Rolando wrote:4. PK uses big, expensive ships to beat smaller ships, while ZomB uses smaller, cheaper ships to take out larger fleets and ships.
Yes ships we took our ships, or does you master think he did everything all the time?
1.Pirates in real life didn't run around with ships of the line for their plunder, they used smaller less expensive ships for their plunder as it was more favorable.
2.The legendary pirate's of this game didn't either. The tactic of using small cheap ships to attack unarmed traders and yet not take any signification damage back meant that you kept more of the gold and fame you took. It also meant that call leviathan's were less effective against you. ie. Skyhawk used Brigs to beat up on the strongest war fleets in the game because pirates didn't target war fleets but merchants and scatter away before the big guns came. Same concept.
So is your #4 a bad thing, no, it's actually a compliment of ZomB for using the most effective strategy their is.
When we look at which is the better guild we have to look at their purposes.
The New PK is built around ship to ship combat and broadside war.
ZomB is built for hit and run profit, minimum confrontation, maximum profit.
One is a guild of pirates, the other, one of militants.
Looking at this, you have guerrilla war (ZomB) versus conventional (PK).
The tactics used are different, and the manner a war is conducted is different, both equally incredible, but in looking at whose better, you can't say an apple is the same as an orange. Similar, but not congruent. Most of what Rolando said holds true, but all are compliments instead of the intended sarcasm. But again, just because the manner of conducting a war and the tactics are different, does not mean one is better than the other. I say they are equal.
In my own opinion of the winner of the war, historically the guerrilla forces win, but only because the conventional side that focuses on quality runs out of resources they are willing to use, or stop caring. The PK fighting style is not sustainable, the ZomB fighting style is. We will see what happens. This game has a thing for being unpredictable.
P.S. PK can fight a good forum war, but why are these forum battles happening? What do you hope to accomplish here? People stop reading them at a certain point, your not winning people to your side or propagating against ZomB at all.
-Roi
