Mission NPCs

[ChaIbaud]

Do the NPCs for the royalty missions get easier with fewer ships as normal NPCs do or do they always have those lvl10+ God fleets?

[Haron]

I've done the Marquess mission several times, and the NPC fleets have been equally strong each time.

[Most Lee Harmless]

Yep... they stay in god-fleet mode. But as they do not repair after each battle, you can wear them down with repeated hits until sunk.

[Grimrock Litless]

If you take Luna Negra for instance or anyone which has 100% on npc win rate you will see that in their biography, they all never became a marquee before because it's impossible not to lose to the god fleet that you speak of.

[Most Lee Harmless]

You are correct : have to take some losses when you do the full ranking run : I'm not 100%, as old age dims the memory, but I do think I ran at them with a top-line SotL fleet way back when, and still needed a few goes to finish them off.

[Grimrock Litless]

You are correct : have to take some losses when you do the full ranking run : I'm not 100%, as old age dims the memory, but I do think I ran at them with a top-line SotL fleet way back when, and still needed a few goes to finish them off.

There is another way past that I think, if you cast the voodoo which weakens then by 50% on all ports before the mission starts, not sure if it works.

[Haron]

That doesn't work, Grimrock. It was expalained by Captain Jack that such cards had no effect on mission NPCs, although I can't give you a link, unfortunately.

[Most Lee Harmless]

Aye, I recall CJ saying that too : it's no big deal anyway, unless one has a fetish for a 100% record : the prize, especially the MoW for the first marquess run, makes the exercise worthwhile even with a few losses involved.

[Haron]

"A few losses" indeed. I don't use SoLs, so I've been fighting Blackbeard and Morgan with Frigates...

[Slindur]

That will eat some turns... good hunting, Haron.