Guns, Guns, Guns!

Sea Mission
This mission involves instanced ship combat (including blockade running, or rescue and recovery operations).

Group Mission
This mission is recommended for a group of up to 6 captains.

Guns, Guns, Guns!
Nation:
Career:		All
Location:		Santa Catalina Cape de Vela Jacob's Clock
Level: This is a level 18 mission, and becomes available at character level 13.		18 This is a level 18 mission, and becomes available at character level 13.
NPC:		Muriel Wagstaff Pepita Mendiola Helene van der Mast

Rewards:		740 Doubloons 333 Experience Big Game Hunter Cannon Rigging

Previous:		The Floating Bazaar The Seaman Who Would Be King Just a Few Disgruntled Employees
Information based on version ... Current game version is 2.15.46.0

Pirates have managed to capture a 104-gun ship of the line. Fortunately the vessel was heavily damaged in the process and is neither seaworthy nor fully manned at the moment. Before that can happen, you have to destroy her. And better bring allies, because that ship will still be fully armed.

Mission Objectives

Sink the 104-Gun Ship

Mission Notes

This is a GROUP mission and rather infamous for a variety of reasons: for one thing, there will be an ambush during the mission, when six enemy ships will appear and attack you; and also, it takes place on an unusually small map, making it very difficult to evade these enemy ships and get out of their range to regenerate your ship's structure. Bringing a group is strongly recommended.

At first, the number of opponents will seem manageable: there will be the already heavily damaged 104-gun SoL you have to sink (level 50), which will be under the protection of two level 15 forts. There will also be two guard ships roaming the area (both around level 17-19, same as the ambush fleet spawning later on).

It is recommended to take out the two guards without getting in range of either the forts or the SoL (because this will trigger the ambush). Usually they will come for you straight away, but since the map is so small, you will still need to be careful not to maneuver too close to the stationary opponent near the shore.

Once the escorts are down, wait and heal up before attacking the SoL. Especially if you're trying this mission solo, you will want to give yourself as much room to maneuver as possible, and also use the terrain to your advantage. There is a large island in the middle of the map (don't stray to the west of it, or you'll be firmly in range of both forts and the SoL), and a small island in the NE corner. You can hide behind the latter one and in this way avoid fire from all but two or three enemies at the same time (this will however reduce your maneuvering space).

After sinking the lineship you are to defeat the rest of the fleet of 8 smaller ships. Also keep in mind that the lineship is set at 300 structure but it do regenerates armour if it is not in combat. Overall the missions is very difficult for its level.