Catching the Offensive Troops of yer Enemy

Arr pirates!! There could be a case that you have an enemy who hides in his Harbor every time you attack and then comes out and starts irritating you again. This can be very annoying. One way to punish him is to put a blockade on him, but this could be dangerous because his Brotherhood can come and smash it or ye have to sacrifice some of yer defense which increases the risk of yer Haven getting raided.

This is especially difficult if the people who can raid ye are not so far - then there is not so much time fer yer Brotherhood to come and defend yer Haven.

And if ye put a small blockade then he can liberate himself and if ye put a big blockade then he can call for help, so, since I had this sort of a situation I be thinking on how I can get him to lose his troops and I came with a very good solution and here I explain ye the strategy.

First, some days, even 1 week, only blockade him with 1 Bonnie or 1 Dark Corsair. Whatever it is always keep it the same. The point here is to teach him that every time that ye blockade his Haven it is always and always going to be that 1 unit. So when he scouts first, he will see this. Maybe 1 or 2 times blockade him with a big blockade with a few Dutchmen, so when he scouts he fails. So now he is learning that if he fails scouting there be a big blockade so he hides and when he succeeds in scouting then there is always 1 unit.

After this is 2nd stage, it helps to be more active. Ye only blockade him with 1 unit. He liberates, ye again blockade with 1 unit. Ye teach him that from now on it is always gonna be 1 unit. And there be 1 unit many times per day. So he gets so sick of this 1 unit that he stops to scout. When ye see that he stops to scout keep going with the 1 unit, so now he knows 100% that there be 1 unit, so he no longer scouts.

Now stage 3, ye put a big blockade. He goes to liberate with 1 unit he fails. Strange, he thinks maybe there is a little bit more, so he sends more - he fails. Now he is committed, he thinks he got most of it and sends more. I got this guy to lose all he had left - have a look at the screenshots below:

Here you see he tried to liberate 4 times:

Note for the higher level players - yes these are small numbers/units, but the strategy could work for your high levels a

Failed Liberation #1 - the small hit

Failed Liberation #2 - sends a full on attack

Failed Liberation #3 - sends what is left

Failed Liberation #4 - has lost hope, is cursing, sends last troops to die

...and so he no longer bothers any of my blockades.

Earnings from Blockades

Arrr pirates!! Yer better be careful not to blockade inactive pirates for too long because the earnings from them keep going down more and more with every turn of the sun!

Here ye see some of my older blockades - these be making me more than 100 gold or lumber per hour and now ye can see there is much less production so I don't use them anymore!

If this happens to yer Haven then ye better look for new sweet targets to blockade!

How to Liberate a Blockade

Arr pirates!! Some of ye shipmates or a Haven near you might be under a blockade which ye might want to help and liberate.

How to liberate a blockade in Pirates Tides of Fortune:

First up ye probably want to scout the Haven to make sure that the defending army is not strong. Once that is done ye click in the middle, on the Haven itself, to enter it. Then on the top left hand side ye see the pirate that is blockading. Click on that and ye get a menu of different actions to choose from one of which is Liberate.

Once you click Liberate ye will be taken to the Reinforcements window to select the army ye wanna send.