Hmm.. One of my dirty little secrets is that I've actually never learned to fight naval battles well at my current or any other difficulty setting. While I fight out almost all my land battles on a skirmish map, for naval I just get numeric superiority and autoresolve them all. (For whatever reason, unlike land battles I usually find it to be pretty easy to get numeric superiority in naval battles.) I suppose I should invest a bit in learning about them. Need to find a thread where a naval expert shares their secrets...
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