Glad you enjoyed the story, Rob. The very short game gave me the opportunity to embellish and make the complete shift from 'respectable' French naval officer to 'scandalous' Pirate as well as set up hero and hero's arch-nemesis. Fleshing it out, there'll be opportunities to add captures, rescues, etc. that aren't as easily done with Wings of Glory games.Originally Posted by Bligh
Will do for the 5 AARs.
Letters of Marque are the way to go. I'd prefer a Letter of Marque (LoM) from a newly independent Latin American (or Caribbean) country but the historical timeline is a bit later than the 1790s and there's always the question of whether or not the country providing the LoM is recognized by the major powers and whether or not that country is at war with the targeted country (mostly Spain but also France - less likely Britain due to its naval power). That's if I stay historical and with pirate stories it's always a bit of myth involved.
I did think about a LoM from a major power but the more I read about piracy in the late 18th/early 19th century it seemed to me that I had to somehow include the slave trade - which makes the arch-villain, Lamontagne, even more villainous. Reading about the slave trade and slave revolts in the Caribbean colonies kind of put me off the major powers. FYI - Jean Lafitte's LoM was from a newly independent Columbia, from what I read on internet, and he avoided attacking American ships. So the enemy will more likely be French and Spanish as they will be less capable of hunting pirates down.
I haven't fully sorted it all out and perhaps I'll need to go with a mythological timeline where historical events happen but not necessarily in the same sequence as they did in real life. So more Pirates of the Caribbean than real life stuff.
And, of course, where would a pirate story be without a female, pirate heroine?
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