@cutecoffins
Indeed!
A friend of mine still needs to sink the Burning Blade a few more times while representing the Athena faction. The 3 of us launched brigs and checked servers, before we finally found one with 7 stacks. Instead of buying supplies and looting the outpost, he just raised anchor and took off towards it. We'd have to make our shots count as we collected what we could along the way.
We get near them, and open fire while my flex shoots out to see what we're dealing with, and how many are on it. It's a galleon crew, and they're experienced. We keep trying to sink them, but it quickly became clear we just didn't have enough supplies for this, so we pull out and head to the FotD that was up, for a sneak play.
As we sail over to the Arena tavern, we see another brig parked there. Did they have the same idea? They see us coming and drop sails. As we near the tavern, one of them calls out to us, asking if we wanted to alliance and go sink the Burning Blade with them? We allianced with them, and headed out together to sink the Burning Blade.
Each of us kept taking shots, keeping the BB between us. It had no breathing room with 2 brigs firing on it. They caught wind and sailed over to the Reaper Hideout with us chasing, tried to lower but couldn't with us there. They sailed back out, but couldn't avoid us. They sunk.
We let our sister ship take the sword (we couldn't have done it without them, and my friend just wanted the achievement), added them as friends, sailed over to the FotD, completed it, and turned in. The very thing we intended to do but couldn't, ended up happening out of the blue with awesome players.
