Since I am bad at the naval battles I sometimes send my sloops/Brigs up close to the enemy ships in an effort to get them to blow up my ship while catching their own in the explosion.


Unluckily in one of the battles where I did this the enemy ship put the fire out (but was demasted by either the fire or my volleys) and much later in the battle I accidentally moved into its zone of fire right as I killed the enemies last mobile ship, but that stupid immobile ship sunk my greatly damaged ship (my sole survivor at that point) and I lost.

Anyhow that battle was a lot of fun.