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Companions and building a team

By Overcaffeinated Marine Giraffe

The objective of this guide is to supply the starting stats and equipment of all companions in the game, as well as detail who dislikes whom and provide potential teams of companions that all get along.

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Guide Index

Overview

Relationships and Teams

Calculating these teams

Character Data

Comments

Relationships and Teams

In Caribbean! there are twelve companions, and each of them dislikes two others. This makes for a complex web of instability that can tear apart your band of pirates. These dislikes are:

Name

skills

dislikes

Alonso Incosa

Patrick Gordon

Juba

Bogdan

Chibchan

Father Gober

Chibchan

TPHS

Jose de Alba

Alonso Incosa

Father Gober

tpHSE

John Kirk

Bogdan

Francois

CBNler

Jose de Alba

Alonso Incosa

Frogling

cBn

Lamore

Vanhouten

John Kirk

CBNa

Patrick Gordon

Frogling

Jose de Alba

cAh

Juba

Chibchan

Juba

btPh

Vanhouten

Jose de Alba

Lamore

CnA

Francois

Father Gober

Patrick Gordon

ctAper

Frogling

Francois

Vanhouten

cPeR

John Kirk

Frogling

Where the skills are represented as follows:
L Looting
B buccaneering
T Tracking
P Path-finding
N Navigation
H Herbalism
S Surgery
E Engineer
C captain (Fleetmaster, Naval Combat, Seafaring)
A tactics
R trade

(Upper case represents a starting skill level of 3 or greater, lower case represents starting skill level of 1 or 2)
(note that in this guide I use 'Francois' as short for 'Francois Tributore')

This means that there are several teams in which the members all get along:

['Alonso Incosa', 'Bogdan', 'John Kirk', 'Jose de Alba', 'Lamore']
['Alonso Incosa', 'Bogdan', 'Jose de Alba', 'Lamore', 'Vanhouten']
['Bogdan', 'Jose de Alba', 'Lamore', 'Patrick Gordon', 'Vanhouten']
['Chibchan', 'Father Gober', 'Francois', 'Frogling', 'Juba']
['Alonso Incosa', 'Bogdan', 'Frogling', 'Jose de Alba']
['Alonso Incosa', 'Father Gober', 'Frogling', 'Jose de Alba']
['Alonso Incosa', 'Father Gober', 'Jose de Alba', 'Vanhouten']
['Bogdan', 'Francois', 'Frogling', 'Juba']
['Bogdan', 'Francois', 'John Kirk', 'Juba']
['Bogdan', 'John Kirk', 'Juba', 'Lamore']
['Bogdan', 'Juba', 'Lamore', 'Patrick Gordon']
['Chibchan', 'Father Gober', 'Francois', 'Vanhouten']
['Chibchan', 'Father Gober', 'Juba', 'Patrick Gordon']
['Chibchan', 'Father Gober', 'Patrick Gordon', 'Vanhouten']
['Chibchan', 'Francois', 'John Kirk', 'Juba']
['Chibchan', 'John Kirk', 'Juba', 'Lamore']
['Chibchan', 'Juba', 'Lamore', 'Patrick Gordon']
['Chibchan', 'Lamore', 'Patrick Gordon', 'Vanhouten']
['Father Gober', 'Jose de Alba', 'Patrick Gordon', 'Vanhouten']
['Bogdan', 'Francois', 'Vanhouten']

If we are building a team, we could narrow down our options by specifying some requirements. For instance, if we want to make sure we have at least the Herbalism, Surgery, Navigation, and Path-finding skills covered by a team member (HSNP if we are going by the skill codes mentioned earlier), our options are narrowed down to:

['Chibchan', 'Father Gober', 'Francois', 'Frogling', 'Juba']
['Chibchan', 'Father Gober', 'Francois', 'Vanhouten']
['Chibchan', 'Francois', 'John Kirk', 'Juba']
['Chibchan', 'John Kirk', 'Juba', 'Lamore']

Some other likely restrictions might be:

Herbalism, Surgery, Navigation, Path-finding, Engineer, a good Captain, trading, tracking (HSNPertC):

['Chibchan', 'Father Gober', 'Francois', 'Frogling', 'Juba']
['Chibchan', 'Father Gober', 'Francois', 'Vanhouten']
['Chibchan', 'Francois', 'John Kirk', 'Juba']

If you are only concerned with land-based skills (btphsar):

['Alonso Incosa', 'Father Gober', 'Frogling', 'Jose de Alba']
['Chibchan', 'Father Gober', 'Juba', 'Patrick Gordon']
['Chibchan', 'Francois', 'John Kirk', 'Juba']
['Chibchan', 'Juba', 'Lamore', 'Patrick Gordon']

If you are only concerned with sea-based skills (CRNHS):

['Chibchan', 'Father Gober', 'Francois', 'Vanhouten']

Calculating these teams

In order to calculate these teams, I wrote a python script, available here[github.com]. It requires Python 3 to run, Python 2 will not work.
If you want to use this script yourself, but do not have (or do not know how to run) Python 3, the first chapter of this[inventwithpython.com] is one of many guides that can help you install an easy program with which to run it.

