Quote Originally Posted by FactionHeir View Post
you can easily take out an AI galleon with 2 light galleys. Just attack click it and the enemy will not even close in but shoot you at long range - where you have the advantage as a tiny target with huge firepower.
Very true! When I have played factions who start with galleys I have found that 3 or 4 are great in a battle so long as you have other ships at hand to take some of the pressure off them.

Use all to target one ship at a time until they kill it our you get sunk. The loss of a galley is no big deal but if they are well used they can be real bad boys.

...now if you are talking about a behavioral exploit, I have not seen that one but it is not the best idea to close on a galley unless you can do it outside of the line of fire.