Big Raid Smashed with Brotherhood

Arr pirates!! I be telling ye now of some benefits and costs of joining a Brotherhood in Pirates Tides of Fortune. I know we pirates are free souls and we be not wanting to have no rules and we be wanting our freedom, but ye are still better off joining a Brotherhood so ye can better help each other against other groups of pirates. Sure, that be meaning that sometimes or a lot of times ye have to send yer troops to Brotherhood Havens to help defend, but other times yer friends will come and help ye out if ye are in a tough corner.

Here be an example of such a case where a big attack was coming me way and so I made it known in the Brotherhood channel that this be happening and we said no way, nobody gonna raid our Brotherhood. By the way our Brotherhood be the Smiling Death - a Top 3 ranked smashing guys. Here be our flag and leader:

So as I was saying, the raid was coming my way but the reinforcements were much faster as the travel time between Brotherhood members is faster.

...and so when the raid arrived there was a serious bloodbath and the attacker was crushed completely! So here be the lesson: get into a good Brotherhood (BH) and communicate with yer friends and help them and let them help ye out, so yer all can grow strong together!

And here be the result of that big failed raid - notice he be especially massive on the bombardiers (ye can make the picture bigger if ye click on it)

Large Raid Destroyed due to not Scouting

Arrr pirates! It be very important to scout before you raid otherwise you run the risk of losing all your armada!! If the scouting fails it means that there are defensive Flying Dutchmen. That can mean 2 things:

1. There is a very weak defense and the Flying Dutchmen posted there are trying to hide the fact that the defense is weak.
2. A more likely option: there is a strong defense.

Now on the battle picture below you see this not-very-smart pirate who tried to scout my well defended target, failed, and decided to send a large attacking force including offense as well as defense to capture the target I was holding. He lost everything! 

and there is more below the picture...

1. He scouted me and failed:

2. He made a very bad decision to send all his offensive and defensive pirate forces and lost everything:

3. And I was angry that I lost some of my pirates and also at the fact that he so carelessly attacked so I decided to raid his Haven without scouting counting for his level (higher than mine) that he could not have sufficient forces if he lost this major attack and 2 hours later when my raid reached his Haven I knew I was right! 

and that's also my record plunder amount!

So to conclude: do NOT attack, especially a complete stranger, without scouting!!!