Well, since I figured everyone would build fleets with sea monsters, I decided to build a sea monster hunter. I originally tried using La Charlamagne, but I couldn't fit on a "shoot at submerged ships" crew, so I decided on the Prussian Crown. I loaded on Jimmy Legs, Palafico and Empress to fill my diversity quotient, and then added Griffin (links to Empress) for my captain and to provide a reroll on ram and board rolls. A helmsman allows my monster hunter the needed speed to catch those nasty critters. Add in an oarsman and Gaspar Zuan to allow everyone to fit on board. Jimmy Legs will easily provide 3 extra actions (oarsman, Palafico, and Gaspar) and I've got the Lord Mycron combo (LM + Robinson + HMS Patagonia) to provide another extra action each round. Favor of the Gods brings me up to 49 points leaving one point to add in Jolly Mon to use as bait.
I'd get rid of Favor of the Gods and use those two points somewhere else. Think about it: any good player would know to drop on Mermaids when the time is right to strike. By the time you get to use Favor of the Gods, Prussian Crown will be hurt too much to do any good.
I like how the Prussian Crown is set up. Pretty good ship, and I rarely ever consider using her. This ship is definitely a whaling ship.
Just one thing: Jolly Mon is so small and insignificant, I would never go after it as bait. HMS Patagonia on the other hand, that looks tasty. Thats who I'd go after first and take LM out of the equation.
I like the straight-forwardness of this fleet. No hiding abilities, no thousand extra moves. Its just a pretty this is how it is fleet. I like that. You get points for that. Reminds of the good old Crimson Coast days. Defensively, I think this fleet is week though, compared to the other challenge fleets.
Though, I think it goes against the whole spirit of Biological Diversity that I think darrin had hoped to encourage in this challenge. You're playing the whole "I'm Human therefore top of the food chain" card with this fleet.
Though, I think it goes against the whole spirit of Biological Diversity that I think darrin had hoped to encourage in this challenge. You're playing the whole "I'm Human therefore top of the food chain" card with this fleet.
Not really. I definitely had Empress in mind when I was thinking about the challenge. My original idea was to encourage more Sea Monsters, particularly the sharks. I completely forgot about Palafico, though... I'm not sure what I was thinking when I added half-humans, probably just trying to be obstinate to myself.
After my "Kill the Doctor" fleet won the last challenge, I thought a monster-hunting fleet might likewise do rather well.
A canceler is actually much more powerful than a "shoot at submerged" ability, and does the same thing. Le Charlemagne + Lenoir would work well, although to add non-human pirate crew you'd have to add Dumas. Hmm... not a bad idea for a fleet, though.
I really liked the Lenoir on La Charlemagne concept, but I just couldn't get it to fit on a competitive build with Empress, and I really wanted Empress. With Dumas, Empress and Lenoir, there is no room for even a helmsman, much less a captain. My original construction was Dumas, Maccus, Palafico, and Empress. I could have traded out Palafico for a helmsman, but I still wouldn't have any way to handle submerged critters.
The Jolly Mon as bait was just a joke. I think actual sea monsters would find it quite a tasty morsel.
An oarsman on the HMS Patagonia would be better use of the point (crew to sacrifice to a lost boarding roll instead of Mycron).
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