War Galleon or War Frigate?

[League]

I find the Galleon boring to sail though: all sideward cannons save the rear two, slow sailing speed (seeming all the slower with the huge sails), slow turning. The Frigate is rather fun when you take advantage of those cannons.

I don't really think any of the ships in the game are ugly. I like the Sloop class the most anyway: I'd choose a War Sloop over the other ships if they had all cost the same and I just had to choose one (because you can just sell a War Galleon to buy the War Sloop, and the War Frigate when sold would put you 3/4s of the way toward the Galleon or 10k up over the Sloop).

[Jack Garrett]

the war frigate is awesome against A.I. ships if you have a smart crew. put 2-4 crew on the front cannons, hit a ship to get it moving toward you, position the frigate to face the incoming ship, and put it in reverse. you can help your crew with 'open fire' and/or 'leadership' as well. if done correctly, you will rarely take damage.

[Arioch]

The war galleon is great for 2 things.
1) raising lots of loot
2) raising your sailing rep very fast

Why?

Simply because if you make padre runs on Abassa you can always get a full boat of low level pirates that are over joyed to be on a high level plunder run ship.

Just make sure when you are inclined to go privateering that you select any other ship then your prized war galleon as it is a SLOW, Very hard to steer COFFIN.

It is so big and the weak spot also so LARGE that it cannot be missed even at extremely long ranges by rookie pirates.

Now if you got a single gunner firing fury a war galleon has but seconds to live after the take cover skill is no longer in affect.

Great ship for hauling cargo but not good for using in ship versus ship as EVERYONE always sinks the war frigates first in combat. impossible to miss