Ship and Sailing Guide

[Musashi]

Originally Posted by Davy

Sent in by Bellatrix:

Your ship reflects what kind of a pirate you are.

If this is true then most people must think im crazy!!

I rutinely go after large ships with my light sloop. For the first couple weeks I didnt have full access and all i could have was the light sloop or a light galleon.

I figured out tha the light sloop can kick butt on a big ship real easy if you know how to sail one, and you dont need any crew.

All the big ships in this game have a big weakness, they cannot shoot thier canons to the rear. War Frigates have canons near the rear of the ship but are to high up to hit you when your really close.

So the trick is to use the light sloops speed to get right behind the enemy frigate, and i mean the front of your sloop is actually hitting the rear of the enemy boat.

Then simply use your speed to move right enough to bring your left broadsides to bear on the rear corner of the enemy frigate and fire, then quickly drop sail to bring yourself back to the rear of his boat, and raise sail again and attack the other corner of the enemy boat.

As long as you dont allow your sloop to move to far up the sides of the enemy boat it cant hit you no matter how many rounds he fires.

I call this poodling, since its very much akin to a small dog nipping at the heals of a bigger animal. takes awile to bring down a war frigate or war galleon, but Ive taken down Juggernauts, Man-o-wars, Warlords, omens and everything else.

Ive got a war frigate now but occasionally I still take out the light sloop for fun.