Mixed load

Juan de San Diego · Seaman Posts: 165 **5156 Gold** -

Last night in a battle with a War Galleon, the Galleon fired off a salvo that was a mix of chain and ball shot. Did not think this was possible! Has anyone else seen this? Or better yet...been able to do this!?

Juan

Striker · Gunner Posts: 727 **680 Gold** -

WaxonWaxov · Cutthroat Posts: 414 **2424 Gold** -

Yes and Yes.

Lets say you have your grape shot ready to go.

Press 5 (or space) to fire.

Then right after that, while the volley is still firing, press 2 (for chain shot) and you'll see it change.

The game correctly treats the damamge done to people and sails as you would expect.
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PUNiSHER · Seaman Posts: 165 **374 Gold** -

Have not seen an enemy vessel do this in any battle yet.
But I do know how to accomplish this yourself...pretty easy too!

When you have a large number of cannons on board, you wait until they are all loaded.
For example, we will fire round shot and grape shot all at once.
When you press Space or Num5, you wait until you fired half of your salvo of round shot.
Now when you have at least half a salvo left (just guessing and playing around) you quickly press Num1. Now you will see both round shot AND grape shot flying over to the enemy vessel...

That will teach him to engage in combat with you.
I used round shot and grape shot in this example, but you can try this out with chain shot as well...just try around, you might find it usefull...
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WaxonWaxov · Cutthroat Posts: 414 **2424 Gold** -

Is there an echo in here?

Is there an echo in here?

Is there an echo in here?

Is there an echo in here?

Is there an echo in here?

Is there an echo in here?

Wink

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Howie · Helmsman Posts: 4301 **45890 Gold** -

I tried doing that a few times and it really seemed to be pretty ineffective. By the time the different shots came the other ship had moved or they came out too slow and just missed.....
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Striker · Gunner Posts: 727 **680 Gold** -

PUNiSHER · Seaman Posts: 165 **374 Gold** -

WaxonWaxov · Cutthroat Posts: 414 **2424 Gold** -

I know. I was just beeing a smart-ass. Wink

That's the funny thing about easy questions that come up during the day (when people are at work, not playing the game) everyone tries to answer at once.
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CGM3 · Gunner Posts: 614 **12612 Gold** -

Corsair · Powder Monkey Posts: 22 **270 Gold** -

The only time I find it useful, is when I'm sailing a L.Frigate or SotL and I don't want to sink a smaller ship.

A direct hit of 48 cannons will put down a barque or smaller (especially unfortified ones). Changing the type of cannon fire roughly halfway through lessens the chances of this.

Fuzzy · Swabbie Posts: 67 **566 Gold** -

On Journeyman, Medoza, Raymondo, and Montlabon always do this to me when I'm getting close to them in a sloop. It gets annoying if your ships sails are already going down the crapper at the time when round shot rips through the deck and chain shot tears your sails to ribbons.
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PUNiSHER · Seaman Posts: 165 **374 Gold** -

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