An Ashen Battle with a Ghost Armada
An Ashen Battle with a Ghost Armada is a Ghost Ship Battle voyage for the 
Order of Souls in Sea of Thieves. It is the Ashen variant of A Battle with a Ghost Armada, and always takes place within 
The Devil's Roar.
Quest Table
The Voyage can be found under the Order of Souls category at the Quest Table.
Before starting the Voyage, players can choose how to travel to their location. They can either Sail to Location or Dive to Location. Both options need to be voted on by the crew, while the latter will cause the ship to dive when reaching open seas and resurface at the correct island.
The Voyage
Successfully voting on An Ashen Battle with a Ghost Armada will provide the crew with one Ghost Ship Parchment with the names of one Ghost Fleet, as well as the Large island where they can be found. Ghost Ship Voyages are always a single Chapter during which Crews will battle a fleet of Ghost Ships. Ghost Ships follow a circular set trajectory around the Island and don't stray from it. When in cannon range, they will shoot any Ships with Ghostly Cannonballs. When they are in front of a Player Ship, they also leave behind Ghost Mines that explode after a set amount of time and deal equal damage to a Gunpowder Barrel. When Ghost Ships sail through a Player Ship, the Players will be unaffected, but their Ship will take several holes worth of damage.
The Voyage consists of two waves:
First Wave
The first wave sees Players take on a variable number of Grunt Ghost Ships. These Ships are weak and take three direct hits of any Cannonballs to defeat. Once defeated, the ships will explode with the shockwave pushing any nearby vessels back. The number of Ships that Players have to shoot down in order to progress depends on the difficulty of the Voyage that is dependent on the Promotion of the person who bought and placed the Voyage down. Once enough Ships have been taken down, the rest of them will enter into portals back to the Sea of the Damned and the boss wave will begin.
Boss Wave
The Boss Wave will see new portals open with a Ghost Captain Ship and up to two Ghost Flagships surrounded by Grunt Ships. The boss Ships are designated by their full Sails and Pennant Flags with the Captain Ship sailing the Ghost Captain Sails. These Ships are mechanically similar to Grunt Ghost Ships, but take considerably more hits to defeat. The number of Cannon hits required to defeat a Captain's Ship is dependent on the level or difficulty of the Voyage. It seems that the Flagships take around 10 Cannon hits to defeat. The Ships will start glowing with particles when low on health. Once a Ghost Captain Ship has been disintegrated, the Voyage is considered complete.
Rewards
Ghost Ships leave behind Ghostly Treasure, which is circled by wraiths on the Seas.
Grunt Ships can occasionally leave behind Storage Crates of the Damned with extra Cannonballs and Planks inside. This Crate can be sold to the Merchant Alliance for Gold and Reputation.
Patch history
- 2.10.0 (January 23, 2024)
- Introduced.