wow, Russia invaded Spain. Thats new![]()
wow, Russia invaded Spain. Thats new![]()
Micheal D'Anjou
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Ethelred Unread, you got boarded in VH level ship combat and you're surprised your crew lost? You do realize that the AI gets massive melee bonuses in VH? At VH, your crack crew vs their crew is like a group of peasants vs a bunch of elite armored knights at that difficulty. If you want sanity in boarding, try "normal" difficulty, so the AI doesn't get huge morale and fighting advantages over you (and you don't get big morale hits that cause your guys to rout quickly).
As far as the tactic of boarding a big ship with a small one, it's a viable tactic for human vs human too. Due to the fact that the boarding action ties up the attacked ship, it is a great way to sacrifice a lesser unit to stall the enemy's ship so you can hit him with something more powerful. As far as the realism? Dunno, but we have examples of small ships stopping big ones regularly off the Somali coast these days :)
Cross-theater invasion by Portugal
Yah, it was a surprise but i suppose the VH thing may be a factor, i think it was more the fact that my ship was getting attacked by the surviving ships too that led to the early surrender as my ship only lost about 10 crew.
Not sure that the AI gets a massive melee bonus because I've routed enemy line inf in melee with my own when they've been the same. Even British vs French where the french line have better melee stats. Needs proper testing really I suppose.![]()
"The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials"
I heard some new music in ETW today,and instead of the screen going all white it now goes all black before returning to normal.
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