We played this scenario from the rulebook last night, slightly adapted. As written, there are two fleets of 3 brigs competing to capture treasure from 3 large merchants, but I had 3 players last night, so they each had 2 brigs, and I ran the merchants. I scattered 3 rain squalls on the table to provide some cover for ships to hide in. A terrific game; the privateers started fighting amongst themselves early on and I thought two of the merchants might get away, but no, they were caught and boarded late on. Final tally was one player had 4 treasure (the max her two brigs could carry), one had 2, and one had one (he had another one but it went down with his other ship when it was sunk). The merchantmen had one treasure left, and one ship which had struck. You can certainly pick many holes in the realism of these rules, but four players had an absolute blast for two hours; they give a great game.