Not Always Good Reward in Prizes

Arr pirates!! I forgot to post this one from end of April, but it be still important so here goes: Ye not gonna be getting awesome booty / loot from Prizes always, so be prepared fer some disappointments down the road.

Ye see here I be raiding a Prize level 18 Black Corsair and this be the highest level I did so far and also after 12 Prizes didn't give no rewards and I got, what I consider to be, very bad booty out of this of 94 Buccaneers and 20 Bonnie's Beauties. Now this be still some amount of resources, but I can train these units easily me-self so we be not needing such booty.

So be prepared to be disappointed sometimes with the Prizes' booty and keep sailing the seas with the wind behind yer sail - Arr!

Attacking Prizes More Effectively

Arr pirates!! Fer the crazy strategic pirates out there I want to share a strategy where you can be more efficient and taking down those pesky Prizes.

The strategy is based on the different types of troops, example: ARMADA or PIRATE types. And the Prizes contain different proportions of these, so if ye could get some info on those Prizes ye could send the most efficient troops to take down the Prize. The good news is ye can do that! Ye can send 1 bonnie to whatever Prize and, sure, she will die, but it's all for a good cause as ye will get to see exactly what type of army they got there.

So here ye see the example of me Bonnie scouting:

So ye see that in this specific case there are only PIRATE type of defenses on this Prize so it be making no sense whatsoever to send for example Turtle or Junk Ships to defend this because this be super inefficient. In this case ye better be sending Bonnies or Skirmishers or actually if ye have some Dragon Ladies who are very good at Pirate Defense then it be best to use em here since they be drinking too much Rum anyway.

Here below is another example with a level 30 Prize where ye can immediately see that the attacking forces are heavily skewed towards ARMADA which means this is the time where ye be wanting to use yer Junk Ships as they be most effective against the Armada troop type with their 120 defense against that specific troop type.

Lastly, if ye don't got no extra Junk or Dragon Ladies or such then the most efficient be the simple old Bonnies since they have an average of 19 defense (without upgrades) against all troop types.

Don’t Send Dread Units to Prizes

Arr pirates!! Here I be sharing with ye some of me pain and be screaming at ye my advice = don’t send Dread Fleet units to attack or defend Prizes!

Here I had calculated the correct amount of Bonnies that I need for this Prize (In another post I be explaining how to do that) and just to test things out, because I have Rubies and all, I threw in EXTRA, sort of like the icing on top of the cake, my dear friends 2 x Harpooners Dread Units and lo and behold one of them died.

This was mathematically not supposed to happen, because the attackers were:

29 * 80 + 6 * 20 + 1 * 40 + 3 * 60 =
2320 + 120 + 40 + 180 = 2660 points of attack!

And only the additional bonus defense from the Harpooners is more than that, not even talking that the Bonnies alone give 8260 defense so there is no logical reason for one of the Harpooners to die, but the fact of the matter is that he did, so there be some random factor in the game, so don't be starting to argue with the game, but instead, like I be saying don’t send Dread Fleet units to attack or defend Prizes!

Quick Tips which Prizes give Rewards

Arrr pirates! Here be some tips from captain MacDougal 'bout the Prizes and which give more often rewards.

Here below you see the pictures of the Sea Fort and the Safe Haven - the tip is that these have higher chances of giving rewards than the Caravel and the Black Corsair (also picture below).

And on top of that, the second tip is that the Forts drop prizes more often than Havens. And Cosairs more often than Caravels.