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Freebooter achievement in Age of Booty

Freebooter

Beat all hard challenges.

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How to unlock the Freebooter achievement

  • RadiantViperRadiantViper
    10 Jun 2011 10 Jun 2011 13 Jun 2011
    Strategy for Hard Challenge 7

    Please note that this game is very luck based on hard, so no plan is fool proof. You may do all the below steps and still lose - the game is just cheap that way. Be prepared to rage, but keep trying, you'll get it eventually.

    1. To start, upgrade your cannons once and your armour once. Lots of people say grab speed first but this never worked well for me on this map.

    2. Go south and attack Nassau, the closest town. You will probably die in your attempt. Don't worry, no one usually goes to it yet. When you respawn, head back and capture it.

    3. Now sit on its border, letting you and it heal. You can grab nearby crates or resources, but don't stray too far.

    4. Here's the tricky part. You need to attack the town in the middle of the map (the only town with gold). But you need to choose the right opportunity. Let someone else attack it first, so when they get it, it goes down to a level 1 town instead of level 2.

    Now watch whoever took over the town and wait until they're off distracted, attacking a far off base or getting attacked by others - preferably both! Now move in and take it. Stay by it's border.

    5. This is the real luck based part. You have to hope that none of the AI get too smart and go up and attack Nassau, cause then you'll have to leave your post, and then someone will probably attack the gold town.

    6. Let your gold and wood build. As SOON as you can, upgrade Nassau. Preferably, camp even longer and upgrade Nassau a second time.

    If an enemy attacks you and they're a bit more powerful, you can either stay and fight, or leave and get back the gold town in the future. If you want to fight, a tip is to keep moving along the borders of your town - this means about 1/3rd of the time you're not fighting them. And during this 1/3rd, you're being healed and they're not. It gives you a slight advantage.

    7. Once you get enough rum along with your wood, you can try to upgrade. However, this is dangerous since you'll be leaving the gold town alone. Try and wait for a moment of opportunity, when everyone is distracted. You can also move up about half way, and see what happens - if no one attacks it, keep moving. Alternatively, camp even MORE and upgrade the gold town as well.

    8. Once both towns are fully upgraded, you're on the home stretch. Feel free to go up north and upgrade, but don't think your towns won't be attacked - keep an eye on them and ALWAYS turn around and head back to them as soon as they get attacked. For upgrading, I recommend grabbing +1 speed first, then +1 cannon, and keep alternating until they're maxed - then next get armors.

    9. Here's the final part. Stay near the gold town and wait 'til you've got a good amount of upgrades. Wait until you have at least 4 wood and 8 gold. Try to wait far into the game, but not too late - around the 1-3 minute mark should suffice.

    Choose one of the towns on the left side to attack. Whichever's owner is distracted, and whichever is a lower level. If you have a bomb, obviously use it before you attack. Take the town, and immediately upgrade it twice.

    That's it - just camp this towns borders and let it heal. If you did it late enough, it won't matter if anyone attacks your towns, it's too late.

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    R1KM4NWorked like a charm. Got it first time.
    Posted by R1KM4N on 27 Mar 16 at 06:29
    a bag of purpI put 1 in speed and 1 in cannon at the beginning and didn't attack any towns until I upgraded my ship all but the last speed and armor. After I was upgraded I went after towns no enemies were at. Remember you don't need have all of the towns by the end just more than everyone else. If you have two and everyone else has one at the end, you win
    Posted by a bag of purp on 13 May 18 at 19:00
    t0xzWorked for me, thanks
    Posted by t0xz on 12 Oct 23 at 21:32
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  • Doomed SatsumaDoomed Satsuma
    14 Sep 2010 14 Sep 2010 14 Sep 2010
    I used these tactics for the final level and most of the other ones as well, and SAILED through the game :D

    -Firstly, I nearly always upgrade speed straight away. Then you can focus on sailing around the map and gaining resources, helping you to upgrade the rest of your ship quicker.

    -Then once your ship is fully upgraded, you should by now have a lot of coins. Just go up to the town nearest your base and take it over in seconds. (save any bombs etc. for the next town you attack).

    -Then once you have your first town, focus on upgrading it all the way, you'll find that they don't usually bother to attack it once it's upgraded fully.

    -I then gathered more resources and repeated with the next town and so on, upgrading it fully so it doesn't get attacked, and avoiding any fights with ships unless to protect a town from being captured.

    I found this tactic to be almost foolproof on all the other levels as well. I'm not sure why the enemy doesn't bother attacking your towns when they are fully upgraded but I had three on the go and the comp was fighting it out on the other towns and ignoring these.
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    dpkJester231Excellent strategy. Worked on my first try, after 5 failed attempts of my own strategy. Thanks for the 100%
    Posted by dpkJester231 on 17 Sep 11 at 23:26
    LvxThis one worked like a charm, thanks!
    Posted by Lvx on 16 Dec 13 at 00:33
    I8ITackyticsI8ITried 3 times and failed. Upgrading speed twice before anything and just collecting everything totally worked first try was really surprised. Got all 4 towns too. Great job!
    Posted by I8ITackyticsI8I on 13 Jul 17 at 20:14
  • HeyMrBassmanHeyMrBassman
    21 Apr 2010 16 Feb 2011 18 Jul 2011
    As an addition to the other guides here, the only other mission I had difficulty with was mission 3 (Spork). I finally did it like this:

    1. Start by upgrading +1 to cannons and +1 to armor.

    2. Take the town in the south west. Your team mates are probably already on the way to doing this.

    3. Heal up and take the town slightly north of your base.

    4. Now heal up and start taking the three northernmost towns. The one at the very north is your priority, it’s the main source of wood on the whole map, so you should set the enemy back quite a bit by starving them of upgrades.

    5. By the time you have all three northern towns under control, you’ll probably have lost the first one or two towns you took. Your team mates will be trying their best to prevent the orange tide, but it’s 2 vs 4 and they will eventually be overcome. Heal up, upgrade the northern towns if you have enough resources and grab any ship upgrades that may have accumulated (unlikely, as you’ll have lost your only rum producing town).

    6. Decide which is easier – either attempt to take back your towns or go for the two enemy occupied towns. If you’re quick, you should be able to be in possession of 5 towns at once, thus winning the game.

    You should avoid sitting this one out until the timer ends as the other team *will* get stronger – try and end it as soon as possible. Concentrate on starving them of resources, wood first, then rum. It may require a few tries, but it isn’t as bad at hard 7 and medium 7.

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    For the record, in case it helps anybody: when I completed hard 7, I used SingleMomOfTwo’s guide and ended up taking the 3 towns that run down the centre of the map.

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    One other little tip I haven't seen anywhere else - if you have a large map and a slow ship (like mission 4), you can use the whirlpool curse on yourself which will usually transport you to the other side of the map instantly. You can't guarantee where you’ll end up, but it’ll usually be closer than where you started.
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    Se4nzZ WoRLdYou are talking about mission 3 not mission 4.
    Posted by Se4nzZ WoRLd on 18 Jul 11 at 20:08
    HeyMrBassman@ Se4nzZ WoRLd - Yes, you're right. Guide updated. Thanks for letting me know.
    Posted by HeyMrBassman on 18 Jul 11 at 21:19
    RubberSoul1990Thanks for this, worked perfectly!
    Posted by RubberSoul1990 on 15 Mar 23 at 22:18
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