Do you have a favoured port?

Captain Redbeard · Seaman Posts: 169 **1466 Gold** -

Do you have a favoured port?
What faction does it belong to and what's its name?
I consider Nevis my home port since I'm on very good terms with the Brittish and because that's currently the only port where I got a wife.
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jakethescot · Swabbie Posts: 105 **355 Gold** -

Believe it or not, I like Barbados, which I've renamed 'Hayle'. Each time I start a new game, I seem to spawn there more often than not. And, it seems like the governor's daughter is almost always beautiful. It's a long way to Vera Cruz, but I'm not in any hurry.

GO IRISH !!!

Wolfwood · Boatswain Posts: 2527 **33917 Gold** -

Favourite port is Barbados (they make the best rum!) and I most often retire there with whichever daughter I may have married (usually the better looking French beauty). Usually Barbados still belongs to the English at that point, since I don't sack that particular town in my games...

I always enjoy the feeling when, once retired, I become a governor and kick the old governor out of his mansion! Even when retired, I get to act like a pirate! Smile

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Captain Blood · Cutthroat Posts: 453 **6396 Gold** -

Port Royal.
Why? Because she's almost always a wealthy port and is close to both French and Spanish ports that are usually moderate to wealthy, and she's downwind from them all.
I can plunder away at ships, cities, whatever comes my way, sail until my ship is a floating pile of splinters, then sail with the wind at my back into Port Royal, get men, sell off the plunder, repair my ship(s), and get right back into action with almost no time wasted.
I am always Dutch now, I can't even think of the last time I sailed under another flag, but the English and the Dutch are almost always friendly at the beginning of the game so I can get in Dutch with both of them (groan) pretty quickly, then even when they go to war I stay neutral and can use either of their ports.
I get very rich, very fast, using Port Royal as my base of operations.
Actually, I start out over by St. Martin and I plunder and pillage the French over that way, thump up my crew, pick up a frigate or SoTL Worship

and Brig of War or Royal Sloop, thump them up on every upgrade I can get, then I sail West towards Port Royal and begin to make my fortune off of the French and Spanish in Tortuga, Santiago and so forth on the way. There is always a lot of plunder to be had in this area.
Formulaic, yes, but very profitable early on in the game.
And if I don't get a SoTL Worship

from the French over on the eastern side of the board early on in the game, I at least always get a Frigate I can thump up quite well until the French further West can spawn one.
So it works out very well for me early in the game, and then I can go after the named villians, named Pirates, rescue family members, romance governors daughters, find Lost Cities and Monty after I've got some money, a tried and tested crew, a SoTL Worship

and some rank.
Makes all these things a LOT easier to do if you've waited until you're equiped.
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yui108 · Powder Monkey Posts: 20 **296 Gold** -

Santiago- You can raid Spanish French and English Shipping from here...Spanish will put up with a lot of raiding if your duke, but the second you get a 1k bounty just pilllage french and british shipping for a little while.. The treasure ships you can get here are insane.

Captain Riddle · Swabbie Posts: 67 **2171 Gold** -

I have three home ports: Caracas, Cartagena, and Puerto Bello. I never even need to anchor at them; the merchants are so kind that they ship food and gold out to me on galleons while I'm sailing back and forth nearby.

However, CuraÃƒÂ§ao and a conquered Santa Catalina do both make excellent pit stops for those times some Spaniard gets a lucky shot off.
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Capt. Cannon · Cutthroat Posts: 421 **151 Gold** -

I like the Northeastern dutch ports (St. Eaustasis atc) because i can easily prey on the plethora of english warships from there.

I also like margarita if i can conquer it and make it dutch.
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Dave the Knave · Rigger Posts: 1210 **22948 Gold** -

I prefer Campeche, as it is always very close to the Four Lost Treasures. But any of the ports from Havana westwards are good choices. The one with a beautiful governor's daughter breaks any ties. If they all have beauties, well, then, Campeche gets Anglicized, and I get married!
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Bermuda_Shorts · Swabbie Posts: 93 **156 Gold** -

hmm... "favoured" port? Depends on what you mean by favoured. I like to sack many Spanish cities, they are usually quite rich Twisted Evil

But for home ports that I like to dock in, empty my cargo hold, sell off some of my ships, get information from the barman and barmaid and recruit crew, you can't do better than St. Kitts.
It's right in the centre of all the eastern Caribbean action, and you can make a tidy sum by raiding French or Dutch shipping, depending on who England's at war with, and if none of them are at war with each other... why... you can take a little jaunt over to San Juan and harass good old Spain.
If YOU'RE French or Dutch, you can just conquer St. Kitts, although you'll need a lot of men to do it Mad

After St. Kitts, I'd have to say the best port would be either Margarita or Guadeloupe. Margarita is a nice place because it's near Trinidad AND Cumana, and not too far away from Curacao either, so if you make Trinidad English and Margarita French (or the reverse, depending on what nation you're favouring) and leave Cumana Spanish, you have a little pocket of multiculturalism that has many fat merchants floating around in peace and many "New Warship"s that fetch a nice price at the shipwright's at the worst. And you don't need to worry about Margarita being poor because as long as you have a nearby settlement and a nearby mission, you can make any city crowded and wealthy within 6 months.
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sk8erkillinu · Swabbie Posts: 122 **838 Gold** -

I have two favorites one Currico (i think thats how it's spelled) Lost

which is Dutch and the other Port Royal which is English Smile

the first one is good cause it's location right in the middle of the Spanish shipping lanes! Smile

I like Port Royal because of the same reason as above but also because the governors daughter is almost always beautiful. Smile

I also agree with Bermuda-shorts st. Kitt's is pretty good. Are you from Bermuda? I love it there went there about two years ago! Sailor

Criscoween · Powder Monkey Posts: 24 **352 Gold** -

I suppose my favorite port has to do with small things, like the barmaids, music, and accents. I guess I prefer the English port, Port Royale, best, because I generally marry the govenor's daughter who lives there. If you think about it, in the movie series Pirates of the Caribbean, Elizabeth Swan was the govenor's daughter at Port Royale. So, in a sense, I am Will Turner by marrige. Smile

I enjoy the music, too. Also, Port Royale seems to be in the middle of everything, and easily accessible. My second favorite port would be any Dutch port, mainly because the govenor acts funny (especially when you tell him you will save his daughter from Colonel Mendoza).

Dave the Knave · Rigger Posts: 1210 **22948 Gold** -

Captain Redbeard · Seaman Posts: 169 **1466 Gold** -

sk8erkillinu · Swabbie Posts: 122 **838 Gold** -

Welcome to Cutlass Isle Criscoween Smile

Dave the Knave · Rigger Posts: 1210 **22948 Gold** -