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    I've tried with regular ships before, and lost 2 stacks. However I started thinking how to do it without the Nanban Trade ship:

    I was Mori, and waiting for the event, with 2 stacks of ships to the south, pillaging trade routes. The black ship is super fast, and I dont think any ship can catch it on the campaign map. So my ships was just waiting for it in the south sea.

    My first stack engages with reinforces of the second (that I really did not need anyhow). In my attacking stack I had 3 Mori Sengoku Bunes and 5 Mori Heavy Bunes. I do no prebattles on autoresolve, just dive in against its full health with manual control. I line up all my ships, on a long line right infront of the black ship, with the spear ship of 1 Sengoku Bune (to be sacrificed). I forgot to screenshot that so here is a cute drawing:
    [] <-- Black ship

    -clash-

    | <-- Sengoku
    () <-- Heavy Bunes
    ()
    ()
    ()
    ()
    | | <-- Sengoku x2

    Those Sengoku's are very fast, and it quickly reach the blackship from the front, before it can turn and fire. I do a boarding right away, trying to keep it busy until my main fleet arrives. A little fail on that, as it decides to turn around first, and gets a solid broadside. However my first Heavy Bune reach the blackship from the front (safe place really), and I use extra speed on that and engage in a bording also right away, as the first Sengoku starts diving. Once I get the blackship hooked up, it has to do the fight before it can get free to use her cannons again. However, the Heavy Bune has some 130 crew, and before they are even half killed, all my other ships arrive, and I also get the cooldown on warcry ready. I use that on the first ship engaged, and all the other ships are firing from all sides with arrows. This is so effective, that the Heavy Bune wins and captures the Black ship just as the first reinforcements arrive.

    Some cannon or fire bomb ships would have been sweet too, if they can come in late when the black ship is engaged in boarding. Note, the upkeep on the blackship is extreme. And I pretty much plan to send all my other ships to the bottom, except my black ship and some key Nanban Trade ships. They can guard anything, against anything.

    Blackship Capture
    Blackship Capture Score
    Last edited by Tixan; 11-19-2011 at 03:14. Reason: added cute drawing

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