by thomasdc3po
When a player is trying to secure victory as an NPC pirate, is his goal to shoot the Player Captain, or to try and board in order to "plunder" the player's gold/cargo?Why would a pirate want to just destroy a merchant ship without getting anything in return? I feel like the rule should be "If the non-pirate Player has Gold or Cargo, the NPC pirate will try to board when the right opportunity arises during battle, and if successful with crew combat, takes all cargo and gold away from the player. In this case, the Player captain would not die because the Pirates are not interested in killing unnecessarily, but instead want to plunder, but the Player Captain would be quite vulnerable without any crew. If the non-pirate player does not have Gold/Crew, then the NPC pirate tries to board, realizes there is nothing to plunder when successfully boarding, and then slays the Player Captain."
