PotBS: The Battle (?) for New Orleans

Yesterday, Spain managed to flip New Orleans, so tonight (this morning) at 2 AM my time, the battle for New Orleans began. For those who don't know, this is a real quick break down of the process of port taking in "Pirates."

1. --Attack ships belonging to the nation of the port you want to take within a 5o mile radius of the port to earn unrest. (You can increase unrest without fighting as well by turning in unrest supplies to the rebel agent in that port.)
2. --Increase unrest to 5000 and then the area becomes a Pirate PVP zone meaning that any pirates are free to attack you, and you them in that area.
3. --Increase unrest to 8000 and the area becomes a free for all zone. Sorry to those French we ganked, but...yeah, you really shouldn't be hanging around a PVP zone if you don't want to PVP.
   
4. --Increase unrest to 10000 and the port is considered "flipped," and you win the right to challenge the port and its nation's champions to claim it for your nation.
5. --24 hours after the unrest hits 10000, a port battle is held where if everyone shows up, it's 25 v 25 of your nation's finest in a boat slug fest. (You need to have contributed to the flipping of the port or earned contention points after it was flipped by continuing to torment the ships around the port.
   

But it's late and and I'm hella' tired now, so let's away to the pictures. 15 minutes before the port battle, if you have contention points, you are issued an invite to fight for your country. Accept and you're whisked away to the war room:

After a brief discussion in the war room to discuss tactics, we all zone into battle attempting to keep a line. If you can read the really really small print, you'll notice it says, "Destroy all the ships 0/2." Yes, two French people showed up to defend. Hurray. We had 23 attacking. Apparently the people on line didn't have contention points but...urm...yeah, not like they couldn't have picked up one to participate. But anyhoo...

In our case, only 2 French people showed up and they went and hid in town instead of fighting (and can you really blame them given the odds?) Normally, you'd fight the French ships to the death but since there weren't any...we had to wait 30 minutes to get into the port for a swashbuckling match versus their level 50 NPCs. Here we be on the docks:

Lots of pistols go off and lots of dead NPCs:

After killing the 4 lieutenants who each have 1000 HPs, you face the Commander who had 3000 HPs to spare:

And then...every does a stupid jig or something stupid and POW, New Orleans is ours.

Okay, time for bed. Most likely none of this made sense, but oh well.