becouse after you hire crew in island you have to wait a lot of time untill there is a new crew to hire but there is plenty of crew on islands you havent been yet(and havent hired the crew from there)
 
The problem is that when you are the Pirate Leader you can't get crew in other place than Isla Mona because the man in the Taverns outside Isla Mona afraids of you and won't talk to you.
And I'm also stuck. After a long time I finally managed to get enough crew to fight in the Tortuga Fort.
I won but I couldn't capture the colony for myself because I didn't have free Officer. In Isla Mona there are now Officers right now and I can't get Officer from other Colony because the bartender won't talk to me. So my question is, if I'll wait for some time, there will be a new Officer available at Isla Mona? Because if not I'm stuck.
 
You can always use one of your assigned officers. Like your gunner. Remove him from duty and conquer the colony.
 
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The problem is that when you are the Pirate Leader you can't get crew in other place than Isla Mona because the man in the Taverns outside Isla Mona afraids of you and won't talk to you.
And I'm also stuck. After a long time I finally managed to get enough crew to fight in the Tortuga Fort.
I won but I couldn't capture the colony for myself because I didn't have free Officer. In Isla Mona there are now Officers right now and I can't get Officer from other Colony because the bartender won't talk to me. So my question is, if I'll wait for some time, there will be a new Officer available at Isla Mona? Because if not I'm stuck.
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about hiring crew in enemy towns if the inkeeper afraid then get away from him to some distance he will relax and stop beeng affraid and then approach to him when he turns around and cannot see you and talk to him

and you when you sneak to enemy town park near the island in the world map but not near the colony that the fort wont see you and then sneak to colony then the fort wont shoot at your ship and you will be able to tolk normaly to the inkeeper
 
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You can always use one of your assigned officers. Like your gunner. Remove him from duty and conquer the colony.
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The problem is I have just one officer, and he is a captain of a ship so I can't remove him from duty.
By the way, I had officer for fighting, but he never fought in any battle I had with other ships, so when I saw he does nothing I fired him.
 
well, tough, theres nothing to do about it then, no free officer, no colony <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/razz.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":razz" border="0" alt="razz.gif" />

fighting officers are more like your escort, body guards, they follow you. they also serve as backup if your crew is taking a beating, they can turn the tide of a battle to your favor. i once tried an experiment, i unassigned my fighters, and boarded a man o war, me and my crew got slaughtered by ease, however, i reloaded and added in my fighters, we won.
 
why just not sneak into any of the other colonies and hire an officer? any officer can be used to capture a colony
 
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