Press 1 and 7 alternatively on the numeric keypad. That should work somewhat. I think space or enter might be involved too.
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In the original pirates it was the left-hand side of the numeric keys that did attacks. My battle in the Pirates2 game I also used those keys to hit the enemy a few times. Unfortunately I had ~70 men and he had ~450...I'm building a wagon! On some other part of the internets, obviously (but not that other site).
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Originally posted by Lord Zalzabad
Name me one game that made the transition from 2d to 3d sucsessfully? You could proberly name about ten or twenty...
Super Mario
Metroid
Zelda
Every fighting game (Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, etc etc)
Doom (FPSs)
Every RTS (ex: C&C: Red Alert -> C&C: Generals. Warcraft -> Warcraft III)
Every RPG (Morrowind, Everquest, Final Fantasy.... the list goes on and on)
Not only could I name twenty, I could name probably into the hundreds.
Not to bash you personally or anything. I'm just showing a trend that gives Pirates II! a little hope here."Mr. Chambers! Don't get on that ship! We've mastered the book, To Serve Man.... it - its a cook book!"
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I seem to remember playing a pirate game on my Commodore 64. I can't remember the title but I suppose it could have been Pirates. I think a new version of the game would be great if it was complex enough. Something like a naval version of Total War would be fabulous.
Hmm, thinking about that. The game I'm hoping someone will develop in the future would be lik Civ3 with batlles played out like Total War. Clicking on a city would bring you to a screen like SimCity. Mmmmm, strategy, tactical battles, detailed city building . . . . . . all in one. Battles for cities would take place on your actual city screen a la the Sierra city building series. This will probably never happen but I can dream . . . .Formerly known as Masuro.
The sun never sets on a PBEM game.
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Imo, the Nintendo version (!) was best. Much less cutting across screens (when going from one to another) and much faster. Also, you really didn't need too many keyboard inputs....
edit: it won't let me delete? I just realized there were so many pages, apologize if I've repeated someone's comment... it won't let me delete
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Originally posted by Skanky Burns
In the original pirates it was the left-hand side of the numeric keys that did attacks. My battle in the Pirates2 game I also used those keys to hit the enemy a few times. Unfortunately I had ~70 men and he had ~450...
It made capturing a galleon with a pinnace and 8 men so much fun. It's going to be difficult to recreate that kind of "taking on the odds" factor in 3D - but I'll give Firaxis the benefit of the doubt until I'm proved wrong.Some cry `Allah O Akbar` in the street. And some carry Allah in their heart.
"The CIA does nothing, says nothing, allows nothing, unless its own interests are served. They are the biggest assembly of liars and theives this country ever put under one roof and they are an abomination" Deputy COS (Intel) US Army 1981-84
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Pirates, I really, really enjoyed.
From going to Port and meeting the Govenor's Daughter, to sailing around the Caribbean, and fighting battles with the ships, and drifting along the wrong way with the wind, to trying to get up the Florida Coast to catch the Spanish Galleons loaded up with gold during that certain part of the year, (and usually missing them), and finding buried treasure with a map bought in a bar, to the sword fights in town, to the land battles to trek through the jungles to get there, to take over a town from land.
That was the original Pirates on 5 - 1/4 floppy, on an Apple IIC with 128k of memory, and sixteen colors for the 592 x 184 (or something like that) screen resolution.
And you know what, do you know what?
It was and is still the best game that I ever played.
Yarrrrr~~~~~~
Mateys~~~~~~~
Get the sloop ready to rumble!
And get some Spanish Gold, ye Hardys!
Smell the salt water, and drift with the winds of the Caribbean!
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Pirates' Gold
Also one of my favorite movies -- Roman Polanski's Pirates with Walter Matheu (sp?) old movie - funny sort of.
Whas th' barrel of rum!
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Originally posted by Laughing Mind
Imo, the Nintendo version (!) was best. Much less cutting across screens (when going from one to another) and much faster. Also, you really didn't need too many keyboard inputs....
edit: it won't let me delete? I just realized there were so many pages, apologize if I've repeated someone's comment... it won't let me delete
C'mon Skanky - you can win at odds of 1 to 450 in the original (so long as you don't get hit).
That's the problem, I wasn't playing the original. I didn't even get to pick what sword I was using.I'm building a wagon! On some other part of the internets, obviously (but not that other site).
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