Results!

First battle in the new arena (now named Battle Bay) – and it worked almost perfectly… aside from that server crash at the end… oh well. The battle was split up into two lots of 20 minutes of fighting, with 10 minute breaks after each one. This was followed by a roughly 15 minute ‘sudden-death’ at the end (the server crashed during this period, so it went a bit messy with some ships having chunks missing). Surprisingly high turnout last night, counted 61 players online and at least 32 people on my /near – probably more. We had 5 ships and a submarine taking part. Thanks to Nahadoth and Moossolini for helping me moderate, and creeprr for recording the battle.

• Participants:
  • Phantom Narwhal (seawolf sub) – Astrobolt (captain), OmegaVenom1, Dark_101, Blackshadow969, MinisterMoo
  • Da Vinchi (indiaman) – POTATQ (captain), Just_a_Pleb, SpiderDeluxe, JUSAPeinter1, ZPho3nixZ, PetalFace, creeprr
  • Drifting’s Ship (galleon) – DriftingSixGuns (captain), Joshua_JonesJ_H_Rodgers, CreeperlnX, Death_Jackal, few more
  • BLURP_’s Ship (frigate) – BLURP_ (captain), 4orange, lots more please tell me usernames if you have them
  • CLTN Menace (frigate) – Rivvur (captain), JUSAShrek1, Torkey, Cappur
  • Lakeside’s Ship (dhow) – lakesidekiller (captain)

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Winners:

1. Da Vinchi – Won the sudden-death with 3 members left alive
2. Phantom Narwhal – 2 members left alive
3. Drifting’s ship – 1 member left alive
4. CLTN Menace – All members killed during sudden death
5. BLURP_’s ship – Surrendered in second half of battle
6. Lakeside’s ship – Blown up in second half of battle

Honorable Awards:

• Most damage recieved as % of ship – Lakeside’s ship, with only 5 blocks left of a once 130 block ship – that’s 4%
• Most damage dealt as % of ship  – CLTN Menace, nuking Lakeside’s ship, and dealing huge damage to BLURP_’s ship and the Phantom Narwhal (well done Cappur)
• Most damage repaired as % of ship – Drifting’s ship (not counting the restart that f***ed up some ships), repaired the ship twice over but still sailed
• Most ships sunk/disabled – CLTN Menace with 1 sunk (Lakeside’s ship), and 1 assist (BLURP_’s ship)
• Most player kills – Drifting’s ship, killing at least 20 players before sudden death, and 2 during sudden-death
• Most spectator kills *sigh* – Da Vinchi, killing at least 8 spectators who got in the way of their cannons

Damage Report:

• Phantom Narwhal – Received moderate damage throughout the battle, was duplicated due to restart with both copies having significant parts of the ships missing. Plans are made to repair it.
• Da Vinchi – Received moderate damage in the back at the start of the battle, light damage for the remaining battle. A chunk of the ship was missing after the restart. Is being repaired for next battle.
• CLTN Menace – Received light damage for most of the battle, followed by heavy damage in sudden-death. Is being repaired for next battle.
• Drifting’s ship – Received moderate damage throughout the battle, heavy damage in sudden-death. Is being repaired for next battle.
• BLURP_’s ship – Received heavy damage in first half (due to lack of armour), moderate damage in second half. Being rebuilt i think.
• lakeside’s ship – Received moderate damage in first half, and very heavy damage at beginning of second half. Blown up and broken up.

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Next Battle:

Happening in 2 weeks time on a saturday evening at 8:00pm GMT (3pm EST). 2nd or 3rd of September i think.

• Double cannons will not be allowed (sorry)
• Ships only for that battle – testing designs, I’ll follow it up with a normal battle afterwards
• I should be able to spawn in ships for people by then, arena should be claimed, and server ship shop at the warp

Points:

Gonna be using a points system for people who finished in top 3; 3rd gets 10 points, 2nd gets 20, 1st gets 30.

These points will be handed out to the ships, not the crews. So if you want your ship to get lots of points, be sure to use it again or modify it. The points will be in the group description, and previous battles results will not be included.

