The Daily Update at the Com

[Daveybaby]

I, for one, welcome these changes from a gameplay perspective (though i bet the realism brigade will shortly be having kittens).

However, I am curious about how this rock-paper-scissors mechanism is supposed to work. Ships of the line are vulnerable to sloops because sloops are faster and have longer range guns, and can thus supposedly keep out of range of the ships of the line's short range guns while sniping away at them, and I can see that frigates beat sloops, because even though they are slower they have the same range guns, thus a sloop has to come within range of frigate's guns in order to engage it, but the frigate has more guns and a stronger hull.

But how are ships of the line supposed to be able to beat frigates, which are (like sloops) faster with longer range guns? If a sloop can beat a ship of the line then surely so can a frigate.