User Guide

Overview
As captain of a pirate vessel, you are not only expected to lead your
men to victory at sea, but you must also be able to take them ashore
to attack enemy cities where they may face enemy militia, infantry,
cavalry, native warriors, and artillery. Your men are not especially
adept at shouldering muskets, saluting, and marching in line - but
they still fight like demons when facing the enemy.
In a land battle, you control several “units” of pirates, buccaneers,
and officers. Your opponent controls infantry, cavalry, artillery, and
native warriors. Your objective is to defeat the forces in the field and
then reach the enemy city with one or more of your units or to destroy
the enemy forces In the field.
Remember that your goal isn’ to defeat or destroy the enemy units-
all you want to do is get men into the city. If you have to destroy every
enemy unit on the map, so be it. If you can circle around them and
get inside without firing a shot, that’s fine too.
The Land Battles Screen
Your Troops: These are your forces.
Enemy Troops: These are the enemy’s forces.
Trees: Light jungle forest.
Clear: Clear terrain.
Hills: High ground.
Enemy City: Your objective.
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Book Three Sid Meier’s Pirates!
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L and Battles
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Sid Meier’s Pirates!
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Book Three
The Memoirs of Captain Sydney
It was back in the spring o’ ’65, or maybe ’66, me ‘n’ the boys
decided it was time to teach them Dutchmen a lesson. We heard that
the Indians had attacked Curacao, see, and we figured that maybe they
had softened the place up enough fer us to be able to take it. There was
about 250 of us, I recollect, and we reached Curacao some time in
May. We put ashore ‘n’ formed ourselves into four or five brigades -
a couple with boys armed with cutlasses, a couple with buccaneers
armed with muskets, and one with us officers in the lead.
Well, them Dutchmen hid themselves in the tree line and
ambushed us as we moved for’ard. Their infantry weren’t much good
with their muskets, but they had the cover and we was in the open,
and they gave as good as they got. They held on until we was able to
hit ‘em in the flank, then they broke and ran fer the city.
By then the Dutchmen had some artillery on the field, but with
the infantry gone, it was dead meat. It got off one good shot at the buc-
caneers, and then us officers ran up ‘n’ spiked the guns.
Them some cavalry showed up on our flank. “Boys,” sez I,“this
is gettin’ right tedious. I thinks we should leave some buccaneers
behind to keep them horsemen busy, and the rest o’ us should run fer
the city walls. What say ye?” The boys agreed and we moved for’ard.
Well, to make a long story short, it worked. Some o’ us ran into
another ambuscade, but more o’ us made it over the walls. The
Dutchmen kind o’ lost heart and surrendered.
So we won in the end, I warrant, but it weren’t no picnic. If
them Dutch infantry had looked after their flanks properly and the cav-
alry had got up faster, it mighta had a very different ending.
Your Troops
Enemy City
Enemy Troops
Hills
Clear
Trees
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