Fortune Trader

## About

This ship is the largest and the beastliest in the game, with a high price of 600,000 gold. Its main purpose is trading (doing Wall of Fame runs) but it can be also used as a large battleship.

## Design

This ship is an extremely large ship with flashy red square sails and full rigging.

## Technical

With the highest health and cargo load, this ship is designed for a krew with a goal of trading for high leaderboard positions. It sports a large krew and an insane 12,000 cargo to carry. This ship is also a good size larger than the other Big Mamas in the game (such as the Queen Barb's Justice.)

## Strategy

### With the Fortune Trader

This ship is mostly to be used as a passive trading ship, however its slow speed and large hitbox make it an easy target for other big mama ships as well as fleets of smaller ships (such as a fleet made of Baby Fancy ships). This spreadsheet is an analysis of the amount of gold a Fortune Trader is capable of making in different routes.

This ship can be powerful warship when the pirate is careless and charge in with lower DPS than you, in which case, you should try your best to stop the enemy ship from escape.

Furthermore, if you can close to the edge, you can chase a Baby Fancy or Silent Dragon to the edge of the map, in which case they will only be sitting duck.

* Having another ship or fleet escorting the Fortune Trader is probably the best strategy, as it is not made to fight the other aggressive larger ships or even large fleets.
	+ However, having an experienced krew with good builds, items, and upgrades can turn the Fortune Trader itself into a very durable and reliable ship-of-the-line, good for engagements with multiple ships.
* This ship plays similar to the Trader line of ships, due to its similarity in stats. It will be a magnet for any other ship of considerable size to attack it.
* Buying a Nitro peg gives the Fortune Trader a speed of 6.9 which allows it to outrun most other ships. This can be used for a passive strategy of quickly going from island to island and avoiding combat.
* Buying Steal Reinforced Planks or Reinforced Planks allows the Fortune Trader to increase its effective health to around 10,500 or 9,375 respectively. With these upgrades the Fortune Trader becomes much harder to kill but can still be taken down by a dedicated krew or overwhelming firepower.

### Against the Fortune Trader

* The Fortune Trader is a lumbering giant. Due to its size, it is hard to defend alone or with a small krew, let alone an unexperienced one. A small squadron of ships with properly equipped krews and lots of time can sink it through sustained cannon fire.
* Mortar tactics coupled with Steel Barrel or Titanium Barrel builds are good against the Fortune Trader to inflict maximum damage on the ship.
* Keep trailing the Fortune Trader to take advantage of its slow speed. Use Black Oysters and Night Winds to flank a Fortune Trader (or a convoy of it) quickly and effectively.
* The Fortune Trader isn't worth going after early game, as it usually takes long to sink (unless it is weathered enough from sustained conflict), and having a low build might mean that you may even end up becoming the Fortune Trader's victim, if the latter has a decent krew.

## Recommended Builds

For the Fortune Trader use 20-10-20 or 30-0-20 Nitro Peg for higher speed. Alternatively, use a high Damage and Fire Rate build like 30-0-20 with an upgrade like Steel Reinforced Planks to increase the effective durability of the ship. Krew members should use sniper builds like 0-50-0 with Sinker's Gloves or Demolisher, or 27-23-0 or 40-0-10 with Steel Barrel or Titanium Barrel to scare off potential attackers. The captain shouldn't use a cannon focused item on the Fortune Trader.

Having the main captain equip the Drifter or Nitro Peg during trading, the second captain equip Steel Reinforced Planks during battle, and the third the Advanced Toolkit to repair the Fortune Trader at port could be a good build strategy, too.

Ships
**Raft** | Raft

**Boats** | Boat 1 • Boat 2 • Boat 3

**Traders** | Trader 1 • Trader 2 • Trader 3

**Destroyers** | Destroyer 1 • Destroyer 2

**Big Mamas** | Queen Barb's Justice • Night Wind • Black Oyster • **Fortune Trader** • Flying Dutchman • Queen Anne's Revenge

**Others** | Baby Fancy • Silent Dragon • Raider • Junkie • Echelle • Calm Spirit • Royal Fortune • Battalion • Pinta