I finally finished the game with a maxxed out 126 fame. Our illustrious pirate Redbeard retired as Governor of Montserrat in 1669 at the age of 47 in poor health. He amassed 143171 dubloons and had land grants totalling 19050 acres. His special skill was medicine.
I know that chasing our Immortal Enemies (Raymondo and Montalban) can seem to get tiresome, but I have to tell you that it’s a lot more fun than the way I spent the last five game years. I was on a quest for land grants so all I did was sail around and attack towns (mainly Spanish), flipping them to whichever nationality I thought would give me the most acres.
Fun Fact 1: the biggest land grant I got was 1050 acres from the French for making Maricaibo French.
Fun Fact 2: the Spanish once had a 42,000 gp bounty on my head. 
Biggest plunder from a city: Vera Cruz, 11000 gp.
Turning Cuba all English was kind of cool, but largely it got pretty dull pretty quick without having side quests. I was even ::shudder:: considering doing honest merchant sailing.
Zombie Pirates!!!
I love this game. Re-installed it via Steam a short while ago and have been terrorizing the seas ever since.
Resurrecting this because I found the thread searching for variations of “can’t attack town.”
I seem to have taken advantage of a bug/unexpected situation with regards to pirating immortality. I’m 64 years old in failing heath, having been at sea for 438 months. However, my 368-member crew is happy (or my decrepit invincibility command keeps them from reporting the truth to the pollsters), I’ve amassed 1,097,487 gold pieces, have maxed out every rating (e.g., fame, romance, treasures/lost cities found, etc.), and am tooling around in a rather impregnable Ship-of-the-Line (Rhythmdeath).
I long ago turned the just about the entire Caribbean over to English hands. I left one or two of each other nation to finish out the ranking for each nation, but the world is predominantly English. Mighty pirate and kingmaker that I am, I want to switch everything over to another nationality. But I can’t get English forts to fight. The one where I got married does fight, but no matter how overwhelming I take it (e.g., 300+ v. 20 guards; the sword fight challenge) I never get the option to install a governor. Other English towns, no matter how many of their ships I sink right on the front door, no matter how much of a reward is on my head, and no matter whether I approach by land or sea, never put up a fight. When sailing past them I get shot at (and there are lots of pirate hunters out there), but I haven’t had a decent land battle in ages.
Is it that I can’t replace the governor of my wife’s town? And that I can’t fight a town where I installed the governor? Or is this an artefact of whatever let me keep sailing for 36 years with a happy crew?
Loooovvvee this game.
Moved to The Game Room from Cafe Society.
Ack!!! It’s been too long since I’ve played it. Sorry I can’t help on this one. Might have to fire it up again. 
and 
at the same time.
I enjoyed it, but then I found that it got too repetitious and tedious. So while it wasn’t the worst use of my gaming dollars ever (MOO3, I’m looking at you) I haven’t played it in years. Maybe it’s time to dig out the discs and load it onto the laptop.