Quote Originally Posted by Slaists View Post
Anyway, CA acknowledged that their ships CAN sail against the wind. Their argument for putting that 'feature' in was that otherwise naval battles would be too long and boring...
They also said that players would get confused if they right-clicked for a ship to go to point X, and it turned away from the destination because it had to tack to get there. In other words, they thought the player base was too dumb to understand sailing... even though very basic games like "Sid Maeir's Pirates!" did include tacking, as well as other more realistic games.

I haven't followed the mods for ETW. Does anyone know if there's a mod that only prevents sailing upwind without touching the rest of the game, and can the AI handle it? I've heard references to Darthmod, but that's a whole-game mod isn't it?