Quote Originally Posted by Prussian Iron View Post
well, the enemy almost always uses the same combo: 1 big ship, 2 crappy ships. it then curves them around, whiile i try to 'cross the T'.then it degenerates into a micro-manage fest. since the wind is almost always against me, i sometimes try making a line. then the enemy doesnt attack. honestly it gets quite annoying.....
The most annoying feature of the ETW naval engine (as balanced by CA) is that AI's ships can sail directly against the wind and do it faster than my ships sailing with the wind blowing right in their backs...

Darth-mod has done some wonders with this though. It has considerably slowed down ships across the board and the simply CANNOT sail against the wind. In his mod, the AI diligently does 'zig-zag' manouvers across the wind-line to move against wind. So, making the sailing work as it is supposed to is doable even with the current ETW engine and AI. For some reason CA just would not do it...