SEA BATTLE FEATURES

[Ozzman1O1]

will diffrent unit's guns make a diffrence since a musket was the only kind of gun?

[Fate]

will diffrent unit's guns make a diffrence since a musket was the only kind of gun?

Well, no, because there were different kinds of weapons used in naval melee and armed combat.

There are obvious melee weapons like axes, boarding pikes, and cutlesses etc.

Then there were pistols, rifled and smoothbore.

Obviously muskets, snipers armed with rifles, and much more impressively, the volley gun.

The volley gun was a weapon that fired 8 pistol rounds in unison, designed to be used by sharpshooters in the rigging to fire on the crowded decks of an enemy ship before boarding. The main problems behind the volley guy was the excrutiating amount of time it would take to reload it, and the fact that the kick was so horrendous that it could break a man's shoulder. Thus it could only really be used by built chaps.

And there was also a cannon round similar to grapeshot, but that was designed to be fired from the deck at the opposing enemy gate during boarding. Pretty much a one shot weapon, but effective non-the-less.

Grenades were also occasionally used, though there was always a frequent danger that they would blow off the users hand. Or arm. Could be used from the rigging to the enemy deck before boarding, thrown from deck to deck before boarding, or thrown from one cannon porthole to an enemy one during boarding, taking it large portions of the gun crew.

A good book to read for entertaining information about the brutality of navy combat is Sharpe's Trafalgar.

Quality read.

[Ozzman1O1]

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[Sheogorath]

i hope it has pirates ARRRRRHHHH

You mean like MTW2's UBAR PIRATES?

[Ozzman1O1]

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