Quote Originally Posted by Khorak View Post
A bunch of slow, heavy ships attack a sloop, sloop gets forced into battle screen, sloop simply turns around and leaves the battle because those ships have absolutely no chance at all, ever, of catching that sloop if it doesn't want to be, game declares battle a victory for enemy and sinks sloop anyway. Big load of balls.
Gotcha. It's unrealistic, certainly... but so is transporting armies or blockading ports with a single sloop.