Role play. A Challenge in Caspian

[D00T]

Raven’s fleet advance toward the island, his men preparing for combat

[Jack Teach]

Jack's fleet sails towards the island, crews stand by their guns ready to fight. The ships sail in a line.

[Meliva]

The admiral spots ships coming forward. He is somewhat surprised though, as it appears only cutters are coming-and lots of them, there are easily 5 dozen of them, he orders his ships to begin firing, somewhat relieved at first as those cutters wont be able to sink any of the larger ships, but that soon passes when he sees their first volley. Its all chain shot- aimed at sails. The first volley targets the largest ships-destroying the sails of every ship in the admiral's fleet, and damaging the sails of Jack and Ravens. One of Jack's men yells to him that 3 dozen more cutters are coming from the rear-all of whom fire more chain shots into sails. The admiral curses as he shouts to everyone who can hear.

They are trying to keep us from reaching the island by removing our sails.

[D00T]

Rave’s ships start to fire cannons at the enemy, while at the same time using a catapult to firing flaming projectile, and rockets at closet enemies

[Jack Teach]

Jack and his crew laugh as they the little three pounder cannons rip the bottom of the sails. Jack grins and signals his ships to do their worst. Jack's men go to the stern, bow, and the batteries, and begin firing well-placed shots at the cutters, the 24 pound cannons slicing the little ships like a knife through warm butter. Several dozen of the cutters are sunk in about thirty minutes. If the cutters get close, the men on them are quickly cut down with musket fire, but most of them are simply shot in half by the well-placed cannonfire from the ships. No full broadsides, just a couple well placed shots and the cutters are sunk, or the men on board are shot to ribbons. By now, the enemy force has been decimated, with less than one third of the cutters are still sailing.

[Meliva]

A dozen cutters manage to sail close to some of Jack's ships, and explode sinking them. In the distance the Admiral spots 2 dozen Large Frigates And he realizes the tides are shifting-pulling their fleets closer, and the frigates begin to fire a large volley of grapeshot and chain shot all aimed at Jack's ships as the admiral's has lost his sails already. Several of them aimed at the Dismas. The sails on all of them are torn to pieces, and the frigates begin sailing up to ram into his ships. More cutters are sailing along with the frigates, hiding behind them as shields while they drop naval mines behind them. The admiral fires his cannons into the frigates. Though they continue their path into ramming into Jack's ships. The admiral notices in horror that their are spikes adorned along their hulls, to maximize ramming damage. And the crew on these ships begin hiding below deck once their path is set, and begin preparing to board.

[D00T]

Raven’s escort frigates rammed into the enemy frigate forms it’s flank, the escort’s battering ram attachment easily tore a hole in the side of the frigate, and the crew of the escort boardedthe enemy frigate.
Meanwhile, catapults on the brigs easily sunk the enemy cutters

[Meliva]

The pirates on board the boarded frigate toss several grenades, killing the men. They move to the escort ship, and toss more grenades. then the half the crew abandon their frigate, boarding the escort ship and quickly take it over killing all the men aboard using shrapnel grenades and hand cannons. Once finished they begin firing upon the brigs, while the frigate begins to toss more land mines and ramming into other brigs.

[Jack Teach]

Jack grins in the thrill.

Yes, yes that's it. Triple shot lads!

Some of Jack's ships are rammed into, they break. Most of the men however, manage to get away, swimming to shore. Jack's battle line sails around the sunken ships, the spiked frigates are stuck, so Jack's ships sail around the wreckages and the frigates attached to them, th dismas moves slowly, but other than that it has taken little damage. The ships sail and unleash broadsides as they sail past the frigates, their masts falling and the enemies sinking, the couple frigates are basically destroyed, the enemy frigates are stuck into the ships they rammed, so they are immobile and they didn't expect Jack's men to jump once the ships could no longer could move. Jack watches as the last of his battle line sails past the enemy frigates, most of which are now immobile themselves.

[Meliva]

The men who reach the island are surprised when they are quickly gunned down and killed. As Jack's ships near the island mortars begin firing, smashing into more of his ships sinking them. They are deep in the jungle-impossible to see and surrounded by enough trees as to make cannon fire impossible. The mortar shots end up sinking the Admiral's ships until only his flag remains though its sails are gone and it is damaged. On the other side of the island a dozen more Large frigates begin approaching. The men on shore continue firing mortars from deep inside the jungle, being told where to aim by scouts closer to shore. The admiral orders his men to fire grapeshot into the jungle and try to beeline to the island to the mortars. The men aboard the stuck frigates quickly abandon their ships and also swim to the island-due to their uniforms they are spared being shot and quickly rush into the jungle to help with the defense.