andrewt
03-12-2009, 18:18
I'm just playing M/M. I'm outgunned fighting Spanish galleons with just my starting navy with some new brigs so I'm using hit and run tactics. They take forever, though. It's probably easier for me just to take the losses since I'm conquering New Spain's provinces one by one anyway and I can rebuild my fleets. I'm pretty stubborn, though, and just refuse to lose battles. Hopefully, I can fight them normally now that I learned my lesson and am building fluyts instead of brigs.
My tactic is to sail away from them, run around in circles, until the sloops and brigs get separated from the galleons. I try to sink those before the galleons arrive. Once I'm engaged with the galleons, I try to be in front of them, barely out of range. I swing to shoot then immediately swing back to move out of range before they can swing and shoot me. I once fought 2 galleons with a sixth rate and I think 2 brigs or 1 brig and 1 sloop. There was less than 3 minutes on the 60 minute timer after I finished.
The last battle was in the home theater. I had an admiral's 5th rate, a fluyt, a 6th rate and 2 brigs. The Spanish had 2 galleons, 2 6th rates and 2 sloops. I ran around in circles but the Spanish kept them grouped this time with the galleons in front, 6th rates in the middle and sloops at the back. I was running in circles and they weren't separating. I could only do the hit and run at the front with 1-2 ships at a time so I was barely denting the galleons in front.
Eventually, I got separated with 1 brig doing hit and run with the Spanish fleet. The rest of my navy was quite a bit out of range to the left and back of the Spanish fleet. However, their sloops got separated behind and I managed to sink those easily with the rest of my ships. By this time, my brig managed to get one of the galleons to yellow strength on one of their hulls. The brig was taking a decent amount of damage, though, so I just had it run away while having the rest of my navy intercept.
The Spanish now had their 6th rates in front, a healthy galleon a little behind and the damaged one a bit further back. I now engaged and tried to take out the 6th rates as fast as possible. I brought back the damaged brig to help and didn't notice it sinking sometime during the fight. I did some aggressive manuevers like using my 5th rate to go between the 6th rates to damage them both and just take the fire. Eventually, I managed to sink them with the healthy galleon only doing a little damage to me and the other only managing a few salvos from a distance.
The fight with the 2 remaining galleons was tough, even though it was 4 to 2 at this point. They almost sank my 5th rate because I was using it to soak the damage. I was using it and the fluyt close up with the 6th and brig firing from a distance. The 5th was getting water just around the time both galleons routed. The fluyt had one side mostly healthy and the other side's hull almost yellow in health. The 6th rate had moderate damage and the brig was mostly healthy still. I didn't notice the timer at the end but it couldn't be more than 15 minutes left, probably a lot lower.
My tactic is to sail away from them, run around in circles, until the sloops and brigs get separated from the galleons. I try to sink those before the galleons arrive. Once I'm engaged with the galleons, I try to be in front of them, barely out of range. I swing to shoot then immediately swing back to move out of range before they can swing and shoot me. I once fought 2 galleons with a sixth rate and I think 2 brigs or 1 brig and 1 sloop. There was less than 3 minutes on the 60 minute timer after I finished.
The last battle was in the home theater. I had an admiral's 5th rate, a fluyt, a 6th rate and 2 brigs. The Spanish had 2 galleons, 2 6th rates and 2 sloops. I ran around in circles but the Spanish kept them grouped this time with the galleons in front, 6th rates in the middle and sloops at the back. I was running in circles and they weren't separating. I could only do the hit and run at the front with 1-2 ships at a time so I was barely denting the galleons in front.
Eventually, I got separated with 1 brig doing hit and run with the Spanish fleet. The rest of my navy was quite a bit out of range to the left and back of the Spanish fleet. However, their sloops got separated behind and I managed to sink those easily with the rest of my ships. By this time, my brig managed to get one of the galleons to yellow strength on one of their hulls. The brig was taking a decent amount of damage, though, so I just had it run away while having the rest of my navy intercept.
The Spanish now had their 6th rates in front, a healthy galleon a little behind and the damaged one a bit further back. I now engaged and tried to take out the 6th rates as fast as possible. I brought back the damaged brig to help and didn't notice it sinking sometime during the fight. I did some aggressive manuevers like using my 5th rate to go between the 6th rates to damage them both and just take the fire. Eventually, I managed to sink them with the healthy galleon only doing a little damage to me and the other only managing a few salvos from a distance.
The fight with the 2 remaining galleons was tough, even though it was 4 to 2 at this point. They almost sank my 5th rate because I was using it to soak the damage. I was using it and the fluyt close up with the 6th and brig firing from a distance. The 5th was getting water just around the time both galleons routed. The fluyt had one side mostly healthy and the other side's hull almost yellow in health. The 6th rate had moderate damage and the brig was mostly healthy still. I didn't notice the timer at the end but it couldn't be more than 15 minutes left, probably a lot lower.