Sailing and gunning skill requirement?

[Tiberius Fireskull]

I said privateering. Plundering is easy any day. Unless you get unlucky and get two Behemoths angry at you, your fine. Cannon Defense and Treasure Fleets are very difficult, but if you do them enough, they get predictable, and you know what comes next, which makes it so they aren't too hard. But with privateering, you are facing other players, and that always is different. The fact that you can never predict what your opponent will do in privateering is what makes it the hardest, and requires the most skill.