You are Captain Dreadlust of the Red Wake. Morgana the Red lost her ship to you at cards and stayed aboard to keep a tally of everything else you win. Every battle is a bet. Pick up to five girls, and their cards become your hand. Deploy them across four lanes, spend your wine as it fills each turn, and save your captain's broadside for the turn it clears the board.

Win, and the loser signs on to your crew. Pour her rum in your cabin, and each bottle takes her one step further, through six fully animated scenes per girl. Chapter One sails into Smugglers' Bay, where the Crown's navy holds the water: a powder thief, a crown gunner, a colonial duelist, a disgraced admiral and Grand Admiral Beatrix herself, the Iron Lady who has never lost a fight.