Pirate (Faction)
The Pirate Faction is based on the Golden Age of Piracy, which lasted from 1650 to 1730. It is one of the 14 factions in Totally Accurate Battle Simulator.
The UI icon color of the faction is 'Dark-Gray'.
Description
The Pirates are the first faction to have many more ranged units rather than melee units; this trend continues with the Wild West faction. Because they are also generally more expensive, and the cheapest Pirate unit loses its guns after firing both shots, it helps to make the first shots count when up against a large melee-centred army. The Faction consists of units that trade health for sheer, raw offensive power, excluding the Pirate Queen, whom has a LOT of HP. Some units in this faction are very powerful and can take on quite a lot of enemy units by themselves, again, the Pirate Queen being the prime example, while others are weaker, but very powerful when positioned tactically. Pirate units are very good at taking out large hordes of weak units.
Units
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*Hitpoints is modified by the unit's size. For the unit's base hitpoints, please refer to their page.
Map
Pirate An island/Shore with two docked pirate ships facing each other, even having special spots for Cannons. Bomb on a Stick, Blackbeard, Bomb Cannon, and CLAMS can be found on this map. |
Gallery
Trivia
- The Pirate Faction was the first faction teased after the open alpha, however, the movie Star Wars: Rogue One came out after the pirate faction video. Landfall then started working on the Neon Faction and the Pirate units did not make it into the closed alpha.
- Blackbeard was originally going to be the boss of the faction (for good reason, since Blackbeard is as powerful as the Pirate Queen) and most of the TABS community thought it was going to be, but it was later decided to make them a secret unit, and Pirate Queen now is the boss of the faction.
- The Pirate, Legacy and Ancient Faction have the only maps (Pirate, Legacy and Ancient Sandbox) that have shallow water and/or non-drowning water.
- The Harpooner in the trailer was a cyclops unit. (It had one eye)
- The pirate faction is based on the 17th to the 18th century (stereotypical) pirates.
- Most modern-day pirates now use AK-47's and travel with speedboats, rather than giant, slow traveling ships and mere Flintlocks.
- The Pirate Faction has a unique menu map which is unplayable in the normal game.
- Despite modern interpretations of brutal swashbucklers, at the time, real pirates were simply captured people (usually sailors/soldiers) having to betray their original commands and commit immoral actions to make ends meet.
- Another thing to note is that privateers that became pirates were more of reserve naval forces to the English Government, and at times were actively encouraged; one was even knighted after a world-tour of plundering loot worth up to £1.5M.