Ping Pirates!

By Chloe Chue (Ping Pirates)
With Dimitri Skandalis and Nicky Meyer (Pirates Covent)

The challenge sent, the date and time set. Now both clans aren’t those disorganised Pirates you read in those storybooks. We are high class pirates who use gyroscopes. Hence this part of the news will delve into how both clans prepared for the war.

Ping Pirates started out with Adrian announcing that everybody who wants to participate gathers on our usual MSN chat 1 hour before the war. At 1500 GMT, excited Pingsters got on and started chatting.

Warmaster Lu Feng (Captain Jax) started by getting people into attacking and defending teams. Near the fight. Adrian shut everybody up and only he and Lu Feng were allowed to talk.


The following exchanges were noted :

“No repair rule?”

Adrian : Ok guys remember, this fight has a no repair rule. That means a pure offense vs defense battle.

Dennis : No repair rule? Cannot repair fort or cannot repair ships?

Chloe : If cannot repair ships than how? What if everybody sunk sia?

“What does a fat cow do?”

Chloe : May I suggest 50 speed 5 cannon set up? Should kill off most low crafters.

Lu Feng : Ok Chloe... your set up?

Chloe : The usual... fat cow

Lu Feng : Can you defend?

Chloe : I got 3 cannons only, what if they go at 50 speed?

Lu Feng : Hmmm maybe buy a proto off somebody?

Chloe : No Gold!!! And I am reaching lvl 60 soon for shurikens. Hmm I am lvl 58, just nice for those lvl 58 missiles. Where to buy them ah?

Everybody : Corxas

Chloe : SHIT I AM IN JADE!!!!

Lu Feng : Ok then, Can you attack?

Chloe : I am just a fat cow... what do you think?

Somebody : So what can you do?

Chloe : Nothing basically except being a fat cow.

*Note: I ended up in the attacking team.


At Pirates Covent, Gordon announced the agreed time to everybody and Dimitri and his admirals, with their usual fanfare got everybody hyped up over the war. As one PCer taunts in Pirate language,

Andrew Spagnolo : Ping Pong can suck my ding dong, they are gonna get sunk, the real pirates gonna get crunked, pirates covent will win the fight, then party all night!!!

Admirals at PC took attendance and people sorted themselves into 3 teams, attacking, defending and guerrilla/stand-by team. Everybody in Pirates Covent wanted to participate in the war and made themselves available. They were out to prove that they are the better pirates.

During the fight, directly from the battle ground (replays courtesy of Dimitri):

“The Vanguard attacks!!!”

Norman Ahmed Leong (NAL) : No fair, why can you guys directly hit the fort while I face off the defenders?





Dimitri : Nice work there NAL, you distracted those defenders with your vanguards!!! Tsk they got to work on discipline!!!

John Benecke : Yes it helps me slip through their defense =D

“I need more gunnery/damage!!!”

John : ARGH I got the fort!!! I think.... shucks I didn’t well almost...



Nicholas How : woot 210 hp beats 635 hp!!! I GOT IT YAHOOOO....



PC Clan Masters : Yay congrats to Nicholas for getting the sink!!!

John : ARGH YOU STOLE MY KILL

Author’s Note : Comments said by individuals isn’t 100% accurate as author is lazy to sift through transcripts. However most of these did occur and were the general feelings of everybody.

With the challenge over in approximately 5 minutes, Pirates Covent proven to be the better Pirates on the battleground. However does this end the Pirates rivality? Find out in Part 3 : One for All, All for Pirates!!!