Uncharted Waters New Horizons

I think the explanation about Khayr is that someone else took his fleet and he took over the fleet of a different pirate that was defeated. This is more apt to happen if you defeat two pirates in the same month.

I have preyed on Khayr dozens of times in the same game, after all he has the best levels most of the time. I hate to see him replaced by Walweik.

In a way the countries are running out of money as you approach world domination because their profit is limited to the home port.

In most games you will notice that Italy is reduced to the just the home port within the first year. They still improve their fleet if you defeat one of their starting fleets. Even though in a real world situation they would eventually run out of money, I doubt the game tracks the fortunes of every character and every country.

This seems to be a glitch, and the graphics become a little glitchy as you ally with all the ports in the world. It is only the defeated fleets that are updated, the starting fleets that have not been attacked don't change.

I forgot another great book I also bought is Dangerous Tastes, The Story of Spices by Andrew Dalby.
It's a recipe book but it explains the origin of every spices, the history, the battles for them, etc.
I got so interested by it that I started going to Indian grocery stores just to see different spices. I even bought some. 😀

When I hear the names Saffron, Musk, Aloeswood, Sandalwood, Frankincense, Myrrh, Cardamom, Balsam, etc., It makes me want to buy a ship and start trading! 😀

Once you learn about these, you discover that the Silk Road, the Amber Road, the Spice road are all connected either by sea or terrestrial routes or both. It's a non-stop thirst for knowledge.

Then you come back to NewHorizon so you can trade and pirate again!

I am looking for a particular port, but when I go to the spot where it is supposed to be there is no port. How do I get the port to appear?

Yeah, there are three ports in Ernest's game that you can't find until the end of the game basically (40,500 adventure fame). The third is Changan, and the two Japanese ports.

This is my main peeve with this game, you make it where the cartographer can't find a port...COME ON MAN!! xD

This also happens to Joao, but it is triggered at around 30,000 adventure fame when he can finally find the Japanese ports (just the two in his game).

I started an interesting game (with Otto).
I recruited the usual guys, then I bought 4 Pinnaces and equipped them with 15 cannons and 30 crew each.
I wanted to test their capabilities so I attacked the first merchant fleet I saw. It happened to be Guido Benzo, which I affectionately call Mario. 😀
Anyway on my first attempt, I ran out of cannonballs so he escaped at the end. I caught up 3 more times with him, chasing him all the way to Cape Town and I finally sunk his ship but all the other ships were long gone.

I sold my pinnaces and bought 5 kansens with 40 crew each. On my way back to Europe I fought Idin Leis ( with 5 Galleons)just for the fun of it and I defeated him! 3 of my ships stupidly rushed him and ended up with 0 crew at the end but they blocked his galleon. All I had to do was finish him with my 2 ships (Otto and George)left.

I now have 5 used Atakabunes with 40 cannons and 100 crew for the flagship and 75 for the other 4 ships.
I've already crushed 4 merchant fleets. 😀