My friends and I were at a raid, alone... doing really well. We were on the 5th or 6th wave with no signs of other ships. Suddenly another Galleon appeared and immediately attacked us. Our boat was sunk, and we all died.
We respawned at an island where we were extremely well hidden. We noticed we could still see the skull and the boat that had attacked us beneath it. So we searched the island and found 2 gunpowder barrels and waited.
After about 15 minutes the skull vanished and we started moving. As we headed at their boat at ramming speed, my friend jumped over the side of the boat with a gunpowder barrel. We hit the boat head on, and my friend went under it, hitting it with the bomb. Well obviously their boat sunk pretty dang quick, and all the treasure they'd loaded rose to the surface.
We jumped in as fast as we could and got the Stronghold Chest, the Rare Spices, the really valuable skull with the golden teeth, plus a few more things and just bailed, leaving 4-5 items behind in the vault. We just wanted the big stuff.
We were headed to an outpost when we noticed their boat had returned and was in pursuit. It was intense. They caught up and we were side by side firing at each other. My friend steering crashed the boat into the outpost, and we leaped onto the beach with the Stronghold Chest, Spices, Golden Skull and one other chest, running for the cash in points, being fired at the whole way. We got all of it turned in. I was shot in the back and almost died running for the merchant.
Well our boat sank, and they killed us at the outpost.... we respawned at a new ship and thought hey... I wonder if those 5 items we left in the vault would still be there, so we sailed back to it to find, yep, they were still there! so we got them and turned them in as well.
This is why I love this game. It was so intense, heading at them with our boat, wondering if the plan would work. Incredible when their boat sank and we got all the best stuff on our boat. And beyond intense when they were chasing us and we were firing at each other, racing for the outpost.
I've never played a game that delivers these types of moments every time I play it.
