User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/Assassinews 03-03-'13 — Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag trailer and screenshots/@comment-4829046-20130307034904

I found a slight problem in what the developers said. They said all you have to do when broadsiding a ship is to kill the captain right? And that you can do it anyway you want.

1.You can simply shoot him with the pistol while on your ship

2.You can hit him with the swivel cannon

3.You can use normal cannons and hope that he dies somehow

4.You can board the ship and assassinate him

This is all right and peachy but the captain dies, so what? What does that have to do with it? There will always be a first mate(pirate) or officer(Spanish and British) so the Captaincy can temporarily pass to these guys. in other words taking out the Captain does not necessarily take out the crew. I wonder how they are gonna implement it?