Quote Originally Posted by Zenicetus
Battle damage looks nice on the sail combat views, but.... ugh, they're still showing ships sailing directly into the wind:

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Either that, or the U.S. ship is in irons, which would be suicidal tactics at that range. It's also in the middle of a battle with most of its sails furled??

The blocks of soldiers in land combat look weird to me, too. Very RTW/M2TW-like, and not at all what I expected.
Generally speaking a ship in a fight of that nature would be under minimum sail in order to free up crewmen and in order to minimize the risk of fire. Going into irons, while extremely risky, could and did happen. Usually, of course, by accident.