Thats the one and thats the problem! My wife kept beating me with tinylittle english hips. I was spain and had the huge 5 masted ones! It was bullshit!
Phil
Yeah. Two ways to win the game. Get the majority of the gold, or pound the enemy into submission. One guy I played had loads of tiny ships, and loads of events. So my huge ships which moved one small length/large length were constantly being "becalmed" and could not goddamn move, while his little shitty ships picked up loads of gold, then put it on a random island, then he built a giant fort and stopped doing anything.
So. I move towards fort, it destroys each ship as it comes into range as I couldn't move and fire. That was the -worst- game of the ones I played, and they were -all- bad.
Then again getting shouted at for actually firing on the enemy was one of the lowest points.
The little models are nice though, my mother loves them. Stopped me throwing them all away (have a gigantic British fleet and about £150 worth of pirate fleet).
Edit: Dihenydd, if you want to try the Pirates ships I'm sure I have some spare (
so much money wasted ) that I'd be happy to give away.