Demo Discussion Thread

[Forward Observer]

I thought the battles fun and did manage to win both on the second try.

The ships look wonderful, but there is one thing that bothered me visually about the naval component that no one here has mentioned. A poster at another forum mentioned this some time back, but I didn't pay much attention to it at the time since his illustration was from a very early build screenshot. I just assumed they would have corrected the error by now, but there it was in both the naval battle and tutorial.

Anyway, all the 3 masted ships, as portrayed in the game, have a technical error that evidently no one at CA has discovered in their nautical research.

At full sail they all have a sail bent to the cro'jack or crossjack. This was simply not done during the period that the game covers. The crossjack is the lowest yard on the mizzenmast. (rear most mast) However it is simply a lower brace for the mizzen top sail. To fly a lower sail, or course as they are called, from the crossjack is incorrect and would compete with the function of the trailing spanker or gaff sail.

Later 19th century sailing ships like the Cutty Sark actually did use a mizzen main course along with a gaff sail, but they were engineered differently and mainly for speed

In the screen below, the arrow is pointing at the crossjack and the sail circled is the one that does not belong. I guess somebody in their art department figured if there was a yard there, it was supposed to have a sail. I wonder if this could be modded out.



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