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Favorite Faction
France
18%
 18%  [ 10 ]
Holland
30%
 30%  [ 17 ]
Spain
5%
 5%  [ 3 ]
England
45%
 45%  [ 25 ]
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Big Dog Barque
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 22, 2012 6:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Black Falcon wrote:
The Dutch don't have but 3 main ports. I played Dutch (once) and got from St Kitts all the way down to Martinique- ALL Dutch towns! It was alot to conquer- alot of work and alot of lost crewmen!


English- Always! Wink

No kidding! Awesome! I did that too but all the way down to Barbados- ALL Dutch! Very Happy

I'm always with the English, though I've helped the French and Dutch (even when they were at war with the English). I even went as far as TURNING on my own people to help the Dutch/French out. Twisted Evil

By the way, why does the mayor (from a settlement) trust a pirate? When he asks me to make sure his ship arrives safely, I always turn on them! Would you trust a person (you didn't know personally) to do something like this? Confused
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 23, 2012 8:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Big Dog Barque wrote:
I'm always with the English, though I've helped the French and Dutch (even when they were at war with the English). I even went as far as TURNING on my own people to help the Dutch/French out. Twisted Evil


Ah yes. If I've got a goal or some other thing that I want to accomplish, but I gotta be a "double-crosser", so be it. I did it the last game I played (about 2 nights ago). I had signed up with the English, and married a French (attractive) girl, only to have England declare war on France. So I betrayed the English and sided with the French. Now that's love- 17th century style. I'm siding with the enemy so I can keep my wife. It was betrayal at its finest. Twisted Evil
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 31, 2013 8:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I usually choose Dutch simply because I like taking over Spanish cities, lol. I also like getting some of those previously Spanish cities to have over 8k population and make them wealthy Dutch cities.

So I choose Dutch since they have the least amount of cities at the start of the game which means more plunder for me!

Now if I download Irish Jim's mod then I'll be choosing Irish, me lads!

On a side note: I've noticed a lot of comments about part of the reason for choosing a certain country is because of the beautiful daughters. And someone said there was no beautiful redhead. I'd like to see a beautiful Spanish barmaid as a governor's daughter.

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PostPosted: Sat Aug 31, 2013 9:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wimund wrote:

On a side note: I've noticed a lot of comments about part of the reason for choosing a certain country is because of the beautiful daughters. And someone said there was no beautiful redhead. I'd like to see a beautiful Spanish barmaid as a governor's daughter.

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If I remember correctly, the number 2 version of the English Beautiful Daughter is a redhead. I'm partial to blonds myself, so I always marry Dutch.

Big Dog Barque wrote:

By the way, why does the mayor (from a settlement) trust a pirate? When he asks me to make sure his ship arrives safely, I always turn on them! Would you trust a person (you didn't know personally) to do something like this? Confused


Especially if you have a price on your head! I once went by the name Sean (Hawkins). I was wanted by the Spanish, who offered a bounty of (not exaggerating) 512000 gold pieces. Wanting to escort plants to Curacao, I visited a Spanish Settlement. The Mayor tells me "I have been appointed as the new governor of Maracaibo. I have big plans for economic growth. Sean, I assume you will protect my ship from harm as I travel to assume my new duties." He died, along with all other hands on board when his ship exploded under the 20 gun barrage of my Large Frigate Fearless. Maybe it's that lordly attitude that governor's seem to have. "Oh I'm governor, I can boss around all the rabble, I'm nobility, what can they do but obey?" They can sink your ship, that's what they can do!
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Matelot
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 03, 2013 5:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

French for me. Good spread of ports, and I have a soft spot for their very wonderfully affable governors. The fact they're so emotionally expressive is just fantastically charming.
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 03, 2013 7:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Matelot wrote:
French for me. Good spread of ports, and I have a soft spot for their very wonderfully affable governors. The fact they're so emotionally expressive is just fantastically charming.

And they obviously enjoy the cuisine for which the French are justly famous!
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Matelot
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 03, 2013 10:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Indeed! That is something I can fully understand! Smile
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 27, 2013 11:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

For myself, I personally like the French the most. I choose English, because I WANT to like them, but nine times out of ten, I find myself limping back to a French port...

...also, the French ladies seem to be easier to impress in the ballroom. (This could just be me however, as I am utterly awful at ballroom dancing. Crying or Very sad )
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 01, 2014 7:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Spain is just crying out to be the bad guy. All of your enemies are spanish and they are the only ones that have Europe bound treasure fleets (the largest haul I took was a total of four ships and over 35000 coins).
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