Though unfortunately omitting the bit about sexual servitude, Port Royale offers the chance for us to relive these buccaneering days as a Caribbean merchant-cum-adventurer-cum-privateer in the latest Tycoon/RTS game to emerge from somewhere east of the Rhine.
For others, no sooner had they joined up than they were sold as sex slaves to a pirate who hadn’t seen a woman in five years, fed on weevils and hard tacks, and forced to share a cabin the size of a shoe box with the powder monkey.
For some lucky fellow-me-lads, it meant a dusky maiden in every town, beaches of white sand and more rum in the sun than was good for you.
Signing up for Caribbean service in the Navy in 1570 was a risky business.
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