Sloop
| Sloop | |
|---|---|
| Crew | |
| Max crew | 7 |
| Max swabbies | 5 |
| Hold | |
| Mass (kilograms) | 13,500 |
| Volume (liters) | 20,250 |
| Stations | |
| Navigation | 1 |
| Rigging/Sailing | 3 |
| Carpentry/Patching | 2 |
| Bilging | 2 |
| Gunnery | 1 |
| Battle Nav | |
| Move tokens per turn | 4 |
| Cannon size | small |
| Cannons aboard | 4 |
| Cannon shots per move | 1 per side |
| Max Damage: (SF) / (Sink) | |
| Small cannon balls | 6 / 10 |
| Medium cannon balls | 4 / 6.66 |
| Large cannon balls | 3 / 5 |
| Blockade | |
| Influence diameter | 1 |
| Min crew | 3 |
| Porting Bribe Cost | |
| Cost per bribe | 50 PoE |
| Swabbie Ship Transport | |
| Max swabbies | 5 |
| Cost per league | 25 PoE |
| Construction Costs | |
| Doubloons | 20 (15 |
| Basic labor | 160 |
| Skilled labor | 60 |
| Expert labor | 0 |
| Iron | 50 |
| Sail cloth | 75 |
| Wood | 66 |
A sloop is a type of ship, the smallest available. As the easiest ship to crew and run, as well as the cheapest, it enjoys widespread use, both everyday and in events.
Other classes
In addition to the basic sloop, the following classes of sloop exist:
Alternate design
- Cursed class sloop - Available since June 2011; requires a design for construction
- Dark class sloop - Available on
Obsidian Ocean since late January 2018; requires a design for construction - Defiant class sloop - Available on
Obsidian Ocean since September 14, 2017 in Defiant Armada pack DLC, and throughout October 2017 on standard oceans. - Gold class sloop - Available since April 2012; requires a design for construction
- Rogue class sloop - Available since March 2010; requires a design for construction
- Sloop Mark II - Available since March 2017 in mystery boxes and May 2017 from shipyards.
- Shadow class sloop - Available on
Obsidian Ocean since September 14, 2017 in Shadow Fleet pack DLC, and throughout October 2017 on standard oceans. - Vampirate class sloop - Available since November 2021; requires a design for construction.
Limited edition
These classes are limited edition, with orders exclusive to the months they are made available.
- Alice class sloop - Available during July/August 2013, May 2024;
May/June 2018 - Ancient class sloop - Available during September 2011, October 2022
- Arctic class sloop - Available during January 2016, January 2023
- Bardic class sloop - Available during March 2012, March 2024;
March 2018 - Blizzard class sloop - Available during January/February 2014, December 2022
- Casino class sloop - Available during June 2012, March 2022
- Celestial class sloop - Available during November/December 2013, March 2025;
September 2019 - Chocolate class sloop - Available during February 2012, February 2022
- Crimson class sloop - Available during May/June 2014, November 2022
- Cupid class sloop - Available during February 2011, February 2024;
February 2018 - Dream class sloop - Available during February/March 2014, June 2025;
June 2019 - Emerald class sloop - Available during March 2010, April 2021, March 2026
- Explorer class sloop - Available during September 2015, July 2023
- Frost class sloop - Available during December 2009, January 2023
- Funhouse class sloop - Available during April 2016, March 2023
- Gingerbread class sloop - Available during December 2011, December 2023;
December 2017 - Gunpowder class sloop - Available during November 2012, May 2022
- Harvest class sloop - Available during November 2010, November 2025;
November 2019 - Howl class sloop - Available during November 2016, September 2025;
October 2019 - Hunter class sloop - Available during January 2013, January 2026;
August 2019 - Inferno class sloop - Available during June 2010, June 2021, August 2026
- Jungle class sloop - Available during April/May 2014, July 2025;
July 2019 - Lagoon class sloop - Available during July 2011, June 2022
- Legendary class sloop - Available during July 2016, April 2025;
April 2019 - Lovestruck class sloop - Available during February 2016, February 2025;
February 2019 - Mermaid class sloop - Available during April/May 2026
- Midas class sloop - Available during August 2010, July 2021
- Olympus class sloop - Available during July/August 2015, June 2023
- Phantom class sloop - Available during October 2010;
October 2017 - Rainbow class sloop - Available during June 2024
- Roister class sloop - Available during September/October 2013, September 2022
- Scrooge class sloop - Available during December 2015, December 2025;
December 2018 - Serpent class sloop - Available during February 2013, August 2022
- Skelly class sloop - Available during October 2012, April 2024;
April 2018 - Smuggler class sloop - Available during July 2012, August 2025;
November 2018 - Steam class sloop - Available during May 2012, September 2024;
September 2018 - Tiburon class sloop - Available during August 2012, July 2024;
July 2018 - Torrid class sloop - Available during March 2016, February 2023
- Tropic class sloop - Available during November 2015, August 2023
- Undead class sloop - Available during October 2015, October 2025;
May 2019 - Valkyrie class sloop - Available during March 2013, May 2025;
January 2019 - Vampire class sloop - Available during September 2012, October 2024;
October 2018 - Verdant class sloop - Available during April 2011, April 2022
- Yuletide class sloop - Available during December 2014, December 2021
Rooms and furnishings
A sloop has three scenes: The crow's nest, the main deck, and the main hold. The total paint required to recolor a sloop is 131 units.
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Crow's Nest
Floor plan
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Main Deck
Floor plan
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Main Hold
Floor plan
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Pillaging
The sloop is the mainstay of pillaging pirates everywhere. New officers benefit from the sloop's small, easier-to-manage crew and maneuverability, while old salts can use the small crew requirement to finely tune the ship's might rating.
Blockade use
Due to their fragility, sloops have very limited use in real blockades. When a buoy or two are far separated from large point clusters (and the large ships contesting them), a sloop can occasionally claim points for at least a few rounds. In this situation, though, a dhow or fanchuan is usually preferred. Since the sloop does not influence any tile except the one it occupies, if it is to contest points, its location will always be known. This, coupled with its fragility, leads to a sloop either sinking or becoming irrelevant to the blockade score in short order.
With only three crew necessary for influence, however, they are often used in event blockades. (On subscriber oceans this many pirates aboard must be subscribers.) There, they give many more people the chance to navigate in a blockade setting. Even before the advent of coded event blockades, sloops were used in blockade-board games such as Bumper Sloops and Ketchy cubby.
Historical notes
The ship now known as the sloop was at one point called a small sloop, while a cutter was called a large sloop. Eventually the cutter was given a more distinctive name and the "small" prefix was dropped from the name of its little sister.
External links
- External view Forum post
- Internal view in same thread
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| See also: | Shipyard | Shipwrightery | Pillaging | |||||||||
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| Limited edition ship | Ships requiring designs for construction | ||||||||||


