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Flying Dutchman and some screens

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Landlubber
Ahoy!

Knowing that there was some sort of discussion about sinking the dutchman on first encounter I've decided to give it a try. Now I can confirm that it is possible without any cheats (vanilla game; impossible lvl; 15th rank). Battle was long but not so hard using a good strategy (and dumb AI?). I simple brought the dutchman as close as I could near the Marigot strong bastion (world map), then (sea mode) waited some time until it engaged in a fight with fort for good. After this I commanded my second ship (warship) to attack and in the end joined myself with an upgraded frigate. The dutchman has been sunk and my logbook got updated. Now some screens...

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logbook update
http://img43.imageshack.us/i/start2010072301582606.jpg/
http://img818.imageshack.us/i/start2010072302055360.jpg/

... and some screenshots in HD - for fun... (can't play like this since there is no font scalling)... sry for .jpg format

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Odd. I'm sure the Dutchman was supposed to be "Immortal" until you "uncurse" it through the quest.
Do you have the mods installed? They possibly alterd certain things that changed it's ability to be "immortal". I know when i engaged it to test i used god mode and such and with 6x speed on blasting it to peices it would never sink!
 
Nope, no mods at all - clean vanilla game. You've probably lacked of firepower or weren't too patient. Take a note that first screen has been taken at 1:28 game time (the dutchman has already suffered critical sails and crew damage which took some time) and second is 4:40 (4:36 logbook update).

Edit: As logbook states 'encounter' lasted since 12 February 16:59 till 13 February 4:36.
 
Whats the point sinking the Dutchman? :shrug
She is one of the best heavy ship in the vanilla game-easily destroys any MOW or fort not to mention she has very good speed and manuverability...
As far as I remember she shoots like the devil him(her)self-scoring criticals after criticals so sinking her well.... :onya
 
Aye!

Maybe this "curse" where you need the black pearls and such is to "uncurse" the Dutchman and make her Boardable?
Cause i know that you can't board her when she's cursed as i have tried!

Although congrats on sinking her lad, but it may have been a mistake as she is a amazing ship (But the only downside is that her masts fall easily)
 
Greyfoot said:
Whats the point sinking the Dutchman? :shrug
She is one of the best heavy ship in the vanilla game-easily destroys any MOW or fort not to mention she has very good speed and manuverability...
As far as I remember she shoots like the devil him(her)self-scoring criticals after criticals so sinking her well.... :onya
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You see, the thing is that the dutchman crew is immortal because of the curse (or because they are terminators) but the ship is not indestructible (crew is cursed not their ship :] ). Talking to drunks they say something like "when ship is damaged its crew take it to land and repair it". Which means ship can even be sunk but its crew will repair it anyway. Now I've just collected 666 accursed pearls and I'm going to take the dutchman for myself (yes, first time it was unboardable). My point was not to be sunk!!! :]

Also...
Thanks Prelacter! As I stated before it was not so hard, stil the dutchman hit hard so I had to reload a few times :p
 
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