"Belligerent Admiral" for no reason...

[leonardo davinci]

couldn't it have been that the date were in possesion of a european ship, or the nihon maru, and that when you killed them, the ship sunk? it could explain why it was when you killed of the date without any ships.

[Conkercorner]

couldn't it have been that the date were in possesion of a european ship, or the nihon maru, and that when you killed them, the ship sunk? it could explain why it was when you killed of the date without any ships.

I suppose that might explain it, but that would still be a strange way of earning the achievement. I'd have thought I'd need to sink the ship directly to get it.

[leonardo davinci]

I suppose that might explain it, but that would still be a strange way of earning the achievement. I'd have thought I'd need to sink the ship directly to get it.

well, i think it isn't really about winning the naval battle to sink it, but just about the sinking part. if the faction gets destroyed by you, their ship does so too. so it would have been you that sunk it, directly or indirectly.

[frogbeastegg]

couldn't it have been that the date were in possesion of a european ship, or the nihon maru, and that when you killed them, the ship sunk? it could explain why it was when you killed of the date without any ships.

Good suggestion. This could be the answer. I know that you can get the achievement by auto-resolving the battle, and if the sunken ship belongs to you (that's how I got it: the first time I auto-resolved with my shiny new Black Ship it got sunk) so the requirements are definitely looser than the achievement description makes them sound.

[Conkercorner]

Yes, I suppose I can't think of a better way to explain it. Thanks for the help.

Sort of related ; I've noticed the autoresolve seems to give slightly strange results for naval battles, for example the Nihon Maru is surprisingly poor and I end up having to fight them myself. (Kind of like defending castles, I suppose.) This happens to me sometimes with the Black Ship as well. I don't mind that too much though, I enjoy naval battles.