You better appreciate this you bilge rats it was hard to get.
Hotlinks aren't working though I can find the images with cut and paste. I recall this one from years ago, it's math is a bit out there because you can really only take the Brigantine and Frigate, the Sloop has so little space (and two-thirds of the options are marked "sloop can't take this") that you have more money than you can spend outfitting it and the Galleon and Mestari cost so much and need so much equipment that you don't have
enough money to outfit them. Unless you can take multiple ships which is my own interpretation in which case a fleet of sloops is possible.
Hmm, no this has been modified since the version I saw years ago and the Mestari may be doable since now they grant a 50% discount on their stuff if you take the Mestari nationality. Looks like the Galleon is still impossible to outfit though. Let's see if I can make a Mestari ship work.
A couple of the options are so blatantly stupid I'm ignoring them for the sake of my own sanity. Most specifically you can't take a Mestari crew if you're Mestari yourself, they only go to Pirates and Privateers. That has to be a mistake. The various Mestari crew, such as Kalevi, Kaarina, Lilja, and Hulta are also not available to Mestari captains. It's fairly obvious that the option to be Mestari was tacked on later and the writer didn't remember to make the various Mestari options available to Mestari captains, so Imma ignore it and take Mestari officers and crew since anything else is aneurysm-inducing.
Ship Type
Mestari Laiva
Outfitted With:
Oars
Mestari Sails
Good Galley
Mestari Crow's Nest
Quarters
Luxury Cabins
Captains Quarters
45 Bunks
30 Hammocks
4 Private Cabins (Officer Quarters)
Weapons:
10 Carronades
20 Cannon
Ammo
Cannonball
Grapeshot
Bombs
We are not putting a furnace on our ship, I know how many vessels burned to the waterline from trying to do that, it's insanity.
Crew:
First Officer Samuel
Companion Kaarina
Quartermaster Miguel
Gunner Diego
Navigator Hulta
Cook Elsie
Carpenter Kalevi
Mestari Crew
This adds up to exactly 200 Doubloons assuming that Kalevi is a Mestari, which he quite evidently is from the ears (As you can see, without half-price for Mestari options it would have been utterly impossible to build a Mestari ship before, even now it's pretty close). I regret not being able to have a Rowboat but they cost a bit too much but we couldn't get a full crew and a Rowboat both, kinda sucks. Maybe we can get one later once we have a few more doubloons from the first trip.
This puts us as a fast diplomatic passenger liner/courier. We're armed to the teeth, one of the fastest ships afloat, and can outrun everything we don't massively outgun. We have officers who speak every language available so we're good at guaranteeing the safety of our passengers and dealing with diplomatic situations. We have Voodoo, Weather Control, our ship is immune to icebergs, and we know where all the coves are so we have a major advantage in getting where we need to quickly and outmaneuvering enemies. We'll provide the service of getting people into Mestari bays quickly and guaranteeing their safety while they make cargo purchases or deal with diplomatic situations while there. We can carry a medium cargo (the deck options are a bit vague as to how they work) so we either make a bit of profit or (preferred) our wealthy passengers pay us for using our cargo space, either way money flows into our pockets.
Able-Bodied Seamen get a hammock while the green crew get a bunk (I'm not sure why bunks are considered lower-quality than hammocks in this CYOA but I'm going with it). Officers have private quarters as do passengers.
