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Flotilla hunting is the practice of going into a flotilla for the Treasure Haul puzzle. This is done by a sinking of a ship with poe aboard for the sunken vessel treasure. If enough green ships are sunk, the Brigand King will go away and lick his wounds and in effect throwing all player ships in the flotilla, out to the league point.

Contents 1 Ship Information 1.1 Red Ship information 2 Flotilla Hunt 2.1 Stock 2.2 Scouting 2.3 Soloing or Jobbing 3 Flotilla Pieces of Eight 3.1 Sinking Flotilla Pieces of Eight 3.2 Non-Sinking Flotilla Pieces of Eight 4 Tips and tricks

Ship Information

Red Ship information

Upon entry to an empty flotilla, your jobber preferences on filling the ship may determine the Red Ship spawns of matching or harder difficulty. It's possible to see only one Red Sloop or one Red War Frig, or spawn many Red Ships of varying classes. However, this may not be the case if other Red Ships in the Flotilla are present from previous or present player ship entries. The only way for Red Ships to leave the Flotilla is via the player's safe zone which subsequently spawns another Red Ship (possibly the same ship).

As soon a Red Ship sinks, another Red Ship will appear. It may be a ship of lesser or higher class than the one sunk.

If the Flotilla is left alone for at least 5 minutes from any player, then on entry, there will be a different set of Green and Red ships. The board settings (with whirlpools, rocks and such), will remain the same. Every time there's a reboot, the board settings will change yet the Flotilla will remain until defeated.

They appear to have unlimited cannon balls and rum, and go dead in the water when near full damage.

Flotilla Hunt

To provide a courtesy in lieu of jobber pay, take a sloop into the Flotilla first to determine if you want to sink, assist or haul there, rather than job people then back out due to two Red War Brigs repeatedly chasing a player sloop that keeps re-entering.

Stock

Ship Sinking information, for example a Cutter that requires getting hit with aprox. 12 Small Cannon Balls to sink. This is misleading; it is the amount of damage that it can take to sink with no carpenters working. With working carpenters and a long battle, it can be well double the amount minimum needed to sink the Red Ship.

Suggested Sloop Stock: 250 Small Cannon Balls. 40 Fine Rum or equivalent.

Scouting

To begin the search of a worthy flotilla, chart a route that bypasses the Flotilla, use Flotilla voyage mode (Successful Duty Navigation will reduce spawns). Put up and take down job notice for three fine swabbies. Put them all on sails and set sail. At first league you should be at least 70% in speed to which two bots should move to Carp and Bilge respectively, leaving the last sailor to fill the rest of the speed.

Soloing or Jobbing

At the Flotilla, if there's any sunken vessels near the safe zone or far from hostiles, solo Treasure Hauling is optional. Otherwise, you should consider getting as many jobbers as possible that are willing to work aboard. Have fun.

Flotilla Pieces of Eight

The table below is an estimation of bounty collected at the time or when the sunken vessel disappears.

Sinking Flotilla Pieces of Eight

Ships	Sinking Bounties		Sunken Vessel Treasures
	Min	Max	Min	Max
Sloop (Red)	3,100	7,800	4,800	?
Cutter (Red)	7,620	10,300	?	?
Dhow (Red)	?	13,300	?	?
Longship (Red)	?	?	?	?
Baghlah (Red)	13,000	21,600	7,500	?
Merchant Brig (Green)	17,200	47,100	?	?
War Brig (Red)	16,200	26,800	?	?
Merchant Galleon (Green)	45,000	72,000	?	?
War Frigate (Red)	?	60,800	?	?
Grand Frigate (Red)	?	?	?	?

Non-Sinking Flotilla Pieces of Eight

Ships	Sinking Bounties		Sunken Vessel Treasures
	Min	Max	Min	Max
Sloop (Red)	700	1,300	?	?
Cutter (Red)	800	5,600	5,100	6,000
Dhow (Red)	?	2,200	?	?
Longship (Red)	6,000	?	?	?
Baghlah (Red)	?	1,500	?	?
Merchant Brig (Green)	?	?	?	?
War Brig (Red)	7,600	10,400	?	?
Merchant Galleon (Green)	?	23,400	?	?
War Frigate (Red)	?	?	?	?
Grand Frigate (Red)	?	?	?	?

Sinking Bounty Note: If another player fires on the ship, he may also get split a portion of the booty.

Treasure Haul Note: A glitch with Treasure Haul is that Pieces of Eight stop hauling in despite incredible-excellent reports on ships. Refer to these threads for more info: [1] [2]

Tips and tricks

• Abandon ship at Flotilla league point. If everyone leaves and no one boards the ship in the next 15 minutes, it will auto-port to last port with damage and bilge clear. However any booty will be thrown overboard.
• Plus Maneuver token. If everyone did not start generating move tokens fast enough after Treasure Haul, this can be useful as a quick move when available to escape hostilities.
• Memming most of the ocean. This is highly useful when Flotillas are at routes with no adjacent Shipyards to buy charts from.
• Stock ships. Ships full of stock or prepared with stock at islands create short ship trips.
• Flotilla Hearty networking. Ask the Flotilla leader if he wants to hearty you for future Flotillas.
• Scavengers. If there is already a ship of higher class in the Flotilla, it's risky yet possible to Treasure Haul while the higher class ship fights. You must be prepared to move in a moment's notice.
• Hold Grab. After sinking a ship, the restock cut is likely to go to the Ship's Hold. When your ship sinks, the hold will become inaccessible. Grab the PoE after sinking a ship. Vessel Logs will show how much is taken out. (You could voice your support in this thread to have this changed [3])

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