Mike Bantick
Sunday, 22 February 2009 13:53
Entertainment
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Each map is divided into hexes, with one ship taking up one whole hex – it is a battle for position as the ships move in real time, and must be in certain hexes to attack other ships, heal at strongholds or be in position to attack a neutral or enemy town or village.
Each ship is characterised by Speed, Armour and Cannons, with upgrades being made at the lair where each team begins a challenge. But in order to upgrade a ship, resources must be collected.
Rum, Wood, Coin are the resources of the game, and can be plundered from villages, picked up in floating crates, stolen from opponents or earned by capturing towns. Each town usually contributing a certain resource every so often.
Town strongholds can also be updated this way, giving the fortress there more firepower and a greater resilience to being captured by opponents.
Sinking neutral ships also yields up special play cards, such as calling up a whirlpool or tuning your vessel into an invisible ghost ship. Strategic play of these one shot cards, especially the time bomb, will mean the difference in success and failure in what can sometimes boil down to an evenly matched head butting.
Age of Booty is a nice little packaged of fun, competitive and balanced games can be had online, and the map editor will extend the life of the game further, though it would be nice to have a method of sharing created maps.
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