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Originally Posted by Maximvs
Congrats to a very successful event  and to all the winners of the "heartbreak ridge" V-Day Mass. hehe |
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Originally Posted by Achilles
Great event tournout , I'm happy for you Mate!
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Thanks guys - I have to agree it was a splendid success. Extremely fierce competition on the waters today. I've a feeling there may be a rematch next month...
I noticed several interesting tactics that were not obvious beforehand. Ships with smaller crews fared far better at a speed and aim. (The ship I was sailing was blinding fast with crew of 2, molasses slow with crew of 8. All my broadsides misses were when large crew was aboard.)
I was also surprised that war sloops fared as well as they did. It was a
race after all. Even though I had to stop the war sloop for most targets to take a second, third and sometimes fourth broadsides shot, the ship speed made up the difference. When I've done this in a war galleon, I rarely - if ever - have to take a second broadsides shot...but crawling too slow to the next target makes more of a difference, apparently.
Lastly, I found that with two or more people, calling out the number of ships sunk in crew chat after every ship sunk, helped keep count tremendously. With cannonballs-a-flyin' it is much tougher than one might imagine. I was very pleased to see that nobody brought their ship into port with only 99 ships sunk!
Thanks again to everyone who sailed today! Well done!