User:Muffynz/featured article contest/Brigand Kings
Fear ye all who roam the seas of these merciless figures, these tyrants of souls, these terrifying Brigand Kings. Brigand Kings (and their rumbling counterparts, Barbarian Kings) are special brigands found occasionally when a player ship attacks a red or orange brigand vessel. Information on their whereabouts may be attained from buying a drink for the old salts in the inn. Brigand Kings will include a special dialogue during the sea battle and subsequent swordfight or rumble and offer the prize of an inscribed trinket to every subscribed or pirate badge+ holding player on the winning ship should they defeat the king.
With release 2007-05-24, Brigand Kings will now blockade player controlled islands. A Brigand King will amass his armada near to an island at a league point in a flotilla. The flotilla board looks similar to the blockade board and functions mostly like a sinking blockade. The Brigand King's fleet will consist of two kinds of ships: green outlined supply ships, and red outlined attack and defense ships. All player ships are on the same team and if they can sink enough supply ships and cut off the king's supply chain, the king will break the flotilla and move his fleet elsewhere, possibly to target another island for blockade. If the flotilla is not broken, eventually the Brigand King will declare a blockade on a nearby island. All Brigand King blockades are sinking and it is possible for the players to lose control of the island and the king to be installed as governor.
