Yeah, the dude got full of himself and isn't realizing he picked a fight with the Mafia. Pirates are small fries compared to what's coming.
only problem this chapter, Liam doesn't realize he has a elite force and by himself he's already hundres of people strong, so his way of fighting is still good as he can curbstomp his enemies by sheer quality. I get the importance of quantity, but it would be more of a deterrant than a way to defeat his enemies.
He picked fight after fight after fight with forces that ranged between inexperienced pirates to somewhat competent mercernaries and crime syndicates through sheer brute force of might thanks to higher quality.
Being the evil fella that he claims he is,he wishes for utter undeniable power to stamp out enemies by simply moving forward,so his solution is not to recognise his elite experiences(because he's dense)but to expand said elites to triple their size.
And his house is facing financial difficulties...
If he does manage to pul it off,there's a good chance he'd be increasing the sheer lethality of it all not by triple,but threefold.
I seriously hope we get a good run down of the vessels so we can pull out the full Star Wars and Star Trek levels of theorycrafting,this series is but a mere few steps of being worthy of such treatment.