Naval Combat

[A Nerd]

So it is true that during naval battles boarding parties would board each others ships and have a melee fight. Now, do you think these battles will be similar to naval battles in ETW, whereas crews would board and fight independent of a players input, or would they be controllable. Also, would crews be generic to ships when said ship was produced or would special boarding parties potentially be recruited in your ports? Perhaps have a unit produced inland and garrison them on a produced ship. Just curious, the generic crews in ETW were kind of boring. Aferall, who mans the ship when the boarding party is fighting it out on the enemies ship?

edit: It would be fun to produce an archer heavy ship or an infantry heavy ship depending on your playstyle. It might make ships less expendable as well.

edit2: And too similar (ships that is)