need help with naval battles

**Hooahguy** · 07-10-2009, 22:30

update from the front: a danish fleet with 2 6th rates, a 5th rate, 2 indiamen traders, and a sloop attacked my force of 8 brigs.
they captured 2 of my brigs, sank the rest of them, and somehow didnt lose a single ship. im starting to wonder if auto-calc would be better for me. but i did damage them. i think. anyhow, i have my army ready to take on Copenhagen, so thatll put a dent in their plans! [insert evil, but unsure, laugh here]
then i have to move a force to the Danish city on Iceland so i can take them out once and for all.

**hoom** · 07-11-2009, 02:59

Brigs are very weak ships.
Indiamen don't have many guns but they are much tougher than brigs.

i got up close, taking advantage of my speed, and raked them with anti-personnel shot. one surrendered, the other sank.

This probably only worked because of the damage they sustained in the earlier battle.

Grapeshot is useless unless the side of the hull has been opened up by round shot first or the ship is open decked like Brigs/Galleys.

**Didz** · 07-11-2009, 10:19

I very rarely build Brigs, preferring corvettes (TROM Mod) or sloops. I only really start build ships in earnest once I can construct 5th Rates, and only liners once I can get 3rd Rates. Everything else is overpriced for their performance.

**Fisherking** · 07-11-2009, 11:50

Well, now all this information maybe obsolete with the new changes.

I must say I don’t quite get the game play over realism thing. Perhaps I am just missing something.

I just don’t see why sloops and brigs should try to take on a SOL or why they should for game play reasons.

**Didz** · 07-11-2009, 15:14

They shouldn't, once again 'Thank God for the modders, otherwise this game would already be down the toilet.'

**Hooahguy** · 07-12-2009, 18:48

ok i took Copenhagen (what a hard fight! i hate how all the enemy units kept garrisoning buildings to snipe at my guys!) and i discovered that i can now build all ships up to 3rd rates in the port that i just captured.
im thinking about 6-8 5th rates when i get the money for it.

**A Very Super Market** · 07-13-2009, 23:21

Are you playing on a high difficulty level?

Galleys are murderous little devils. The AI doesn't particularily know how to use them, I suppose. One galley versus anything will have a hard time, but in numbers, they can swarm ships far more valuable than they, and let your main fleet mop up. They are dirt cheap as well.