1 ST APRIL / / 2020 / / ISSUE NUMBER 10 PAGE 1 THE GAZETTE ❄ NEWS FOR THE LAZY NAVAL ACTION PLAYER NAVAL ENSIGN OF THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE : THE CURRENT TOP DOG. Russia continues to dominate the Caribbean GREGORY RAINSBOROUGH 0 1 .0 2 .2020 On the 1 st day of the 4 th month in the Year of O ur Lord 2020, the Russian Empire continues to dominate the Caribbean as it has done so for months. B ALT IC FLEET [BF] mov ing to new Chinese nation! GREGORY RAINSBOROUGH 01 .0 4 .2020 Yettie , Captain Reverse a nd other ve terans of BF held a s ecret meeting on Tuesday and in this meeting it was decided that they would move nation. The reasons cited by these players was the extensive and often exhausting RvR which they have endured these past months with the NATO nation s Not all of BF are leaving but the bulk of their leadership are meaning that N ew Orleans is lik ely to stay in Russian hands for the time bein g. The first step o f this plan is t o use HOG to capture the US ports th at were surrendered by REDS . The new BFII clan has been created for this purp ose , and wil l switch to China en - masse by n ext week BFII will try to create a safe haven for new Chinese players ( which curren tly own s zero ports ) a s it is unlikely to gain any in the fo reseeable future with out them. M ost current Chinese players are alt s from various nations. The reason why BF cho se The Gazette to release the news is unkn own I can only haz ard a guess that it is because a fair number of individuals read this fantastic public ation. This shows the face s of Russian s r ight now IN THIS ISSUE SUCKERED SCUM BARACOA: BACKSTABBING AND BITCHING DUTCH REALIGN 1ST APRIL / / 2020 / / ISSUE NUMBER 10 THE GAZETTE ❄ PAGE 2 INTRIGUE Suckered SCUM Pirate alt seize s much loot RVR SUMMARY RvR Roundup GREGORY RAINSBOROUGH 01 .0 4 .2020 The Prussians have continued to beat the D utch dead horse which made them feel super st ronk. They did the same to the British dead horse so that they could create a buffer for the Pin ar del Rio ports. When it comes to clubbing seals, Prussia ns are the best! The Danes hav ing been completely pushed back by the Swedes w ith only have one port left in their home waters. The Russians have decided to gift them the region of Santa Marta so that they are able to buil d competitive ships, de spite claims they on ly need redoubtables, this clearly is not the case. The Americans have been gifted the Bahamas by the Russians due to pressu res from NATO that are ca using the Russians to overe xtend themselves. Rat her than be caught off guard they are reducing the amount of ports that need defending. The Swedes are not fol lowing s uit and have not shrunk the possession s Time will t ell wh ose method w as the wiser. NATO NEWS Dutch Rea lign GREGORY RAINSBOROUGH 1 7 .0 3 .2020 The departure of SNOW has had an immediate effect upon the foreign policy of the clans in the Dutch , by swinging it against NATO. The Dutch fleet at Buena Vista comprised of 14 ships, a mixture of 1 st to 3 rd rates, with the aid of the Danes destroye d the Swedish screening fleet comprised primarily of CABAL and PURG3. The Dutch have sensibly thrown their weight behind the decision to align with Russian with full force. They will be looking to prove their worth to the Russians and to earn their favou r to move against the Prussians. The Prussians who so far have only attacked incredibly weak nations because that is all they are capable of fighting, are unlikely to want to antagonise Russia and extinguish the Dutch compl etely GREGORY RAINSBOROUGH 24 0 3 .2020 The pirates do not have the most fearsome port battle fleet in the Caribbean. Most pirate players are infants compared to the seasoned port battle players of Russia and Sweden. The pirates have come up with an inventive way of weakening and defeati ng their enemies, this t ime the Russians. Edward Teach from K33N was dispatched on a secret mission some time ago and using his alt managed to endear himself to the leadership of SCUM in order to gain officer tags. You can probably see where this is going... W hen the time was right, and few people were online or at sea he proceeded to clear out the warehouse. Thousands of guns were taken including but not limited to; almost 800 pood edinorogs; several encyclopedias; 50,000 teak logs; 40,000 white oak logs. The value of the pood edinorogs alone at La Tortue prices is worth about 72 million reals today Edward is on the record as being a very happy man and while his conscience aches it is likely to be soothed by not having to trade again for several years. Banned from the Russian TS An astonishing amount of wealth was “ liberated ” 1ST APRIL / / 2020 / / ISSUE NUMBER 10 THE GAZETTE ❄ PAGE 3 ADVERTISE HERE (OR ELSEWHERE) FOR 8 K DOUBLOONS! Contact Gregory Rainsborough on Game - Lab Forums or in - game for details. Advert space subject to availability and appropriateness and subject to approval of Editor. All adverts welcome including from nations currently in active hostility with the United Provi nces. SNOW DISCORD HTTPS://DISCORD.GG/QWDJJWD 1ST APRIL / / 2020 / / ISSUE NUMBER 10 THE GAZETTE ❄ PAGE 4 PIRATE INTERNAL AFFAIRS Baracoa : Backstabbing and Bitching. GREGORY RAINSBOROUGH 28 .0 3 .2020 The long running dispute between WTF and BF escalated recently with BF launching an attack on the WTF port of Baracoa, held by them since release with a small exception of Russian occupation. Previously WTF apologised and accepted a war guilt clause and a heavy purse full of some juicy dosh. This time BF were not feeling so kind . Initially HIVE, a “spam nation with recruitment messages clan and invite any who want in” clan but were told by BF that they were too small to take Baracoa. In RHB they found able and willing partners. B F set a condition which is on the verge of adding an internal conflict modifier to the pirates. The condition was that RHB could take the port uncontested from BF on the condition that WTF were removed from their friend’s list which prevents crafters from that clan from crafting there. Opponents of RHB’s actions state that they are motivated by greed but they themselves defend the decision by saying it was the fastest and best way to guarantee continued access to the port bonuses. WTF feel like the guy on the right now Accurate HOTFIXES HIGLIGHTS • Chinese have started to arrive to Shroud Cay • FPS Boost • Significant optimization settings have been added that can give 20 - 30% to FPS • Tutorial challenges and final exams have been made slightly easier (they are still hard) STATE OF THE NATION Note from the Editor W TB - L GVR P ermits ( I need them to rai d the US coast! Such ric h pickings ) Apologies for the delay in pu b lication. I had taken some time out, but coronavir us c aused my planned operation to get cancelled so here I am still! Unlike many nati ons where a clear hierarchy can be seen clearly the pirates have no such thin g and upon SNOW ’ s entry into the na tio n there was not even a nation Discord in which to co - ordinate. This has now been rectified by one of the clans here. Many c amps exist here and many clans as well. No one clan could with any author ity say they speak for the nation . This has caused problems betw een NATO clans, non - NATO clans and Russian aligned clans as one tr ies to mak ss e deals to screw over the other. In short, it is very messy but thankfully, so far SNOW has been welcome d with o pen arms who have contributed in a small way to driving the A mericans from the Sou thern Ba hamas after many months.