So I'm the "don't fire until fired upon" type. When I'm on a brig or a galleon though, I can sometimes be outvoted on whether or not to attack. The guys I was playing with last night are the "sink on sight" type, but they generally don't attack if I'm in the crew because they know my feelings about it.
So last night, we pulled up to Marauder's Arch and there is a sloop already there. I slow our brig down, pulling the sails, while keeping a watchful eye...they were flying the jolly roger, and although some people fly that flag because they like how it looks, most fly it to indicate they are hostile.
As we roll up, the sloop drops sail and leaves. "Ok then," I say to my crew. "Let's work on this riddle." I'm pulling the ship up to the island when one of my crewmates says, "They just anchor turned on the other side of the island." Then a moment later "One of them shot over to us".
Hmmm...sketchy. We watch as the sloop rounds the island and comes back our way. One of my crewmates boards their sloop and the fight begins. Once they were killed and sunk, their loot floated to the top. I have never encountered a sloop with THAT many items onboard. It ended up being worth 27K.
So here's the main point of this post...I'm not entirely sure what their intentions were. They never communicated, they left, then came back....they sent someone over to board us. No "ahoy"s, no "we're friendly"s....just silence and a jolly roger flag. I apologize to the sloop occupants if they didn't have bad intentions but if your intentions are unclear, and you've got that flag, and you're not communicating, and you're making your way toward our boat, I am going to assume you're not coming for a chat and a grog.
So, my question is.... for those of you who don't normally fire until fired on, what would you have done in this situation?