Attention everyone! The following are important updates regarding the Phantom Narwhal:

New Narwhal HQ Fund

A new Narwhal HQ is currently in the works, but funds are desperately needed for claimblocks! The HQ will be located near the next ship battle location and, once completed, will harbor all of the Narwhals made so far. There will, of course, be additional features at the HQ, but those will be the main features.

Current Target Goal: £6,000

All donators will be featured, along with the donation amount, on a donation wall at the HQ. Additionally, if you are in the Narwhal Crew discord (discord.gg/har35Zz), you will be given the donator role.

Sponsorships

For all those who own shops at /warp shops, the Phantom Narwhal now does sponsorship deals! If you are interested, contact Astrobolt in game or via discord at Astro#1680 to determine sponsorship fees.

Sponsors will be featured in the Narwhal News Network forum page description, along with having a sign on the Narwhal during battle advertising your shop. A Narwhal banner will also be given to each sponsor to display at their shop if they choose. In the Narwhal Crew discord, there will be a reminder every other week to shop at each sponsors’ shop. Similarly to donators, sponsors, if they are in the Narwhal Crew discord, will receive the sponsor role.

Results

Forgot to make a results post for the ship battle at the end of March, so I’m doing a double whammy here. Largest number of ships in battle, and utter chaos for me trying to get it to work haha – don’t worry, things will be different once the arena is created. A post will follow up on that shortly. Thanks for taking part everyone.

Both battles were split into 2 parts, with a roughly 15-20 minute break after 30 minutes of fighting. I can’t remember much from ship battle #9, and im really tired, so I’m only going to cover results. I know lots of people recorded this time – so that should be awesome.

Winners (Ship Battle #9):

1. Teletub 2.0 – Myself and a few other people
   HMS Ajax – Italians
   USS Monitor – Moossolini, Blackshadow969
   Shadow Voyager (sov copy) – TAS/CLTN
2. Unnamed Ship – Peppykiss365

It was a boring 4-way draw to put it short. I’m thinking of new ways to determine a winner, so I trialed a % of ship left victory method for ship battle #10. Due to the chaos and uncertainty of this particular battle, and the outcome, no winner will be declared and the ships will not be added to the tally of winning ships.

Results (Ship Battle #10):

1. Giulio Cesare – Lego (captain), MagmaGolem, Valerio, Romich02, several other Italians
   Shadow Voyager (sov copy) – CreeperMorderen (captain), Cysteen, Maximus_Terragon, Cappur, CrazyMoneyy, MinisterMoo (joined at the end), Kaithefireninja (joined at the end)
   Phantom Narwhal – Astrobolt (captain), who else?
   Iron Duke – Lazydog11 (captain), emielreijs, iBrowe, several other BE members and allies
2. HMS Ajax – GingfulGlider (captain), several other people
3. HMS [something with A] – iBrowe (captain), Ic3y, few other people
4. The Zucc – Kaithefireninja (captain), MinisterMoo, jmeatball
5. [unnamed ship] – BLURP_ (captain), blackshadow969

It was officially a 4-way tie again, so i’m not adding any names to the tally of ‘winners’ in the description. However, I did measure the % of the orginal ship still left once the battle was over and handed out prizes accordingly. These are as follows:

1. Phantom Narwhal – 93.4%
2. Giulio Cesare (second one) – 85.5%
3. Shadow Voyager – 80.2%
4. Iron Duke (second one) – 72.4%

An apology.

I am aware that a lot of people enjoyed the battle, however I know of some individuals who may have misunderstood the rules and as such blown up ships with TNT, and/or killed crew members via boarding. This rule will be enforced differently in future, so sorry.

I would also like to apologize for the chaos, and the ‘unfair advantage’ that some crews had by having a brand new copy of their ship copied in during the break. Future battles will be held differently, and more organized with me being on full-time ‘ship battle moderator’ – so i won’t be taking part in ships battles in future directly.

Congratulations to all teams that survived the onslaught, and thanks for taking part. I’m looking forward to the screenshots/videos people have recorded! Godsy managed to record the whole battle and he may be able to use some of the material for a piratecraft trailer!

There will be a followup post in a few days explaining my intentions for future battles – including how to make it more organised, fair, and hopefully fun. I’ll have a chat with godsy, and lay out the possibilities for you guys. :))