I find the Naval battle on the demo quite diffract from the land battle, which is probably true in real life I doubt many generals from the 1700s could be put on a ship and sail it to glory. Which is probably a problem France had in the 1800s if we assume some the officers were royalists.
I find the best strategy early on is to sail in a line past the 1st French fleet then stop the fleet when I'm in a position to cross the T of the 2nd fleet which allows most/all of my ships to fire into the disorganised mess of French ships. After that I then have to move the ships around 1 at a time to react to the damage they take and to where the AI sends it ships.
The sea battles are much batter then the ones in Imperial Glory. I like that in ETW you can put your ships on fire at will in a large fleet but in a small say single ship action you could get in and micro a bit hopefully it will be fun in the full game.
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