Character Data

The starting stats and equipment for each of the companions. This is based off of version 1.051. This is what was used to form the skill codes (such as Father Gober having tpHSE), so note that the skill codes are my interpretation of the data.

(in the interest of brevity, I have omited skills for which the value is zero)

Chibchan 200p to hire level 3 health: 43 attributes str 8 agi 9 int 11 cha 7 skills athletics 1 tracking 4 pathing 5 herbalism 5 surgery 3 persuasion 2 proficiencies one-handed 80 two-handed 50 polearms 60 artillery 70 firearms 60 throwing 70 equipment sailor hat buccaneer dress clogs knife Father Gober 100p to hire level 1 health: 40 attributes str 5 agi 7 int 12 cha 10 skills tracking 1 pathing 2 herbalism 4 surgery 5 engineer 3 persuasion 5 proficiencies one-handed 50 two-handed 60 polearms 50 artillery 60 firearms 50 throwing 60 equipment old gloves civilian jacket shoes John Kirk 400p to hire level 7 health: 54 attributes str 13 agi 13 int 7 cha 6 skills fleetmaster 4 naval comb. 3 seafaring 3 bucc. 5 ironflesh 3 pwr strike 4 prec. shot 2 navigation 3 weapon m. 3 athletics 2 trainer 1 tactics 1 leadership 2 proficiencies one-handed 120 two-handed 100 polearms 80 artillery 60 firearms 110 throwing 80 equipment fancy hat common gloves buccaneer dress boots cutlass Vanhouten 300p to hire level 4 health: 42 attributes str 7 agi 8 int 13 cha 8 skills seafaring 1 navigation 1 riding 2 looting 2 pathing 3 engineer 2 persuasion 1 leadership 2 trade 4 proficiencies one-handed 70 two-handed 50 polearms 60 artillery 50 firearms 80 throwing 60 equipment felt hat common gloves civilian jacket riding boots flintlock pistol bullets Francois Tributore 300p to hire level 3 health: 43 attributes str 8 agi 11 int 9 cha 7 skills fleetmaster 3 naval comb. 2 seafaring 5 bucc. 4 navigation 4 weapon m. 1 athletics 1 riding 1 looting 2 engineer 1 trade 2 proficiencies one-handed 90 two-handed 70 polearms 50 artillery 50 firearms 80 throwing 70 equipment felt hat old gloves buccaneer dress shoes hanger Jose de Alba 500p to hire level 5 health: 46 attributes str 9 agi 9 int 11 cha 8 skills fleetmaster 2 naval comb. 1 ironflesh 1 pwr strike 2 weapon m. 3 athletics 2 riding 3 trainer 1 tactics 3 herbalism 1 persuasion 2 leadership 3 proficiencies one-handed 110 two-handed 60 polearms 60 artillery 60 firearms 100 throwing 60 equipment fancy hat common gloves fancy jacket riding boots rich smallsword Lamore 400p to hire level 8 health: 50 attributes str 11 agi 9 int 11 cha 9 skills fleetmaster 3 naval comb. 2 seafaring 1 ironflesh 2 pwr strike 4 navigation 1 weapon m. 3 athletics 2 riding 4 tactics 3 persuasion 3 leadership 4 proficiencies one-handed 120 two-handed 100 polearms 100 artillery 50 firearms 100 throwing 60 equipment fancy hat common gloves civilian jacket boots schiavona Alonso Incosa 400p to hire level 6 health: 54 attributes str 13 agi 11 int 7 cha 7 skills ironflesh 3 pwr strike 3 weapon m. 2 athletics 3 riding 1 looting 3 trainer 2 inventory 1 trade 1 proficiencies one-handed 80 two-handed 90 polearms 120 artillery 60 firearms 90 throwing 80 equipment morion old gloves infantry breastplate shoes pike Patrick Gordon 500p to hire level 4 health: 46 attributes str 11 agi 8 int 8 cha 9 skills fleetmaster 1 naval comb. 1 pwr strike 2 weapon m. 2 athletics 3 riding 4 trainer 3 tracking 1 tactics 4 pathing 2 engineer 2 trade 1 proficiencies one-handed 100 two-handed 100 polearms 50 artillery 50 firearms 85 throwing 60 equipment fancy hat fancy jacket common gloves riding boots rich infantry broadsword Bogdan 500p to hire level 4 health: 45 attributes str 10 agi 11 int 7 cha 8 skills pwr strike 2 prec. shot 1 weapon m. 1 athletics 1 riding 3 tactics 1 pathing 1 leadership 1 proficiencies one-handed 90 two-handed 80 polearms 100 artillery 60 firearms 100 throwing 70 equipment dragoon hat common gloves civilian jacket shoes matchlock musket bullets Juba 300p to hire level 4 health: 56 attributes str 13 agi 9 int 7 cha 7 skills bucc. 2 ironflesh 4 pwr strike 3 weapon m. 1 athletics 4 looting 4 tracking 2 pathing 3 harbalism 1 leadership 1 proficiencies one-handed 90 two-handed 110 polearms 90 artillery 80 firearms 60 throwing 70 equipment sailor dress gully knife Frogling 200p to hire level 2 health: 44 attributes str 9 agi 9 int 6 cha 10 skills fleetmaster 1 naval comb. 1 seafaring 2 bucc. 3 navigation 1 weapon m. 1 athletics 3 riding 1 proficiencies one-handed 90 two-handed 50 polearms 60 artillery 50 firearms 90 throwing 60 equipment fancy hat old gloves buccaneer dress boots rapier

