# Setting up a voyage

### **WHAT YOU'LL NEED:** 

This guide assumes you have:

 :pirate\_flag: Pirate \
 :ship: Flagship\
 :map: TMAP 

If you DONT have all of the above, head to [get started.](/the-damned-pirates-society/get-started.md)

####  **SKILLS**

There are 3 skills in the game: 

:skull\_crossbones: Strength :red\_square:\
:compass: Navigation :blue\_square:\
:gift: Luck :green\_square:

Your pirate, flagships, artifacts and support ships all contribute skill points to one or more of these skills.

Your combined fleet skill is a total of your skill points across all of your assets.

*E.G*

Pirate \
STR/NAV/LUCK: 200/250/300

 Flagship \
STR/NAV/LUCK: 200/250/300 

Your total fleet skill would be 

STR: 400 \
NAV: 500 \
LUCK: 600 

Each skill impacts your chance of success for a specific interaction type.

### **PLANNING A VOYAGE**

Choosing the best combo of pirate, flagship + support ships is the key to getting the most doubloons from a voyage.

Do you *need* to take so many support ships? Will it be advantageous to stack one skill or take a balanced approach? 

This is the nuance of the game, it's up to you to figure it out. 

*NOTE: You will need to accept multiple contracts on your first voyage, but only the 'lock voyage' contract on any future voyages.*

#### SUPPORT SHIPS

On 'my support ships' tab of the website, under the 'My Tortuga' section, you can buy support ships.

Each support ship gives a boost to 1 skill. You can choose which one.

Support ships have different colour sails to show which skill they impact.

* Strength
* Navigation
* Luck

To buy, click on the support ship you want, increase/decrease the quantity and hit buy.

Skill boost / cost per ship type:

Sloops - 10 boost / 15 doubloons \
Caravels - 30 boost / 30 doubloons \
Galleons - 50 boost / 50 doubloons

<div><figure><img src="/files/MjKkwpNLI1o52j6ck2E1" alt=""><figcaption><p>Luck Sloop</p></figcaption></figure> <figure><img src="/files/XayaZocnRe15iBc4Iq4f" alt=""><figcaption><p>Strength Caraval</p></figcaption></figure> <figure><img src="/files/cEUWfjHLoJfU3nEfSfkA" alt=""><figcaption><p>Navigation Galleon</p></figcaption></figure></div>

Support ships are destroyed at random if you lose a strength or navigation interaction.

Any support ships that were not destroyed are returned to you after the voyage to reuse.\
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**VOYAGE LENGTH**&#x20;

Easy - 6 hours \
Medium - 12 hours \
Hard - 18 hours \
Legendary - 24 hours &#x20;


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