{"name":"Find the Accursed Silver","ispublic":true,"maxpoints":80,"data":[{"id":1079,"crew":[{"id":1924},{"id":1420},{"id":2056},{"id":1288},{"id":1283}],"equipment":[{"id":2463}]},{"id":258,"crew":[{"id":1528},{"id":1529}],"equipment":[]},{"id":134,"crew":[{"id":2125},{"id":2091},{"id":1935}],"equipment":[]},{"id":218,"crew":[{"id":1738},{"id":1745},{"id":1288},{"id":1283},{"id":1273}],"equipment":[]},{"id":979,"crew":[],"equipment":[]}],"description":"This is my entry for Tonytonetone92\u0027s Quest for the Cursed Three Fleet challenge, found here: https:\/\/discord.com\/channels\/468973063325876234\/688911867191492621\/1264402448085291019\n\nBackstory:\nUpon hearing of the Cursed Three, Genny Gallows knew she must recruit a pirate whose experience in such otherworldly matters cannot be doubted. Thus she ventures upriver... to tell the tale to Tia Dalma. She writes a letter to her old friend Sean Gallows and pays off a local Barbary crew to assist in her efforts. Given the potentially lucrative nature of the quest, a substantial sum is procured to acquire the talents of one Christian Fiore, whose grumpy attitude must be dealt with on a daily basis.\n\nGenny joins the crew of the Bonnie Liz, but ensures that most of her other allies are aboard some of the best reconnaissance vessels to ever sail - Raven\u0027s Neck and Morocco.  Together their crew can spot abnormalities on beaches from the crow\u0027s nest, making it easy to avoid any unnatural surprises when the Cursed Three is found....\n\n\nStrategy:\nThe idea is to maximize my gold score and minimize how much time the Cursed fleet has to play.  This will accomplished via spyers and gold bonuses, keeping the reveal of the SCT (Silver Cursed Three) until as late in the game as possible.\n\nRaven\u0027s Neck and Morocco will systematically spy on one island at a time - they can combine to look at two coins per turn.  The fleet will meander out to the furthest wild island, making sure to spy all 4 of its coins before Bonnie Liz explores it.  IF THE SCT IS FOUND (via spying), THE FLEET WILL EXPLORE THAT ISLAND LAST.\n\nOne coin will be left on the wild island closest to my home island (that doesn\u0027t originally contain the SCT).\n\nThe Bonnie Liz will use the \u0022gold factory\u0022 strategy to give a +3 bonus on every single non-SCT coin in play.  If there happen to be other silver coins in play, her silver explorer will bump that bonus to +4 per silver coin.  Bonnie Liz will grab one coin from the first wild island and bring it home. Morocco will then load the other three coins.  Morocco will rendezvous with the Bonnie Liz while the BL is docked at my home island (HI).  Morocco will touch BL (without docking at the HI).  Morocco will be given explore actions to transfer one coin at a time to BL, after which BL will be given an explore action targeting the HI to unload the coin for +3 (or +4) value.\n\nThis process will be repeated until a very specific situation is achieved - two islands empty, one island with a single coin remaining on it, and the final wild island with the SCT and its other three coins on it (still unexplored).  At this point, Neptune\u0027s Hoard will have already docked at the \u0022SCT island\u0022.  She will explore, using her ship ability to trade the SCT for the last coin on the other island (ideally the wild island closest to my HI, or the second-closest if the SCT island is the one closest to my HI).  This will make the SCT the last coin to ever get \u0022explored\u0022, and therefore not revealed until I have all the other coins in play on my HI.\n\nBonnie Liz will then individually unload all 4 of those last regular coins with the help of Neptune\u0027s Hoard and\/or Morocco, maximizing gold bonuses.\n\nWith at least 72 gold now on my HI, it is finally time to trigger the arrival of The Cursed via the SCT.  The fleet will bunch up in a tight formation, with the Raven\u0027s Neck and Neptune\u0027s Hoard at the outside edges of a line abreast formation.  Bonnie Liz will be in the center, and explore the wild island closest to my HI (that has the SCT on it). The Cursed will arrive, but cancellers Tia Dalma and Christian Fiore should help delay their onslaught to the middle of my formation.  Raven\u0027s Neck and Neptune\u0027s Hoard have captains, so they will be blasting away at the opposition as soon as they\u0027re within range. Raven\u0027s Neck will use exploding shot with one of her 2L cannons.  Widowmaker will likely be towed by the Neptune\u0027s Hoard, providing additional firepower.  Morocco is there to block opponents from attacking the Bonnie Liz, but if BL goes derelict, Morocco might have to grab the SCT and break for home.\n\nIdeally the BL gets home and unloads the SCT for +4 gold, thus bringing the total haul to 79 gold (assuming no other silver coins in play).\n\nCalculations: 15 other coins, all +3\u2019d=45 extra gold\n+27 gold of 30=72 total before SCT (want full crew setup on Bonnie Liz at game end for +4 to SCT).\nWithout SCT: 27 gold + 45 from bonuses=72 gold\nWith SCT: 75 (if Morocco\/RN\/NH unloads it), 75\/76\/77\/78\/79 if Bonnie Liz unloads it depending on which crew are alive when docking.\n\nThanks for reading!"}