Very Important Lessons (VIL's)

[Edward Edgemenace]

VIL: When you shoot the masts off an NPC ship, that ship moves slower. When you shoot holes in the sails of an NPC ship, that ship moves slower.

But when you shoot the masts off an SvS ship, it loses the weight of its masts...therefore goes faster. (Mostly true for war sloops, but sloops and light sloops, too.)

If you shoot holes in the sails of a light sloop in SvS, it will go slower...only until its mast is removed (at which point it goes faster than it could, with the weight of the mast.)