Funny thing happened to me last night in PotBS. One of my society mates gave a call on Nation chat that he had tagged a 2nd Rate in the red just south of Irish Point (which is on the southern tip of Haiti). All I had nearby was a ‘Defiant’ Sleek 40-gun frigate fitted for speed, accuracy and a little bit of damage. But it didn’t seem like the bulk of the pirate nation was awake, so it was better than nothing. I was in Matthew Town, so it wouldn’t take me long to get to the fight. When I got there, the fight had been reinforced on both sides; the French now had the 2nd Rate, a Mercy, an Intrepid and a Tigre MC, rats had a Cursed Blade, Hercules Pirate refit, Trinidad and my Defiant Sleek.

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You know, people never cease to amaze me. Case in point:

Back in November of 2008 when the Defiant server was opened as a replacement for the soon-to-be-closed Invincible server (which was Aussie-only and accessed through BigPond rather than SOE), FLS re-opened server transfers for the entire player base. The Port Battle schedule for Defiant was set to accommodate players from Australia (after all, it was supposed to be the replacement for the previous Aussie server) and the North American PST time zone.

Given that the Invincible server and the game’s players Down Under has suffered greatly as a result of some things being mishandled by BigPond (apparently the Aussies warned FLS not to deal with Telstra?), and that many players in the Pacific time zone had long been complaining that the available PB schedules on the existing servers didn’t offer them many opportunities for action, the new Defiant server seemed to be the answer to everybody’s PotBS prayers..

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This week, we revisit Garbad’s treatment of the ‘Prince’ First Rate Ship of the Line. This 100-gun lineship is the first ship of the line covered in the Ship of the Week column. It is a user-created ship modeled by Victariand and based upon a 17th century English First Rate ship of the line. The historical ship was 136 ft. long, 44 ft. wide, had a draught of 19 ft., an even 100 guns and was launched in 1670.

Few ships in PotBS get as much admiration as the Prince. In terms of sheer firepower, nothing can compare to it. As the largest, most expensive, and most powerful ships in the game, they are admired by all. People take notice when a Prince is in the battle (or even on the OS), and they are regularly the flagship of a wealthy nation or guild.

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After an extended break for New Year’s, the Defias Blog is back! And since it’s Friday, I’m also resuming the Garbad’s Ship of the Week column. Since I captured one of these a couple of weeks ago, this week we’re going to look at his take on the ‘Hercules’ Heavy Frigate (also known as HHerc, or simply HH).

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This week at The Defias Blog, Garbad_the_Weak discusses the ‘Mercy’ Naval Frigate, which is one of the Naval Officer’s class-specific MoV ships.

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