9 Comments

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Meyestro 24 Jun, 2020 @ 4:40pm

I just wanted to add - I did all this with play testing and I quardrupled checked everything but still feel like I may have made a stupid human error.

Thanks to Admiral for the original post to work off as well.

Carry on.

Meyestro 24 Jun, 2020 @ 4:38pm

Alonso Incosa likes VanHouten
Bogdan likes Frogling
Chibchan likes Father Gober
Father Gober likes Jose De Alba
Francois likes John Kirk
Frogling likes Juba
John Kirk likes Francois
Jose De Alba likes Lamore
Juba likes Chibchan
Lamore likes Chibchan
Patrick Gordan likes Bogdan
Van Houten likes Francois

I think there are only 2 groups of 6 you can have and with 5 or less companions there must certainly be many more options than listed above, I'm fairly certain. But the 2 groups of six I came up with are as follows:

Alonso Incosa, Bogdan, Jose De Alba, Lamore, VanHouten, Patrick Gordan
(Alonso dislikes Patrick Gordan but likes VanHouten)

Chibchan, Francois, John Kirk, Juba, Lamore, VanHouten
(Juba dislikes VanHouten but likes Chibchan, Lamore dislikes Francois but likes Chibchan, VanHouten dislikes John Kirk but likes Francois)

coboev 3 Oct, 2018 @ 7:08am

leaderskill persuasion sorts all conflicts level that to get a full crew. Just be aware who you will make governor

dq_177 26 Nov, 2017 @ 12:05pm

Was there ever a way to simply disable Companion Antagonism so you could recruit them all?

Overcaffeinated Marine Giraffe [author] 1 Dec, 2016 @ 11:52pm

No, unfortunately I did not record that information.

@||__Crayola__||>, it has been almost a year and I have not played Blood and Gold enough to gether the necessary information. Most of the work involved is gathering the data. If you (or anybody else) is still interested an analogous report for Blood and Gold, I invite you to do the data gathering. That would make it very easy for me to adapt the script.

You could even download the script and modify it yourself if you are feeling adventurous. As long as it is still the case that each companion dislikes two other companions, you can just replace the string constants in the input and in the tests.

Mold 28 Nov, 2016 @ 12:16pm

Do you happen to have recorded which companions LIKE one another? It can be used to offset the morale penalty of those who dislike one another.

President T 18 Dec, 2015 @ 11:28am

Super cool! I'll be sure to like and favorite it as soon as I see it

Overcaffeinated Marine Giraffe [author] 17 Dec, 2015 @ 10:09pm

I'm glad you found it helpful! I would be happy to do one for Blood and Gold, but I cannot promise a deadline. I will post on this thread when it is finished.

President T 15 Dec, 2015 @ 7:48am

Thanks a lot for the guide! I find the job of finding out myself a big hassle that I'd rather be without. You also included some in-depth and nicely structured information.

Would you mind posting it in Blood and Gold as well? I think that would be a great idea

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