Naval Units

[Matt_Lane]

What Naval units do people want to see in ETW.

CA have placed much emphasis upon the new seafaring conflict and it does open up a whole new area of tactics and strategy. Central to this will be the military navel units available. Even without naval battles M2TW already provides us with a naval technology tree specific to various factions. I would therefore expect the variety and detail of ETW's naval units to be even greater.

To kick off I would want to see more than multi-decked 1st and 2nd rated ships in the Western Powers fleets. Brigs, Cutters etc should be available especially early on. I think the French should access to Corvettes first and generally their's and the Dutch ships should be faster than the British ships.The 13 colonies and Danish should have easier access to gunboats and the 13 Colonies frigates should be more powerful.

[Mailman653]

If they want to go super simple they might only have brigs, frigates and ships of the line, but hopefully they will follow the tradition of having various units, in this case several ship classes.

[Sheogorath]

I'd like to see different types and capabilities between various nations naval units. There wouldnt be a lot of variation between the Great Powers naval units, except in their tendancy to favor different styles.
I'd REALLY like to see the British with cheaper, weaker naval units, since historically they werent exactly the highest quality shipbuilders in Europe (I believe that award went to the French >_>), the French with expensive, high-quality ships, etc. etc.

What'd be REALLY neat would be the ability to 'commision' ships rather than building a certain 'unit'. Choosing the number of guns, overal size, etc. etc.
But that'd be hard work and all.
Still, seeing some behemoths like the Trinidad would be fun, even if they werent particularly effective.

[Matt_Lane]

I'd REALLY like to see the British with cheaper, weaker naval units, since historically they werent exactly the highest quality shipbuilders in Europe (I believe that award went to the French >_>), the French with expensive, high-quality ships, etc. etc.

The French and Dutch built better ships which should be faster and more maneuverable but the British and US crews were better trained which could be represented by a greater rate of fire.

[Fisherking]

It would be nice to have a bomb catch or two for bombardment of shore but if it is just ship on ship I doubt we see them.

[Arngrim]

Both Sweden and Russia developed special archipelago fleets in the 18th century, at first ordinary galleys armed with a few frontal cannons, propably copied from the Venetians, later more specialized ships with more fire-power. For instance the Swedish archipelago frigate, with a bottom tier of artillery, and a top tier for rowers.