I Have one city for me under my adminstrations.Can I attack any city and how to do it?
If I can do it i donot need to take over town just attak them and take them.


another thing
in Adventure compiane they siad attak lafitte pirates to free Elena off new orleans and when i do it and win the battel they told your lafitte ship sunk and u will never find Elena Load the game.

thanks

(22-05-2012 04:52 PM)Moudar Wrote:  in Adventure compiane they siad attak lafitte pirates to free Elena off new orleans and when i do it and win the battel they told your lafitte ship sunk and u will never find Elena Load the game.

The Mission is to capture the pirate ship - you need to board the "largest" ship. You don't find Elena - but you must capture that ship, not sink it.

Quote:I Have one city for me under my adminstrations.Can I attack any city and how to do it?
If I can do it i donot need to take over town just attak them and take them.

You can attack any city - Get a strong convoy together with lots of men, with swords and guns - click the attack city box (cross swords over the tower icon) in the bottom corner of the convoy information window. Then send your convoy to the town - like attacking a Pirate Hideout. You may well encounter several defending convoys.

BUT BUT BUT - if you attack without a cause - you will lose reputation and get attacked back in a big way - Letter of Marque if your country is at war with Nation you attack or a "Mission" from the Viceroy. Make sure you really strong before attacking cities.

You can also buy all the food (wheat, corn, fruit, bread, and meat) in a town you want to capture. Keep checking it and buying it to keep all 5 foods below a quantity of 3. After about a week or so the town will experience a famine. Keep buying up all the food and the town will lose population and go to crap, making it easier to defeat when you attack with your fleet. Or so the tutorial says. I haven't tried this method myself yet.

I imagine after you're done starving the town, you could then look to see if any fleets are in the harbor. Wait until there are no ships in the harbor, and/or keep an eye on what types of fleets are entering (traders or military). Then leave the harbor, switch to "attack towns" mode and attack, so there won't be any fleets defending. I imagine the main cities (Viceroy and Governor towns) always have at least one fleet in the harbor though.

(22-05-2012 11:54 PM)billyplod Wrote:  BUT BUT BUT - if you attack without a cause - you will lose reputation and get attacked back in a big way - Letter of Marque if your country is at war with Nation you attack or a "Mission" from the Viceroy. Make sure you really strong before attacking cities.

I will second this. I tried attacking a major port without a cause when I had 15 fleets of three liners each. Suddenly every nation was attacking all my fleets, and when I needed reinforcements (to take the port) all my surviving fleets were too weakened to help. I reloaded my save game and never tried it again

But with a letter of Marque it's much easier, especially if you're at war with one of the weaker factions - your fleets will still get attacked, but they won't take much damage. Certainly nowehere near as much as when all four nations are trying to kill you at the same time.

even better combination would be LOM + high rep with all factions
take a city by force and you lose about 50% rep < still no war (if you did get lucky and had few or no defending convoys)
go back to rep building and take over next town
that way i got 3 towns from different nations in less than 2 hours from start
seems pretty easy eh ?
BUT...
its much worse town than the same town taken over peacefully
there is huge difference in towns defense strength
Annexed towns defense strength is zero , no matter how many people will live there or what prosperity level it has it stays at zero forever.
peacefully taken towns have nice defence - up to 40 cannons and 1500 soldiers in some of my towns. and that is just sad - i really love the game but it could be much better.

(01-06-2012 02:05 AM)Zyriel Wrote:  BUT...
its much worse town than the same town taken over peacefully
there is huge difference in towns defense strength
Annexed towns defense strength is zero , no matter how many people will live there or what prosperity level it has it stays at zero forever.
peacefully taken towns have nice defence - up to 40 cannons and 1500 soldiers in some of my towns. and that is just sad - i really love the game but it could be much better.

Thanks for pointing this out to me! I noticed that all my 'annexed' towns seem to have zero defence, even though the forts were rebuilt (at my expense!).

This is a serious bug. Fortunately I currently only have two annexed towns (and one legit takeover). I've been hoping that evenually my annexed towns will have a defensive rating, but I guess I was waiting in vain...

On top of that, it seems I can't even set my battle fleets to defend the town (apart from putting them on patrol near the town borders, and that isn't guaranteed to catch all invaders)!

The problem is that it takes SO LONG to legitimately takeover a town - it took me about 5 hours of play time (2 hrs prep work setting up the warehouses and building licenses, and 3 hours play time getting over the 'alliance change reset' issue for national loyalty).

To be honest, I think I won't be playing PR3 any further until they patch some of these issues. I currently have a 'Master of the Sea' save game with 25 fleets (all of which contain 3*liners, and many of which contain extra ships). My military might matches any national power, and I earn over a million (of whatever currency the game uses*) per month. But I only have 3 towns, and two of them are undefended!

What a waste of effort...

* - the global currency at the time was the Spanish dollar, otherwise known as a 'pieces of eight' (due to the fact it was worth 8 reales). But the S$ was a silver coin, and PR3 shows gold coins, so I'm not sure what currency the game uses.