So, I am playing an undine ranger in Skull and Shackles and we have just gotten to the fleet battles portion of the AP. In theory this sounded like awesome fun...but so far it's...less fulfilling than I'd hoped. Mostly because my character isn't even fit to be much of a commodore, and there not particularly active in the fleet battles.
I have a charisma of 8. Which means my maximum squadron size is 2. Is there any way to increase this? I'm fairly certain the answer is no, but I'm hoping that someone might know of something I don't.
It sucks that my character who has worked his way up to a 24 profession sailor (at level 12) is abysmmal at leading a squadron based on the fleet battle rules because I can only have two ships which will at best give me 8 hits. When minimum damage is 1d6+1, and you increase damage by 1 for every ship in a squad, my squadron (if I had one) could easily be eliminated by a single broadside with little hope of survival.
This makes me a sad panda. So is there any way I can add a couple ships to this and have a decent squadron of my own? Am I basically stuck with my ship (that I captain) just being a member of someone else's squad because my charisma is a terrible hiddrance?