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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JamesLFlowers" data-source="post: 9774523" data-attributes="member: 7050541">A few thoughts...Ship to ship combat... as others have posted, the goal is to loot the ship which means you have to take it.  So ship to ship combat is more disabling than destroying and then BOARDING which is standard character on NPC combat except you don't have that great over-armored character to tank the enemy's attacks.  This works well in pre-gunpowder fantasy as your long range weapons aren't that powerful and so you have to close and board.  Even gunpowder age pirate went after rigging and mast more than anything else or just bluffed to get their opponents to surrender.Spellcasting ... remember, the NPC have spellcasters too!  Mercedes Lackey says it best in one of her Valdemar novels, that all the wizards had worn and countered each other out with the greater magics and all that was left was the little magics in camps.  So you throw a fireball or control water and they counter with something.</blockquote>